[Illustration] Solomon Oxenden, who lived in the reign of Edward
III., is the first known ancestor. Dene, in the parish of Wingham,
was purchased at the latter part of the reign of Henry VI. The
family had previously been stated at Brook, in the same parish.
Thomas Oxenden died seised of Dene in 1492. There is a pedigree in
the Visitation of Kent in 1619.
See Hasted's Kent, iii. 696; Wotton's Baronetage, iii. 638.
ARMS.--_Argent, a chevron gules between three oxen sable_. Confirmed
in the 24th of Henry VI.
Present Representative, Sir Henry Chudleigh Oxenden, 8th Baronet.