 Of this lady, he sometimes sings more like the tea-kettle than the Nightingale".Thomas Golding, sheriff of Kent in 1703, was living in the nearby parish of Leybourne when he bought Ditton Court, around the start of the 18th century.His arms were "argent, a cross voided between four lions passant, guardant gules" (a red hollow cross between four lions lying down with their heads and front paws up, on a white or silver background).