 The churchwardens of Biddenden continued to maintain the annual dole from the Bread and Cheese Lands . It is recorded that in 1605 , the custom that " on that day [ Easter ] our <unk> <unk> <unk> the <unk> bread , cheese , cakes and divers barrels of beer , brought in there and drawn " was suspended on account of a visit from Charles <unk> , the Archdeacon of Canterbury , owing to previous ceremonies having caused " much disorder by reason of some unruly ones , which at such time we cannot <unk> with any ease " . In 1645 , rector William Horner claimed that the Bread and Cheese Lands were <unk> ( land intended for the use of the parish priest ) , and attempted to take control of the lands . The case of the Bread and Cheese Lands was brought before the Committee for <unk> Ministers , who eventually found in favour of the charity in 1649 . Horner brought the case before the Court of the <unk> in 1656 but again without success , and the charity continued to own the lands and to operate the annual Easter dole . Witness statements from these cases mention that the lands had been given by two women " who grew together in their bodies " , but do not give any name for the women . 
