Quex, Kent
Historical Description
Quex, an estate in Birchington parish, Kent, 3 miles WSW of Margate. It belonged to the Queke or Quex family, passed in the time of Henry VII. to the Crispes, and belongs now to the Cottons. Henry Crispe, a distinguished Puritan, was carried off hence in 1657 by some Royalists, and long detained a prisoner in Belgium. William III. used to rest here before and after his passages to Holland. The present mansion is modern, and the park contains two towers which serve as good sea-marks.
Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England & Wales, 1894-5