QUEX, an estate in Birchington parish, Kent; 3 miles W S W 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 goodsea-marks.

(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))