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againſt alfo alſo altar ancient archbishop archbishop of Canterbury arches biſhop bridge building built caftle Canterbury caſtle cathedral chapel Chatham chefter church commendam confecrated confiderable dean and chapter dioceſe Dover ecclefiaftical efquire eftates elected erected eſtabliſhed expence faid fame fchool fecurity feems feven feveral fhall fhillings fhips fhould fince firſt fituated fmall fociety fome foon fouth ftill ftone fucceeded fucceffors fuch fuppofed fupport gate GUNDULPH HENRY HENRY VIII himſelf hofpital houfe houſe hundred JOHN Kent king king of Kent king's laft land LANFRANC likewife London lord mafter manor Margate mayor and citizens monks moſt muſt Nicholas Haddock north fide parish perfons pounds prebendary prefent prelate priory queen raiſed refided reign repair Rocheſter ROFF Sandwich ſeems ſeveral Sir John Jennings Sir STAFFORD FAIRBORNE ſmall Snodland Stonar ſtone Strood thefe theſe thofe thoſe tower town uſed wall weft WILLIAM
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Page 348 - Dover is incorporated by the name of the mayor, jurats, and commonalty of the town and port...
Page 337 - Canterbury gate, is a free grammar fchool, for tha inftruftion of the fons of the freemen. It was founded by Sir Roger Manwood, in 1563. Sir Roger was a native of Sandwich, and lord chief baron of the exchequer in the reign of queen Elizabeth. It is fuppofed to have been built on the fpot where formerly was a nunnery, which was deftroyed by the French when they burnt St. Mary's church. Some part of the materials were probably applied in building thi: fchool.
Page 32 - From the upper floor the stair-case rises ten feet higher, to the top of the great tower, which is about ninety-three feet from the ground, round which is a battlement seven feet high, with embrasures. At each angle Is a tower about twelve feet square, with floors and battlements above them : the whole height of these towers is about one hundred and twelve feet from the ground.
Page 305 - Milton, fituated, as it were, on the waters of a fine rivulet, at the head of a creek that runs into the Swale, which feparates the ifle of Shepey from the main. Antiquity has dignified it by calling it,
Page 48 - Rochefter, over the Medway, whsch was erected in the reign of Richard II. Sir Robert Knolles is celebrated for being the founder of this bridge. He was diftinguifhed both by his courage and military preferments, being raifed by degrees from the rank of a common foldier to that of a General. He attended Edward III. in his fuccefsful campaigns in France ; and when the King's affairs declined by the ill ftate of health of Edward the Black Prince, Sir Robert was fent over to the continent with an army...
Page 315 - Minfter. Domneva, daughter of Ercombert, King of Kent, built and founded an abbey at this place, about the year 670, and furnifhed it with...
Page i - HISTORY (the) and antiquities of Rochester and its environs : to which is added, a description of the towns, villages, gentlemen's seats, and ancient buildings, situate on, or near the road from London to Margate, Deal, and Dover.
Page 200 - Cambridge; which exhibitions, of five pounds a-year to each person, they enjoy till they have taken the degree of AM, provided they continue members of the universities, and have not the good fortune to be elected fellows of their respective colleges. The other benefactor to this school was Robert Gunsley, clerk, rector of Titsey, in Surrey...
Page 191 - Westminster abbey, in a vault which, in 1722, had been prepared by his directions. There is no memorial over his grave ; nor could there well be any, unless his friends would have consented (which it is most probable they refused to do) that the words implying him to have died bishop of Rochester should have been omitted on his tomb.
Page 313 - A court is held every Monday in the Guildhall, for civil and criminal caufes, and every other Thurfday for the government of the city.