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Mr. Somner published his History of Canterbury, quarto,
in 1640, and intended a new edition of it, but he did not live
to execute that design; upon which the booksellers, to forward
the remaining copies of it, caused a new title to be printed, anno
1662, and added to the book, which has made some suppose that
there has been two impressions of it, which is certainly a mistake.
Mr. Battely, the old impression having been long since sold off,
published in the year 1703, a new edition of it, in folio, in
which, whatever Mr. Somner had corrected or altered, with his
own pen, in order to a second edition, was observed by him, and
he added to Mr. Somner's History, a second part, which he
stiled Cantuaria Sacra, or the Antiquities of the Cathedral, Archbishoprick, Priory, Dean and Chapter, Archdeaconry, the Monastery of St. Augustine, the parish churches, hospitals, and
other religious places, in or near this city; after which in 1726,
Mr. Dart published the History of this Cathedral in folio, with
beautiful plates of the building and the monuments in it, engraved by Cole. Mr. Gostling next, in 1777, published his
Walk, in which this church and the priory with the precincts of
them, are accurately described; and plates are added of the several
parts of them. as they appear at present. Lastly, Simmons and
Kirkby published a description of this church, with the lives of
the several archbishops, in 1783, being a new and much enlarged
edition, of a smaller and more confined pamphlet, before printed
by J. Burnby, on this subject. |
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In this see, since its first erection, there have been eighteen
archbishops sainted, nine made cardinals, twelve lord chancellors,
four lord treasurers, one lord chief justice of England, and nine
chancellors of the university of Oxford. |