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The History and Topographical Survey of the County of Kent
… origin, habit, and rules of each, would swell this work much beyond my present design, I shall therefore content …
The History and Topographical Survey of the County of Kent
… the powers of that act sufficient to complete so great a work, procured another in the 13th of king George II. anno … thirty thousand pounds among themselves to carry on their work, which sum was to be divided into three hundred shares, … Estura, or Sture, and now, by change of language and long custom, it is called and spelt Stoure. The Greater Stoure has …
The History and Topographical Survey of the County of Kent
… he says, was called by the people, as he was told, Rome's work. 10 Though some have conjectured, and perhaps with some … assistance of his soldiers, and his own direction in the work. Upon this the Britons, jointly with the Romans, carried on their work with such diligence, that though the wall was eight feet …
The History and Topographical Survey of the County of Kent
… the end of king Henry II. His residence, according to the custom of his ancestors, was sometimes at Tremworth, and …
The History and Topographical Survey of the County of Kent
… of the name, and the original and antiquity of the custom, with a few other speculative points; Mr. Taylor's … in the knotty and before unknown points of this tenure and custom. If this is the true etymology, it is plain, that … of this realm, which are said to partake of the nature and custom of gavelkind, a stile they have assumed since the …
The History and Topographical Survey of the County of Kent
… France and the Low Countries, and, according to the custom of pirates, had prodigally squandered away the fruits … the creek from Kemsley-downs are the remains of some stone-work and ditches, being part of the fortifications made by … destroyed whatever they met with, according to their usual custom. Shortly after this they extended their conquests over …
The History and Topographical Survey of the County of Kent
… column containing fifty lines; the copy of which, for this work, attested by the proper officer, at the usual fee of … History of this County, as far as the compass of this work would allow of, I shall begin the description of the …