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The History and Topographical Survey of the County of Kent
… for strangers and travellers; and Thorn, the chronicler of St. Augustine's, assures us, that this was the reason why it was called … in the city of Canterbury, viz. within the parish of St. lphage, on the opposite side of the king's highway …
The History and Topographical Survey of the County of Kent
… 46 Edward III.) on the Monday next before the feast of St. Augustine, a perambulation was made by Nicholas de Baa … Fyspole, over the lordship of the abbot of St. Augustine's, and there fixed and placed a new wooden cross, as one of … of land appertayning to the manor of the hospital of St. Jacob, and . . acres belonging to the manor of Dungeon; and …
The History and Topographical Survey of the County of Kent
… of Domesday, taken in the 15th year of the Conqueror's reign, in which it is said, that the king had this castle … in an exchange made with the archbishop and the abbot of St. Augustine, who had for it, the latter fourteen, the … which was likewise the city ditch between the new road and St. Mildred's church. By the late alteration of the public …
The History and Topographical Survey of the County of Kent
… those now remaining, there were only two, viz. St. Martin's without, and St. Alphage's within the walls, which were not … instrument was dated March 6th, that year, and signed by Jacob Wraight, mayor, and P. Barrett, recorder, &c. To this …
The History and Topographical Survey of the County of Kent
… see of it, in which church the blessed martyr, St. Thomas, and his cousin Edward, late prince of Wales, lay … any count-whatsoever, the lands then being in the king's hands, and so coming in future always excepted; and … in Canterbury, or of the late dissolved monastery of St. Augustine, near Canterbury, or of his cinque ports, any …
The History and Topographical Survey of the County of Kent
… first of them that is found mentioned, excepting that of St. Martin, is that of the four crowned martyrs, taken notice … now be marked out, but as far as can be guessed by Bede's short narrative, it was not far from the archbishop's … and not improbably on the same spot of ground where St. Alphage's church now stands; for the flames were driven …
The History and Topographical Survey of the County of Kent
… but without success. In the beginning of king Henry VIII.'s reign, a design was formed to make that part of the river … and survey of the country, from the city of Canterbury to St. Nicholas bay, and to make an estimate of a canal, on … be no great difficulty to make a canal from Canterbury to St. Nicholas bay, which is about ten miles and a half. I have …
The History and Topographical Survey of the County of Kent
… The great high road at another entrance into the city, at St. George's-gate from Dover, being narrow, with several dangerous … built by Mr. Simmons, over the river Stour, near Abbot's mill, at the opening in the city wall, where the three …
The History and Topographical Survey of the County of Kent
… cummeth be Westgate, and the other thorough the cyte under S. Thomas hospitale, and meteth agayne yn one botom beneth … feet under ground, was met with in digging a cellar in St. Margaret's parish; it was indented, and so firm, that it … about twelve feet deep, with a kirb to it; a little within St. George's gate, in digging a cellar for a new house, the …
The History and Topographical Survey of the County of Kent
… distance northward of the present postern opposite to St. Augustine's abbey; and on the bank on either side of the river behind St. Mildred's church, in the remains of the wall there, where …