Kimbolton. Popula. 191.

MORBORN, 44 miles N.W. from Whit-
tlesea. Popula. 95.
NEEDINGWORTH.-See Holywell.
miles E.N.E. from St. Ives.
NEOTS (St.), 57 miles N.W. from Lon-
don. Popula. 2,272. Market, Thurs. ;
fairs, Sat. before third Tues. in Jan., a
show of horses and other cattle, toll-
free; Ascension-day, Corpus-Christi,
Dec. 17, cattle of all sorts and pediary;
Aug. 1, hiring servants. Here was a
Benedictine Priory, founded by Neot,
but was destroyed in the subsequent
wars, and restored in the year 1113;
yearly value 256l. 13s., now worth
5,125l. 5s.; granted, 33 Hen. VIII., to
Sir Richard Williams, alias Cromwell.
OFFORD-CLUNEY, 4 miles N.E. from
St. Neots. Popula. 237.

OFFORD-DARCY, 3 miles N.E. from St.
Neots. Popula. 214.
ORTON-LONGVILLE, 1 mile S.W. from
Peterborough. Popula. 213.
ORTON-WATERVILLE, 34 miles S.W.
from Peterborough. Popula. 282.
PAXTON (Great), miles N.E. from St.

Neots. Popula. 250.

PAXTON (Little), 1 mile N. from St.

Neots. Popula. 301.

PIDLEY with FENTON, 74 miles N.E.

from Huntingdon. Popula. 374. RAMSEY, 684 miles N.W. from London. Popula. 2,814. Market, Sat.; fair, July 22, small pedlary. Here was a Benedictine Abbey, founded 969, by Ailwine, Earl of East-Angles; yearly value 983. 15s. 34d., now worth 19,675l. 58. 10d.; granted, 31 Hen. VIII., to Sir Richard Cromwell, alias Williams.

Whittlesea. Popula. 501. Here was a Cistercian Abbey, founded 1146, by Simon Earl of Northampton; yearly value 199l. 11s. 8d., now worth 5,9911. 13s. 4d.; granted, 29 Hen. VIII., to Sir Richard Cromwell, alias Williams. SAWTRY (St. Andrew), 4 miles S.W. from Whittlesea. Popula. 319. SAWTRY (St. Judith), 5 miles S.W. from Whittlesea. Popula. 207.

SIBSON with STIBBINGTON, 7 miles W. from Peterborough. Popula. 574. SOMERSHAM, 2 miles N.E. from St. Ives. Popula. 1,166. Market, Fri.: fairs, June 25, Fri. before Nov. 12. SOUTHOE, 2 miles N.W. from St. Neots. Popula. 268.

SPALDWICK, 3 miles N.E. from Kimbolton. Popula. 332. Fair, Wed. before Whit-Sun., Nov. 28, cattle of all sorts. STANDGROUND, 4 mile S.E. from Peterborough. Popula. 1,024.

STAUGHTON (Great), 54 miles N.W. from St. Neots. Popula. 1,173. STIBBINGTON.-See Sibson. 7 miles W.N.W. from Peterborough.

STILTON, 3 miles S.W. from Whittlesea. Popula. 710. Market, Wed., for corn; fair, Feb. 16, pedlary.

STOW with LITTLE-CATWICK, 1 mile N. from Kimbolton. Popula. 194. STUKELEY (Great), 1 mile N. from Huntingdon. Popula. 341.

STUKELEY (Little), miles N.W. from Huntingdon. Popula. 335. SWINESHEAD, 24 miles S. W. from Kimbolton. Popula. 245. TETWORTH with EVERTON, 2 miles S. from Abbotsley. For popula., see Everton, Beds.

bolton. Popula. 156.

RIPTON-ABBOTTS with WENNINGTON, 3 miles N. from Huntingdon. Popula. 379.

RIPTON (Kings), 3 miles N.E. from Huntingdon. Popula. 260. SAPLEY, in Kings-Ripton parish, and popula, included therein. 1 mile N.E. from Huntingdon.

Neots. Popula. 144.

UPTON, 6 miles N.W. from Huntingdon. Popula. 151.

UPWOOD, 6 miles N. from Huntingdon. Popula. 388.

WARBOYS, 54 miles N. from St. Ives. Popula. 1,353.

WARESLEY, 4 miles S.W. from St. Neots. Popula. 231.

Peterborough. Popula. 138. WENNINGTON.-See Ripton Abbots. WESTON (Old), 5 miles N.W. from Kimbolton. Popula. 379.

WINWICK,7 miles N.W. from Kimbolton. Popula. 301.

WISTOW, 5 miles N.E. from Huntingdon. Popula. 352.

WITTON, 2 miles E. from Huntingdon. Popula. 261.

borough. Popula. 149.

WOODWALTON, 5 miles S. from Whit. tlesea. Popula. 211.

WOOLLEY, 4 miles N.E. from Kimbolton. Popula. 64.

YAXLEY, 24 miles N.W. from Whittlesea. Popula. 1,070. Fair, Ascensionday, horses and sheep.

YELLING, 4 miles E. from St. Neots. Popula. 297.

A MARITIME COUNTY, the South-Eastern extremity of England, being bounded on the North, by the Thames and the German Ocean; on the East, by the sea; on the South, by the sea and the county of Sussex; and on the West, by the counties of Sussex and Surrey. It is of an irregular oblong shape, about 63 miles in length, and 30 in breadth. It is divided into five Lathes; namely, St. Augustine, Aylesford, Scray, Shepway, Sutton-at-Hone. Its RIVERS are, the Thames, the Cray, the Darent, the Medway, the Ravensbourne, the Rother, the Less and Greater Stoure. It has 28 market-towns; Ashford, Bromley, Canterbury, Chatham, Cranbrook, Dartford, Deal, Dover, Faversham, Folkestone, Gravesend, Greenwich, Hythe, Lydd, Maidstone, Margate, Milton, Queenborough, Ramsgate, Rochester, Romney, Sandwich, Smarden, SevenOaks, Tenterden, Tonbridge, Westerham, Woolwich. The county of Kent returns altogether 18 members to parliament: namely, 2 for the county, 2 for the city of Canterbury, 2 for the city of Rochester, 2 for Maidstone, 2 for Queenborough, 2 for Dover, 2 for Hythe, 2 for Romney, and 2 for Sandwich. Kent contains 1,537 square miles, or 983,680 acres, and 411 parishes. It had 44 monastic establishments, and 64 public charities; it has 15 parishes with no church; 47 parishes with less than 100 people; 73 parishes with no parsonage-houses; and

84 parishes with parsonage-houses unfit to live in. The POOR-RATES were, in 1818, 418,723l. 14s. 54d.; the number of PAUPERS is 41,926; the rental of the county, according to a return made to parliament in 1818, was 1,644,179l. Os. 2d.; the population, according to a return laid before parliament in 1821, was 426,016; the number of inhabited houses, in 1821, was 70,507; the number of uninhabited houses at the same epoch 3,806; the poor-rates bear the proportion of one-third compared with the rental; the number of paupers, compared with the number of houses, is 1 to 2; the poor-rates, in 1776, were 78,830.; the number of persons to every square mile of this county is 212; the number of acres to a person, 2; the number of acres to a house, 13. The male population, in 1821, was 209,833; the families employed in agriculture were in number 30,869; the families employed in handicraft were 30,180 in number; the number of other families was 24,890; the agricultural male population 75,371; able labourers, 37,685; the number of acres in this county to every able-bodied labourer is 26. It is in the PROVINCE OF CANTER BURY, partly in the DIOCESE OF CANTERBURY, and partly in that of ROCHESTER; and it is in the HOME CIRCUIT. The important geographical situation of this county; its great beauty; the quantity and variety of its productions; together with some proud circumstances M

connected with its history, have made it the flower of the English counties. Excepting three districts, the Marshes, the Weald, and the Isle of Thanet, it consists of a continued cluster of small hills with their consequent dells. Two chains of hills higher than the rest run through the middle of it from East to West, generally being about 8 miles distance from one another. These extend nearly the whole length of the county, beginning at Westerham, close on the borders of Surrey, and extending to the sea-coast at Folkestone. The marshes, a rich tract of corn and pasture land, lie down on the Northern side of the county, close upon the Thames, and in a Southern corner of the county, bordering on the sea; the latter being called Romney Marsh. The Weald is an extensive tract of country beginning at Romney Marsh and stretching in a North-West direction towards Westerham. It is supposed to have been anciently entirely wooded, and to have been inhabited by nothing but boars

and other wild animals. Wood is still its characteristic, but it is also thickly inhabited, and is in the best state of cultivation. In its produce no county in England is more various and

none so famous. In the Isle of Thanet, the Eastern extremity of the county, the largest crops of corn are produced annually that probably any country in the world knows of. Other parts of the county are perhaps as well adapted to this produce, but being more valuable in other crops, are not so frequently made to produce it. In the neighbourhood of Maidstone, Canterbury, and Sandwich, immense quantities of hops are grown; in such quantity, that it is estimated that Kent pays nearly one-fourth of the hop duty every year. In these neighbourhoods the produce of fruit for the London markets is also very great; filberts, apples, cherries, plumbs, and even raspberries, currants, and gooseberries, are cultivated in whole fields; these particularly between Tonbridge and Maidstone, a district called the garden of Kent. The soil is various, the only really barren spot being Blackheath, in the neighbourhood of London; the marshes are of a deep, dark alluvial soil; the higher parts of the county are, a yellow loam mixed with flints of the same colour, upon beds of chalk; the hop grounds and fruit grounds, are a deep and dark loam, mixed here and there with gravel or

clay; the Weald is, for the greater part, a clayey loam, being, here and there, a strong clay, proper for wheat, and excellent for the growth of timber. The cattle are not peculiar to the county, nor is there any distinct breed most in favour among the farmers. The sheep, however, are nearly all of the South Down breed. In manufactures the county is not renowned at all, there being nothing but a little manufacturing of muslins and brocaded silk, and stockings at Canterbury; at Deptford copperas-works; in the Isle of Thanet salt; at Ospringe a public powder manufactory; at Dartford and Crayford iron mills; and at Dartford and Boxley, are excellent paper mills. This county is said to have been the first converted to Christianity; and here it is that the tenure called Gavelkind is more prevalent than in all the rest of England. ACRISE, 4 miles N. from Folkestone.

Popula. 186. Fair, Tues. after Oct. 11. ADDINGTON, 6 miles N.W. from Maidstone. Popula. 228.

ADISHAM, 4 miles S.E. from Canterbury. Popula. 305.

ALDINGTON, 4 miles N.W. from Hythe. Popula. 735.

ALKHAM, 24 miles N.E. from Dover.
Popula. 509.

ALLHALLOWS, 4 miles N.E. from Chat-
ham. Popula. 259.
ALLINGTON, 1 mile N. from Maidstone.
Popula. 45.

APPLEDORE, 5 miles S.E. from Tenterden. Popula. 559. Market, Tues.; fairs, Jan. 11, and fourth Mon. in June, pedlary and cattle.

ASH, 6 miles S.W. from Dartford. Popula. 505. Fairs, April 6, Oct. 11, pedlary.

ASH-NEAR-SANDWICH, 1 mile W. from Sandwich. Popula. 2,020.

ASHFORD, 54 miles S.E. from London. Popula. 2,773. Market, Tues.; fairs, first and third Tues. in every month, for cattle; May 17, Aug. 2, wool; Sept. 9, and Oct. 12 and 24, horses, cattle and pedlary.

ASHURST, 54 miles S. W. from Tunbridge. Popula. 208.

AYLESFORD, 24 miles N. from Maidstone. Popula. 1,136. Fair, June 29. Here there was a Carmelite Friary,

BUCKLAND, 3 miles N.W. from Faver

sham. Popula. 22.

BUCKLAND, near Dover, 1 mile N.W. from Dover. Popula. 693.

BURNHAM, 3 miles N. from Maidstone. Popula. 236.

BURMARSH, 1 mile S. from Hythe. Popula. 94.

CANTERBURY, is situated in a pleasant

and healthy spot, 55 miles E. by S. from
London. Of its antiquity there is no
doubt; for its neighbourhood has, at
different times, been found to be replete
with the relics of Druidism, and not
less abounding in those of the Romans.
As a Saxon metropolis, Bede says, in
mentioning the arrival of St. Augustine,
"it was the chief place of all the do-
minion of Ethelbert." St. Augustine
arrived in 596, and the king, upon his
conversion, retired to the Reculver,
giving Augustine his palace, and the
adjacent possessions. The vicinity of
Canterbury to the Isles of Thanet and
Sheppey, the two chief landing-places
of the Danes, made it a prey to these
barbarians more often than it would have
been had it been more remote from
these places. They entered and sacked
it in 851. In 918 they entered it again,
but were driven out by Elfleda, the
daughter of Alfred the Great. In 1009
the inhabitants rescued it by a ransom
of 30,000l.; and, in 1011, they besieged
it, took it, and, after putting the inha-
bitants to the sword, burned it down.
It was rebuilt, however, and before the
end of Canute's reign, it had become
again an important city; and Stow says,
that, at the time of the Doomesday sur-
vey, it was as large a place as London.
William the First is supposed to have
built a magnificent castle here, the ruined
remains of which are still
on the

south-west side of the town, near the
entrance from Ashford. The original
walls round the town are supposed to
have been the work of the Romans; but
it is certain that Queen Eleanor, mother
of Rich. I., had the town well fortified.
In the reign of Rich. II., the fortifi-
cations were well repaired, as they were
again in Hen. IV.'s time. The principal
gates were six in number; namely, the
West-gate, the North-gate, Bur-gate,
St.-George's gate, Riding-gate, and Win-
cheap-gate: of these, West-gate is the
only one standing now. The cathedral
of Canterbury is a very stately building,
exhibiting specimens of the architecture

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of almost every age, from the arrival of the Normans to the time of Hen. VII. The original buildings of the Saxons were built and burned down no less than three several times; and the present building was begun by the Archbishop Lanfranc in 1070. The north-west entrance, being of Norman architecture, is thought to be a part of the building of Lanfranc. In 1170, the archbishop, Thomas à Becket, was murdered in this cathedral, and the number of pilgrims who flocked to his shrine with their donations was such, that it enabled future archbishops to erect the additions and make the decorations that we behold at the present day. To form an idea of the value of some of the presents that were made, I will copy from Erasmus, who saw the shrine just before the "Protestant Reformation," and who thus describes it: They drew up a chest or case of wood, which inclosed a chest or coffin of gold, together with inestimable riches, gold being the meanest thing to be seen there: it shone all over, and sparkled and glittered with jewels of the most rare and precious kinds, and of an extraordinary size, some of them being larger than a goose's egg. When this was displayed, the Prior, who was always present, took a white wand, and touching every jewel with it, told the name and the value, and the donor of it, for the chief of them were the gifts of monarchs." In the fiftieth year after the murder of Becket, Pope Honorius ordered a jubilee in honour of him, which was repeated every fifty years; and, in estimating the popularity of Becket, all historians state, that, at the jubilee held in 1420, no less than 100,000 persons attended the celebration. The cathedral still contains a shrine of this famous man, but the plunderers of the "Reformation" took care to despoil it of its gold and jewels. It still also contains the monuments or memorials of many famous men and women, as those of Hen. IV. and his queen, Joan of Navarre; of Edward the Black Prince; of St. Dunstan; of Cardinal Pole, and many others. Before the "Reformation," it had no less than thirty altars within it, and the town contained, besides the cathedral, the religious houses here enumerated; St. Augustine's Monastery, founded by the converted king, Ethelbert; the yearly revenues were 1,274l. Os. 10d., now worth 29,4801. 17s. 6d. St. Gregory's Hospital, founded