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42 two serfs, and seven acres of meadow, a wood of ten hogs." (D. B.)

55. .—The tower is detached from the church. "The font is of cast lead having on it two ranges of emblematical figures, twenty in each range." In the chancel are "a confessionary" (stone seat?) and a piscina. (Hasted.) Fora detailed description of the curious Norm. font, above mentioned, consult (Archæol. Journal, V, 159 &c.): see also the Note on Benenden above.

56., near Dover.—Is regarded as a chapel, therefore not named in the King's Books. (Harris.) An hospital for lepers was commenced here about 1141, but every trace has now disappeared. (Hasted).

57., near Faversham.—"The steeple, which was a spire, was standing in 1719. The north and south walls of the church are now standing, and the west end, where was formerly the steeple, in which was one bell. The east end is quite down, and the whole roof of the church fallen in, and the inside a heap of rubbish." (Hasted).  58. . In the Saxon Chronicle this city is called "Dorwitceaster," as well as "Cantwarbyrig;" by Bede " Doruvernis." It was burned A.D. 754, (Gibs. Chron. Sax. 56.) The churches of the Holy Trinity (the cathedral) and St. Augustin's, i.e. the abbey, are mentioned in (D. B.), but not how many the city contained. Indeed, generally, the towns (of the three counties included in this work) are but slightly alluded to in the Survey. The cathedral was originally styled Christ's Church, (see below); but, when rebuilt by Archb. Lanfranc, it was dedicated to the Holy Trinity. Having been partially destroyed by fire, it was restored and enlarged, when the name was changed back again to Christ's Church, A.D. 1128 or 1130. (Somner's Canterbury).—N.B. For an account of the edifice, as well as of the above alterations, and of others it has undergone, the reader is referred to Professor Willis's very interesting (Architectural History of Canterbury Cathedral.)

Augustin, having established his archiepiscopal see in the royal city (Canterbury) recovered therein, by king Ethelbert's assistance, a church formerly built by the Roman believers, which he consecrated in the name of God the Saviour, and appointed as the seat of himself and his successors. He also erected a monastery not far from the city towards the east, wherein, at his entreaty, Ethelbert constructed the church of the Apostles Peter 