History and Topographical Survey of the County of Kent: Volume I (Classical County Histories)

General Books publication 2009 Original publication 1797 Original Printed by W. Bristow Kent (England) History / Europe / Great Britain Travel / Europe / Great Britain This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. JUnr dt Its or luce, was engraved in many places, perhaps a device or rebus for the name of Lucy. This figure lay on a flat marble ftone, which ferved as a cover or lid to a hollowed tomb of white fmooth hewen aflieler ftone; in which, wrapped in a meet of lead, lay the remains of an afliy dry body, whole and un- disjointed, having upon its head fomething like hair. They found likewile other ftatues of men, in like manner proportioned, and of a woman in her attire and habiliments, with many graveftones and bones of de- ceafed perfons; to fee all which great crowds of people reforted continually, not only from the neighbouring parts, but even from London.5 By the direction of the then owner, the firft mentioned monument was again covered, and he planted a bay tree over it; when Dr. Stukeley vifited this place, in 1753, he thought this tree the fineft of the kind he had ever feen, but it is fince wholly withered and decayed. The doctor was of opinion that the farm houfe, (landing on the premifes, was the on- original manfion. or feat of the founder, in which he and his fucceflbrs, the abbots, ufed to refide; it is however certain that all the buildings, ufed by the religious, were fituated fouthward of the houfe; whilft this fpot was inhabited by the occupiers of the land, the area of the church and cloifters was ufed as a garden,- but the cattle now range over the whole of it. The ruinous north wall of the church, of which the doctor drew a fketch, is inferted in the ...