Gentleman's Magazine Library: Kent. Lancashire

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E. Stock, 1895
 

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Pàgina 273 - And the eyes of them both were opened, and they knew that they were naked; and they sewed fig leaves together, and made themselves aprons.
Pàgina 262 - Keep thy foot when thou goest to the House of God, and be more ready to hear, than to offer the sacrifice of fools ; for they consider not that they do evil.
Pàgina 47 - Tour through the Isle of Thanet, and some other Parts of East Kent...
Pàgina 282 - There has likewise been traced, and may be now seen as the workmen are removing the earth, the situation of the fort or battery so accurately pointed out by Enfield ; and, in the trench have been found many bones, broken glass, old bricks, remnants of a wall and leaden balls. The lower trenches mentioned by the same writer were discovered about sixty years ago, when the Infirmary was dug, and in them were found gardevin bottles, cartouches, and various other articles left behind by the besiegers...
Pàgina 188 - It is about three hundred feet square within the walls, which were seven feet in thickness, and twenty feet high, above the present ground, with embrasures. Three sides of the castle were surrounded with a deep broad ditch, which is now nearly filled up : on the other side runs the Medway. In the angles and sides of the castle were...
Pàgina 286 - A wall plate on the outside of one beam, from end to end, measures ii feet by 10 inches. The walls are finished at the square with a moulded cornice of oak. At the bottom of this room is a door opening into one of the towers, the lower part of which only remains, of massive grout work, and with three arches, each furnished with a funnel or aperture like a chimney.
Pàgina 206 - ... holders (or flints with, the angles worn away by friction on the shore) mixed with sandstone from Pegwell Bay and Caen stone, from the ruins probably of the original building. Under the East window of the Church appears to be an entrance to the vaults. Plain buttresses divide the chancel from the ailes, the latter of which are of a date anterior to the former. The buttresses are continued all round the building at regular intervals. The South porch is extremely plain. The pointed doorway is ornamented...
Pàgina 65 - Quintin, who died in the latter part of the fourteenth, or early in the fifteenth century.

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