Petrisfield (see the 'History of the College of Maidstone,' p. 109), which if it occupied the spot where the present High. Street of Maidstone now stands, the former known and accustomed place of market, it must have been an expedient to draw population towards his new foundation, as also towards the dwelling of the archbishops. They, since the reign of King John, had resided in the house that had belonged to William de Cornehill (see Philipot's 'Villare Cantianum,' p. 228), which had been granted to the See of Canterbury; the same having been re-edified by them, and having acquired the name of a palace. In 1272, being the first of Edward I., the Church of St. Faith was completed, as appeared by an inscription on one of the pillars so read. It stood about a hundred yards due west of Week Street, and is believed to have been the prolongation of a former building, built about forty years previously. In 1422, as appears by the deed of endowment still in existence, the Brotherhood Hall was founded by John Hyssenden, otherwise called Nayler, an  inhabitant of Maidstone, at the bottom of Earl's Street, near the river; and thus the fraternity, called the "Fraternity of Corpus Christi," was established. This was no other than an early rudiment of the Maidstone corporation; for the elders of the town were the principal members of this religious foundation, and this building was the quasi 'Town Hall' of their day. Here observe, that as in London the magistracy has from the first continued to be in that part where was the ancient Roman city, so in the case of this our county-town of Kent, the seat of municipal government still lingered towards that quarter in which the place had first sprung tip; and it seems to have done so for more than a century and a half afterwards. There was at this time a chapel, named St. John's chapel, just over the bridge of the Lenn,¹ and
   ¹ The site of St. John's chapel is sufficiently known, from being