Mr Pretty, the learned curator of the Charles Museum, Maidstone, has favoured me with the remark that there is an occasional occurrence of large edifices in Zucharelli's pictures of the scenery and buildings of Italy, where ancient structures are introduced, not strictly castles or fortresses, but constructed with large buttresses, of what might almost be termed extravagant dimensions, placed at intervals along the walls, and thus seeming distinct from the usual class of domestic residences. He therefore thought that there was thus a coincidence in this circumstance in the villa discovered at this spot, and considered that there was probably here a public building of some sort. Mr. Pretty's views are ostensibly correct, but the small part excavated does not allow us to assign its supposed use. A few implements of Roman workmanship were found, fragments of personal ornaments, etc. etc., and a copper coin of Gordianus III., who reigned from the year 238 to 244. I may add, that this building stood not on the tract of land called Perryfield, otherwise Buryfield, but on the adjoining piece, which anciently had the name of Carings, Charinge, or Charinges. It is mentioned in the 'Manor Survey' of 1511 as belonging to the Archbishop of Canterbury; as also in Sir T. Wyat's exchange with the king in 1540, where it is described as having been late the property of the abbot and convent of Boxley. It is mentioned also in a grant from the Crown to Sir Walter Hendley, where it is described as comprising sixteen acres, but without doubt was of very much greater extent. It had a yearly fair upon it according to the first deed, which is the more singular as showing that this quarter, now remote from the present town, had its own ancient fair. Its boundary towards Maidstone was a stile by the river's side, which appears to have stood about ninety or a hundred yards higher up the stream than our villa, and was called "Caring's