1543, as in Ellis's' Dugdale's Monasticon,' vol. v. p. 462). It is stated, in the Crown Leases referred to by Hasted, as comprising forty acres, but there is little doubt that, according to the customary difference in these old measurements, it contained above sixty; and, in short, it is believed that a great part of the whole north-western angle of this part of the parish abutting to Boxley, north-east of the Rochester road, was in it; and possibly it might have extended to the south-west of the same. In any case, it lay contiguous to our station of Vagniacae. Now in Kent, as indeed in other parts of the kingdom, Perryfield is identical with Buryfield, and means a place where is, or has been, an old fortification. Thus, among numerous other instances, there is an ancient earthwork in Perry-wood, in the parish of Selling, near Faversham, and it seems to be understood as a matter of course that our Perryfield should more properly be Buryfield, from the Anglo-Saxon byriff, an entrenched place, and that it implies the vicinity of a fortification. But what fortification"? None was ever known to exist in that quarter of the parish; and what other explanation of the fact can there be, except that the appellation arose from our lost Roman fortified station, described in our former page as situated at the junction of the three roads, and which we may believe to have yielded to the vigorous quarrying efforts made by the archbishops for the embellishment of the town in the Middle Ages? 
   9. Having thus shown the probable spot of the Roman station Vagniacae, I now proceed to offer an observation or two on the supposed site of such town or village as the Romans may be thought to have had at ancient Maidstone. I place this, the reader will recollect, together with the station, on the ridge before mentioned, but extending towards the present town to the south-east, and in fact abutting on the Government property now occupied as barracks in that direction. The whole space