of the Manor of Wyke.' By this, as far as the various fields can be identified, they seem to have extended northward, commencing in a line with the present Union Street, and comprised 245a. 2r. 31p. A considerable portion of the lands has been purchased of late years by Alexander Randall, Esq., who has an elegant mansion on the property, in which he resides. The Fisher family ultimately conveyed the estate to the Company of Merchant Tailors, in the year 1617.
   12. I may add also another feature to these remarks on the site of our supposed Roman station and settlement, or Roman station and "vicus," as we may now call it, that various ancient roads appear to converge to it; and not so much to the present town of Maidstone, as it now lies situated more to the south-east. For instance, one remarkable one coming over the Boxley range of hills near the farm called Boarley; much scooped out of the side of the hill, and therefore very conspicuous. There is likewise another instance in the old Sittingbourne road, which formerly pointed hitherward ; though now it is much altered at the Maidstone end. An ancient carriage-road likewise communicated direct with the spot I have assigned for the Roman station, from Boxley, coming partially through Mr. Lushington's lands. This gives a third instance of ancient roads converging to this centre. It joined it pretty much in a straight line with the road crossing the Medway at Radford, and coming up from the Thrott Wharf, as mentioned in the former part of these remarks. This said ancient road is marked on the older maps of the Earl of Aylesford's estates, but is now completely discontinued ; having been stopped up thirty or forty years ago, by the former Earl, at one end, and by Sir Henry Calder, Bart., a former possessor of Park House, at the other.
   13. In regard to evidence from Roman and Anglo-Saxon