Aspects of Kentish Local History

our own day. His counterpart a century earlier waxed equally satirical at the expense of the Marshmen when he got to Dymchurch and went to session there.
   More appetizing is the charming ad vivum picture of the kindly Thorpe, ever willing to burden himself further for the interest of these passing travellers, whose name appears like a gleaming thread in the tapestry from time to time.
   I think the reference in the tour to the world-famous brasses at Cobham is the earliest I know other than the notes and crude drawings, of the late sixteenth century, in B.M. Lansdowne MS. 874.
   And so the reader is left to Lord Harley and his suite.

   (All marginal notes are additions by myself.) [Here inserted it the main text Webmaster]
   The overline numerals in the text refer the reader to the Notes at the end.

       (Historical MSS. Commission, No. 29, vol. VI,
         MSS. of the Duke of Portland, at Welbeck 
         Abbey, London, 1901.)

(p. 74)      JOURNEYS IN ENGLAND, BY 
       LORD HARLEY, AFTERWARDS THE 
              SECOND EARL OF OXFORD.

I.—IN KENT.

Hinc quo nunc iter est tibi?

Ready to wend on our pilgrimage to Canterbury.

ON Monday, August 26th, 1723, pretty early in the morning I attended my Lord Harley on horseback out of Dover Street towards Hyde Park corner, but was kept in the dark which way the excursion was intended, till we turned down by Buckingham Wall¹ towards the Horse ferry.² While the servants with the horses were crossing over in the ferry boat, we got over in a pair of oars to Lambeth, and took a short view of the Archbishop's Palace, the inside of which I had never before peeped into, and perhaps never shall again. The first room we were conducted into was the Great Hall, a very handsome capacious room, built by Archbishop Juxon, as my Lord informed me from his knowledge of the arms (I think three or four blackamoors' heads) which were stuck in two or three places about the Hall. It is indeed a very noble room, and great pity it is that more use is not made of it. I mean, that it is not so used as the generous and charitable founder designed, for hospitality, &c. We were thence shewn upstairs, and passing through some few rooms came into the Gallery, which is the Archbishop's private library