. A walk in and about the city of Canterbury, with many observations not to be found in any description hitherto published . a cockpit. If any thing more is curious, it is some ibnt intlie walls, and especially at the foot of a buttressof the gate, at the north-east corner, where thejoints and stones are as neatly fitted, as the fairestworks of ground bricks. If the riches of this monastery were very great,so were its privileges, and the rank and authorityof the abbot, who was exempt from the areh-iiishops jurisdiction, and subject only to thepope. He wore the mitre, and other ornamentsof a bi
. A walk in and about the city of Canterbury, with many observations not to be found in any description hitherto published . a cockpit. If any thing more is curious, it is some ibnt intlie walls, and especially at the foot of a buttressof the gate, at the north-east corner, where thejoints and stones are as neatly fitted, as the fairestworks of ground bricks. If the riches of this monastery were very great,so were its privileges, and the rank and authorityof the abbot, who was exempt from the areh-iiishops jurisdiction, and subject only to thepope. He wore the mitre, and other ornamentsof a bishop, had a vote in parliament as a baron,and, for many years, allowance of mintage andcoina2:e of monev, in rii^ht of his abbacv. He [8 This is not the case now, openings from time to time having been madefur different purposes ; particularly for the Kent and Canterbury hospital,and the new county sessions lionse and i^aol, both of which have railingsbefore them, and the latter, to tlie east and north, has a brick wall erectednearly on the site where the old wall of the monastery stood.] lion nunc- IrAnilati. ?^u/, ]J. Froof =77 , FarU Cbjivh pr i. , AiiIj nu^iii . »I ive ij] onj. -iio.^ tomiuune Refprfm um. 1roj-nhuiu i n• ?n V ,140 icJi,. regi^. Iiodie converi«,Ctrmiteri, in hoAinn mine- Irinliiti porta Occid|ntilu\Muriu Genobi, (.Asm omf,ent intra, qutm. i^aul eo circUel tcna- ^xi^n moliia,,EcckUi ..fKirlmi, jj Onfn. Ccenoki,?l»Iea ib Vrte tjuccn^ J. c» tceuobii.
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