Picturesque views, on the River Medway, from the Nore to the vicinity of its source in Sussex : with observations on the public buildings and other works of art in its neighbourhood . .^^mm^-^-^:^^ About fixty or feventy yards from thefeflones, I am informed, there formerly layanother of nearly the fame lize, which maypoiTibly have originally enclofed the eaflei;npart of the fabric that is now open. Thisflone was buried in the earth a few yearsfmce, for the convenience of agriculture, by Mr. ( 104 ) Mr. Bentham, the prefent pofleiTor of thisland. My late ingenious friend, Grofe, inhis Antiquit
Picturesque views, on the River Medway, from the Nore to the vicinity of its source in Sussex : with observations on the public buildings and other works of art in its neighbourhood . .^^mm^-^-^:^^ About fixty or feventy yards from thefeflones, I am informed, there formerly layanother of nearly the fame lize, which maypoiTibly have originally enclofed the eaflei;npart of the fabric that is now open. Thisflone was buried in the earth a few yearsfmce, for the convenience of agriculture, by Mr. ( 104 ) Mr. Bentham, the prefent pofleiTor of thisland. My late ingenious friend, Grofe, inhis Antiquities, conje6lures that the nameof Kit, or Cat, may be an abridgment ofCatigern; and that in Cornwall, where thereare many of thofe monuments, the flones arecalled Coits; therefore Kits Coity-Houfe mayexprefs Catigerns houfe, built with Colts. Fr o m Aylesford, the fcenery on the Med-way affords little variety, till we approachAUington Callle,. which ( 105 ) which is about two miles diftant from Maid-ftone. This venerable ruin, though within afew yards of the river, is by the range of treesoh its bank, nearly exduded from the a piclurefque obje6l upon our ftream thisis a circumilance much to be regretted; and,indeed, its general fituation is h circum-fcribed, as to render it difficult to fele6l afavourable point: I flatter myfelf however the{ketch will be thought to give the moft com-prehenfive idea of this once famous place ofdefence. This Caftle is reported to havebeen built foon after the Conqueft by EarlWarren on the fite of one formerly erected bythe Saxons. In the time of Henry VJI. itbecame the property of Sir Henry Wyatt,his favourite, and Privy Counfellor, w^hohaving been long a prifoner in the Tower,during the reign of Richard III., is faid tohave been wonderfully preferved, and fedthere by a cat; for which reafon he is report-ed to have been painted with that animal O in ( 106 ) in Ills arms j of this port
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