. A walk in and about the city of Canterbury, with many observations not to be found in any description hitherto published . aid downby our Saviour himself, as the rule by which menmay know who are his disciples. But to return from this digression, and speakof the monastery itself. Mr. Somner ascribesthe situation of it without the city walls, to itsbeing designed by the king and archbishop, as aplace of sepulture for them and their very ancient cnstom,the sepulchres of the dead,were placed by the sides of the highways, ofwhich we have examples without number in ourneighbourhood.
. A walk in and about the city of Canterbury, with many observations not to be found in any description hitherto published . aid downby our Saviour himself, as the rule by which menmay know who are his disciples. But to return from this digression, and speakof the monastery itself. Mr. Somner ascribesthe situation of it without the city walls, to itsbeing designed by the king and archbishop, as aplace of sepulture for them and their very ancient cnstom,the sepulchres of the dead,were placed by the sides of the highways, ofwhich we have examples without number in ourneighbourhood. Accordingly, the cemetery herewas on the straight road from our Burgate tollichborough (Ritupis.) The monks, as alreadyobserved, had turned that road aside to Longport,in order to secure that burying-place witliin theirown enclosure.^ A common footway lay through 2 Mr. Somner, page 34, represents the enclosing this burying-place withintheir walls as owing to the policy of the monks, and it might be so, notonly for the supposed holiness of the ground, but because some of ourchurches have no church-yards adjoining b i^\ 1 ? D r S TUN E S UATE , =1: A2^ TZEJB T 3iX,Kent. :BUcU<!i). ^tui/£riu Vk
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