. A walk in and about the city of Canterbury, with many observations not to be found in any description hitherto published . highway, the present road leads by Oaten-hill, into the city through St. Georges gate. At The hospital of St. James or St. Jacob, for leprous women, Mr. Lam-bard says, was built by Q. Eleanor, wife to Henry HI. Mr. Somncr showsthat it was founded sooner, and under the protection of the prior andconvent of Christ-church ; he gives a little history of it, and says its clearrevenue amounted to 461. (is. 3d. All that remains of this ancient buildingare the stone walls that e
. A walk in and about the city of Canterbury, with many observations not to be found in any description hitherto published . highway, the present road leads by Oaten-hill, into the city through St. Georges gate. At The hospital of St. James or St. Jacob, for leprous women, Mr. Lam-bard says, was built by Q. Eleanor, wife to Henry HI. Mr. Somncr showsthat it was founded sooner, and under the protection of the prior andconvent of Christ-church ; he gives a little history of it, and says its clearrevenue amounted to 461. (is. 3d. All that remains of this ancient buildingare the stone walls that enclose an orchard, and the lower part of the frontof the house : that part which is now called the hospital being of a muchmore modern - Where malefactors, convicted by our city pf capital crimes, wereexecuted, till 1799, when Margaret Hughes, for the murder of her husbandby poison, sutTered on a temporary scatfold erected between the gaolershouse and the gaol of ^Vestgatc ; in 1802, (icorgc Madeish and ThomasDumoline, for highway robbery, were abo executed there; and in Noland, for the .same crime. 29 tins turning stood the nunnery of St. SepuKlire,uliicli, as Mr. Soinner s;ivs, \vislioj) Ansclin, A. I). I l()U,an(l was a corporal ion,consistini;-of a lady prioress, and five veiled blacknuns, so called from the colour of their lial)its andveils. One of these was Elizabeth Barton, calledtheHoly Maid of Kent, in kinii Henry the EightlTstime, who being- tutored by some monks, pretendedto inspiration, and prophesied destruction to thosewho were opening a way to the reformation. Forthis she and seven of her accomplices sufferedd(»ath; among whom was Richard Dering, thetellarer of the cathedral monastery, and HugliRich, guardian of the Franciscans : six others ofthem were [)unished by fine and revenue of this nunnery, at the dissolution,was 12s. 5d. [On part of the scite of it somehandsome houses have recently been erected. Tilllately, so
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