. A walk in and about the city of Canterbury, with many observations not to be found in any description hitherto published . ws that whatever was demolished of thismonastery at the suppression, a considerable partof it remained standing when this drawing wasmade. Ethelberts tower was then nearly com-plete, and the apartments such as might and didserve for a palace. The print observes, that the wall of the mo-nastery encloses about sixteen acres of ground;besides which it had an almonry without its gate,which still retains its name, and some tokens of 3 Bishop Kennet, in his life of Mr. W. Somn
. A walk in and about the city of Canterbury, with many observations not to be found in any description hitherto published . ws that whatever was demolished of thismonastery at the suppression, a considerable partof it remained standing when this drawing wasmade. Ethelberts tower was then nearly com-plete, and the apartments such as might and didserve for a palace. The print observes, that the wall of the mo-nastery encloses about sixteen acres of ground;besides which it had an almonry without its gate,which still retains its name, and some tokens of 3 Bishop Kennet, in his life of Mr. W. Somner, says, that he furnishedSir William Dugdale with the ichnography of the cathedral, the draught ofthe monastery, and other sculptures ; which being designed for a folio vo-lume, we find only one of them in Somners quarto of the Antiquities ofCanterbury, and that twice folded to get room. It is there called a map,lyepresenting the high altar of with the chapels behind it, & Rattely had it copied for his edition of Somner, in which are also someprints of Hollars etchings for Sir W. Dugdales
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