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 . n the hands of the crown till thefecond year of James I. by whom it wasgranted to Philip Herbert, younger bro-ther to William, Earl of Pembroke, inwhofe family it flill remains. The wholeof this manor claims an exemption fromthe payment of tythes at this time. From hence, by a pleafant and goodroad, we come to Queenborough, at thefouth - weft point of the ifle of town and caftle are reported to havebe
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 . n the hands of the crown till thefecond year of James I. by whom it wasgranted to Philip Herbert, younger bro-ther to William, Earl of Pembroke, inwhofe family it flill remains. The wholeof this manor claims an exemption fromthe payment of tythes at this time. From hence, by a pleafant and goodroad, we come to Queenborough, at thefouth - weft point of the ifle of town and caftle are reported to havebeen built from a model or defign ofWilliam of Wyckham, furveyor of theworks to Edwaid III. The caftle wasere6led, fays Camden, to quote the Kingsown words, * as being pleafant in fituation,• the terror of his enemies, and the com- fort of his fubje61s. The borough, with the ( 21 ) the right of reprefentatlon in parliament,was added by him in honour of PhiHppa ofHainault, his queen, thence called Queen-borough. Of this caftle, as no traces are remaining,I have fubjoined a iketch of it from a fcarceprint by Hollar, faid to be the only genuineview extant, that has been The parliament, after the death ofCharles I. in 1650, ordered a furvey of itto be made, when its value was ellimated at ( 22 ) at one thoufand feven hundred and ninety-two pounds twelve fhillings. It was foon afterfold to a Mr. John Wilkinfon, by whom thewhole of it was taken down, and the ma-terials removed. The moat that furroundedit is ftill vifible. In its center is a wellforty fathom deep, which remained a longtime choaked up; but in 1723 it was open-ed by order of the commiffioners of the navy,and has proved of great utility to this place,as well as to the inhabitants of Sheernefs. The town, notwithftanding the celebrityof its archite6l has, from the tranlitory con-dition of all fublunary things, no traces ofits original form -, the caflle we have likewiferemarked is no more; but in this oncefamed
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