being Assize-time, the Judges, High-sheriff, Gentlemen, and the common sort, were all feasted by the Archbishop in a splendid manner, as before. Soon after Bishop Sandys, of Worcester, elect of London, came to Canterbury to be confirmed. The Archbishop, on his return, lodged the first night at Sittingbourn, and the next night (after dining at Gravesend) came to Lambeth in barges by the Thames, with all his family.

Sept. 7, 1573, being Q. Elizabeth's birth-day, Archbishop Parker entertained her majesty, and as many Noblemen, &c. as were present at Archbishop Warham's entertainment in the same hall 54 years before. The Archbishop (to use his own words, in a letter to Archbishop Grindal, of York) " met her Highness as she was coming to Dover, upon Folkestone Down. I left her at Dover, and came home to Bekesburn that night; and after that went to Canterbury to receive her majesty there. Which I did, with the bishops of Lincoln and Rochester and my Suffragan [of Dover] at the west door. Where, after the Grammarian had made his oration to her upon her horseback, she alighted. We then kneeled down, and said the Psalm, Deus misereatur, in English; with certain other Collects briefly; and that in our chimers and rochets. The Quire, with the Dean and Prebendaries, stood on either side of the church, and brought her majesty up with a square song, she going under a canopy borne by four of her temporal Knights, to her traverse placed by the communion board. Where she heard even-song, and after departed to her lodging at St. Austin's, whither I waited upon her. From thence I brought certain of the council, and divers of the court, to my house to supper, and gave them 14 or 15 dishes, furnished with two messes, at my long table; whereat sat about 20. And in the same chamber a third mess, at a square table, whereat sat 10 or 12. My less hall having three long tables furnished with my officers, and with the guard, and others of the court. And so her Majesty came every Sunday to church to hear the sermon; and upon the Monday it pleased her Highness to dine in my great hall thoroughly furnished with the Council, Frenchmen, Ladies, Gentlemen, and the Mayor of the town, with his Brethren, &c. Her Highness sitting in the midst, having two French Ambassadors [Gondius, and MotheFenelon] at the end of the table, and four Ladies of Honour at the other end. And so three messes were served by her Nobility at waiting, her Gentlemen and Guard bringing her dishes," &c. On which the Archbishop of York, in his answer, made this reflection: "Your Grace's large

description of the entertainment at Canterbury, did so lively set forth the matter, that in reading thereof, I almost thought myself to be one of your guests there, and as it were beholding the whole order of all things done there. Sir, I think it shall be hard for any of our coat to do the like for one hundred years, and how long after God knoweth."

In this progress Lord Treasurer Burghley was lodged with Mr. Pearson, the eleventh Prebendary, who, the Archbishop says, "had a fine house," [now Dr. Curteis's.] 1770, Aug.

LXVII. Account of the ancient Palaces and Houses belonging to the See of Canterbury, from Strype, Lambard, &c.

1. THE Manor of Bekesburn, anciently called Livingsburn, was given to Christ Church, Canterbury, after the year 1400. Thomas Goldstone, a Prior of that Church, and a great Builder, in 1508, built the Manor-house for a Mansion for the Priors, and a chapel annexed, and a new Hall adjoining to the Dormitory, and several other edifices there. At the dissolution this was alienated, and given to Sir John Gage, comptroller of the King's household, who exchanged it with Abp. Cranmer for the Manor of Bishopsburn, and so it returned to the church again from whence it had been for some time severed; only the owners changed. Bekesburn was healthfully and conveniently seated, lying an easy distance from Canterbury, whensoever the Archbishops were minded to be retired. Abp. Cranmer made considerable buildings there, and probably would have done more, had he continued in his prelacy. In the year 1552, he finished the Gate-house, still standing, as appears from the north and south sides thereof, wherein are two stones, set in the brick-work, with the letters of his name, T. C. and coat of arms, and motto, NoSCE TE IPSUM ET DEUM: together with the date 1552. Abp. Cranmer appropriated his Manor-house and his parsonage-barn here for harbour and lodgings for the poor, sick, and maimed soldiers that came from the wars of Bologne, &c. appointing them an almoner, a physician, and a surgeon; besides the common alms of his household that were bestowed on the poor of the country. Archbishop Parker took great delight in this palace, and in 1572, added the last finishing strokes to it. On the greal gate are the arms of Parker alone, and the date 1579,

this label about the crest, MUNDUS TRANSIT ET CONCUPISCENTIA EJUS; all of them cut in wood; which makes it probable, that this archbishop, besides what buildings or reparations he made here, did the inward work, the gate, the doors, the wainscot, &c. Abp. Abbot, of later times, lived in Bekesburn some years, and preached in the parish-church there on Sunday mornings; of which they had a pleasant story; that there were two country fellows met; the one told the other he was making haste to Bekesburn church, where he was told a great man preached: he thought it was Sir Henry Palmer, who was the greatest man he knew in the parish. This palace was demolished in the year 1658, and no part of it is left standing at this day, but only a long row of plain brick buildings, called, THE GATE-HOUSE, now Mr. Peckham's, which was the entrance into the palace. The very foundations of all the rest are digged up. Out of the materials of this palace some other houses were built not far off; on some stones whereof still remain the arms of Christ Church, Canterbury; and in the glass windows may be seen the rebus of Thomas Goldstone, the prior.

2. FORD, in the parish of Chislet, the most ancient seat of the Archbishops, was also pulled down in 1658, and the bricks, timber, and other materials sold. Here was also a large park. Archbishop Cranmer often resided there, though the situation is not healthy.

3. MAIDSTONE Palace was given by William de Cornwall, to Archbishop Langton. It now belongs to Lord Romney.

4. At CHARING was an ancient seat, much augmented by Archbishop Morton. The ruins are still remaining.

5. SALTWOOD-castle, near Hythe, built by the Romans, was given to the See of Canterbury in 1036, and was much beautified and enlarged by Archbishop Courtney, who also inclosed a park about it, and made it his usual place of residence. It now belongs to Sir Brook Bridges, and is venerable in decay.

6. At ALDINGTON was a fair seat, much enlarged by Archbishop Morton. It had also a park and chace for deer, called ALDINGTON FRITH. The great Erasmus was rector of the parish, being presented to it by Archbishop Warham.

7. At WINGHAM was a good house, where Archbishop Winchelsea entertained and lodged King Edward I. And Archbishop Reynolds in 1324, entertained King Edward II. The Manor is now Earl Cowper's.

8. WROTHAM-House was pulled down by Archbishop Islip, and the materials employed in finishing Maidstone palace. At this house, in 183, Archbishop Richard,

(Becket's successor) had such a terrible dream, that the fright occasioned his death. The manor annexed now be longs to William James, Esq.

9. At TEYNHAM was an ancient seat, where Archbishop Hubert died in 1221. The Manor is now Lord Teynham's. 10. KNOWLE (near Sevenoak) was left to the See of Canterbury by Archbishop Bourchier, who added much to its magnificence. Archbishop Morton also built here. It is now the seat of the Duke of Dorset.

11. OTFORD was a magnificent palace, built by Archbishop Warham, at 33,000l. expense, he having taken offence at the citizens of Canterbury, where otherwise he designed to have built such a stately palace as should have been a lasting monument of his great wealth and glory.

All the above, with the Manors belonging to them, (Bekesburn excepted) were exchanged by Archbishop Cranmer with King Henry VIII. for other lands, "To extinguish the passions of such as looked with regret and desire upon the patrimony of the church."

12. CANTERBURY-Palace, given to the See by Archbishop Lanfranc, and afterwards rebuilt by Archbishops Hubert, Boniface, Langton, and Parker, was destroyed in the time of the usurpation.

So that the Archbishops have now no Palace or House remaining in their own Diocese, and only Lambeth and Croydon out of it, both of which are in the Diocese of Winchester.

1770, Nov.

LXVIII. On the ancient manner of taking refuge for Murder or Felony in the Cinque Ports. Extracted from Mr. James Hammond's Collections of the Antiquities of Dover, Folio 14 and 15. From the Customall of the Cinque Forts. Corrected and amended in the Reigns of Henry the 7th and 8th.

AND when any shall flee into the church or church-yard for felony, claiming thereof the privilege, for any action of his life, the head-officer of the same liberty, where the said church or church-yard is, with his fellow-jurats, or coroners of the same liberty, shall come to him, and shall ask him the cause of being there, and if he will not confess felony, he shall be had out of the said sanctuary; and if he will confess felony, immediately it shall be entered in record, and his goods and chattels shall be forfeited, and he shall tarry there forty days; or before, if he will, he shall make his abjuration in form following, before the head-officer, who

shall assign to him the port of his passage, and after his abjuration, there shall be delivered unto him by the headofficer, or his assignees, a cross, and proclamation shall be made, that while he be going by the highway towards the port to him assigned, he shall go in the King's peace, and that no man shall grieve him in so doing, on pain to forfeit his goods and chattels; and the said felon shall lay his right hand on the book and swear this :-"You hear, Mr. Coroner, that I, A. B. a thief, have stolen such a thing, or have killed such a woman, or man, or a child, and am the King's felon; and for that I have done many evil deeds and felonies in this same his land, I do abjure and forswear the lands of the Kings of England, and that I shall haste myself to the port of Dover, which you have given or assigned me; and that I shall not go out of the highway; and if I do, I will that I shall be taken as a thief, and the King's felon; and at the same place I shall tarry but one ebb and flood, if I may have passage; and if I cannot have passage in the same place, I shall go every day into the sea to my knees, and above, attempting myself to go every day to my knees, and above, crying, Passage for the love of God, and King N his sake; and if I may not within forty days together, I shall get me again into the church, as the King's felon.

So God me help and by this book according to your
judgment.'

And if a clerk, flying to the church for felony, affirming himself to be a clerk, he shall not abjure the realm, but yielding himself to the laws of the realm, shall enjoy the liberties of the church, and shall be delivered to the ordinary, to be safe kept in the convict prison, according to the Jaudable custom of the realm of England.

1771, Aug.

LXIX. Artifice of the Thong in founding Cities and Castles
exploded.

MR. URBAN,

THE story goes, that Dido or Eliza, upon her arrival in Africa, after her flight from Tyre, purchased as much land of the natives of the former place as she could cover or rather inclose, with an ox's hide; and thereupon cut the hide into thongs, and included a much larger space than the sellers expected; and that from thence the place, which afterwards became the citadel of Carthage, was called Bursa, Bursa signifying an 'ox's hide.' This tale, which is either re

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