This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1912 edition. Excerpt: ...as Terra Monachorum Archie pi. The road now passes through the grounds of Stede Hill, and then to Lenham, a delightful little town with quaint houses and a church mainly of the Decorated period, which still retains the sixteen oak stalls for the monks, in the chancel. Near the church are three large tithe ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1912 edition. Excerpt: ...as Terra Monachorum Archie pi. The road now passes through the grounds of Stede Hill, and then to Lenham, a delightful little town with quaint houses and a church mainly of the Decorated period, which still retains the sixteen oak stalls for the monks, in the chancel. Near the church are three large tithe-barns, originally the property of St. Augustine's Abbey, to which the whole manor was granted by Cenwulf, King of Mercia. From Lenham the road goes to Cobham Farm and thence by fields to Charing, a manor said by tradition to have been given to the ancient British Church by Vortigern. Even if this were not so, it was certainly one of the first manors to be given to Augustine by Ethelbert, King of Kent. Close by the church are the extensive ruins of the third archiepiscopal palace we have passed since we first stepped over the Kentish border. The palace hall, part of which still remains, was that in which Henry VII. was entertained, and Henry VIII. and his Court were received on their way to the Field of the Cloth of Gold. This portion of the ruins now serves the purposes of a barn. The church was visited by all pilgrims on account oi its famous relic of the block on which St. John the Baptist was beheaded. Tradition says the relic was brought from the Holy Land by Richard Cceur de Lion, and was given by him to either Archbishop Baldwin, who crowned and then accompanied Richard on a crusade, or to Archbishop Hubert Walter. The relic remained in the church until 1590, when it was probably destroyed by a fire which left nothing but the walls standing, and even the bells were melted by the fierce heat. At Charing begins the last fourteen miles of the journey, the road passing through Westwell, Eastwell, Boughton Aluph, Godmersham and Chilham, but...
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