KENT.

I.

A PERAMBULATION of KENT: conteining the Description, Hystorie, and Customes of that Shyre. Written in the yeere 1570 by WILLIAM LAMBARDE, of Lincolnes Inne, Gent.: first published in the yeere 1576, and now increased and altered after the Author's owne last Copie.

Imprinted at London by Edm. Bollifant, 1596. Small quarto,

in black letter.

Title-page as above, within a broad Border.

Dedication to the Right woorshipfull and vertuous M. Thomas Wotton, Esquier, dated from Seintcleres, this last of Ianuarie, 1570.

A Second Dedication to his Countriemen, the Gentlemen of the Countie of Kent, signed T. W. 3 pages.

The Saxon Characters, and their Values, 1 page, with a Map of the English Heptarchie on the reverse.

The Exposition of this Map of the English Heptarchie, or seauen Kingdoms, 6 pages.

The description and historie, of the shyre of Kent, [B 1-Pp 3] p. 7-588.

A Table, comprising the principall places, men, and matters, handeled in this Perambulation, 5 pages.

Errors of paging :-page 35 is numbered 13;— p. 139 for 239. Besides the above Map on the letter-press, there is likewise a folded one, at page 70, entituled "A Carde of the Beacons in Kent."

N. B. The first edition of this work was printed by Henry Middleton in quarto in 1576, with an Account of the Nobility of the County, omitted in succeeding Editions.-The second edition (the one above noticed) in 1596.-The third edition, corrected and enlarged, is in duodecimo, without date.-The fourth, in 1640, and the last in 1656, in octavo.

II.

The PERAMBULATION of KENT; containing the Description, History, and Customs of that County. Written by WILLIAM LAMBARD of Lincoln's Inne. Corrected and enlarged. To which is added the Charters, Laws, and Privileges of the Cinque Ports, never before printed.

LONDON: Printed for Matthew Walbancke and Dan. Pakeman, 1656. Octodecimo, containing nothing more than "A General Charter and Confirmation of the Liberties granted by the King's Majesty to the Cinque Ports and their Members, 76 pages.

III.

A TOPOGRAPHIE, or SURVEY of the COUNTY of KENT; with some Chronological, Historicall, and other Matters touching the same; and the several Parishes and Places therein. By RICHARD KILBURNE of Hawkherst, Esq.

"Nascimur partim Patriæ."

LONDON: Printed by Thomas Mabb, for Henry Atkinson; and are to be sold at his Shop at Staple-Inn-Gate in Holborne, 1659. Quarto*.

Title-page as above.

Dedication to the Nobility, Gentry, and Commonalty of Kent, 4 pages.

The Contents of this Book, 2 pages.

* Two years preceding the publication of this volume, viz. in 1657, when at the age of fifty-two years, this author printed in an oblong form, in various columns, "A brief Survey of the County; viz. the Names of the Parishes in the same; in what Bailywick, Hundred, Lath, Division of the County, and Division of the Justices, every of the said Parishes is; what Liberties do claim in the same; the Day on which any Market or Fair is kept therein; the antient Names of the Parish Churches; in what Hundred or what Township every of the said Parishes doth stand; and in what Diocese every of the said Parishes was."

The Topographie, or Survey, [B-Hhh 3] 422 pages. An alphabeticall Table of the Names of Persons and Families mentioned in this Tract, and Errata, 12 pages.

Errors of paging :-pp. 48 and 49 repeated, and pp. 46 and 47 omitted; p. 220 marked 320;-pp. 254-255 for 262-3;— p. 258-259 for 266-267;-and pages 262-3 for 270-271. To which is prefixed a Portrait of the Author, aged 52 years, Sep. 24, 1657. T. Crosse sc.

IV.

VILLARE CANTIANUM: or KENT SURVEYED and ILLUSTRATED. Being an exact Description of all the Parishes, Burroughs, Villages, and other respective Mannors included in the County of Kent; and the original and intermedial Possessors of them, even until these Times. Drawn out of Charters, Escheat-Rolls, Fines, and other public Evidences; but especially out of Gentlemen's Private Deeds and Muniments. By THOMAS PHILIPOTT, Esq. formerly of Clare-Hall in Cambridge. To which is added, an historical Catalogue of the High-Sheriffs of Kent; collected by JOHN PHILIPOTT, Esq. Father to the Authour.

LONDON: Printed by William Godbid, and are to be sold at his House over against the Anchor Inne, in Little Brittain. MDCLIX. Folio.

Title-page as above.

Dedication to the Nobility and Gentry of Kent, signed Thomas Philipott, 2 pages.

A Table of Addenda or Omissions, 3 pages.

Lines addressed to the Author by John Bois of Hode, Esq.

1 page.

A Second Table of Addenda or Omissions, 4 pages.

The Preface to the Reader, 4 pages.

The Historical Part, [B-Ddd 4] 391 pages.

The Etymology, Derivation, and Definition of all the Hundreds and Parishes mentioned in the Map of Kent, as they are derived from some Saxon Radix, [ee] p. 393-401.

Errors of paging :-p. 259 for 258;-374, 375 for 372 and 373-377 for 378.

PLATES.

1. Map of the County, called "A New Description of Kent, by the Travayle of Phil. Symonson of Rochester, Gent. and printed and sold by P. Stent in Giltspur St. 1659, with a View of Dover Castle and Towne from the Landside, at the top of the Map. Folded. W. Hollar fecit. To face p. 1.

2. The Banner of the Romans, bearing the Nine Maritime Towns of Great Britain. On letter-press of p. 8.

3. The Arms of Yarmouth. On letter-press of p. 10. 4. Monument to the Memory of Catigern, vulgarly called CitsCote-House. On letter-press of p. 49.

5. The Arms of Wm James of Eigtham, and of an ancient Family named Haestrecht. On letter-press of p. 374.

V.

VILLARE CANTIANUM: or KENT SURVEYED and ILLUSTRATED. BY THOMAS PHILIPOTT, Esq. The SECOND EDITION Corrected.

LYNN: Printed and sold by W. Whittingham: R. Baldwin, Paternoster-row; H. Gardner, Strand; W. Lane, Leadenhallstreet, London; W. Mercer, Maidstone; Smith and Son, Canterbury; T. Fisher, Rochester; J. Sprange, Tunbridge Wells; J. Hogben, jun. Rye; J. Hall, Tenterden. MDCCLXXVI. Folio.

Title-page as in the preceding article.

Dedication to the Nobility and Gentry of Kent, 1 page.

Lines addressed to the Author, signed John Bois, Esq. of Hode. The Preface to the Reader, 4 pages.

VILLARE CANTIANUM: or Kent surveyed, [B-5 G 2] 390 pages. The Etymology, &c. [5н-51 2] p. 393-100.

Index, [5 K-5 M 2] 11 pages.

PLATES.

1. Map of the County. Folded.

2. The Banner of the Romans, and Cits Cote-House. p. 8. 3. Bromley College. From Harris's History of Kent. Folded. T. Badeslade del. J. Harris sc.

VI.

The HISTORY of KENT, in Five Parts: containing 1. An exact Topography or Description of the County.

II. The Čivil History of Kent.

III. The Ecclesiastical History of Kent.

IV. The History of the Royal Navy of England. v. The Natural History of Kent.

By JOHN HARRIS, D.D. and F.R.S.

"Qui bonam Famam Bonorum, quæ sola verè Gloria nominari potest, expetit : Aliis quærere Otium debet non Sibi."-CICERON. Orat. pro P. Sextio. "Et nullam Virtus aliam Mercedem Laborum Periculorumq; nunc habet, prater hanc Laudis & Gloriæ: Quá quidem detructá, quid est, quod in hoc tam brevi Vitæ curriculo & tam exiguo, tantis nos in laboribus, exerceamus? Certè si nihil Animus præsentiret in posterum, & si, quibus Regionibus Vita spatium circumscriptum est, iisdem omnes Cogitationes terminaret suas: Nec tantis se Laboribus frangeret, neque tot curis vigilisq; angeretur.”—Ejusdem pro A. Licinio.

LONDON: Printed and sold by D. Midwinter, at the Three Crowns in St. Paul's Church-yard. MDCCXIX. Folio.

N. B. Some copies, particularly those on Large Paper, have the following imprint: "London Printed: and sold by D. Midwinter, at the Rose and Crown in St. Paul's Church-yard. MDCCXIX.”

Title-page as above.

VOL. I.

Dedication to the King, (George I.) with the Royal Arms at the head, 3 pages.

Preface, 4 pages.

An Ode in Praise of Kent, signed P. Motteux, 2 pages.

List of Subscribers; an Account of the Antiquities in Mr. Godfrey's Plates, page 248; and Errata, 4 pages.

The History of Kent, [B-Ffff-4] 592 pages, printed in double Columns*.

Index, [4 G-40 2] p. i-xxxi.

Additions and Emendations, p. xxxii-xl.

Dr. Harris spent eight years in making collections for a History of this County; but he did not live to see the fate of his transcripts, as this first volume was published a few months after his death. What progress he had made towards his second volume, which was never published, is not known: but dying insolvent his papers were dispersed; and though every inquiry has been made after them, yet no knowledge has been gained what is become of them.-HASTED.