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Title: A corner of Kent; or, Some account of the parish of Ash-next-Sandwich, its historical sites and existing antiquities
Year: 1864 (1860s)
Authors: Planché, J. R. (James Robinson), 1796-1880
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Publisher: London, R. Hardwicke
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
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smiling valley, boundedby a range of low wood-crowned hills,—here andthere a distant spire, a cluster of farm-buildings,a mill, or an oasthouse. Yet those meadows have swarmed with Csesareansoldiery; over what is now a marsh have sailed theRoman galleys and the Saxon keels. Those hillshave witnessed the worship of Woden; amongst thetrees of one of them nestles a village still bearinghis name;—that mill marks the site of a vast pagancemetery; those farms are the remains of manor-houses, whose knightly owners lent lustre to the rollof English chivalry. The sculptured effigies of some INTRODTJCTION. XXlll yet moulder on their monuments in the chancelbeneath. Puffs of white smoke point out the progress of theup-train from Sandwich rattling over a railway whichsweeps by the amphitheatre and round the castrumof Rutupis; an omnibus is rolling along the roadby which Eichard Coeur-de-Lion passed on foot toCanterbury, and Edward the Black Prince conducteda captive King of Prance to London.
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A CORNER OF KENT. CHAPTER I. BEFORE THE CONQUEST. •^ Ant vaga cum Thetis Eutupinaque lifcora fervent,Unda Caledonios, fallit turbata Britannos.—Lucan. SoNorthern Britons never hear the roarOf seas that break on the far Cantian shore.—Bowe. rpHE history of the parish of Ash may be said toJ- commence with the above allusion by Lucan, inhis Pharsalia, lib. vi., to the Eutupine shore: thecoast of Kent, or at least that corner of it north-east of Sandwich, having received that appellationapparently from the Portus Eutupensis, the namegiven by the Eomans to the estuary which thenseparated the Isle of Thanet from the mainland. 2 A CORNER OP KENT. At each end of this estuary was a fort whichprotected a haven, the one called E^egnlbium, nowReculver; and the other Rutupis or Rutupinnm,now Richborough. Hence, it is presumed, the pluralname E;utupi8e.^ The etymology of this name is stilla vexed question. Camden suggests its derivationfrom the British words rhydtufeth, vadum sahulo-sum, or s

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