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Title: A walk in and about the city of Canterbury, with many observations not to be found in any description hitherto published
Year: 1825 (1820s)
Authors: Gostling, William, 1696-1777
Subjects: Canterbury (England) -- Guidebooks
Publisher: Canterbury, W. Blackley (etc.)
Contributing Library: Princeton Theological Seminary Library
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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a few public spi-rited and literary young men, the institution wasreorganised, and the whole establishment placedon a footing, at once consistent with the impor-tance of its object, as well as creditable to thecity itself. The number of members is consi-derable, and comprises the names of many re-spectable and intelligent individuals. Lectureson science and general literature, are deliveredalternately, with discussions on moral and histo-rical subjects.) Proceeding still westward, on the left hand, isJury, or rather Jewry-lane, for the Jews wereformerly settled here, and had a school, or syna-gogue, till they were expelled the kingdom byking Edward I. and their houses seized by him. Several old vaults hereabouts are supposed byMr. Somner, to be the remainder of their build-ings ; but in digging a cellar within these twentyyears, a curiosity of another kind was found, notabove three or four feet below the level of thestreet: it was a fair mosaic pavement of a carpet >o J3ft* ■Htti
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67 . ;);)tt(Mn, llic frssalla^ of l)uint oartli, red, yellow,l)la(k, and white ; their shapes and sizes difllerent,some nearly an inch over, others very small, laidon a bed of mortar, of snch hardness, and sothick, that with care it might have been preservedentire, but for want of that, was broken intothree or four pieces, some of which were afterw ardcarried away and joined. What was saTed of itwas, perhaps, three feet broad and five long;but party-walls prevented the size of the wholefrom being ascertained.^ Jewry-lane, making an elbow, leads to Lamb-lane : we leave the end of both on our left hand,and that of Bests-lane, with All Saints churchon the right, and so come to Kings-ljridge (calledsometimes East-bridge, to distinguish it from tliatwitliout Westgate) and the hospital of the samename, which crosses the river with it on the lefthand. East-bridge hospital, Mr. Somner says, waserected and endowed by St. Thomas Becket, forwhich he quotes the preamble of those ordinancesor stat

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