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Title: Picturesque views, on the River Medway, from the Nore to the vicinity of its source in Sussex : with observations on the public buildings and other works of art in its neighbourhood
Year: 1793 (1790s)
Authors: Ireland, Samuel, d. 1800 Apostool, Cornelis, 1762-1844 Thomas and John Egerton (Firm)
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Publisher: London : Published by T. and J. Egerton ...
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r thefe purpofesfrom penalties. The produce to the revenue,in modern times, from the increafed trade inthis article amounted, in th« year 1791, toninety thoufand and fifty-nine pounds onejQiilling and ten pence. The fketch annexed, though not avow-edly a portrait of the place, will give fomeidea of the happy fcenery which prefentsitfelf at the hour of noon. The cheerful coun-tenance of the hop-gatherer, jufl quitting N his ( 98 ) his labour, the younger dancing round the loaded poles j and the more aged fpreadinghis humble repaft on the fcattered leaves, while each in his turn Crowns high the goblet, and with cheerful draught^ Enjoys the prefent hour,adjourns the future thought.* The tythe on this plant, which has folong been matter of difcontent among theplanters, it is reported, is like to be adjuftedby a compofition of twelve (hillings an acre,inilead of being paid in kind, which com-pofition will probably yield more than thefum arifmg from the prefent mode of colle6lring. SECTION
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I ( 99 ) SECTION VIII. O N our approach to Aylesford, at an eafybend of the river, the eye is fuddenly at-traa:ed with the beautiful feat of the Coun-tefs of Aylesford, called The Friars. The fituation of this venerable manfion,which is clofe to the banks of the Medway,comprizes, in one point of view, the moftperfea landfcape I have yet met with onthis river. In this view is included the an-cient church of Aylesford, at a diftance ofabout half a mile, part of the village ishappily revealed from behind a verdant inter-vening Hope, and the gothic bridge beneathis, in part, fo happily concealed by the handof nature, as to appear the defign of art. N 2 The ( 100 ) The Priory, or Friars, was founded in-the 25th year of Henry III. in 1240, byRadulphus Frifburne, under the patronageof Richard, Lord Grey, of Codnor, forFriars Carmelites, a religious order not be-fore known in this country. This Lord,having been in the wars in Paleftine, vifitcdMount Carmel, and noticing the auftereitiode of l

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