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VIII. Observations on Kit's Cotty House, in Kent. In a Letter to the Honourable Daines Barrington, from the Reverend Mr. Pegge
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 24 July 2012
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Considering that freedom of thinking on points of antiquity, and that liberty of debate, which your Society not only allows, but encourages in its members; no apology need be made for resuming the consideration of any subject of enquiry, or for dissenting from those who may have delivered their sentiments concerning it before. I flatter myself, therefore, that I shall neither give offence to the candour of the Society in general, nor to the liberal mind of your worthy treasurer, Mr. Colebrooke, in particular, if, with all deference and respect towards him, I should cause that rude and ancient Kentish monument, vulgarly called Kit's Cotty House, to pass again in review before you, and should happen to disagree with him, and others, in certain particulars concerning it.
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page 110 note [a] Kit's Cotty House at Ailsford : the oval and circular rows of stones at Addington, first mentioned by Dr. Harris, but more fully described by Mr. Colebrooke, Archaeolog. II. p. 407. Perhaps Julaberr's grave at Chilham and a long gigantic barrow on the side of Wye down.
page 111 note [b] “Ex his omnibus, longè sunt humanissimi, qui Cantium incolunt; quae regio “est maritima omnis; neque multùm a Gallica differunt consuetudine.” Caesar de B. G. v. § 10.
page 111 note [c] Peramb. of Kent, p. 409. edit. 1596. Camden writes, Keith-Coty-house; Stow, Cits Cotihouse; Philipot, Kits-Cotehouse; and Harris, Kits Cotty-House.
page 111 note [d] The first, I presume, is that very bad one by Philipot, Villare Cant. p. 49; a second, and something better, by Dr. Harris, Hist. of Kent, p. 371; then an East and West front, by an anonymous author in Gent. Mag. 1763, p. 248; copied in the second edition of Dr. William Borlase's Antiquities of Cornwall, p. 224; and lastly (not to mention the two unpublished views by Dr. Stukeley, for which see Mr. Gough's Anecd. of Brit. Topogr. p. 229, and which will appear in the new volume of his Itinerary, publishing by subscription), an accurare plate by Mr. Colebrooke, and a view by Mr. Grose.
page 111 note [e] Lambarde. Camden, Brit. col. 230. Stow, Chron. p. 52. edit. 1631. Philipot, p. 48. Harris, p. 31. Gent. Mag. l. c. Dr. Borlase, and Mr. Colebrooke, p. 114. 116. The account's given by the three last are by far the most minute and particular.
page 112 note [f] Archaeol, II. p. 110. 114.
page 112 note [g] Ib. p. 115.
page 112 note [h] Lambarde, Camden, Stow, Philipot, Harris. Philipot pretends, p. 48, that another such a monument was erected for Horsa at Horsted, in the parish of Chatham; but this is gratis dictum. See Mr. Colebrooke, p. 110.
page 112 note [i] Archaeol. p. 114. See also Dr. Borlase, p. 224, where the vulgar name, Kits Cotty-bouse, is derived from Koitten, or Goitten, a quoit.
page 112 note [k] Archaeol. p. 109. 113. 117.
page 113 note [l] Compare p. 113, with p. 117.
page 113 note [m] Beda, p. 53. edit. Smith.
page 113 note [n] Archaeologia, p. 117.
page 113 note [o] Borlase, p. 225.
page 113 note [p] Compare it with those in Rowland's Mona Antiq. p. 92, seq. and in Borlase, p. 223. et seq.
page 114 note [q] See Borlase, p. 224, 225.
page 114 note [r] Idem, p. 226. et seq.
page 114 note [s] Idem, p. 223. 227, 228, 229. 232.
page 114 note [t] Idem, p. 229.
page 114 note [u] Idem, p. 223. 230.
page 114 note [w] Idem, p. 225. Toland's works, p. 97.
page 114 note [x] Idem, p. 225. Toland, p. 97.
page 115 note [y] Borlase, p. 229.
page 115 note [z] Idem, p. 230.
page 115 note [a] Lord Barrington's Works. III. 177. second edition.
page 115 note [b] P. 179.