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XX. A short Dissertation on the Amtiquities of the two Ancient Ports of Richborough and Sandwich, by the Isle of Tanet in Kent. Communicated by the Reverend Mr. John Lewis
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 24 July 2012
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Three years after the death of the learned John Battely, D. D. Archdeacon of Canterbury, was printed in Latin at Oxford, a beautiful little tract, intituled “Antiquitates Rutupinæ,” or, the Antiquities of Richborough. It is an account of a conversation betwixt him and his two brother-chaplains to archbishop Sancroft, the learned Dr. Henry Maurice, and Mr. Henry Wharton, vicar of Mynstere, in the isle of Tanet, in a very polite and elegant style.–Page 9, he tells them, that he undertakes to shew, that the antient port of Sandwich was bounded within the said limits which he ascribed to the port of Richborough, viz. Peperness to the east, and North-muth to the north.
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page 80 note [q] This coast or shore was called “Rutupina Littora.” The aestuary flowed up as high as Chartham, about three miles beyond Canterbury, almost twenty miles in length.
page 81 note [s] Marsh-flete, where ships could float: The Genlade, or Inlet, on the south side of Reculver.
page 81 note [t] Perhaps Eastburgh-gate, now Eastry-gate.
page 81 note [u] This Giraldus Cambrensis calls Exterior Portus, as being betwixt Sandwich and the main sea.
page 82 note [x] See Sir Thomas More's Dialogues, fol. 119. ed. 1529.
page 82 note [y] Comment. l. iv. § 20. 24.
page 82 note [z] passus, five foot.