The topographical tradition

A collection of books and pamphlets relating to the history and archaeology of Kent.

• Desiderius Erasmus, Peregrinatio religionis ergo (Basel, 1524)

  A fictionalized account of a visit to Canterbury, first published in 1524. I have not seen that edition; this transcript is taken from an edition published at London in 1631.

• A marueilous woorke of late done at Court of Streete in Kent

  Notes about a lost pamphlet, printed in about 1527, advertising the revelations of the Holy Maid of Kent. (Lambard had seen a copy of this pamphlet. He had also seen a copy of a pamphlet put out by the monks of Boxley to advertise the virtues of the Holy Rood of Grace; that is also lost.)

• Thomas More, A dyaloge … touching the pestylent sect of Luther and Tyndale … (London, 1529)

  The earliest version of the silly story about Tenterden steeple.

• John Leland, Genethliacon Eaduerdi principis Cambriae (London, 1543)
• John Leland, Commentarii in Cygneam cantionem (London, 1545)

  Excerpts from two of Leland’s published works. The big books that he had in his head did not get written.

• John Michell, A breuiat cronicle, 3rd ed. (Canterbury, 1554)

  A short account of Wyat’s rebellion.

• John Proctor, The historie of Wyates rebellion, 2nd ed. (London, 1555)

  A much longer account of Wyat’s rebellion.

• William Lambard, A perambulation of Kent (London, 1576)

  The first edition.

• William Harrison, The description of Britain (London, 1577)

  An excerpt from Harrison’s essay, written as an introduction to Holinshed’s ‘Chronicles’.

• Thomas Smith, De republica Anglorum (London, 1583)

  The chapter ‘Of parties of shires’. (The book is in English; only the title is in Latin. But a Latin translation of the whole book was published at Leiden in 1625.)

• John Fox, Actes and monuments, 4th ed. (London, 1583)

  A report of an execution at Dartford in July 1555.

• William Camden, Britannia (London, 1586)

  The first edition.

• William Harrison, The description of England (London, 1587)

  A revised version of the essay published in 1577, written for the new edition of Holinshed’s ‘Chronicles’.

• Reginald Scot, [An account of the construction of Dover harbour] (1587)
• Reginald Scot, [An account of the construction of Dover harbour] (1587) – cancels

  Written for the new edition of Holinshed’s ‘Chronicles’. The second file contains two of the leaves inserted when the book was censored.

• John Waller, [A report of a mismanaged witchcraft trial at Faversham] (1587)

  Written for the new edition of Holinshed’s ‘Chronicles’.

• Francis Thin, [A catalogue of writers of English history] (1587)

  Written for the new edition of Holinshed’s ‘Chronicles’.

• William Camden, Britannia, 2nd ed. (London, 1587)

  Passages retained from the first edition are printed grey. New passages are black.

• William Camden, Britannia (Frankfurt, 1590)

  The first and only foreign edition, reprinted from the second London edition.

• William Camden, Britannia, 3rd ed. (London, 1590)

  Passages retained from the second edition are printed grey. New passages are black.

• John Twine, De rebus Albionicis … commentariorum libri duo (London, 1590)

  Published by Thomas Twine, but ostensibly written by his father, John Twine, who died in 1581. I have my doubts about that.

• John Stow, The annales of England (London, 1592)

  Excerpts relating to Tonge Castle and Kit’s Coty House.

• John Stow, The annales of England (London, 1592)

  Stow’s account of the spoliation of St Thomas’s shrine.

• William Camden, Britannia, 4th ed. (London, 1594)

  Passages retained from the third edition are printed grey. New passages are black.

• William Lambard, A perambulation of Kent, 2nd ed. (London, 1596)

  The second edition, extensively revised.

• Richard Hakluyt, The principal navigations, voyages, traffiques and discoveries of the English nation, vol. 1 (London, 1598)

  ‘The state of the shipping of the Cinque ports’, quoted from Lambard.

• Ralph Brooke, A discoverie of certaine errours … in the much commended Britannia … (London, 1599)

  Excerpts from Brooke’s critique of Camden’s book.

• William Camden, Britannia, 5th ed. (London, 1600)

  Passages retained from the fourth edition are printed grey. New passages are black.

• William Camden, Britannia, 6th ed. (London, 1607)

  Passages retained from the fifth edition are printed grey. New passages are black.

• William Camden, Britannia, transl. Philemon Holland (London, 1610)

  The first edition in English, translated from the sixth Latin edition. Passages which have no counterpart in the Latin text are printed blue. They are, self-evidently, Camden’s own additions. The story that they were inserted by Holland, without Camden’s consent, is nothing but Oxford gossip.

• John Speed, The theatre of the empire of Great Britaine (London, 1611)

  The letterpress from Speed’s map of Kent.

• John Speed, The history of Great Britaine (London, 1611)

  Excerpt from Speed’s edition of a ‘Catalogue of the religious houses within the realm of England and Wales’ compiled in 1534–5.

• John Selden, The historie of tithes (London, 1618)

  Selden’s excerpts from a Rochester cartulary in the Cottonian Library.

• Richard Tillesley, Animadversions upon M. Selden’s History of tithes (London, 1619)

  Excerpts from the first edition.

• Richard Tillesley, Animadversions upon M. Selden’s History of tithes, 2nd ed. (London, 1621)

  Excerpts from the second edition.

• John Speed, The history of Great Britaine, 2nd ed. (London, 1623)

  Excerpt from the revised version of Speed’s ‘Catalogue’.

• Thomas Smith, De republica Anglorum, transl. John Budden (Leiden, 1625)

  Excerpt from Budden’s translation of the book first published in 1583.

• Clement Reyner, Apostolatus Benedictinorum in Anglia (Douai, 1626)

  Links for two online copies of the book.

• John Weever, Ancient funerall monuments (London, 1631) – preface

  Titlepage, dedication, preface and other preliminary matter.

• John Weever, Ancient funerall monuments (London, 1631) – Canterbury

  Weever’s account of the diocese of Canterbury.

• John Weever, Ancient funerall monuments (London, 1631) – Rochester

  Weever’s account of the diocese of Rochester.

• John Weever, Ancient funerall monuments (London, 1631) – Lesnes

  Weever’s report on the recent excavations at Lesnes Abbey.

• Anthony Munday, A perambulation or circuit-walke foure miles about London (London, 1633)

  Excerpt from Munday’s perambulation, published in his edition of Stow’s ‘Survey of London’.

• Meric Casaubon, Marcus Aurelius Antoninus … his meditations (London, 1634)

  Casaubon’s account of a Romano-British cremation cemetery discovered at Newington near Sittingbourne.

• William Camden, Britannia, transl. Philemon Holland, 2nd ed. (London, 1637)

  The second edition of Holland’s translation, slightly revised.

• William Somner, The antiquities of Canterbury (London, 1640)
• William Somner, The antiquities of Canterbury (London, 1640) – plates

  Full text. The second file contains some notes on the illustrations.

• Nicholas Payne, A true relation of a brave exploit … in taking of the castle of Dover … on the 21 of August, 1642 (London, 1642)

  An account of the capture of Dover castle by a posse of supporters of parliament.

• A true relation of the late expedition into Kent (London, 1642)

  A letter from ‘J.W.’ reporting on the actions of the troops sent by parliament into Kent in August 1642.

• The copy of a letter sent to an honourable lord, by Doctor Paske, subdeane of Canterbury (London, 1642)

  A letter from Thomas Paske complaining about the troops’ behaviour in Canterbury.

• Richard Culmer, Cathedrall newes from Canterbury (London, 1644)

  Iconoclasm in Canterbury.

• Bruno Ryves, Mercurius rusticus (Oxford, 1646)

  Excerpts relating to Canterbury and Rochester from the royalist newsbooks published originally in 1643–4.

• John Marsham, Propylaion (London, 1655)

  A short excerpt from the very long essay written by Marsham as an introduction for the ‘Monasticon Anglicanum’.

• William Dugdale, Monasticon Anglicanum, vol. 1 (London, 1655)
• William Dugdale, Monasticon Anglicanum, vol. 1 (London, 1655) – plates

  Excerpts relating to Kent. The second file contains some notes on the illustrations.

• William Dugdale, Monasticon Anglicanum, vol. 1 (London, 1655) – catalogue

  Excerpt from Dugdale’s edition of the ‘Catalogue of religious houses’ previously printed by Speed.

• William Lambard, The perambulation of Kent, 3rd ed. (London, 1656)

  A reprint of the second edition, with some additions at the end for which Lambard is not accountable.

• John Leland, Commentarii in Cygneam cantionem (London, 1658)

  A reprint of the book first published in 1545.

• Richard Kilburne, A topographie or survey of the county of Kent (London, 1659)

  Full text.

• Thomas Philipott, Villare Cantianum (London, 1659) – preface

  Titlepage, dedication, preface and other preliminary matter. At the end are some notes of mine intended to guide the reader through the following files.

• Thomas Philipott, Villare Cantianum (London, 1659)

  Full text, as originally published. No one who has tried reading this book has doubted the authorship of it. The idea that Philipott stole the credit for a book written by his father, John Philipott, is just Oxford gossip.

• Thomas Philipott, Villare Cantianum (London, 1659) – appendix

  A list of Kent place-names. This may perhaps be John Philipott’s work.

• Thomas Philipott, Villare Cantianum (London, 1659) – issue 2

  One replacement sheet.

• Thomas Philipott, Villare Cantianum (London, 1659) – issue 3

  Eight replacement sheets.

• Thomas Philipott, Villare Cantianum (London, 1659) – issue 4

  New titlepage dated 1664.

• Thomas Philipott, Villare Cantianum (London, 1659) – variants

  Some pages which were partially reset.

• Thomas Philipott, Villare Cantianum (London, 1659) – corrigenda

  A further list of corrections ‘to be inserted in this Book’ (4 pages).

• William Somner, A treatise of gavelkind (London, 1660)

  Full text.

• William Somner, A treatise of gavelkind (London, 1660) – reissue

  Six leaves inserted in the reissue of this book.

• William Somner, The antiquities of Canterbury (London, 1640) – inscription

  A leaf inserted at the front of some copies of Somner’s book.

• William Somner, The antiquities of Canterbury (London, 1640) – reissue

  The titlepage for the reissue of Somner’s book.

• William Dugdale, Monasticon Anglicanum, vol. 2 (London, 1661)

  Excerpts relating to Kent.

• Thomas Fuller, The history of the worthies of England (London, 1662)

  Excerpts relating to Kent.

• William Somner, Chartham news (London, 1669)

  Somner’s account of ‘some strange bones there lately digged up’ (of a woolly rhinoceros, in fact).

• Thomas Southouse, Monasticon Favershamiense (London, 1671)

  Full text. At the end I have added a note of an anomalous copy of this book in the library of the Faversham Society.

• William Dugdale, Monasticon Anglicanum, vol. 3, part 1 (London, 1673)

  Excerpts relating to Kent.

• William Dugdale, Monasticon Anglicanum, vol. 3, part 2 (London, 1673)

  Excerpts relating to Kent.

• John Rushworth, Historical collections, part 2 (London, 1680)

  Report of a case tried in the Star Chamber in 1634 concerning depopulation in Kent.

• Nehemiah Grew, Musaeum Regalis Societatis (London, 1681)

  Excerpt from the catalogue of the Royal Society’s museum relating to the fossil jaw and teeth from Chartham. (Grew thought that they might be rhinoceros. He was right.)

• Langley Curtis (publ.), The popes dreadfull curse (London, 1681)

  Translation of an excommunication formula in the ‘Textus Roffensis’.

• William Dugdale, Monasticon Anglicanum, vol. 1, 2nd ed. (London, 1682)

  Excerpts relating to Kent, only slightly revised from the first edition.

• Thomas Smith (ed.), Viri clarissimi Gulielmi Camdeni … epistolae (London, 1691)

  A letter from Lambard to Camden.

• William Somner, A treatise of the Roman ports and forts in Kent, ed. James Brome (Oxford, 1693)

  An unpublished work of Somner’s, edited by James Brome and annotated by Edmund Gibson.

• William Somner, A treatise of the Roman ports and forts in Kent, ed. James Brome (Oxford, 1693) – dedication

  Brome’s contributions: a dedication and a list of the lord wardens of the Cinque Ports.

• White Kennett, The life of Mr. Somner (Oxford, 1693)

  Written for Brome’s edition of Somner’s ‘Ports and forts’.

• Edmund Gibson (ed.), Camden’s Britannia, newly translated into English (London, 1695) – additions

  Full text of the description of Kent.

• Edmund Gibson (ed.), Camden’s Britannia, newly translated into English (London, 1695) – additions

  Additions relating to Kent, compiled by Gibson with help from Robert Plot.

• Edmund Gibson (ed.), Camden’s Britannia, newly translated into English (London, 1695) – booklist

  Bibliographical notes relating to Kent.

• Samuel Pepys, Of the arsenals for the royal navy in Kent (London, 1695)

  Written for Gibson’s edition of Camden’s Britannia.

• Thomas Tanner, Notitia monastica (Oxford, 1695)

  Excerpts relating to Kent. This edition is not much more than an index to the ‘Monasticon’, but the book was expanded greatly in subsequent editions.

• William Nicolson, The English historical library (London, 1696–9)

  Excerpts relating to Kent.

• William Somner, The antiquities of Canterbury, ed. Nicolas Battely (London, 1703) – preface

  The preface to Battely’s edition of Somner’s book. (The family spelt their surname ‘Battely’; Nicolas Battely spelt his first name ‘Nicolas’.)

• William Somner, The antiquities of Canterbury, ed. Nicolas Battely (London, 1703) – Chartham news

  A reprint of Somner’s pamphlet, with some comments added by Battely at the end.

• Nicolas Battely, Cantuaria sacra (London, 1703) – the church in Dover castle

  A letter from John Sackette giving ‘An Account of the Chappel in Dover-Castle’.

• Thomas Hearne (ed.), The itinerary of John Leland the antiquary, vol. 3 (Oxford, 1711) – Talbot’s notes

  Excerpts relating to Kent from Hearne’s edition of Robert Talbot’s notes on the British section of the ‘Itinerary of Antoninus’.

• Thomas Hearne (ed.),The itinerary of John Leland the antiquary, vols. 6–8 (Oxford, 1711–12)

  Excerpts relating to Kent.

• Thomas Hearne (ed.),The itinerary of John Leland the antiquary, vol. 6 (Oxford, 1711)

  Excerpts relating to Kent from Stow’s copy of the original manuscript.

• John Harris, Proposals for printing by subscription, The history of the county of Kent (London, 1713)

  As quoted by Rawlinson.

• William Nicolson, The English historical library, 2nd ed. (London, 1714)

  Excerpts relating to Kent.

• Richard Rawlinson (ed.), Miscellanies on several curious subjects (London, 1714)

  An account by Robert Plot of the tour that he made in Kent in 1693. His discovery of the Bigbury earthworks is reported here.

• Edmund Curll (publ.), The history and antiquities of the cathedral church of Rochester (London, 1717)

  Extracts. This is one of a series of antiquarian books thought to have been edited for Curll by Richard Rawlinson.

• John Harris, The history of Kent, vol. 1 (London, 1719)

  Preliminary matter from vol. 1, the only volume to be published.

• Thomas Badeslade, [Illustrations for Harris’s ‘History of Kent’] (London, 1719)

  Notes on the series of plates drawn by Badeslade for Harris’s book.

• Richard Rawlinson, The English topographer (London, 1720)

  The section relating to Kent.

• John Strype, A perambulation, or circuit-walk, four or five miles about London (London, 1720)

  Extracts relating to Kent from Strype’s edition of Stow’s ‘Survey of London’.

• Edmund Gibson (ed.), Britannia, 2nd ed. (London, 1722)

  A revised edition of Gibson’s translation of Camden’s Britannia.

• William Stukeley, Itinerarium curiosum (London, 1724)

  Extracts relating to Kent..

• William Stukeley, Itinerarium curiosum (London, 1724) – plates

  Notes on the accompanying illustrations, not just the ones published here, but also the ones which appeared in the second, posthumous, edition.

• Bernard de Montfaucon, Supplément au livre de l’antiquité expliquée, vol. 4 (Paris, 1724)

  Information received from England about the Roman lighthouse in Dover castle.

• William Somner, A treatise of gavelkind, 2nd ed. (London, 1726)

  Link for a copy of this second edition.

• White Kennett The life of Mr. Somner, 2nd ed. (London, 1726)

  Revised and enlarged.

• John Lewis, Proposals for printing by subscription the History and antiquities of the church and abby of Faversham

  Prospectus for Lewis’s book, which was published in 1727.

• Samuel Buck and Nathaniel Buck, [Twenty-four views of abbeys and castles in Kent] (London, 1736)

  Drawn in summer 1735, engraved in the following winter.

• Samuel Buck and Nathaniel Buck, [Six views of cities and towns in Kent, Sussex and Surrey] (London, 1738)

  Presumably drawn in 1735 and 1736.

• Samuel Buck and Nathaniel Buck, [Six views of towns and ports in Kent] (London, 1739)

  Presumably drawn in 1735.

• Thomas Robinson, The common law of Kent (London, 1741)

  Link for a copy of this book. For lawyers it became the standard work on the customs of gavelkind.

• Thomas Tanner, Notitia monastica, ed. John Tanner (London, 1744)

  Extracts relating to Kent.

• Charles Whitworth, [Invitation to contribute to a new edition of Philipott’s Villare Cantianum] (c.1760)

  A circular which went nowhere.

• ‘Kit’s Cotty House’

  An anonymous description published in the ‘Gentleman’s Magazine’ for May 1763.

• John Weever, Antient funeral monuments, reprinted (London, 1767)

  Link for a copy of this book.

• Richard Gough, Anecdotes of British topography (London, 1768)

  Extract relating to Kent.

• John Thorpe, Registrum Roffense (London, 1769)

  This book is in two parts. The first and larger part (pp. 1–697) is a collection of materials for the history of the cathedral church and diocese of Rochester put together by John Thorpe, MD, FRS (who settled in the city in 1715 and died in 1750) and prepared for publication by his son, John Thorpe, FSA (who made his home in Bexley). I transcribe just a few pages, to give the flavour of the book: page images are available online, thanks to the Getty Research Institute. For most purposes, by and large, the text as it was printed by Thorpe is accurate enough. But of course it is always preferable to consult the original documents, so far as they survive; and the next-best option would be to consult the raw transcripts, so far as they survive among Dr Thorpe’s papers, donated eventually to the Society of Antiquaries.

• John Thorpe, Registrum Roffense (London, 1769) – index of parishes
• John Thorpe, Registrum Roffense (London, 1769) – index of surnames

  Part 2 (pp. 701–1056) is a collection of monumental inscriptions from parish churches and chapels in the diocese of Rochester. Mostly this seems to be the work of the younger Thorpe: that has to be true for inscriptions later than 1750. (Unluckily the Getty copy is defective: it lacks sheet 11D (pp. 929–32). I can supply images of the missing pages to anyone who asks for them.) These two files are indexes published later: an index of parishes compiled by Thorpe (1788), an index of surnames compiled by F. A. Crisp (1885).

• Thomas Fisher (publ.), The history and antiquities of Rochester (Rochester, 1772)

  Full text.

• John Burnby, An historical description of the cathedral and metropolitical church of Christ, Canterbury (Canterbury, 1772)

  Link for a copy of the second edition.

• Josiah Colebrooke, An account of the monument commonly ascribed to Catigern

  Published in Archaeologia, vol. 2 (1773), pp. 107–17.

• William Gostling, A walk in and about the city of Canterbury (Canterbury, 1774)

  Full text.

• Edward Jacob, The history of the town and port of Faversham (London, 1774)

  Full text.

• Thomas Fisher (publ.), The Kentish traveller’s companion – bibliographical notes

  Notes on the different editions of this book.

• Thomas Fisher (publ.), The Kentish traveller’s companion (Rochester, 1776)

  Full text from the first edition.

• Francis Grose, The antiquities of England and Wales – bibliographical notes

  Notes on the history of the book, and on that of the Kent component in particular.

• Francis Grose, The antiquities of England and Wales (London, 1772–6)

  Letterpress from the Kent plates, eventually bound in vol. 2.

• Francis Grose, The antiquities of England and Wales (London, 1772–6) – addenda

  Addenda and errata from the back of vol. 4.

• Thomas Philipott, Villare Cantianum, 2nd ed. (King’s Lynn, 1776) – preface

  Only the list of subscribers is new to this edition.

• Thomas Philipott, Villare Cantianum, 2nd ed. (King’s Lynn, 1776)

  Full text.

• Thomas Philipott, Villare Cantianum, 2nd ed. (King’s Lynn, 1776) – appendix

  Included only for completeness. Use the first edition, not this one.

• Thomas Philipott, Villare Cantianum, 2nd ed. (King’s Lynn, 1776) – index

  New to this edition.

• William Stukeley, Itinerarium curiosum, 2nd ed. (London, 1776)

  Extracts relating to Kent..

• William Gostling, A walk in and about the city of Canterbury, 2nd ed. (Canterbury, 1777)
• William Gostling, A walk in and about the city of Canterbury, 2nd ed. (Canterbury, 1777) – plates

  Full text. The second file contains notes on the illustrations.

• Samuel Pegge, Observations on Kit’s Cotty House, in Kent

  Published in Archaeologia, vol. 4 (1777), pp. 110–16.

• John Duncombe, An elegy, written in Canterbury Cathedral (London, 1778)

  Link to a copy of this poem reprinted in 1783.

• Thomas Astle, A charter of Withred king of Kent for the church of St Mary at Liming, circa A.D. 693

  Published in the Antiquarian Repertory, vol. 2 (1779), pp. 131–3.

• Thomas Fisher (publ.), The Kentish traveller’s companion, 2nd ed. (Rochester, 1779)

  Full text.

• Richard Gough, British topography (London, 1780)
• Richard Gough, British topography (London, 1780) – additions

  Extract relating to Kent. The second file contains some further additions made while the book was in the press.

• Edward Jacob, Observations on the Roman earthen ware taken from the Pan-Pudding Rock

  Published in Archaeologia, vol. 6 (1782), pp. 121–4.

• Samuel Pegge, An historical account of … the Textus Roffensis

  Published as Number XXV in Nichols’s Bibliotheca Topographica Britannica.

• Francis Grose, The antiquities of England and Wales, new edition (London, 1783–6)

  Letterpress from vol. 3 of the new edition, issued in parts during 1784.

• James Douglas, A dissertation on the history of the earth (London, 1785)

  Extract reporting on the discovery of a fossil ‘hippopotamus’ (actually a rhinoceros) at Chatham in 1773.

• William Darell, The history of Dover castle, transl. Alexander Campbell (London, 1786)
• William Darell, The history of Dover castle (London, 1786) – Latin text

  Full text, with some rude remarks of mine at the end. (Not as rude, however, as Francis Thin’s, who spoke of ‘parson Dorrell’ as ‘the corruptor of all things which he tooke in hand’.) The second file contains the Latin text, as it was extracted from the original manuscript in the College of Arms.

• Francis Grose, Supplement to The antiquities of England and Wales (London, 1777–87)

  Letterpress from the Kent plates, eventually bound in vol. 1. Four of them, published in 1783–4, were reprinted in vol. 3 of the new edition; the other six, published in 1786–7, were reprinted in vol. 8.

• Francis Grose, Supplement to the new edition of The antiquities of England and Wales (London, 1787)

  Letterpress from vol. 8 of the new edition, published in 1787.

• Thomas Tanner, Notitia monastica, ed. James Nasmith (Cambridge, 1787)

  Extract relating to Kent from the third (and last) edition.

• Samuel Denne, Memorials of the cathedral church of Rochester

  Denne’s account of the history of Rochester cathedral, published in John Thorpe, Custumale Roffense (London, 1788), pp. 153–242.

• Richard Gough (ed.), Britannia (London, 1789)

  Additions relating to Kent from Gough’s edition of Camden’s Britannia.

• James Simmons (publ.), The Kentish traveller’s companion, 3rd ed. (Canterbury, 1790)

  Full text.

• William Boys, Observations on Kits Coity House, in Kent

  Published in Archaeologia, vol. 11 (1794), pp. 38–44.

• James Simmons (publ.), The Kentish traveller’s companion, 4th ed. (Canterbury, 1794)

  Full text.

• Christopher Etherington (publ.), The history and antiquities of Rochester cathedral (Rochester, 1796)

  Descriptions of two monuments just erected.

• Daniel Lysons, The environs of London (London, 1796)
• Daniel Lysons, The environs of London (London, 1796) – plates

  Extract relating to Kent. The second file contains the illustrations.

• Edward Hasted, The history and topographical survey of the county of Kent, 2nd ed., vol. 1 (Canterbury, 1797)

  Full text.

• Edward Hasted, The history and topographical survey of the county of Kent, 2nd ed., vol. 2 (Canterbury, 1797)

  Full text.

• Edward Hasted, The history and topographical survey of the county of Kent, 2nd ed., vol. 3 (Canterbury, 1797)

  Full text.

• Edward Hasted, The history and topographical survey of the county of Kent, 2nd ed., vol. 4 (Canterbury, 1798)

  Full text.

• Edward Hasted, The history and topographical survey of the county of Kent, 2nd ed., vol. 5 (Canterbury, 1798)

  Full text.

• Edward Hasted, The history and topographical survey of the county of Kent, 2nd ed., vol. 6 (Canterbury, 1798)

  Full text.

• Edward Hasted, The history and topographical survey of the county of Kent, 2nd ed., vol. 7 (Canterbury, 1798)

  Full text.

• James Simmons (publ.), The Kentish traveller’s companion, 5th ed. (Canterbury, 1799)

  Full text.

• Edward Hasted, The history and topographical survey of the county of Kent, 2nd ed., vol. 8 (Canterbury, 1799)

  Full text.

• Edward Hasted, The history and topographical survey of the county of Kent, 2nd ed., vol. 9 (Canterbury, 1801)

  Full text.

• Edward Hasted, The history and topographical survey of the county of Kent, 2nd ed., vol. 10 (Canterbury, 1801)

  Full text.

• Edward Hasted, The history and topographical survey of the county of Kent, 2nd ed., vol. 11 (Canterbury, 1800)

  Full text.

• Edward Hasted, The history and topographical survey of the county of Kent, 2nd ed., vol. 12 (Canterbury, 1801)

  Full text.

• Edward Hasted, The history of the antient and metropolitical city of Canterbury, 2nd ed., 2 vols. (Canterbury, 1801)

  Titlepage only. This book is the last two volumes of Hasted’s ‘History of Kent’ repackaged as a history of Canterbury.

• Edward Wedlake Brayley, The beauties of England and Wales (London, 1808)
• Edward Wedlake Brayley, The beauties of England and Wales (London, 1808) – additions

  The first file contains Brayley’s description of Kent as it was originally published in 1806–7; the second file contains his last-minute additions.

• Rowland Freeman, Regulbium, a poem (Canterbury, 1810)

  Full text. The ‘Historical account of Reculver’ is important, even if the poem is not.

• Daniel Lysons, The environs of London, 2nd ed. (London, 1811)

  Extract relating to Kent.

• John Stockdale (publ.), The history of London and its environs, vol. 2 (London, 1811)

  Description of the north-west part of Kent, written by Mark Noble.

• John Nichols, Literary anecdotes of the eighteenth century, vol. 3 (London, 1812)

  Memoirs of the Thorpes, Edward Hasted, and the Dennes.

• John Walker (ed.), Letters written by eminent persons in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, 2 vols. (London, 1813)

  A letter from John Thorpe to Thomas Hearne, dated 1720.

• John Nichols, Literary anecdotes of the eighteenth century, vol. 9 (London, 1815)

  Extract relating to Fisher’s ‘History of Rochester’.

• John Nichols, Illustrations of the literary history of the eighteenth century, vol. 2 (London, 1817)

  Correspondence between William Stukeley and the earl of Winchilsea relating to antiquities in Kent.

• William Wildash (publ.), The history and antiquities of Rochester, 2nd ed. (Rochester, 1817)

  Full text.

• Charles St Barbe, A complete list of the plates and wood-cuts in the Gentleman’s Magazine (London, 1821).

  Extract relating to Kent.

• William Lambard, A perambulation of Kent (Chatham, 1826)

  Reprinted from the second edition.

• William Hamper, The life, diary, and correspondence of Sir William Dugdale (London, 1827)

  Two letters from Somner to Dugdale.

• Discovery of fossil hyaenas in Kent

  Fossil bones discovered in the quarries at Boughton Monchelsea. Report in the Philosophical Magazine, new series, vol. 2, no. 7, July 1827, pp. 73–4.

• John Nichols, Illustrations of the literary history of the eighteenth century, vol. 6 (London, 1831)

  Letters from James Essex and Samuel Denne to Richard Gough.

• William Wildash (publ.), The history and antiquities of Rochester (Rochester, 1833)
• William Wildash (publ.), The history and antiquities of Rochester (Rochester, 1833) – plates

  Full text. The second file contains the illustrations.

• John Russell Smith, Bibliotheca Cantiana: a bibliographical account of what has been published on the history, topography, antiquities, customs, and family history, of the county of Kent (London, 1837)

  Full text.

• Christopher Greenwood, An epitome of county history – vol. I – county of Kent (London, 1838–9)
• Christopher Greenwood, An epitome of county history – vol. I – county of Kent (London, 1838–9) – plates

  Full text. Greenwood was a surveyor and cartographer, best known for a series of county maps published in partnership with his brother between 1817 and 1830. With this book he was hoping to carve out a new career for himself. He failed. This was the only volume that appeared. Much of it is derivative, and is frankly admitted to be so; but there is enough new information for the book to have some value. The second file contains a list of the illustrations: a view of Canterbury cathedral for the frontispiece, a map of Kent, and 82 views of country houses, large and small.

• Charles Spence, A walk through Rochester Cathedral (London, 1840)

  Full text.

• Richard Owen, A history of British fossil mammals and birds (London, 1846)

  Description of the rhinoceros remains discovered at Chartham in 1668.

• James Phippen, Descriptive sketches of Rochester, Chatham, and their vicinities (Rochester, 1862)

  Full text. (The ‘sketches’ are verbal sketches: there are no illustrations.)

• G. H. Palmer, The cathedral church of Rochester (London, 1897)

  Full text.

• G. H. Palmer, The cathedral church of Rochester, 2nd ed. (London, 1899)

  Full text. Only slightly revised, but some of the changes are worth noting.

• Lucy Toulmin Smith (ed.), The itinerary of John Leland, vol. 4 (London, 1909)

  Extract relating to Kent.