still the only span over the Thames in the metropolis. That at Westminster was not built until more than twenty years later.
   ³  Gibbs. Doubtless James Gibbs, architect of the present St. Martin-in-the-Fields and other well-known early eighteenth-century buildings.
   ⁴  Dr. Thorpe. John Thorpe, F.S.A., the celebrated Kentish antiquary and editor of Registrum Roffense (1769) and Custumale Roffense (1788). The former work includes an invaluable record of the monumental inscriptions of the churches in the Diocese of Rochester and the thirty-odd West Kent parishes within its compass which were then, and long afterwards, Canterbury peculiars. It appears that Thorpe had some help in so laborious a survey; and this may account for some errors and omissions which seem at variance with the high praise bestowed on him by the writer of this tour. In any case the gathering of this mass of monumental material was in progress from about the death of Queen Anne (1714) till circa 1750. Thorpe's labours for West Kent no doubt explain the cursory treatment of these churches by Hasted as compared with his far more detailed notice of those east of Medway; for the "egregious blunders" of Dr. Harris, all over the county, could hardly have dissuaded a man of Hasted's calibre (by way of correction) from tackling the two dioceses with equal zeal. An interesting parallel exists in East Kent. I have transcribed an enormous mass of unpublished monumental materials, gathered by our other antiquary, Bryan Faussett (ob. 1776), about the end of the reign of George II. Working meticulously over the area east of a line drawn approximately Faversham-Ashford-Hythe, he nevertheless completely omits the Isle of Thanet, because Lewis in 1723 (revised edition 1736) had already covered that ground, albeit in a manner inferior both to Faussett, and Cozens who worked near the century's end.

   It may be of use to record (as possibly unknown to all students grateful to Thorpe) that his MS. collections are now in the British Museum. The monumental text of Reg. Roff. has, passim, minor variations from his MS. version; and each contains the exceedingly valuable account of the painted glass at Gillingham still extant in 1621, which deserves reprinting in Arch. Cant. when present difficulties diminish. Though Gillingham was a Canterbury peculiar, Thorpe printed it along with the few Rochester parishes east of Medway. He also tackled the following Canterbury churches moderately near his home at Rochester, but these ever since the publication of 1769 have remained in MS.:—(Harl. 6587).
Rainham Newington Tunstall Bredgar (north of the Downs)
Linton Otham Bearsted Hollingbourne (south of the Downs)
   ⁵  King James. The reference is to the abortive attempt of James II to escape to France after the landing of William of Orange in November, 1688. There is, nevertheless, still a tradition in Luddenham that the hated monarch slept the night there before he fled from Faversham. It will be remembered that a little later he tried again and got clear to sea from Rochester, apparently with the connivance of his embarrassed son-in-law William, never again to set foot on English soil.
   ⁶  Napleton. The name often occurs in the neighbourhood of Faversham. Two Napleton brasses, each dated 1625, still remain respectively in the churches of Faversham and Graveney.
  ⁷ Boughton-under-Blean. Chaucer's "Bob-up-and-down" is more generally identified with the village of Harbledown, much nearer Canterbury. The variations in the road gradient here seem to me to fit Chaucer's delightful nickname better than do those at Boughton under the great hill.