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ANTIQUITATES SEU HISTORIARUM RELIQUIAE SUNT TANQUAM TABULAE

NAUFRAGII, CUM DEFICIENTE ET FERE SUBMERSA RERUM MEMORIA;

NIHILOMINUS HOMINES INDUSTRII ET SAGACES, PERTINACI QUADAM ET

SCRUPULOSA DILIGENTIA, EX GENEALOGIIS, FASTIS, TITULIS, MONUMENTIS, NUMISMATIBUS, NOMINIBUS PROPRIUS ET STYLIS, VERBORUM ETYMOLOGIIS, PROVERBIIS, TRADITIONIBUS, ARCHIVIS, ET INSTRUMENTIS,

TAM PUBLICIS QUAM PRIVATIS, HISTORIARUM FRAGMENTIS, LIBRORUM

NEUTIQUAM HISTORICORUM LOCIS DISPERSIS,-EX HIS, INQUAM, OMNIBUS

VEL ALIQUIBUS, NONNULLA A TEMPORIS DILUVIO ERIPIUNT ET CONSERVANT,

RES SANE OPEROSA, SED MORTALIBUS GRATA ET CUM REVERENTIA QUADAM CONJUNCTA.

ANTIQUITIES, OR REMNANTS OF HISTORY, ARE, AS WAS SAID, TANQUAM TABULAE NAUFRAGII; WHEN INDUSTRIOUS PERSONS, BY AN EXACT AND SCRUPULOUS DILIGENCE AND OBSERVATION, OUT OF MONUMENTS, NAMES, WORDS, PROVERBS, TRADITIONS, PRIVATE RECORDS AND EVIDENCES, FRAGMENTS OF STORIES, PASSAGES OF BOOKS THAT CONCERN NOT STORY, AND

THE LIKE, DO SAVE AND RECOVER SOMEWHAT FROM THE DELUGE OF TIME,"-Advancement of Learning, ii.

Archaeologia Cantiana

BEING

TRANSACTIONS

OF THE

KENT ARCHAEOLOGICAL SOCIETY

VOLUME III

London:

PRINTED FOR THE SOCIETY

BY JOHN E. TAYLOR,

LITTLE QUEEN STREET, LINCOLN'S INN FIELDS.

1860.