All About Margate And Herne Bay

Author : Anonymous
Publisher : Theclassics.Us
ISBN 13 : 9781230390598
Total Pages : 54 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (95 download)

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Download or read book All about Margate and Herne Bay written by Anonymous and published by Theclassics.Us. This book was released on 2013-09 with total page 54 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1865 edition. Excerpt: ...in their attempts they set to work to destroy all the ploughs and carts, and the trappings of the horses which happened to be at work in the fields. The Abbot, however, made them smart for their temerity, for he had scores of them arrested and shut up in Canterbury jail until they paid the then enormous sum of 600 for the damage they had done. Many years ago there was an old custom in vogue at Salmestone--originating in a clause of the original lease of the manor--of giving a dish of peas to every poor person who chose to come and claim it, any Monday or Friday between the 3rd of May and Midsummer-day. Either the claimants became at length unpleasantly numerous, or the lessees of the manor uncommonly stingy, but at any rate the result was, that something like a century and a half ago, the lessees, profiting by the indefinite meaning of the word dish as a measure of capacity, gave to each applicant such a small allowance of peas, that it was no longer worth anyone's while to apply for them, and the custom, as a matter of course, fell into desuetude. Leaving Salmestone on our left hand, a walk of about a quarter of a mile along the Minster road, brings us to the entrance to Margate Cemetery, an extensive inclosure, tastefully laid out and planted with trees, shrubs, and flowers. Continuing our walk for a short distance we dip down into the hollow known as Chapel Bottom, where, until this last year or two, might be seen the ruins of an ancient chapel, built upwards of six centuries ago, by Sir Henri de Sandwich, who lived on his manor of Hengrove, hard by. About a mile off, across the fields to our right, and in a southerly direction, a rather picturesque old brick building, seemingly of the James 1st period, will be noticed. This was...