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Title: Archaeologia cantiana
Year: 1858 (1850s)
Authors: Kent Archaeological Society. cn
Subjects: Kent (England) -- Antiquities
Publisher: (London) Kent Archaeological Society
Contributing Library: Allen County Public Library Genealogy Center
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l and active mind. It has been calculated that the work may be producedat a cost of £6000, including the remuneration of acompetent editor. There is abundant spirit and abun-dant means in oiu* county, to accomplish this object,under the control and management of a committee ofour leading magnates. We will pledge ourselves to findan editor, such as our lost friend, even with his con-scientious and rigid exactness, would have approved. Tono other hands could we endure to see the work en-trusted. For ourselves, it will be a subject of gratitude, shouldwe be spared to evince the love and veneration that weever must retain for our dear friends memory, by speed-ing on the work. It was the uppermost wish in ourheart, as we bent over his grave, and took our last leaveof his remains, that we might be enabled to testify ouraffection, and to perpetuate his memory, by giving to theworld that which he was not permitted himself to com-plete. Our day, however, as we have already intimated. PLA.TE I
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OF charts edge. 141 is gone by. Our hearts desires must now be carriedout by others; but, in this spirit, we appeal to all whoprize the honour and historic glories of our county, thatthey will enable us to realize, with regard to ThomasStreatfeild, the boast of the great Roman biographer,— Quicquid ex Agricola amavimus, quicquid miratisumus, manet, mansurumque est. So will it be to us a gratification beyond price, albeitaccompanied by many a sorrowful remembrance, thatour appeal has not been in vain. Manibus date lilia plenis, Purpureos spargam flores, animamque His saltern accumulem donis, et fungar inaniMunere. L. B. L. List of Plates, from Bloclcs executed for the late Rev. Tliomas Streat-feild, to illustrate his History of Kent. Plate I.No. 1. Autograph and Privy Seal of Caedikal Pole, a.d. 1557. Legend in extenso.— Eeginaldus Polus Sancte EomaneEcclesie Cardinalis a Latere Legatus, No. 2. Official Seal of Cardinal Pole, a.d. 1557. Legend in extenso.— Sigillum Eeginaldi Poli

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