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A60898	A treatise of the Roman ports and forts in Kent by William Somner ; publish'd by James Brome ... ; to which is prefixt, The life of Mr. Somner.	Somner, William, 1598-1669.; Kennett, White, 1660-1728.; Brome, James, d. 1715.	1693 (1693)	Wing S4669; ESTC R19864	117,182	264

plundred and defac't most of the Cathedral Churches and among other sad examples of popular phanatic fury by the instigation of Richard Culm●r call'd in contempt Blew Dick the same I think who procur'd an Order from the House of Lords to Arch-bishop L●ud in the Tower Feb. 4. 1642. to have the Rectory of Chartham conferr'd on him void by the death of Dr. Isaa● Bargrave Dean of Canterbury to which his Majesty by Letters recommended that Loyal sufferer Mr. Iohn Reading● this stately Cathedral was storm'd and pillag'd the beautified windows were broke the Tombs of Princes and Prelates were ravag'd and every graceful ornament despoil'd So that ha●● no● Mr. Somner took a faithful transcript before the originals were thus eras'd all had been lost in ignorance and oblivion The like providence has often watcht over and preserv'd many monuments of Antiquity just before the fatal ruine of them The days of defolation were coming on when that excellent Antiquary Mr. Iohn Leland obtain'd a commission from Henry 8 An. Dom. 1533. to authorise him to have access to all the Libraries of Cathedrals Abbles Priories and all other places wherein Records and ancient writings were repos'd for collecting and transcribing whatever pertain'd to the history of the Nation By virtue of this power he transmitted the knowledge of many Manuscripts and other evidences which might have been dissperst by the dissolutions which followed in the years 1536. and 1537. Thus the indefatigable Mr. Roger Dodsworth just before the late destructive wars transcrib'd most of the Charters and other Manuscripts then lying in St. Marie's tower in York which tower was soon after blown up and all those sacred remains were mingled with the common dust and ashes Thus again the worthy Mr. William Dugdale after honour'd and preferr'd for his perfection in these studies search'd over all the Manuscript Books original Charters old Rolls and other evidences relating to the Cathedral of St. Paul in London copied out the monumental Inscriptions and procur'd Sculptures of the whole Fabric and all the parts of it about the year 1656. when that Mother Church was converted into a stable and ten years after to a heap of rubbish So that had not that Antiquary drawn the image as it were before the loss of the original all had been forgot but what tradition had most imperfectly convey'd to us Thus are Antiquaries if not inspir'd yet guided by the counsel of Providence to remit to posterity the memorial of things past before their final period It was thus our Author recorded that flourishing beauty of holiness in that critical season which had it been omitted the Church had soon been lost within it's own walls I cannot forbear to recommend to you that ingenious Poem which on this occasion was wrote by Mr. Charles Fotherby Grandson of a worthy Dean of that Church It is inscrib'd I●d●reptionem Metr●politicae Eccles●e Christi Cantuariensis ad fidissimum antique probitatis virum deque Clero Anglicano optimè meritum Gulielmum Somnerum He● lapidum vener anda strues sic corruis Aedes S●●rilegae has audent sic temerare manus 〈◊〉 fene strarum fracta est 〈…〉 Amplius vitreos nec pia turba stupet Caeruleo quoties me pictus daemon amictu Terruit Huic rabies Culmeriana favet Hinc quantum nostro Somnero Ecclesia debet Hic raptas nulla lege recenset opes Hic priscum templi● instaurat honorem Integra sunt scriptis monumenta suis. Pro veris hic molitur chartacea temp●a Et solidum marmor picta columna refert Vel templum pinxisse pium est Exempla nepotes Quae seri plorent quaeque imitentur habent Urbs satis antiqua haec non te Somnere silebit Ingrata ob librum ni velit esse tuum Nomine tu portas urbis signasque plateas Per te distinctas novimus ire vias This is but a part I refer you to the whole Poem as inserted in the Monasticon out of pure respect to Mr. Somner There were not wanting other pens to celebrate this first performance of our Author It has a just character given by a proper judge the learned Dr. Meric Casaubon a pious and laborious work and highly useful not only to those who desir'd to know the state of that once flourishing City but to all that were curious in the ancient English history The best Topographer since Camden when he comes to the Roman station at Canterbury does for its modern splendor and glory refer us to courteous Mr. Somner's description of it a very rational Gentleman c. Mr. Kilburne in his survey of Kent does only briefly touch upon the City of Canterbury because Mr. William Somner had so elaborately judiciously and fully wrote of the same that there was left but little if any thing observable which he had not there set down And Mr. Philpot who had reason to envy him breaks into this acknowledgement Canterbury hath so exactly in all the parts and limbs of it been describ'd and survey'd by Mr. Somner that I should exceedingly eclipse the labours of so industrious a Pen if I should go about to pourtray that in any contracted landskip which hath been before represented to the publick pencilled out in so large and exquisite a volume As this was the most ancient royal City and the first Episcopal Church of the Saxon Christians so had they both a new precedence in this honour they were the first whose Antiquities were publisht to the world And how few have been since conform'd to their example The history of St. Paul's Cathedral in London from its foundation c. is an absolute performance And the history of the Church of Peterburg will be it's everlasting monument But beside these two I know of none but mean attempts The historical account of the original increase and present state of St. Peter's or the Abby Church of Westminster is little more than a bundle of Epitaphs and Inscriptions The remarkable Antiquities of the City of Exeter are a dry collection full of mistakes The history of the Bishops and Bishoprick of Winchester with a description of that City I presume to be an imperfect work and therefore not publisht The brief account of the Monuments of the Cathedral of Norwich was wrote for private use and seems more to fear than to deserve an Edition The antient rites and Monuments of the Monastical and Cathedral Church of Durham is an ignorant and pitiful Legend The history of St. Cuthbert with the Antiquities of the same Church of Durham was drawn by a much better hand but the Edition of it that has crept abroad is false and spurious We expect the Author 's own exact and neat original to be publisht with fit notes and illustrations by an ingenious person of singular industry and great progress in these studies I hear of some others who are now designing the Antiquities of York

was so industrious as literally to answer his own name He had indeed with great charge and pains collected sufficient copies to have made up a second Tome which lay dead in the hands of his Executors till for a considerable sum they were purchas'd from them by that generous promoter of learning the right Reverend Father in God Iohn Fell Bishop of Oxford by whose encouragement some were publisht and by whose never enough lamented death others remain in private hands I have seen the following copies 1. Willielmus Malmsburiensis de Antiquitate Glastoniensis Ecclesiae ejusque Abbatibus Ex Libro Roberti Cotton quem ipsi dono dedit Tho. Allen Aug. 12. 1672. exam collat cum alio Manuscripto libro quem Richardus Tychburn eques Baronettus dedit Paulo Robinsono qui eandem inscripsit Bibliothecae S. Gregorianae Duaci Iul. 15. 1651. 2. Invictissimi Anglorum Franciaeque Regis Henrici quinti ad ejus filium Christianissimum Regem Henricum sextum vita per Titum Livium de Frulovisiis Ferrariensem edita Ex Libro Cottoniano collat cum alio Libro Manuscripto in Bibl. Bened. Cantab. 3. Historia de tempore primaevae inchoationis sedis Episcopalis Wellensis ejusdem Episcopis de Episcopis in sede Bathoniensi 4. Fragmentum Annalium Saxonum ab An. 726. ad An. 1055. 5. Fragmentum Annalium de rebus ad Hiberniam spectantibus ab An. 994. ad An. 1177. To most of these copies is a Postscript by the Amanuensis Mr. Ralph Iennings wherein he acknowledges the receipt of several sums of mony for his reward in transcribing and collating the said copies and promises to compare them with the original when desir'd What honour to the nation had it been if these and many other copies had been publisht in the same method with the former Volumes I am sure we have since had no one Edition of Historians with that exactness and that grandeur Nor can we hope for any so correct and so august till the same measures be taken of several hands joyning in the same work For any one undertaker has either not opportunity to discover all copies or not leisure to collate them or not the advantage of attending the press for correction or not patience to draw up what is the main benefit of a large book a full and faithful Index So that we have lame and inac●●rate Editions for want of the wisdom of our forefathers to assist one another It is by this mutual help that the Societies in France give us such absolute Impressions And could we resume that practise here at home we should infinitely advance the good of letters and the glory of Britain I detract not from the public services of Mr. Fulman Dr. Gale and Mr. Wharton who seem to have done as much as private men can do Mr. Somner's reputation was now so well establisht that no Monuments of Antiquity could be farther publisht without his advice and helping hand Therefore when the noble Sir Henry Spelman had encourag'd Mr. Dugdale to joyn with Mr. Dodsworth to collect and publish the Charters and Monuments of Religious houses and had communicated to them his own originals and transcripts of the foundations in Norfolk and Suffolk when Mr. Dugdale in Oxford had got many materials from the Bodleian and College Libraries and in France had gathered from the papers of Du-Chesne several memorials of our Priories Alien When Mr. Dodsworth had preserv'd all that related to Yorkshire and most Northern Counties when they had both searcht the Tower of London the Cotton Library and other Archives they invited Mr. Somner to assist in that immense labour who return'd them the Charters of Christ-church and St. Augustin's in Canterbury with the ichnography of the Cathedral the draught of the Monastery and other Sculptures furnisht them with the original Charter of King Stephen to the Abby of Feversham then in his hands and inform'd them in many other queries relating to the City and County and then accepted the office impos'd upon him of bearing a peculiar part of the burden by translating all the Saxon originals and all the English transcripts from the Itinerary of Leland and other Records into plain and proper Latin a necessary and useful ornament to those admirable volumes Which service Sir Iohn Marsham commemorates in his learned Propylaeum There assisted in this work a man of the greatest knowledge in our Antiquities William Somner of Canterbury who has rendred into latin all the Saxon and the English of Leland To whose Glossary lately publisht with the English Historians the Reader is refer'd if any barbarous word creates him trouble The same person is now preparing for the press a curious Saxon Dictionary The first Volume of this Monasticon was publisht London 1655. The book which now stands in the Library of the Church of Canterbury has inserted after the Propylaeum a printed leaf in folio containing six copies of verses made by Kentish men in commendation of Mr. Dodsworth Mr. Dugdale and Mr. Somner who are there said to be the joint collectors of that glorious work The second Volume was deferr'd as a punishment to the ingrateful world to the year 1661. A third Volume of Cathedral and Collegiate Churches with Additaments to the two former was publisht An. 1673. In these books are promiscuously compris'd the most Authentic because most genuine and inartificial History of England There be materials enough disperst in several hands to complete a fourth Volume Dr. Hicks recites the title of many Charters in the Archives of the Church of Worcester of which he says none are inserted in the Monasticon I have seen many originals and Transcripts of omitted Charters and Monastic Annals in the hands of men of curiosity and public spirit who would contribute their additions to such a work when ever men of industry and courage dare to undertake it Mr. Somner's friends knew how farther to employ a useful man They observ'd it impossible to cultivate any language or recommend it to the industry of learners without the help of some Dictionary for a standing oracle in obscure and dubious words This was yet wanting to the Saxon language and was the reason why so few were masters of it For men care not to travel without a guide in lands unknown This was a burden that wanted heart and shoulders equal to it but they could impose it on none more able than Mr. Somner on him they lay the mighty task and adjure him to perform it Above all the Counsellor of his studies Dr. M. Casaubon us'd all his interest of friendship to press him to this labour as he thus informs us When Mr. Somner by several essays on the Saxon tongue had sufficiently prov'd himself a master of it I ceas'd not then to importune him that he would think of compiling a Saxon Dictionary by which work I did assure him he would best merit of that language and would receive infinite thanks from all that were studious

quitting his father's house and native soil and out of a pious and Christian desire and design to propagate the Gospel and both by life and doctrine to convert Heathens to the Faith of Christ determining to travel into Fresia or Friesland immensis peragratis terrae partibus i.e. journying from the Western to the Eastern parts of England he repairs to this place Lunden-wich from whence taking ship he sets sail and arrives at Dorstat now Dieerstede a town of Holland and so makes forward into Fresia whereof Willibald in the Life of Boniface at the end of his Epistles thus Hic etiam dum spirituali confortatus armaturâ seculari sublimatus sumpturâ utriusque vitae stipendiis minimè careret adhibitis secum duobus aut tribus fratribus quorum corporali spiritualique indigebat sustentaculo profectus est ac sic immensis peragratis terrae pantibus prospero ovans fratrum comitatu pervenit ad locum ubi erat forum rerum venalium usque hodie antiquo Anglorum Saxonumque vocabulo appellatur Luidewinc in the margin more correctly Lundenwich The same holy man afterwards returning home and after some stay here resolving a visit to Rome betakes himself again to the same Port whence setting sail he arrives at Cuentawic a Sea Town in France now called Estaples in Picardy whereof the same Willibaldus Qui protinus quidem valedicens fratribus profectus est locumque per longa terrarum spatia qui jam praedictus dicitur Lundenwich I follow the margin voti compos adiit celocis celeriter marginem scandens caepit ignotas maris tentare vias tripudiantibusque nautis immensa Coro flante carbasa consurgebant pleno vento prosperoque cursu ostia fluminis citius quod dicitur Cuent omni jam expertes periculi naufragio aspiciunt ad aridam sospites terram perveniunt sed castra metati in Cuentavic donec superveniens se collegarum multitudo congregasset Clear enough then I suppose it is that by Lundenwich Sandwich Town and Haven was intended and is to be understood but whether so called from the same ground with that o● London City whereof in my Glossary at the end of the Historiae Anglicanae scriptores antiqui and in my Saxon Dictionary or from the trade and traffick there exercis'd by merchants trading to and from London as the next Port to the river of Thames and so most commodious for that purpose or lastly from some more special and peculiar interest of the Londoners in that above other of the Ports I cannot say Only this is certain that some such interest was challenged by the Londoners in Stonor lying in Thanet on the other side of the channel but subject unto Sandwich as a limb or member of that Port. For in the year 1090. as it is in Thorn the Chronicler of St. Augustin's Abby at Canterbury quoted by Mr. Lambard there happened a great dispute betwixt the Londoners and the Abbof of St. Augustin's and his men and homagers of Stonor The Londoners challeng'd the Lordship or Seignory of Stonor as a sea-port subject to their City but the King William Rufus taking the Abbot's part it was adjudg'd by the Justices upon that place that none from thenceforth should claim any thing here but that Wido the Abbot and his Covent should freely and quietly without any question have the land and the whole share as far as to the middle of the water and that the Abbot of St. Augustin's should freely enjoy all rights and customs to the same village appertaining All this while we hear nothing of the name of Sandwich Indeed that name for ought I find occurs not in any coëtaneous writer or writing until the year 979. when as it is in the Chartularies of the Church of Canterbury King Egelred granted it by name unto the Monks there for their supply and maintenance in clothing King Cnute afterward coming in by Conquest and consequently having all parts and places of the Kingdom at his disposal he with some regard no doubt to the Monks former right and title to the place being the same where coming to subdue the Saxons and make a Conquest of the country he first landed gave or rather restored the place the Port of Sandwich by name to the same Monks for their sustenance in victuals with the addition of his golden Crown and what perhaps was of equal value in the estimation of the times St. Bartholomew's arm The further tracing and producing of what in story concerns this place I refer and leave to Mr. Lambard and such as are willing to be their own informers from our Chronicles saving that I think it not amiss to observe that signal mention of it in the Writer of the life of Queen Em where he tells of Cnute's landing there and calls Sandwich the most famous of all the Ports of England Expectabili itaque ordine flatu secundo Sandwich qui est omnium Anglorum portuum famosissimus appulsi c. So he But to to return to the old obsolete name Rutupium or Ritupium for the etymologizing of it wherein the most learned and Judicious Camden as his manner is hath been so exceeding happy that waving all other conjectures that either are or may be started and embracing his I shall not stick with him to fetch it from the old British Rhyd tufith i. e. vadum sabulosum and the rather because of that subsequent and succeeding name of Sandwich which plainly betokens a sandy reach or creek for so it is being a place notable indeed for abundance of sand of each side of the Channel whose banks s●us-like are of a winding curving and imbowed form and figure which to this day we call a reach especially about Richborough thence happily denominated as being a Berg i. e. a hill or a Burg i. e. a castle like the termination cester in its name of Reptacester a castle at or near the reach or creek But to keep up to Rutupium so famous it seems in those elder i. e. Roman times was the place for the Romans often landing there and the frequent passage thence out of Britain into the continent that the whole Eastern and Southern maritime tract coast or shore of Britain was thence denominated being usually termed Rutupinum littus i. e. the Rutupine or Rutupian shore whereof instances enough are collected and exhibited by the same Mr. Camden The Romans at length deserting the Island and the Saxons shortly after being possess'd of it as they Conquerour-like changed the language introducing their own so rejecting the wonted name of this place Rutupium they new-named it ● as was shewed above with the reasons for it 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 which name it afterward retain'd until their supplanting by the Danes of whom or about whose time from the sandy soil there and thereabouts extending from thence so many miles even as far as about