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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A60893	Chartham news: or A brief relation of some strange bones there lately digged up in some grounds of Mr. John Somner's, of Canterbury: written by his brother, Mr. William Somner, late auditor of Christ Church Canterbury, and register of the archbishops court, there; before his death.	Somner, William, 1598-1669.	1669 (1669)	Wing S4662; ESTC R221589	8,023	16

remarkable from the other or opposite side of it By credible relation and assurance then you may know that at a place called Westbere an obscure Village about three miles from Canterbury Eastward lying under the brow of the Hill stretching out by Upstreete as far as to the West end of Sarr-wall by which you make your entrance into Thanet upon the like occasion to that here at Chartham the digging or sinking of a Well at a very great depth store of Oyster and otherlike shells together with an Iron Anchor f●rm and unimpaired were found and turned up in our time The like I have been told of an Anchor in our days digged up at Broomedowne on the same side of the Level somewhat above Canterbury Westward And although I can at present instance only in these few on either side the Valley yet happily upon enquiry other might be found for confirming our conjecture And I shall desire and hope that every ingenuous person will so fat oblige and incourage me as upon this overture to help me in this research and scrutiny by imparting to me what either of his own knowledge or credible relation from others may conduce towards so noble a discovery 3. Mean time let us entertain our selves with our third Query and see if happily somewhat may not thence result adminicular and suppletory to what may be defective and wanting in the former Our third Query now is how in probability and when this Valley or Level being once Sea-land should come to be so quite deserted and forsaken of the Sea as it is at this day the Sea not approaching it by so many a dozen miles or more In answer whereof I must needs say and grant that in case this Level were once Sea an Aestuary I mean or Arm of it so very long it was ago as we may not reasonably think that Canterbury whether as a City or never so mean a Pagus or Village was then in rerum natura or a place inhabited which happily it may have been if not as long as Julius Caesars days yet undoubtedly not longafter For an account we have of it as of some other places in Kent in the Romans time both from Ptolemy the Geographer Antoninus Itinerary and elsewhere Now as was hinted erewhile elder Records either of Kent or of Britain that we may confide in as Authentick we have none that I know of before the Romans time no written credible evidences to help us in this scrutiny We must therefore either sit us down and rest contented to throw off all further inquiry or else cast about for information as we can Such as are for this latter will tell you that the world all know is very aged many thousand years old and that many and manifold are the alterations changes and mutations which time hath made in several parts and quarters of the world to the notice and discovery whereof no written Record or unwritten Tradition at this day can reach or direct us Tradition it self longer liv'd many times than any written evidence failing us for age Of such a nature they conceive may this of the Aestuary be so very ancient as time hath quite worn out the memory of it withdrawn all light from us that might conduct us in the scrutiny and left us as men in the dark without either vola or vestigium to stumble out our way and rome and ramble at uncertainties Such a one happily shall he be thought that adventuring to conjecture at the reason and occasion of the Seas recess here with an absolute valediction to the place of its wonted resort shall pitch upon the Seas breaking bursting and cleaving asunder that Isthmus or neck of Land between Gaule and Britain rendring the latter of the same Continent with the former such things t is certain have hapned elsewhere Thus saith Seneca hath the Sea rent Spain from the Continent of Africk Thus as he adds by Deucalions flood was Sicily cut from Italy More instances of this kind may be found in Mr. Cambdens Cantium and elsewhere And although there be no certain evidence of such an accident here from ancient either Historians or Geographers yet is the thing so strongly and rationally argued by him especially as by Verstegan also Twine and others before him and the conjecture back'd with such plenty of pregnant and probable Criteria by the former that what others may think I know not but were I of the Jury I should more than incline to concur with them who would find for the Isthmus Especially when to the plenty of Arguments mustered up by Mr. Cambden I shall have contributed this one by him and the rest omitted which is that by a received constant Tradition Romney-Marsh that large and spacious Level containing saith Mr. Cambden fourteen miles in length and eight in breadth was sometime Sea-land lying wholly under Salt-water and is therefore of some not improperly called the Seas gift which having when time was forsaken it and withdrawn his wonted influence from it the place thereupon became and continues firm Land And if I may guess at the time and occasion of both that and our Canterbury Levels recovery and riddance from the Sea I shall for my part with submission to better judgments be apt to pitch upon that of the Seas breaking through and in time working and washing away that Isthmus between Us and France And then whereas before-time Romney Level which had and hath its Stoures too or Aestuaria as well as ours and this other not improbably no high Lands as we see interposing for impeding their conjunotion were but one and the same Level and lay under the Seas and Salt-waters tyranny now both the one and the other the Sea having so much more play and elbow-room than formerly by cleaving asunder the Isthmus were rescued from it and of an Aestuary became such a rich and noble Valley or Level as is second to none I take it in England I am resolved to keep home and conceive my self no further concerned than in our own Level But if from hence any other shall take an hint to consider of the Nether-lands or Low-Countries and enquire whether those in whole or in part may not have arisen out of and been gained from the Sea by the very same occasion which is here conjecturally assigned for our Kentish Low-lands I shall not at all wonder at it thinking it for my part a task not unworthy a learned judicious sober undertaker and were I as much concern'd and as well instructed there as here I should not know how to purge my self of negligence if I did not undertake it with the first 4. To come at length to the fourth and last of our Queries by what means the Sea once having its play there at Chartham this Creature comes to lye and be found so deep in the ground and under such a shelving bank My answer is that supposing this with the rest of the Level or Valley once occupied by the Sea or Salt-water that being a Creature which by fluxes and refluxes always is in motion and thereby in time beating upon and working itself into the bank or rising ground there might at length so far undermine eat into and loosen it as to fetch down so much mould or earth upon or over the place as might lodge the Creature at so great a depth Or else perhaps the continual agitation of the Water might in time force drive up and cast over it that great quantity of Ouse Earth and other matter under which it lay By the way it is observed that the nature of the Soil here and there is such so loose supple rotten and sandy that meerly of it self it is apt to sink and fall in as was lately experimented by a Saw-pit digg'd hard by which after a little time by the Earths giving way on each side of it fell in and fill'd up it self Thus have you gentle Readers our Chartham News or discoveries with the circumstances and the use my little skill will serve me to make of them in point either of History or Geography Arcana they are but whether tanti whether I mean grateful or useful to the Publick is left to the judicious Antiquaries Naturalist c. who are desired to take the matter where the Historian hath left it It hath been the Finders care and good will as to preserve so to expose and communicate what he hath found and if at length to this of the parts and by them a full discovery of the whole by the skill and dexterity of the learned in the School and secrets of Nature may be added for the benefit of the Common-wealth of learning both the Finder and Relator will think their time and pains very well both bestowed and recompensed FINIS The exact Figure part of what the Author intended if he had lived of two of the Teeth is here set down at the end