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Published online by Cambridge University Press: 24 July 2012
In the parish of Addington, near Town Malling, in Kent, about 500 paces to the north east of the church, in a rabbit warren, upon a little eminence, are the remains of several large stones, placed in an oval form. The inside of the area from east to west is 50 paces, the breadth in the middle from north to south 42 paces; at the east end is a flat stone, placed somewhat like that which they call the Altar at Stone Henge: Pl. vi. fig. 1. No. 1. This stone in the longest part is nine feet, in the broadest seven feet, and near two feet thick. Behind this, a little to the north, is another flat stone, No. 2. which seems to have stood upright, but is now, by some accident thrown down. This is fifteen feet long, seven feet wide, and two feet thick. The stone No. 3. next the altar on the north side, is seven feet high, seven feet wide, and two feet thick; the top of this hath been broken off.
page 112 note [b] Historia Ecclesiastica Gentis Anglorum fol. Cantabrigiæ, 1644, p. 58.
page 112 note [c] At the end of the Cambridge edition of Bede, by Abraham Whelock.
page 112 note [d] Who lived in the reign of Henry III.
page 112 note [e] Rerum Anglicarum Scriptores post Bedam, London, 1696, fol. p. 4.
page 113 note [f] Rerum Anglicarum Scriptores post Bedam, fol. London, 1696, p. 176.
page 113 note [g] Idem, p. 475.
page 113 note [h] History of England, by Abraham Fleming, 1586, fol. p. 80.
page 113 note [i] Chronicle continued by Ed. Howes, 1631, fol. p. 52.
page 113 note [k] Antiquities, quarto, 1628, p. 129.
page 113 note [l] As quoted by Rapin, vol. i. p. 33.
page 114 note [m] Britannia, by Gibson, fol. Lond. 1695, p. 193.
page 115 note * It is in the 2d and 3d editions, 1587 and 1590. R.G.
page 116 note * See Pl. vii. fig. 1. From a to b is 6 feet; from b to c 6 feet; from c to d 8 feet; from d to e 7 feet; from e to a 11 feet; f is 6 feet above ground, 8 feet wide and 2 feet thick; g is the centre stone, much scaled, 6 feet high, 2 feet 10 inches wide near the top, 5 feet 6 inches in the middle, and 5 feet at the bottom; g corresponds with the side f in its dimensions.
page 116 note † Pl. vii. fig. 2. This single stone lies about 70 paces to the N. W. in the same field. The thickness is half buried; but, from its present position, it seems as if it had once stood upright. From a to b it is 7 feet; from c to d 11 feet; and in the widest part about 7 feet.
page 116 note [o] Villare Cantianum, p. 48.
page 117 note [p] The Saxons first came into Britain, Ann. Dom. 447, and reigned here till 1013, when Sweyne, the Dane, overcame them, and became king, and imposed the tax called Danegeld; but he was never crowned, reigning but four years; for Canute came to the crown 1017, and established the Danes in this land; but this establishment lasted only 24 years; for in 1041 the Saxon line was restored, and ended with Edward the Confessor in 1066, when the Norman conquest took place.
