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Originally appearing in Volume V05, Page 212 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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I122  .

William de Corbeuil (Cur- bcllio), 1123 to 1136 . Theobald, 1139 to 1161 . Thomas Becket,1162 to 1170 . Richard, 1174 to 1184 . Baldwin, 1185 to 1190 . Reginald Fitz-Jocelyn, 1191 . Hubert Walter, 1193 to 1205 . Stephen Langton, 1207 to 1228 . Richard Wethershed, 1229 to 1231 . Edmund Rich (deAbbendon) 1234 to 1240 . Boniface of Savoy, 1241 to 1270 .

Robert Kilwardby, 1273 to 1278 . John Peckham, 1279 to 1292 . Robert Winchelsea, 1293 to Walter Reynolds, 1313 to 1327 . Simon de Meopham, 1328 to 1333 . John Stratford, 1333 to 1348 . John de Ufford, 1348 to 1349 . Thomas Bradwardin, 1349 . Simon
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Islip, 1349 to 1366 . Simon Langham, 1366 to 1368 . William Whittlesea, 1368 to 1374 . 29 . 30 .

31 . 32 . 33 . 34 . 35 . 36 . 59 . 93 . 94 . 95 . 96 . 73 .

74 . 75 . 76 . 77 . 78 . 91 . 70 . 71 . when he saw the

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fair-faced children of the Angles who had been brought to Rome, and termed them " not Angles but angels." There were lesser houses of many religious orders in Canterbury, but only two, those of the
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Dominicans near St Peter's church in St Peter's Street, and the Franciscans, also in St Peter's Street, have
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left notable remains . The Dominican refectory is used as a
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chapel . Among the many churches, St Martin's, Longport, is of the first
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interest . This was the scene of the earliest
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work of Augustine in Canterbury, and had seen Christian service before his arrival .

Its walls contain

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Roman
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masonry, but whether it is in
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part a genuine remnant of a Romano-
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British Christian church is open to doubt . There are Norman, Early
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English and later portions; and the font may be in part pre-Norman, and is indeed associated by tradition with the
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baptism of 1Ethelberht himself . St Mildred's church exhibits Early English and Perpendicular work, and the use of Roman material is again visible here . St Paul's is of Early English origin; St Dunstan's, St Peter's and
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Holy
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Cross are mainly Decorated and Perpendicular . The
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village of Harbledown, on the hill west of Canterbury on the
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London road, from the neighbourhood of which a beautiful view over the city is obtained, has many associations with the ecclesiastical
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life of Canterbury . It is mentioned by Chaucer in his pilgrimage under the name, appropriate to its site, of " Bob up and down." The almshouses, which occupy the site of Lanfranc's hospital for lepers, include an ancient hall and a chapel in which the west door and
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northern
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nave
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arcade are Norman, and are doubtless part of Lanfranc's buildings . The neighbouring parish church is in
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great part rebuilt . Among the numerous charitable institutions in Canter-bury there are several which may be called the descendants of
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medieval ecclesiastical
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foundations . City Buildings, &c.—The old city walls may be traced, and the public walk called the Dane John (derived probably from donjon) follows the
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summit of a high artificial
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mound within the lines . The
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cathedral is finely seen from this point . Only the massive turreted west
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gate, of the later part of the 14th century, remains out of the former six city gates . The site of the castle is not far from the Dane John, and enough remains of the Norman keep to show its strength and great
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size .

Among other buildings and institutions there may be mentioned the

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guildhall in High Street, of the early part of the 18th century; the museum, which includes a
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fine collection of
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local, including many Roman, relics; and the school of
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art, under municipal management, but founded by the painter T . Sidney Cooper (d . 1902), who was a
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resident at Harbledown . A
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modern statue of a muse commemorates the poet Christopher Marlowe (1564-1593), a native of the city; and a pillar indicates the place where a number of persons were burnt at the stake in the reign of Mary . The King's school, occupying buildings adjacent to the cathedral,
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developed out of the early teaching furnished by the monastery . It was refounded by Henry VIII. in 1541 (whence its name), and is managed on the lines of ordinary public
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schools . It has about 250 boys; and there is besides a junior or preparatory school . The school is still connected with the ecclesiastical foundation, the dean and chapter being its
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governors . A noted occasion of festivity in Cante-bury is the Canterbury cricket-week, when the Kent county cricket eleven engages in matches with other first-class teams, and many visitors are attracted to the city . Canterbury has a considerable agriculture trade, breweries, tanneries, brickworks and other manufactures . The
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parliamentary borough returns one member . The city is governed by a mayor, 6 aldermen and 18 councillors .

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Area, 3955 acres .
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History of the City.—The existence of a Romano-British
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town on the site of Canterbury has already been indicated . It was named Durovernum, and was a flourishing county town on the road from the Kentish ports to London . Mosaic pavements and other remains have been found in considerable abundance . The city, known by the
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Saxons as Cantwaraburh, the town of the men of Kent, was the metropolis of IEthelberht's
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kingdom . At the time of the Domesday survey Canterbury formed part of the royal demesne and was governed by a portreeve as it had beenbefore the
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Conquest . In the 13th and 14th centuries, two bailiffs presided over the burghmote, assisted by a larger and smaller council . Henry II., by an undated charter, confirmed former privileges and granted to the citizens that no one should implead them outside the city walls and that the pleas of the
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crown should be decided according to the customs of the city . In 1256 Henry III. granted them the city at an
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annual
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fee
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farm of £6o, also the right of electing their bailiffs . Confirmations of former charters with additional liberties were granted by later sovereigns, and Henry VI. incorporated Canterbury, which he called " one of our most ancient cities," under the style of the mayor and commonalty, the mayor to be elected by the burgesses . James I. in 1609 confirmed these privileges, giving the burgesses the right to be called a
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body corporate and to elect twelve
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alder-men and a
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common council of twenty-four . Charles II., after calling in the charters of corporations, granted a confirmation in 1684 .

Canterbury was first represented in

parliament in 1283, and it continued to return two members until 1885, when the number was reduced to one . A fair was granted by Henry VI. to the citizens to be held in the city or suburbs on the 4th of August and the two days following; other fairs were in the hands of the monasteries; the corn and cattle markets and a general market have been held by
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prescription from time immemorial . Canterbury was a great centre of the
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silk-
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weaving trade in the 17th century, large numbers of Walloons, driven by persecution to England, having settled there in the reign of Elizabeth . In 1676 Charles II. granted a charter of incorporation to the Walloon congregation under style of the master, wardens and fellowship of weavers in the city of Canterbury . The market for the sale of corn and hops was regulated by a local act in 18o, . See A . P . Stanley,
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Historical Memorials of Canterbury (London, 1855) ; J . Brent, Canterbury in the Olden Time (Canterbury, 1879) ; J . W . Legg and W . H .

St J .

Hope, Inventories of
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Christchurch, Canterbury (London, 1902) ; Victoria County History, Kent .

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