family; Sir Sydney Stafford Smythe, a baron of the Exchequer, of the Strangford family, who married a Miss Farnaby; Prince George of Denmark, to whom Sir Samuel Lennard, Colonel of the Second Regiment of Horse Guards, was Equerry; Sir Samuel himself; the Earl of Sussex, and his wife Lady Anne Palmer, daughter of Charles II; and of King Charles II, on the stair case; with others, unknown. The additions, to the house, are in the style of a period about one hundred and twenty years later than the original structure; the junction between the old and the new parts is at one face of the south-east turret.

In Wickham Church, the Chancel and Lady Chapel are coeval with the old Keep, and were built about 1467. The Nave, Transept, and Tower were rebuilt in 1844, when church architecture was at a low ebb. The old painted windows in the Lady Chapel are remarkably fine, and have been engraved by Mr. Waller. There are one or two brasses.

The noble monuments of the Lennard family in the church at Chevening are in good preservation, thanks to the Lords Stanhope, who are now the owners of Chevening.

THE CINQUE PORT LIBERTY OF ROMNEY.

As seen upon the annexed map, the conformation of the land comprised within the Cinque Port Liberty of New Romney, is extremely remarkable. Its western limb, contrary to all our notions of a Port Liberty, runs far inland, across more than ten miles of country, from Romney Hoy on the east to Red Hill in Appledore on the west. The jurisdiction of the Port thus extends over fragments of eight or nine parishes, New Romney, Old Romney, Ivychurch, Brenzet, Brookland, Snargate, Kennardington, Appledore, and probably Ebony also. Its western extremity, inland at Redhill, is within half a mile of the boundary of Tenterden Cinque Port Liberty, appertaining to Rye.

North-eastward, the Romney Port claims jurisdiction as far as St. Mary's Coast Guard station. Southward, and nearly at right angles with its western limb, this Cinque Port Liberty extends for six or seven miles from New Romney, through Lydd and Broomhill, over an area of something like thirteen thousand acres of land. There is, however, nothing very remarkable in this wide, seaboard, area of the Liberty. The singular and remarkable limb is that which, extending inland over ten miles, from east to west, occupies scarcely more than three thousand acres, scattered over eight or nine parishes.

This inland limb, ten miles long, is, for the greatest part of its course, a very narrow stripe of land, about one hundred feet broad. In New Romney it has a large area, comprising 1714 acres of land; it then becomes a mere stripe, until at Old Romney it widens, to enclose 930 acres. Thence it is very narrow, including only ten acres in Ivychurch, five in Brookland, eighteen in Brenzet, nineteen in Snargate where for a time it is wider, five in Kennardington near Appledore

railway station, several hundreds of acres in Appledore, and probably some in Ebony.

At present, the jurisdiction of the Liberty within Appledore has been practically relinquished, in all but a small corner of that parish. In the Census Returns for 1871, kindly lent to me by the Town Clerk of Romney, Mr. Henry Stringer, only seven acres of Appledore parish are reckoned within the Cinque Port Liberty. The area thus relinquished, by the Liberty jurisdiction, is the most remarkable portion of the Cinque Port territory. In a broad winding course, it extended westward about three miles and a quarter, from the site of Appledore railway station to Red Hill. At its western extremity this land assumes the form of an extensive lake, or bay, about one-third of a mile broad, and a mile and a half long. South-eastward, from this dried bay, for about half a mile of its course, the modern Military Canal now runs through the Cinque Port Liberty, the width of which here begins to dwindle eastward, from a breadth of nearly 450 feet, to about half that width; it then becomes narrower still, but near Appledore Station it swells again for a short space, and after dwindling again, once more grows wider at Snargate.

This western, bay-like, area of the Cinque Port, lying between the south-west boundary of Appledore parish, and the east or north-east boundaries of Ebony and Stone-inOxney, enables us to understand the ancient Chronicles, when they say that a Danish fleet of 250 ships sailed up to Appledore, four leagues from the broad mouth of the Limene river, in A.D. 893. That area, so bay-like when seen on the map, was formerly, without any doubt, an actual water-way. To its western extremity, at Red Hill, and even to places still further inland, the small vessels of ancient times could, evidently, be navigated from the estuary at Romney, along the course which is still marked out by the limits of the Cinque Port Liberty. The navigability of the water-way, up to Red Hill, is mentioned in the Romney Custumal, and in other Municipal Records preserved at New Romney. If, however, all written records had been lost, the survival of the Cinque Port Liberty's jurisdiction would still testify to the