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to whom the Hving of l^ishopsbournc was given in 1595. 

 Hooker's library and the sanctity of his hfe were so 

 remarkable that travellers to Dover in those days 

 turned off the road to improve their minds and eyes; 

 after which they ascended Barham Downs, a very windy 

 plateau about four miles long, where many people have 





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gathered together in a highly nervous state, from the 

 days of Julius Caesar to that less distant period of 

 history when Napoleon's camp threatened Kent and 

 Christendom from the opposite heights of Boulogne. 

 To name two instances of martial gatherings out of 

 many between these whiles : King John's army of 

 60,000 men was encamped here in 12 13, when Philip 

 Augustus thought of invading England, but thought 



