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MEN OF KENT

or best Being, as Chanter in the Cathedral" in that city. He was "an admirable musician, which quality endeared him to Lanfranc, the Lordly Lombard. He was the English Jubal." He wrote the life of the Archbishops Dunstan and Alphage, the former of which may be found in "Wharton's Anglia Sacra." He died about the year 1100.

[See "Fuller's Worthies."]


Sir Edward Osburne,

LORD MAYOR OF LONDON IN 1583,

Was a native of Ashford. He belonged to the Clothworkers' Company, and served the office of Sheriff in 1575. He died in 1591, and was buried in St. Dionis Backchurch, where there is a monument to his memory.

[See Fuller's Worthies," and "Stow's Survey of London."]


Herbert Palmer,

DIVINE,

Was the son of Sir Thomas Palmer, and born at Wingham in 1601. He was educated at St. John's, Cambridge, and became a fellow of Queen's. In 1626 he was licensed to preach at St. Alphage, in Canterbury, but was silenced on the ground of Nonconformity. So amiable, however, was his character that he was restored and presented by Laud, though a Puritan, to the Vicarage of Ashwell, in Hertfordshire. He was a member of the assembly of Divines, and became finally Master of Queen's College,