FAUSTUS. See FUST.
FAVERSHAM or FEVERSHAM, a municipal borough and market-town of England, county of Kent, 9 miles W.N.W. of Canterbury. It is governed by a mayor, 4 aldermen, and 12 councillors, and in 1851 contained 4595 inhabitants. The town is very ancient, and obtained from several of the early monarchs various charters and privileges, especially as regarded the judgment and punishment of offences committed within its own jurisdiction. The town consists of four principal streets, forming an irregular cross, in the centre of which is the town-hall and market-place. The parish church is a spacious cruciform structure, surmounted by a tower and spire. Faversham has a free grammar-school, national school, theatre, and assembly-rooms. Faversham Creek, which communicates with East Swale, is navigable for vessels of 150 tons up to the town. On 31st December 1853, 308 vessels of 15,300 tons aggregate burthen belonged to the port; and during that year 1532 vessels of 116,381 tons entered, and 1478 vessels of 44,983 tons cleared at the port. Market-days, Wednesday and Saturday. The oyster fishery is extensively carried on. There are several powder-mills in the vicinity, but the government mills have been discontinued.