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Volume 7 · 61 words · 1842 Edition

a market-town in the lathe of Scray, in Kent, forty-eight miles from London. This town is remarkable for having been the spot where the first manufacture of woollen was established by some Flemings in the reign of Edward III. The market is held on Wednesday. The inhabitants amounted in 1801 to 2561, in 1811 to 2994, and in 1821 to 3683.