After we have made this excursion with Antoninus, to take in these two stations, which seems to have been done to conduct travellers the nearest way to the _portus Lemanis_, we return again to Rochester, that we may finish the progress of the Watling-street. [Sidenote: +Feversham.+] [Sidenote: TAB. XXVII.] [Sidenote: +Newington.+] [Sidenote: Ro. _town_.] From Rochester the Watling-street continues very strait to Canterbury, by Feversham, whither I went to visit the remains of the monastery founded by king Stephen, and where he was buried with his family. At present nothing left but two gate-houses, and they of mean structure: the hall was standing intire within this forty year; but now the whole monastery is level with the ground, and converted into orchards, so that I could not so much as guess at the place where the church was. They have a report still, that at the dissolution of abbeys they took up the coffin of lead wherein the king was buried, and sold it: as for his corpse, they threw it into the Thames. Here king Ethelstan enacted laws, anno 903. At Newington seems to have been another station: many Roman coins and antiquities have been found there. Vide large accounts thereof in Burton’s Itinerary, p. 181. and Casaubon’s translation of Antoninus Philos. Beyond Broughton, which seems to have been another,[111] you come to a very high hill, steep on the west. The Watling-street here first presents the tower of the cathedral in its line, and both together make a fine show: _Apparet rursum moles operosa viarum, Consurgit stratis agger ubique suis._ [Sidenote: +Durovernum.+] [Sidenote: TAB. XCVI.] [Sidenote: TAB. LIV.] [Sidenote: TAB. XXV.] [Sidenote: TAB. XXIV.] [Sidenote: TAB. XXV.]