"A Perambulation of Kent; written in the yeere 1570 by William Lambarde of Lincolnes Inn, Gent. Imprinted at London by Edm. Bollisant, 1596."--Page 425.
This first I believe to be a somewhat scarce book.
"A Topographie or Survey of the County of Kent. By Richard Kilburne, London, 1659."--Pp. 276, 277.
"Tunbridge Wells and its Neighbourhood. By Paul Amsinck, Esq., London, 1810."--Pp. 97-99.
There are incidental notices of Tunbridge Lowey in Hasted's _History of Kent_. From the _Parliamentary Gazetteer_ I extract the following (to which my attention has been directed by a friend):--
"Tunbridge Lowey, a division in the Lathe of Aylesford, County of Kent. Area, 20,660 acres; houses, 2,072; population in 1831, 12,233."
In 1841 the census returns for that district gave a population of 14,638.
There is also, I believe, another "Lowey," viz. that of Pevensey.
_Praed's Works_ (Vol. iv., p. 256.).--About five years since I saw in the travelling library of an American lady a very good edition of Praed's _Poems_, small 8vo. clear type, published (I believe) in the _States_. The owner promised to send me a fac-simile of the work, on her return to New York; but family bereavements and various painful circumstances have arisen to banish the recollection of such a promise. I have asked for the book in vain in London; but if your correspondent K. S. is very anxious to procure a copy, I would suggest an order for it, given through _Chapman in the Strand_, to whom Wiley and Putnam appear to have transferred the American literary agency. I should think the price would not exceed six or seven shillings.
[This collection was published by Griswold of New York in 1844. We saw a copy at Tupling's, No. 320. Strand, a few days since.]
_John à Cumber_ (Vol. iv., p. 83.).--Some months ago MR. J. P. COLLIER made some inquiries respecting John à Kent, the Princess Sidanen, and John à Cumber. Respecting the two latter I was enabled to furnish some information; and since that I have fallen upon the traces of John à Cumber. My inquiries have recently been directed to the scene of the Battle of Cattraeth or Siggeston (Kirby Sigston); and I have endeavoured, hitherto ineffectually, to find some good description of the scenery of the North Riding of Yorkshire, and of the great plain of Mowbray, which was probably the scene of the conflict described by Aneurin, and which, I believe, includes both Catterick and Sigston. It was in that country that I found John à Cumber, who is most probably the person described in the following extract:--