SHOOTER'S-HILL, (Kent) in the Dartford road beyond Black-Heath. Here begins a chalky soil much overgrown with coppice-
wood, which is cut for faggots and bavins, and used to be sent by water in vast quantities to London, till coal fires
began to be made in the upper rooms of taverns. Before the road was widened on the E. side of this hill, which was in
1739, many more robberies were committed on it than since. On the top of it is a spring, which constantly over-flows the
well, and is not frozen in the sharpest winters. There is a noble prospect from hence, not only of the Thames and great
part of Kent, but of Sussex, Surry and Essex, and the great cities of London and Westminster. To this place K. Henry VIII.
and his Q. Cath. came in very great splendor one May-day from Greenwich, and were received by 200 archers clad all in
green, with a captain, personating Robin Hood, who first shewed the K. the skill of his archers in shooting; after which
the ladies were conducted into the wood, and entertained with venison and wine, in arbors and booths adorned with fine
pageants, &c.