TILBURY-FORT, (Essex) lies more W. opposite to Gravesend. It is a regular fortification, planned by Sir Martin Beckman,
chief engineer to Cha. II. with bastions, the largest of any in England. It has a double moat; the innermost of which is
180 foot broad, with a good counterscarp, a covered way, ravelins and tenailles, and a platform, on which 106 cannon are
placed, from 24 to 46 pounders each, besides smaller ones planted bet. them, and the bastions and curtines also are
planted with guns; and here is a high tower, called the Block-House, which is said to have been built in the R. of Q.
Eliz. On the land-side are also 2 redoubts of brick; and there it is able to lay the whole Level under water. The 4
proconsular ways made in Britain by the Romans crossed each other in this T. Great part of the land in this Level, which
is formed of those unhealthy marshes, called the Three Hundreds, is held by the farmers, cowkeepers, and grasing butchers
of London, who generally stock them with Lincolnshire and Leicestershire weathers, which they buy in Smithfield, in Sept.
and Octob. feed them here till Christmas, or Candlemas; and this is what the butchers call right Marsh-Mutton.