OSPRINGE-LIBERTY, a parish in the hundred of FAVERSHAM, lathe of SCRAY, county of KENT, 1 mile (W.S.W.) from Faversham, containing 912 inhabitants. The living is a vicarage, in the archdeaconry and diocese of Canterbury, rated in the king's books at £ 10, and in the patronage of the Master and Fellows of St. John's College, Cambridge. The church, dedicated to St. Peter and St. Paul, is principally in the early style of English-architecture. This was doubtless the site of the ancient Durolevum, though some have fixed that station at Newington. A Roman fortification and burial-place have been discovered here, besides numerous Roman antiquities of various kinds. Ospringe is an independent franchise, governed by its own constable, and has a fair annually on May 25th. Here is a neat range of infantry barracks, erected during the late war. On a stream which flows through the village are extensive gunpowder-mills, belonging to government, and on its northern bank are some remains of a Maison Dieu, founded by Henry III., about 1235, and dedicated to the Blessed Virgin Mary; it was formerly of great repute, and consisted of a master and three brethren of the order of the Holy Cross, and two Secular clerks; but falling into decay, at the close of the reign of Edward IV-., it escheated to the crown, and its remains have since been converted into dwelling- houses.