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Press, Volume LIX, Issue 17814, 13 July 1923, Page 14

At the Easter vestry meeting at Charing (Kent) an inventory of Chuwh property, dated 1552, was produced, the most important item enumerated being the block on which St. John the -Bap<<n •, BU m er , ed behe *<lal" says the " Daily Telegraph." "This was said tk £ V *a n 6n bl \ ou & ht f'om Palestine bv 5 i ard l £? Ur de Lion in th ° crusade* of the 12th century and presented to Charing, where for more than 300 years it was an ob 3 ect of veneration. Charing in the days of Eichard I. was an important ecclesiastical centre, and Canterbury The Pil grimß > to the shrine of Thomas a'Becket at Cantl«? r fisT thr ° Ugh the P arish - The En J°« the estry that > in th « opinion of those beet qualified to judge. ; h , e M rel ' c ™ certainly genuine. Profully concealed by the faithful during the rehgious troubles of the 16th ceif--2L««? might be "covered .'.during excavations or repairs to, the church."