HISTORY OF DOVER B8I effect, by any on the shores of Britain. Baths-comprising every accom-. modation for hot, cold, and shower bathing-have been provided on the Parade, convenient waiting rooms are attached, where the visitor can sit and enjoy an extended view of the ocean. At the census of 1841, Dover contained a population of 13,872 souls, of whom 6,177 were males and '7,696 females, and 2/;68 houses, of which 138 were uninhabited. Popu­ lation in 1801, 7,084; in 1831, 11,924. Acres, 320. . DOVER was of considerable estimation in the time of the Romans on "account of its haven, and afterwards for the Castle, in which they kept a strong garrison of soldiers, .not only to guard the approach to it, but to keep the natives in subjection. This station is mentioned by Antonine in his Itinerary of the Roman Roads in Britain, by the name of Dubris, as being situated from the station named Durovernum, or Canterbury, 14 miles, which distance, compared with the miles as they are now numbered from Canterbury, shews the town, as well as the haven, for they were nO doubt contiguous to each otber, to have bt:en more inland than either of them are at present, the present distance from Canterbury being nearly 16 miles, as the road now goes; the sea, indeed, seems to have occupied :the space where the north-west part of Dover nuw stands, but bt-ing shut "out by the quantity of beach thrown up, and the harbour changed to its present situation left that place dry ground, on which the town of Dover -was afterwards built. This town, called by the Saxons Do[ra, is agreed by all writers to have beed privileged before the conquest, and by the survey of Domesday, ap­ pears to have been of ability in the time of King Edward the Confessor 'to arm yearly twenty vessels for sea service; in consideration of which that King graRted to the inhabitants, not only to be free from ilie pay­ ment of thol and other privileges throughout the realm, but pardoned "them all manner of suit and service to any of his courts whatsoever; and in those days the town seems to have be('n under the protection and government of Godwin, Earl of Kent, and governor of the Castle. From the Norman conquest, the cities and towns of this realm appear to have been vested in the laity, and they were each as such immediate Lords of the same: thus, when the Bishop of Baieux, to whom the King had granted this town, was disgraced, it returned into the hands of the King by forfeiture, and King Richard I. afterwards granted it in [erme to Robert Fitz-bernard. After the time of taking the survey of Domesday, about ilie year 1080, the harbour of Dover changed its situation more to the south­ west, and the town seems to have altered its situation too, and to have been chiefly rebuilt along the sides of the new harbour. As an =encouragement to it, at the instance and through special favour to the prior of Dover, King Edward I. incorporated this town, the first that "Was so of any of the Cinque Ports. by the name of the mayor and ·commonalty. At which time the King had a mint for the coinage of money bere; and by patent, in the 27th of that reign, the table