_A Monster found at Maidstone._--In Kilburne's _Survey of Kent_, 4to.
1659, under "Maidstone," is the following passage:
"Wat Tiler, that idol of clownes, and famous rebell in the time
of King Richard the Second, was of this town; and in the year
1206 about this town was a monster found stricken with
lightning, with a head like an asse, a belly like a man, and all
other parts far different from any known creature, but not
approachable nigh unto, by reason of the stench thereof."
No mention of this is made by Lambarde in his _Perambulation of Kent_.
Has this been traditional, or whence is Kilburne's authority? And what
explanation can be offered of the account?