(Vol. v., p. 321.)
In your answers to Minor Queries (Vol. v., p. 321.) I find it stated, that
the inhabitants of the part of Kent lying between Rochester and London
being _invicti_, have ever since (the Norman Conquest) been designated as
Men of Kent; while those to the eastward, through whose district the
Conqueror marched unopposed, are only "Kentish Men."
As I have always understood that the contrary is the case, and that the
inhabitants of East Kent are called "Men of Kent," and those in West Kent,
"Kentish Men"--because in East Kent the people are less intermixed with
strangers than in West Kent, from its proximity to the metropolis--I was
desirous of correcting what appeared to me to be a manifest error: but not
finding any direct authority on the point, I consulted my friend Charles
Sandys, Esq., of Canterbury, as a Kentish antiquary, on the subject. And I
now send you a letter from that gentleman, which you are at liberty to
print.