From Titsey you may climb a steep road and find Tatsfield church, separated from its scattered village, clean on the edge of the steep hill. Tatsfield church, which is old and small, stands nearly eight hundred feet above the weald, and its little churchyard, with a path in it leading to no gate, but only to a hedge, lends a curious sense of a garden. The stretch of Sussex and Kent to the south is freer and wider than any other Surrey church sees; but Tatsfield, like other places with a fine view, suffers continual loss in cloudy weather. When I was last there the church stood alone on the brow, over unguessable depths of grey mist.



CHAPTER XLI

DULWICH TO WIMBLEDON

Growing London.—Cigars by Dulwich Valley.—Edward Allen, Actor, Bear-baiter, Dog-fancier and Founder of a College.—Godd's Guift.—Dulwich buttercups.—Dr. Johnson.—A Prayer in a Library.—Merton.—Wimbledon Camp.—A Miser's grave.—An opportunity for a duel.—Groans for George Ranger.—Memories of the Windmill.

Nothing is more capricious than a vast town pushing out into the country. No law binds it; no power can resist it; it will not be tempted, or denied; only one future can certainly be prophesied for it, that where it comes it will remain. Looking at London and its surroundings on a new map and an old, it is an arresting thing to trace—almost to watch—the growth of the inexorable black ink on what a decade or two before was inviolate white. There is nothing orderly about it, nothing mathematical. London does not grow as the circles spread from a splash in a pond, nor regularly and certainly as geologists say stones grow in the soil—a fascinating and rather dreadful secret of growth. London grows suddenly by fits and starts. Once, perhaps, the town crept out quietly, a field at a time, a new road in a twelvemonth. Now it catches great parks and manors. But which way it will go out to catch them you cannot guess. It may walk threateningly, and it may leave alone, as it has left the deepest of hayfields alone in Kent much nearer London than in Surrey. One rule, perhaps, it keeps relentlessly; it will never leave country between London old and London new. The Londons join at once.

Ruskin, in Praeterita, shows you London striding by Herne Hill to Croydon. Herne Hill should be a hill with a heronry on it, but the name is new; it was King's Hill when John Speed made his map in the days of James I. But Herne Hill was in the country when Ruskin knew it. Norwood was a hill; Dulwich was a valley. "Central in each amphitheatre, the crowning glory of Herne Hill was accordingly, that, after walking along its ridge southward from London through a mile of chestnut, lilac, and apple trees, hanging over the wooden palings on each side—suddenly the trees stopped on the left, and out one came on the top of the field sloping down to the south into Dulwich valley—open field animate with cow and buttercup, and below, the beautiful meadows and high avenues of Dulwich; and beyond, all that crescent of the Norwood hills; a footpath, entered by a turnstile, going down to the left, always so warm that invalids could be sheltered there in March, when to walk elsewhere would have been death to them; and so quiet, that whenever I had anything difficult to compose or think of, I used to do it rather there than in our own garden. The great field was separated from the path and road only by light wooden open palings, four feet high, needful to keep the cows in. Since I last composed, or meditated there, various improvements have taken place; first the neighbourhood wanted a new church, and built a meagre Gothic one with a useless spire, for the fashion of the thing, at the side of the field; then they built a parsonage behind it, the two stopping half the view in that direction. Then the Crystal Palace came, for ever spoiling the view through all its compass, and bringing every show-day from London a flood of pedestrians down the footpath who left it filthy with cigar ashes for the rest of the week: then the railroads came, and expatiating roughs by every excursion train, who knocked the palings about, roared at the cows, and tore down what branches of blossom they could reach over the palings on the enclosed side. Then the residents on the enclosed side built a brick wall to defend themselves. Then the path got to be insufferably hot as well as dirty; and was gradually abandoned to the roughs, with a policeman on watch at the bottom. Finally, this year, a six foot high close paling has been put down the other side of it, and the processional excursionist has the liberty of obtaining what notion of the country air and prospect he may, between the wall and that, with one bad cigar before him, another behind him, and another in his mouth."

Dulwich valley, and cows and buttercups—it has still an uneasy echo of the town. Somewhere, surely, there always broods over Dulwich the spirit of the founder of its college. He is the Londoner of Londoners, and the oddest combination of characters that ever left a name as pious benefactor of a school. Edward Allen, or Alleyn as his college spells him, was to begin with an Elizabethan actor. He was one of a company of strolling players before he was twenty; he was twenty-two when he had somehow made himself a "gentleman," to be so described on a deed of gift; and when he was twenty-six, he was such an actor that Ben Jonson compared him to Roscius and Cicero, and Thomas Nash wrote that "Not Roscius or Aesope, those tragedians admired before Christ was borne, could ever performe more in action than famous Ned Allen." Perhaps he made his money as an actor-manager; perhaps he married money, for his wife was the daughter of a pawnbroker (who was also a theatre-proprietor and one of the grooms of the Queen's chamber); perhaps he began lending money early in life himself. He and his father-in-law, when James succeeded Elizabeth, were made chief masters of "his Majesty's games of Beares, Bulls and doggs"; they had a menagerie in the Paris Gardens at Southwark where they kept wolves and lions; they worried bulls and had dog-fights, and showed "pleasant sport with the horse and ape and whipping of the blind beare." Money rolled in, with the apes and the bears and the loans, and in October, 1605, Allen, by this time full esquire, bought the manor and lands of Dulwich for L4,900. Eight years later he left Southwark for Dulwich, and set about founding his college.

Aubrey has a quaint legend of the foundation. How should an actor found a college? The devil was in it somewhere. Tradition told "that Mr. Alleyne, being a Tragedian, and one of the Original Actors in many of the celebrated Shakespear's Plays, in one of which he play'd a Daemon, with six others, and was in the midst of the Play surpriz'd by an Apparition of the Devil, which so worked on his Fancy, that he made a Vow which he perform'd at this Place." That was the beginning of Dulwich College, according to one story; according to another, it was only because Allen had begun so earnestly, and tied himself up by so many legal contracts that he did not repent of his vow and take back all he had given. That was when, a widower of fifty-seven, he wanted to marry a girl of twenty. She was John Donne's daughter Constance, and perhaps Donne felt bound to ask for liberal settlements. However, the settlements were arranged somehow, and the college was founded. The "colledge of God's gift" was his name for it, and as its founder he described himself as "chief master, ruler and overseer of all and singular over games of beares, bulls, mastive doggs and mastive bitches." His blood-relations were to be Master and Warden, if possible, and so, for many years, they were.

One of the statutes explains the name "God's gift." There were to be twelve poor scholars, chosen partly by merit and partly by chance. When a place became vacant three or four children were to be elected by the parish vestries, and of these two were to be chosen by the Master and Warden, and then the two were to draw lots:—

"The manner of drawinge of the said lot shall be thus: Two equal small rowleses of paper to be indifferently made and rolled up, in one of which rolls the wordes 'Godd's Guift' are to be written, and the other rowle is to be left blank and so put into a boxe; which boxe shalbe thrice shaken up and downe, and the elder person of those two that are elected to drawe the first lot, and the younger person the second; and whiche of them draweth the lott wherein the wordes 'God's Guift' are written shalbe forthwith admitted."

Another gift followed Allen's. When Sir Francis Bourgeois died early in the last century he left his fine collection of pictures to the school. The gallery is open to the public; but a description, in the space I have here, could be no more than a list of names.

Dulwich still has some of its fields and buttercups; the playing fields are a pleasant oasis which is the last vision of sunlight and grass for the traveller on the Chatham and Dover railway before plunging into the murk of the Penge tunnel. Of its neighbours to the west, Streatham clusters about a tangle of railways; Streatham, which was deep country for Dr. Johnson, knocked down, in 1863, the house and cut up the park that Dr. Johnson knew when they belonged to the Thrales. He would not recognise the church—the church to which he bade farewell with a kiss—it has been rebuilt. The library, which, if it were standing to-day with the books that Johnson read, would be the most sought for room in Surrey, went, of course, with the house. Eighty years before it fell Johnson had parted from it with a prayer. "Help me," he prayed, "that I may, with humble and sincere thankfulness, remember the comforts and conveniences which I have enjoyed at this place; and that I may resign them with holy submission, equally trusting in Thy protection when Thou givest, and when Thou takest away." That was the library which was destroyed only forty-five years ago. But Streatham, when it knocked down the Thrales' house, had very good authority for parting with all it had of Dr. Johnson. Mrs. Thrale would not have minded. She sold all the letters Dr. Johnson wrote her for a matter of five hundred pounds.

Between Streatham and Wimbledon London strides out in patches. It has not yet taken in Mitcham, which has a fine green with memories of great Surrey cricket, and which grows all manner of scented flowers, lavender and mint and rosemary and everything old-fashioned for herbalists and perfumers and ladies' sachets and linen-chests. But Merton, north-west towards Wimbledon, has been caught fast. Merton church, in which Nelson used to worship, and which has his hatchment on the wall, above fine cross beams of oak, stands among brand-new roofs and roads. Opposite the church is the forlornest thing; a house which once was Sheridan's, and which is now the warehouse of a shop, and hangs in its hall and rooms printed calico. The windows are broken and cobwebby, the garden is a ruin, but the calico, which you may buy at a shop in the town, is fresh and very brightly printed. Francis Nixon, the founder of Merton's calico-printing, which is quite an industry, lies in the churchyard.

And so, by a ring from east to west, where London joins the Surrey countryside, we come to Wimbledon; Wimbledon old and new, as old as a camp which may have been Saxon, as young as yesterday's new villa. The camp, it is true, exists no longer. It has had more learned essays written over it than any in Surrey; it has been claimed as belonging to Cassivelaunus, it has been argued to be a Roman camp, and it has been urged that it marks the site of a battle between Saxon and Saxon for the possession of Surrey. It was a war camp, pretty certainly, from its shape, which was almost exactly circular. But you can see the shape no longer. Wimbledon was unfortunate enough to see its famous camp fall into the hands of a Mr. Sawbridge Erle Drax, and he, in 1875, dared to level its dykes with the ground, to cut down its mound, and fill in its ditch. Of acts of wanton and insolent destruction, this stands supreme in the history of the county.

Wimbledon has held a great house, and has seen royal progresses which cost the lord of the manor a fortune. Thomas Cromwell was one of the lords of the manor, and after him came Catherine Parr: but the great days were those of the Cecils. Lord Burghley, Elizabeth's treasurer, lived at intervals at the Rectory House, and some of Elizabeth's summer excursions came to Wimbledon; she stayed with her treasurer and with his son. But the Cecil who belongs most to Wimbledon is not the treasurer whose nod summed up the wisdom of a Parliament, nor any Lord of Burghley; but a younger son who was a soldier and a sailor. He was Admiral and Marshal-General of the forces sent by James I. and Charles I. against the Spaniards; he was made Lord Wimbledon, and his memory on the records of the army of his day is that his name of Cecil was punned into General Sit-still when he was a soldier of almost foolhardy personal daring, and that he re-introduced into the army the "old English march." There was "one certaine measure," a royal warrant informs us, which had been lost "through the negligence and carelessness of drummers," although it had been "by the approbation of strangers themselves, confessed and acknowledged the best of marches." This march, at the instance of Lord Wimbledon, was beaten in the king's presence at Greenwich in 1610 and ordered to be exactly and precisely observed by all drummers in the kingdom of England and principality of Wales, without any addition or alteration whatsoever. We do not hear it in these days of battles without drums and colours; but we do not fight much better, perhaps, without the drums.

The old Wimbledon church was demolished; the new church was built in 1786. It has many monuments, but the grave which fascinates is the tomb neither of a great statesman nor a good man. It is apart in a far corner; over it is laid a huge slab of black stone, perhaps half a foot thick, and the stone tells you that under it lies the body of "John Hopkins, Esquire, familiarly known as Vulture Hopkins." Misers have had hard things said of them often enough; of Hopkins Pope wrote that "he lived worthless, but died worth three hundred thousand pounds," and, reflecting on the "Use of Riches," Pope made a couplet on his funeral:—

"When Hopkins dies, a thousand lights attend The wretch who living saved a candle's end."

But those legends belong to paper and books. They are less easily destroyed than an epithet engraved on a stone; but who of deliberation would carve an insult, as this is carved, for a dead man?



Wimbledon will never belong to the town so long as it keeps its common. It is the wildest thing near London. It is almost as wild and lonely a place to-day as when in Georgian and early Victorian days statesmen and noblemen chose it as a fashionable and convenient ground for duelling. The common has seen more than one historic duel. The Duke of York and Colonel Lennox met there in 1789; the Duke received the Colonel's fire, and the ball grazed his hair, but he did not fire in return. Pitt fought a duel with a member of Parliament on Putney Heath north of the common in 1798; each fired twice at twelve paces and hit nothing. Sir Francis Burdett and Mr. John Paull fought in 1807, wounded each other and went back together to London in the same carriage. Canning and Castlereagh fought in 1809, and Grattan, two years after Queen Victoria came to the throne, received Lord Londonderry's fire and himself fired in the air. Another Grattan could meet another Irish peer to-day, and if they chose their places well, nobody would hear a pistol at all. The bracken and the heather slope into dells and valleys which would shelter three duels in a morning; you could deliver a salvo and hardly scare a nursery maid.

But Wimbledon's longest acquaintance with firearms was in the days before the National Rifle Association moved to Bisley. Queen Victoria fired the first shot on July 2nd, 1860, when she pulled a scarlet cord and scored a bull's-eye with a Whitworth rifle; a red and white flag was shown in an instant, you read, and "three points were scored to the Queen of England." The last shot was fired in 1889. I went to that meeting as a schoolboy, and am even now filled with an awe that belongs to spacious days, remembering that we were told that on the last evening the whole camp was to give three great groans for "George Ranger," the Duke of Cambridge, whose duty it had been to declare the common unfitted for the distant probings of misdirected Martini-Henry bullets. Those concerted, resentful, thousand-throated groans seemed a tremendous nightly business; there were camp-fires, one imagined, from which the circular groan would ascend, a rumble which should expel a ministry, unseat a prince. Not very much came of the groaning, I suppose; certainly the Volunteers liked the Bisley ranges, next year, much better. But the old windmill, which looked on in its time at thirty full meetings, still surely misses the week when the dells and the long stretches of heather rattled from the first gun to sunset with the crackle of Martinis and match rifles. The windmill watches red-coated golfers to-day, playing to some of the prettiest greens in the south of England; but the days for the windmill were when the tents were white about the heather, and when they sold Stewart's Verniers where to-day a more leisured generation misses short putts.



CHAPTER XLII

THE SURREY SIDE

Mortlake.—The Boat Race.—A duel.—Putney-by-the-sea.—Punch and Judy.—Kennington.—Gallows and faggots.—The proper way to subscribe to a Cricket Club.—Camberwell Beauties.—The Tradescants and their Dodo.—Mr. Jeffery Saffery.—The old Surrey Side.—The Tabard.—The Old Road.

The Surrey side begins, perhaps, if it begins anywhere definitely, at Mortlake, where the Boat-race ends. By Kew and Richmond the Thames runs for pleasure-boats, gigs and skiffs with shining oars. Below Mortlake the river hears the forge and the dockyard; torpedo-boats drive out into the tide; it is different water, London water, under their bows. The four miles of the Thames of the Boat-race mark the gradual change. On a rough day the two eights ride through waves which are less like a river than a sea; and perhaps the rough water has made some of the best history of the race. When Cambridge sank in 1859 she was waterlogged early in the race; she could not have won, but the steamers following the eights prevented her even from passing the winning-post, by swamping her with their wash. Oxford won, but Cambridge's was an equal honour. The crew rowed on as the boat went under the water; and the name that will always belong to that race is that of a future Lord Justice, Mr. A.L. Smith. Cambridge and Mr. A.L. Smith went on rowing in the water, knowing that Mr. Smith could not swim. On another rough day, thirty-nine years later, the race was lost and won by the toss; the Cambridge boat filled at the start, and Oxford rowed in out of the wind. Other historic races belong to the curve of the river above Barnes Bridge; three in particular, in 1886, 1896, and 1901, when the crew that was behind at Barnes Bridge passed the other crew at the bend of the river and won. Of other historic races, perhaps the wins of the two crews in which a Goldie turned the fortunes of his University will always possess peculiar glories. The first Goldie, in 1870, ended a series of nine Oxford wins. Another Goldie, in 1899, helped Cambridge to end another series, also of nine. The name and the two nines in the date surely made the feat inevitable.

The river water does not change, but the banks have altered from grass and reeds to concrete and stone. It was a mile or so from Barnes Bridge, in a field near Barn Elms (but who could guess where?) that the second Duke of Buckingham fought and shot Lord Shrewsbury. The Duke left behind him one of the wickedest lives of the most dissolute Courts of English history; but he left nothing viler than the name of Lord Shrewsbury's Countess, who rode in boy's clothes as a page to the duelling ground, and then held her seducer's horse while he shot her husband. They left him dying and rode back together. That was in 1667; an earlier and a kindlier association of Barn Elms is a resident who afterwards died at Chertsey, Abraham Cowley; later came Jacob Tonson, bibliophile and publisher of Pope and Dryden. And it was at Barn Elms, too, that the Kit-Kat Club, the thirty who dined at Christopher Kat's in the Strand, and bound themselves to uphold the Protestant succession, met and dined and looked at their portraits painted by Sir Godfrey Kneller. The Kit-Kat portraits are now at Bayfordbury, near Hertford, and for the last fifteen years Barn Elms has housed, not publishers or painters, but polo players. The Ranelagh Club was born to help Hurlingham over the water provide grounds for the youngest of the great games naturalised in England. Nine years later Barnes welcomed another club, Roehampton, which added three more grounds to the four of Hurlingham and Ranelagh.

The Boat-race finishes at Mortlake; it starts at Putney, and Putney is the headquarters and the rendezvous of many clubs and rowing men. The Surrey bank from Putney Bridge up stream is a string of club houses, boat houses, and little wooden buildings that do duty for both, and here, on sloping banks sometimes washed by brimming tides, sometimes broad and flat by a shrunken stream on which no racing boat will set its dainty keel, London gathers on March afternoons to wait for the return of the practising crews, and to watch the blue-scarved oarsmen in and out of the boathouses and the balcony windows. There is somewhere an air of the sea-side about that stretch of gravel and open river bank; it is the sunshine on the varnish of the boats, perhaps, or a smell of tar in the wind, or of salt from the weeds that the tides leave dry; or is it the banjo of the occasional nigger blacked to get pence from the waiting crowd? On a September day a year or two ago, when Cambridge within a week was to race Harvard, I saw on that strip of road one of the very last of the genuine London Punch-and-Judy shows. Toby, of course, had gone; dogs may sit no more in frills to cadge for coppers. But the rest of it was correct enough; the chequered canvas, of the proper shade of blue, draped the wooden frame discreetly at the right moment; there was the old interval of suspense, the old, the piercing squeal, the dexterous cock of the red legs over the balcony; the crocodile came and the hangman, and the devil; I watched them all. So did two of the Harvard crew, and did not know their luck. Nothing of English pride stirred in the blood of those two stalwart young men; they walked off even before the turn of the hangman.

East of Putney the river is a thoroughfare of London, and the names along the Surrey side are London names. Lambeth Palace has already included itself in Mrs. E.T. Cook's Highways and Byways in London, and so has Vauxhall, and the church of St. Saviour's, Southwark, the finest of all churches which once looked over Surrey fields. But Kennington, no matter how near it lies to London omnibuses and London tube railways, can never be anywhere but in Surrey; Kennington with its memories of the 'Forty-five, and the Chartists, and, a much stronger link with county history than mere memories of the past, Kennington Oval, the visible, flat, noble cricket ground which stands for the story of all Surrey cricket of the past half century. The Oval is scarcely half a mile from Vauxhall Bridge and the river; but it is the centre of the county for those who watch Surrey cricket.

Once the Oval was part of Kennington Common; even in 1845 the solid road which circles the ground was no more than a ditch and a quickset hedge. But a hundred years before 1845! Cricket, even then, was a game in Surrey. Frederick Louis, Prince of Wales, and father of George III, was introducing his favourite pastime to the nobles and the gentlemen. In 1737 Kent played Surrey and London on Kennington Common, and round the pavilion set up for the Prince of Wales there was so great a crush of spectators that a poor woman fell and had her leg broken. The Prince gave her ten guineas. That was a cricketer. And yet, within eight years, Kennington was back among the vilest barbarities of the Middle Ages. The 'Forty-five was to set a mark of ferocious savagery in Kennington annals hardly surpassed by Tyburn. The Earl of Kennington (that, with the nickname of 'Butcher,' was one of the titles of the Duke of Cumberland) had sent to gaol in Southwark nine officers whom he had taken prisoner at Carlisle, fighting for Charles Edward Stuart. They were ordered for execution, and on July 30, at eleven o'clock in the morning, were taken on three sledges to Kennington Common. The gallows were there, the block, the faggots. The prisoners were allowed to pray among themselves. Then they were pinioned and placed in the cart under the gallows; the fires were lighted, the cart moved away. Before they were dead they were cut down, beheaded, disembowelled and their hearts burned in the fire; the executioner, throwing in the heart of the last, who was no more than a boy, cried 'God save King George!' Part of the crowd answered with a shout; the rest looked on in sorrow. The boy who suffered with the elder men was James Dawson, and Shenstone wrote a ballad on his death. He had been engaged to be married to a young girl, who insisted on seeing her lover's last moments. When all was over, she threw herself back in the coach, called to him that she followed him, and as she spoke, died.

Another gathering on Kennington Common might have had more wholesale consequences. The Chartists met there in 1848. Feargus O'Connor was their leader, and he and the petition which the delegates were to take to the House of Commons went out in two large cars. The petition went first, drawn by four horses, and piled up like bales of cotton; the car was decorated with flags, banners, and mottoes, and so were the horses. Then came O'Connor and the delegates, equally superb in bunting. They drove down Holborn and across Blackfriars Bridge, and on Kennington Common an enormous crowd, between 15,000 and 50,000, the different accounts say, received the banners and the delegates with loud cheers. But no bloodshed followed. O'Connor was informed that the crowd could not be allowed to march to the House of Commons, where, indeed, they would have found the Duke of Wellington with cannon. The Chartist leader made two eloquent speeches, and the chairman declared the meeting at an end. The delegates' horses were whipped up so hurriedly that the delegates fell to the bottom of the cart; three cabs drove up and took charge of the bales of petitions, and the meeting was at an end. One detail which the contemporary historian gives of the finish has a fascinating echo half of Ainsworth, half of Dickens. "The horses became restive and began to kick. Then was distinctly heard from many quarters the peculiar cry of the young London thieves." What was it like? Can anybody do it to-day?

The great crowds at Kennington to-day come to see better sights than carts and banners. Surrey cricket has focussed itself at Kennington; rather curiously, it has happened that Surrey plays cricket to-day on no other ground. Kent and Sussex, two neighbours, play their county matches on three grounds or four; Surrey, which has traditions at Mitcham and Dorking, has shrunk back to Kennington only. And Kennington, long ago, was nearly lost to cricket. A year after the Chartists had crowded over the Common, the County Club was in debt for L70. The story of the paying of the debt and the revival of the club has the real ring. The club met and were in despair; they could not hope, with such a debt, to play matches. The Bishop of Tasmania, in his entertaining little History of Kennington, tells (in 1889) the story:—

"The meeting almost decided to break up the club; and I suppose, had such a vote been carried, the Oval would have been at once built over and some very happy memories of Kennington would never have existed at all. It is to the present Lord Bessborough that we owe the continuance of Cricket upon the Oval. He was Vice-President at the time, and suggested that the L70 should be paid off by allowing six gentlemen to become Life Members by paying down L12 apiece. A gentleman present next said 'who would pay L12 to be a Life Member of a bankrupt Club?' 'I will,' said Old Mr. Cressingham, one of the oldest members: and 'I will,' said five others, of whom Mr. Ponsonby was one. Lord Bessborough, in writing of this memorable meeting, adds—'Looking back to that distant day I fear I have been a bad bargain to the Club by becoming a Life Member for L12.'"

Nothing of the country and little of the past belongs to Kennington's neighbours. Stockwell, which perhaps sees a hansom as often as a motor-car, once named as a native one of the greatest of English racehorses. Camberwell, when willows grew about a village stream, long since dry, named a butterfly; but Camberwell Beauties, though they sleep sometimes in Surrey woodstacks, and flaunt their white-laced wings in Surrey sunshine perhaps twice in a summer, fly no more by brooks in Camberwell. Perhaps in the old days the Tradescants, who lived near Vauxhall, used to catch them. The Tradescants, father and son, were great naturalists and collectors, and at their house they got together the museum of rarities which after their death came to the Ashmolean Museum at Oxford. John Tradescant the son made a list of them, and though Oxford ungratefully hid the collection in an outhouse and only discovered it again in 1882, many of the curiosities he mentions move undergraduates to surprise to-day. In the original list are strange fowls. 'Some kindes of birds, their egges, beaks, feathers, clawes, and spurres' begin the list of chapters, and then come a crocodile and an 'egge given for a dragon's egge,' and 'Easter egges of the patriarchs of Jerusalem.' 'Two feathers of the phoenix tayle' I do not remember at Oxford, nor 'a cherrystone holding ten dozen tortoiseshell combs, made by Edward Gibbons.' But I think the Ashmolean collection still holds the 'flea chains of silver and gold, with 300 links apiece, and yet but an inch long,' and, of course, the Oxford dodo's skin is famous. It was not a dodo, though, to John Tradescant. It was a 'dodar, from the island of Mauritius: it is not able to flie, being so big.' The wrong thing about it all is that the name of the Tradescants ought to be associated with the collection, and not the name Ashmole. It was never Ashmole's to give to Oxford. Ashmole was a rich and greedy neighbour, and though Tradescant left his museum to his widow and after her death to Oxford, he, the polite Ashmole, bullied Mrs. Tradescant until she signed a paper stating that she had begged him to take the museum for his own. She would have signed anything, poor lady, to get rid of him. She suffered so much from persecution from the generous donor of her husband's museum to Oxford, that she drowned herself in a pond; a few months before having signed a statement that she had 'caused a great heap of earth rubbish to be laid against his garden wall'—doubtless she caused nothing of the sort—'so high that on the 1st day of August last, in the night, by the help thereof, it is strongly presumed that thieves got over the same and robbed the said Mr. Ashmole of 32 cocks and hens.'

Easternmost of Surrey in London, Rotherhithe lies about the docks of the Pool. The Pool should have a book to itself, and will not go into mine; but of Rotherhithe ashore there is a record which deserves keeping. Aubrey, or his later editor, gives a list of the Rotherhithe residents who contributed to the rebuilding of St. Mary's church, and the names, sorted and classified, should be set aside for a future Dickens. Here are a few of them:—Bloice, Figgins, Cuthbert Finkle, Gollop, Cronker, Shadrick Lifter, Walter Mell, Mr. Jeremiah Rosher, Mr. Jonas Shish, Mr. Nathaniel Stiffon, Mr. Matthias Wallraven, Mr. Scroggs, Mr. Jeffery Saffery, Mr. Volentine Teed.

Bermondsey, which has kept the Tooley Street of the Three Tailors, but elsewhere preserves names only instead of stones, has memories of one of the three Surrey Abbeys. It was founded as a priory for Cluniac monks by Alwin Child, a citizen of London, in 1082, and it became an Abbey some three hundred years later. Bermondsey Priory had a church of some note, for in it was a crucifix which the old chronicles describe vaguely as having been found near the Thames. The crucifix attracted special pilgrimages, and when the monasteries were ended, it disappeared. 'There was the pictor of Saynte Saviour that had stood in Barmsey Abbey many yeres in Southwarke takyn down,' a diarist writes at the time. All that remains of the church and crucifix is the name, which has come to St. Saviour's, or the church of St. Mary Overie—the style now is to call it Southwark Cathedral. St. Saviour's belongs to London highways, as I have said, but I may take for Surrey the lines, not already quoted for London, I think, which are set on the tomb of Richard Humble, Alderman of London and ancestor of Wards and Dudleys. The tomb has busied many pens, the verses remain to be read—are they too well known to be written out again?

Like to the damask rose you see Or like the blossom on the tree, Or like the dainty flower of May, Or like the morning of the day, Or like the sun or like the shade, Or like the gourd which Jonas had,

Even so is Man whose thread is spun, Drawn out and cut, and so is done!

The rose withers, the blossom blasteth, The flower fades, the morning hasteth, The sun sets, the shadow flies, The gourd consumes, the man he dies.

Beaumont wrote the lines, legend says; perhaps wrongly, but they have the Elizabethan life and ring.

If one had to choose a dozen square yards of London to sum up the Surrey side, where should they be? For me, there could be no choice. One spot would demand the first, the only place. It would be where Waterloo Bridge touches the Surrey shore; where you may look south to a Surrey hill by Sydenham, and north to half the panorama of London, from St. Paul's to Westminster Abbey. There, on the first few yards of the bridge, above the little hill which shrinks the wide roadway into a neck and stops overladen drays like a wall, blows the aura of all London that crowds south of the river, all Surrey that belongs to the London Thames. The business of the town and the country mingles with the business of the river and the sea. An afternoon in December, the month of months to know London in, is the time to be there. Up stream from the Nore on an east wind rides the damp of salt and of estuary fogs; about you are the steam of sweating horses and the pungent clinging scents of malt and hops and brewing; up on a yellow tide under the arches of the bridge swings a string of barges, piled with bales of hay. A flock of pigeons sways and wheels in the sky, drops to the roofs, settles with a clatter, sails up into the sky again. Black-headed gulls, in their winter suits of dove-colour and white, walk about the muddy edge of the rising tide, drift on the stream like torn paper, soar and hang in the wind above the bridge, peering this way and that for the fish and bread the Londoners give them; or late in the afternoon wing quiet journeys into unknown spaces of western light. Beyond the bridge the lights dot orange sparks in the films and shades of great buildings and the Embankment roadway. That is pure London, and London, too, is most of the Waterloo Road, with its new hospital, and the roar of the trains from the junction, and the old curiosity shops with the foreign names, and the wig-makers, and the cheap furniture spoiling in the rain. But Surrey is there, too; a shop that shows cricket bats, and another that has fruit-ladders, and, above all, the little shops that offer boxes of pansies and delphinium roots and hyacinth bulbs all the seasons round to Surrey men leaving London behind them in the evening. Surrey recollects that she is not quite London in the Waterloo Road; she plays cricket and plants pansies.

That would be the Surrey side I should choose, with the magic of the tide water about it and somewhere, however faint, the scent of the Surrey gardens. But the old, the oldest Surrey side? That belongs to the river-shore south of London Bridge, where once, too, Londoners could cross from crowded wood and brick to walk among Surrey hawthorn and Surrey daisies. The roar and the soot of the Borough have set that strip of country deep in London, hardly divided by the water. But it was there, when Chaucer's nine-and-twenty pilgrims lay at the Tabard inn, that Surrey began for Londoners and for all who had come to the 'dere and sweete citye' of which Chaucer sings to journey south from the Thames on a pilgrimage to Canterbury. The Tabard inn is no more; the fire that swept over Southwark ten years after the fire of London destroyed the building Chaucer knew. The piety of a later day raised another Tabard, perhaps like the old Tabard with the same galleries and balustrades to look down from upon pilgrims and minstrels and monks and fools. But that Tabard inn became the Talbot in a careless age, and as the Talbot it was razed to the ground forty years ago, when nobody minded what became of the old inns and churches and the things best worth keeping in old Surrey. The Tabard has gone, but the ancient road remains. Smoke and stone are about it, where once it stretched out bare among green fields; but the fields are there, for those who can see them, behind the veil of smoke, and through them a wayfarer may still travel with the Knight who loved freedom and courtesy, the Monk shaking his belled bridle, the Ploughman on his mare, and the dainty fingered Prioress with her eyes as grey as glass, riding to join other pilgrims travelling east to Canterbury by the old road.



INDEX

A

Abbot, George, Archbishop of Canterbury, 72, 74-6, 80, 317, 360

Abbot, Robert, Bishop of Salisbury, 80

Abbot's Hospital, 65, 72-4, 83

Abbot, Sir Maurice, 80

A Becket, 2, 3

Abinger, 101, 165, 320-2

Abinger Hatch, 320-2

Adam Bede, 214

Addington, 357, 368, 378

Addison, 138

Addlestone, 180, 206, 208

Ady, Mrs. Henry, 58

Airly Beacon, 150

Akehurst, Alexander, 285

Alastor, 202

Albany, Duchess of, 275

Albury, 10, 59, 69, 87, 91, 100-2, 105-7 Park, 10, 106-7, 321, 330

Aldersey, John, 419

Aldershot, 14, 16, 209

Alexander I. of Russia, 126

Alfold, 109, 156, 163-7

Alfred, King, 65

Alfred, son of Ethelred, 66-7

Allen, Grant, 150

Alleyn, Edward, 425-6

Allingham, Mrs., 145, 153

Allnutt, Sidney, 90

All the Year Round, 309

Alton, 18, 65

Alvanley, Lord, 196

Amelie, Queen, 194, 275

Anastasius, 329

Ancestor, the, 292

Anchor inn, Ripley, 222

Andre J.L., 60, 310

Andrewes, Nicholas, 132-3

Angel inn, Guildford, 80-2

Angell family, the, 409-10

Angler's inn, Kingston, 244

Annals of an Old Manor House, 93

Anne, Queen, 102, 124, 127, 165, 234, 264, 370 of Bohemia, 240 of Cleves, 395 of Denmark, 195, 234

Anstiebury Camp, 59, 326, 336

Archaeological Collections, Surrey, 60, 78, 112, 194, 234, 310, 326, 332, 338, 350, 375, 380, 396, 415, 422

Archbishop's Palace, Croydon, 357

Arderne, family, 332

Armada, the, 103, 257, 273, 277, 350

Armstrong, Colonel, 196

Arnold, Matthew, 294

Arundel, family, 124 Earl of, 136, 271, 311

Arundell, Archbishop, 358 Sir Thomas, 93

Arun Junction Canal, 167

Ashmole, Elias, 436-7

Ashmolean Museum, 436

Ashley-Cooper, F.S., 382

Ashtead, 285, 296

Aston, a yeoman family, 338

Aubrey, John, 32-3, 35, 50, 53, 71-2, 80, 99, 119, 165, 186, 247, 277, 210-13, 216, 219, 311, 319, 323-4, 329-30, 337-8, 365, 374-5, 398, 425, 437

Audley, Major, 249, 348

Austen, Jane, 82, 286-7

Austin, John, and Mrs., 194

Aylward, James, 41 John, 84

B

Bacon, family, 382

Bagshot, 14, 210-12 Heath, 187, 199, 209, 211, 216

Bait, the, 231

Bank-notes, 101

Banstead, 270, 273 Downs, 264, 272, 348

Baring-Gould, S., 150, 157

Barker, Thomas, 148

Barley Mow inn, Tilford, 41

Barn Elms, 432

Barnes Bridge, 431-2

Baron's Caves, the, 346

Barrow Green House, 419

Barr's Nurseries, 253

Bat and Ball inn, 42

Battle of Dorking, 203, 309

Battle of the Books, the, 45

Bax, Alfred, 338

Bayly, Miss Ada, 25

Baynards, 174 Station, 163

Bear inn, Esher, 277-8

Bearbaiting, 94

Bearhurst, 326

Beaumont, 438

Beckingham, Robert, 80

Beddington, 357, 365, 367-8

Beerbohm, Max, 187

Beighton, Thomas, 205

Beldham, William, "Silver Billy," 40-2, 351

Belgians, king of the, 275

Bell inn, Godstone 390 Oxted, 109, 417

Belloc, Hilaire, 5, 10

Bell's Life in London, 214

Bellson, Augustine, 314

Bendigo, 278

Bentley, 15, 45, 171

Beorhtwulf, king of the Mercians, 336

Bermondsey, 59 Priory, 437

Berners family, 120

Bertie, Emily, 29

Bessborough, Lord, 435

Betchworth, 109, 292-3, 332, 344 Castle, 330

Bettesworth, 30, 56-7

Bilson, Bishop, 16

Birkenhead, Sir John, 132

Bishops' Gate, 202-3

Bisley, 95, 209, 212, 214-5, 430

Blanche Heriot, Legend of Chertsey Church, 185

Black adder, the, 327

Black Cherry Fair, 184

Black Down, 97, 141-5, 172, 324

Blackheath, 178

Black Horse, inn, Gomshall, 114

Blackwood's Magazine, 309

Bletchingley, 344, 348, 352, 383, 390-8 Castle, 394-5

Blois, Henry of, 2, 16

Bloody Assizes, the, 285

Bludworth, Sir Thomas, 285

Boar's Hill, 326

Boat-race, the University, 431-2 Cambridge v. Harvard, 433

Bodleian, the Library, 127, 415

Bog-myrtle, 210

Boke of St. Aldan's, the, 120

Boleyn, Anne, 93, 369, 395, 412-13

Bookham, 115, 320 Great, 120, 122-5 Little, 120-2

Book of Martyrs, the, 351

Borough Hill, 32

Boswell, James, 316

Boulenger, G.A., 327

Bourgeois, Sir Francis, 426

Bourne, George, 56

Bourne, river, Chertsey, 180 stream, 23, 30-1

Bowen's map of Surrey, 103, 130

Box Hill, 11, 125, 304-7

Boyle Farm, 251

Bradshaw, John, 257

Braganza, Katharine of, 76

Bramley, 90, 97-8, 131

Bramshott Grange, 150

Bray Chapel, St. George's, Windsor, 110 Ellen, 290 family, 69, 110 William, 110-12, 131

Brayley's History of Surrey, 313

Brereton, Sir William, 362

Brewer, Dr., 364

Brewer Street, 392

Bridger, Lowther, 257

Bright, J.S., 311, 327, 329

Bristol, Countess of, 31

Broad Halfpenny Down, 42

Brocas, Arnold of Beaurepaire, 77 Sir Bernard, 136

Brockham, 330

Brooklands, 192-3

Brookwood, 212

Broom Squire, the, 150, 157, 161

Broom Squires, 150-1

Brougham, 304

Brown, "Capability," 117, 328

Browne, Sir Anthony and Geraldine, 120 Sir Thomas, 330

Brummell, Beau, 196

Buckarel, Stephen, 290

Buckhurst, Lord, 261

Buckingham, Dukes of, 211, 249, 395, 432

Buckland, 333-4

Buckland, Frank, 93, 228

Buckle, family, 273

Bunyan, John, 6, 96-7

Burdett, Sir Francis, 430

Burford Bridge, 11, 298, 304-5

Burghley, Lord, 428

Burial of the Boroughs, the, 144

Burke, Edmund, 274

Burne-Jones, Edward, 141

Burney, Dr., 274-5, 299-301 Fanny (Madame d'Arblay), 20, 122, 274-5, 299-301

Burrell, Peter, 142

Burstow, 383-5, 392

Bush inn, Farnham, 25-6

Buxton, Mrs., 222

Byfleet, 180, 193, 218, 233, 253, 287, 321

Bysshe family, 383

C

Cabal, the, 237

Caesar, Julius, 1, 198, 257, 313, 326 cricketer, 351

Caffyn, William, 351

Camberley, 209

Camberwell Beauties, 436

Cambridge, Duke of, 430

Cambridge-Harvard boat-race, 433

Camden, 80, 298

Camilla, 122, 301

Camilla Lacey, 299, 301

Campbell, Thomas, 304

Canning, 430

Canterbury, 2-7, 336, 344, 439

Capel, 338, 341

Capell, family of, 124

Carew, family of, 142, 365 Sir Nicholas, 365, 395

Caroline, Queen, 134

Carshalton, 357, 365, 368-70

Carter, Francis, 66

Caryll, John, 99

Cassivellaunus, 258, 428

Castle inn, Kingston, 244

Castlereagh, Lords, 251, 430

Caterham, 375, 390

Cawarden, Sir Thomas, 395-6

Cecil family, the, 428

Cecilia, 301

Cedars, 16, 197, 301-2

Chaldon, 78-9, 357, 374-6, 390

Chalk Hill Blues, 87

Chanctonbury Ring, 54, 152, 324, 356

Chandos, Sir John, 405

Chantrey, sculptor, 304

Chantries, the, 9

Charles I., 19, 27, 104, 119-20, 195, 211, 257, 358, 428 II., 38, 69, 71, 76, 105, 120, 165, 182, 260, 271, 312, 385, 393

Charlotte, Princess, bride of Prince Leopold, 275 Queen, 16, 196, 241

Charlwood, 385-8

Charterhouse, 36, 80, 138

Chart's Edge, 421-2

Chaucer, 13, 45, 439

Cheam, 270, 272

Chelsham, 378

Chertsey, 42, 124, 179-189, 206, 209, 221, 432 Abbey, 180-184

Chesney, Sir George, 203, 309

Chessington, 270, 274-5

Chesterfield, Lord, 251

Chiddingfold, 109, 156, 163, 167-8, 171, 206, 399

Child, Alwin, 437

Chilworth, 26, 72, 85, 87, 89, 95, 98-104, 178

Chinthurst Hill, 99

Chipstead, 375-6

Chobham, 180, 209-16 Common, 187, 199, 209-10, 212-13

Clandon, East, 118-19, 287 Park, 117-19, 368 West, 118, 287

Claremont, 275

Clark, John, 27

Claygate, 273

Clayton Arms, Godstone, 390-1, 399 Sir Robert, 393, 397-8

Clive, Lord, 275

Cobbett, Richard, 168 William, 22-6, 30, 38, 40, 85-6, 101, 106, 154-6, 161, 168, 317, 352, 355, 390-2

Cobham, 82, 95, 198, 279, 292-3 family, of Sterborough, 404-8

Coldharbour, 109, 324-6, 338

Cole, Sir Henry, 362 Robert, 377

Coleridge, S.T., 304

Collier's Water Farm, 364

Collins, Mortimer, 304

Colwall, Daniel, 83

Colyear, David, 1st Lord Portmore, 198

Compton, 7, 8, 43, 59-61, 109

Connaught, Duke of, 212

Cook, Mrs. E.T., 433 Theodore Andrea, 265

Cooper's Hill, 18, 187, 203-5

Cope, Sir John, 73

Copley family, the, 332, 352

Copthorne poachers, 403

Cordite, 105

Cotmandene, 313, 329

Coulsdon, 357, 373-4

Court of Pie-powder, 97

Coverts, family of, 136

Cow inn, Haslemere, 142

Coway Stakes, 257

Cowley, Abraham, 182-3, 329, 432

Cowper, 364

Cranleigh, 97, 173-8

Cranmer, 358

Crawley, 354-5, 385

Crecy, 402, 405

Cressingham, Old Mr., 435

Cricket, first mention of, 94

Crisp, Samuel, 274-5

Cromwell, Oliver, 15, 198, 258, 344 Thomas, 52, 428

Crooksbury Hill, 30, 36, 53-4, 317

Crossways Farm, 320-1

Crouch oak, 208

Crowhurst, 386, 389-90, 408-13 Place, 100, 289, 410-13 yew, 171, 408-9

Crown inn, Chiddingfold, 168-9, 399

Crown of Wild Olive, the, 368

Croydon, 74, 219, 357-64, 373-4, 376, 378-9, 423 Palace, 357, 362, 365

Cruikshank, George, 420, 422

Crystal Palace, 187, 199, 324, 424

Cuckoo Hill, 216

Cumberland, Duke of, 200, 202, 434

Curfew bell, 184-5

Cuthred, a Christian prince, 374

D

D'Abernon family, the, 289-92

Dandies' Fete, the, 251

Dawson, James, 434

d'Arblays, the, 20, 122-3, 299, 300-1

de Arderne, Sir Thomas, 332

de Bienfaite, Richard, 290

de Braose, family of, 332

de Calva, Ruald, 227

de Clare, family, 344, 346, 382, 394

de Dammartin, Odo and William, 414

De Foe, 314

de la Hale, Sir Edward, 341

de la Hay, Peter, 303

de la Poyle, Henry, 9

de la Zouche, Alan, 340

de Lally Tollendal, 299

de Montfort, 2, 345-6, 394

de Narbonne, 299

de Poynings, Nicholas and Margery, 332

de Rupibus, Peter, 83

de Rutherwyk, John, 124, 181-2, 207

de Stangrave, John, 411

de Tonebrige, family, 2, 394

de Warenne, family, 2, 344-8, 351, 382

Dean Swift's cottage, 48

Deans, Jeanie, 238

Decamp, Mademoiselle, 208

Deepdene, 328-30

Denbies, 11, 316-7

Denham, Sir John, 18, 19, 203-7

Derby, horse-race, the, 264-5 Lord, 251, 260, 264, 268, 272

Derrick, John, 94

Desbouveries, family, 374

Detilens, 421

Devil's Dyke, 87, 149, 356

Devil's Jumps, the, 35-6, 153-4

Devil's Punch Bowl, 147-8, 150

Dickens, Charles, 184, 309-10

Dingate, Stephen, 351

Ditton Hill tulips, 254 Marsh, 278

Diversions of Purley, 379

Donkeytown, 216

Donne, John, 21, 137, 231, 427

Dorchester, Countess of, 198

Dorking, 2, 11, 95, 125, 199, 203, 249, 286, 296, 298, 304, 308-17, 326-9, 330, 332, 348, 373, 435

Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan, 145

Drake, Sir Francis, 103, 257, 277 Richard, 277

Drax, S.E., 428

Druids' Walk, the, 301

Drummond, Henry, 69, 106

Dryden, John, 188, 397, 432

Dudley family, the, 437

Duke of Wellington inn, East Horsley, 121

Dulwich, 424-7

Dunsfold, 156, 163-5, 167, 170

Duerer, Albrecht, 352

Durdans, 259, 261, 268

Durfold, 163

Dusty-Feet, Court of, 97

E

Earwig, the, pamphlet, 29

Eashing, 135-6

Eastlands, 191

Eclipse, 264-5 Stakes, 278

Ede, printer of Brayley's Surrey, 313

Edgehill, 249

Edward I., 16, 69, 82, 346 II., 69, 82, 234, 388, 400 III., 69, 70, 240, 247, 365, 405, 411 IV., 69 VI., 80, 362, 395 The Black Prince, 405 The Elder, 246 The Martyr, 246

Eel Pie Island, 236

Effingham, 120, 122, 350

Egerton family, 198

Egham, 180, 204-6

Eliot, George, 145-6, 161-2

Elizabeth, 16, 38, 69, 70, 84, 93, 103, 121, 137-8, 142, 195, 208, 213, 231, 240, 257, 271, 273, 277, 288, 318, 332, 358, 361-2, 365, 378, 395, 415, 425, 428

Ellingbrygges, family of, 369, 376-7

Elmer, S., 29

Elstead, 39, 137, 153, 158, 165

Emma, 82, 286-7

Endymion, 304

Englefield Green, 203

Enticknaps, family of, 168

Epsom, 97, 126, 199, 210, 259-71, 274, 284-5, 296, 357, 372

Erle, T.W., 150 Sir William, 150

Ermyn Street, 11, 296

Esher, 147, 194, 259, 274-8, 286 Common, 275, 279 Lord, 271

Essay upon the Ancient and Modern Learning, 44

Ethelstan, 246, 336

Ethelwulf, 336

Evelina, 274-5, 301

Evelyn, John, of Wotton, 100, 103, 105-6, 112, 182, 197, 202, 211, 311, 317, 319, 328, 397 family, 103-5, 142, 319, 323, 391

Evershed family, 338

Ewell, 270-2

Ewhurst, 173-8, 337

F

Fairfax, 198

Farley, 378 Heath, 174, 177-8

Farncombe, 126, 134

Farnham, 2, 4, 7, 14-29, 30, 36, 40-3, 48, 55, 57, 59, 62, 65, 70-1, 83, 86, 95, 126, 140, 158, 210, 240, 344, 419 Castle, 14, 16-8, 71, 301

Farquhar, Lady Mary, 125

Farthing Down, 374

Father of the forest, the, 88

Feathers inn, Kingston, 247

Fellowes, Sir John, 370

Fennex, William, 42

Fenwick, Margaret, 332

Fetcham, 120, 125, 280

Fete Champetre, 272

Ferdinand VII. of Spain, 352

Fidelia, 18

Fielding, Henry, 113 Anna Maria, 208

Field Paths and Green Lanes, 142, 148, 176, 302, 309, 351, 391

Finch, family of, 124

Flamsteed, Rev. J., 385

Flower, John Wickham, 374

Flying Childers, 265

Fold Country, the, 109, 163-173

Forest Green, 338

Forster, Anne, 410

Foster, Birket, 153, 161

Fox, Bishop, 15, 16, 20 Charles James, 186-8

Foxe, martyrologist, 351

Foxwarren Park, 222

Frederick, Prince of Wales, 241, 433-4

Frederick William, King of Prussia, 126

Fredley Farm, 303

Frensham, 14, 30-42, 47, 141, 210 Ponds, 34, 36-8, 53

Friday Street, 109, 320, 322-3, 325-6

Frimley, 209, 211, 213-14

Fryer, John, Evelyn's tutor, 319

Fuller, Bostock, 415-16 Thomas, 298, 377

Fuller's earth, 399-400

G

Gainsford, family of, 124, 369, 386, 409-12

Garbage Green, 168

Garden, the, 182

Gardens of Epicures, the, Essay on, 43

Garratt's Hall, Banstead, 273

Garrick, David, 205

Gatton, 332, 351-2, 393 Park, 11

Gaveston, Piers, 234

Gay's Beggar's Opera, 393

Gentleman's Magazine, the, 118, 142

George I., 310, 349, 368 II., 357 III., 16, 31, 103, 122, 196, 241, 251, 433 inn, Farnham, 25-6 Prince of Denmark, 264 Prince of Wales (Geo. IV.), 78, 241

Gibbet Hill, Hindhead, 147, 149-51

Gibbon, Edward, the historian, 244, 318

Gibbons, Grinling, 21

Gibraltar, capture of, 370

Giffard, Lady, 45 William, 48

Giggs Hill, 253

Gilpin, John, 364

Giuseppi, Montague, 105

Gloucester, Duchess of, 251 Dukes of, 184, 407

Godalming, 25, 36, 61, 70-1, 85, 95, 126-38, 153, 159, 167, 171, 199

Godstone, 12, 103-4, 389-92, 399, 403, 414

Godwin, Mary, 202

Gofayre, Richard, 168

Goffe, Thomas, 119

Golden Farmer, inn, Bagshot, 211

Goldies, the, Cambridge oarsmen, 432

Goldsmith, Oliver, 196

Gomshall, 10, 11, 100, 101, 114-15, 206, 320

Goodwine, John, 383

Goose and Onion Fair, 184

Gordon, Adam, 69

Gracious Pond, 216

Grantley, Lord, 98-9

Grattan, 304, 430

Graves, Charles, 122

Grayshott, 149

Great Fosters, 206

Greenhill, 367

Greenwich, 86, 428

Gresham family, the, 422

Greville, Charles, 196

Grey, Sir George, 80 Lady Jane, 395

Grimes, Grim the Collier, 362

Grindal, Archbishop, 358, 361

Grote, George, 114, 304, 419 Harriet, 114, 419

Guildford, 8-10, 23, 25, 53, 55, 57, 59, 61-87, 89, 93-4, 96-9, 101, 115, 125, 129-131, 171, 174, 199, 214, 218-19, 290, 344, 360, 373, 400, 417

Guildford Castle, 66, 68, 71, 290

Guildford in the Olden Time, 68

Guizot, 194

Gunpowder-making, 102-5

Gwyn, Mrs., 196

Gwynne, Nell, 260-1

Gypsies, 279

H

Hale Bourne, river, 216

Haling House, 350

Hall, Edward, 407 Harry, 41 Samuel Carter, 208

Ham, 235-7 House, Portmore, 197-8

Hambledon, 41, 165, 170-2 Club, 221-2

Hamilton, Charles, 294 Lady Betty, 272

Hammerton, Abram and Hester, 246

Hampton Court, 186, 235, 254

Hampton, William, 393

Hanbury, Sir Thomas, 232

Handbook of Epsom, 303

Hanging Wood, Tanbrige Hill, 12

Harefoot, Harold, 66-7

Harold, 336

Harpe, a yeoman family, 338

Harris, Dr. Nathaniel, 392-3

Harrison, Clifford, 185 Frederic, 93

Harrow, 187 inn, Kingston, 244 way, 3, 7

Harte, Bret, 213

Harvard-Cambridge boat-race, 433

Hascombe, 167, 170-1, 324

Haslemere, 127, 134, 139-53, 393

Hastings, 336

Hatchlands, 119-20

Hawkins, Peter, 73-4

Headley, 270, 274

Heales, Major, 380

Heart of Midlothian, the, 237

Heathen Chinee, the, 213

Heath, Nicholas, Archbishop of York, 213

Heaths, family cricket eleven, 95, 382

Henley-on-Thames, 87, 152

Henry II., 2, 68, 118 III., 69, 346, 394 IV., 82 V., 240 VI., 69, 184-5, 330, 409 VII., 69, 82, 240, 377, 412 VIII., 69, 82, 93, 121, 136, 182, 195, 234, 254, 271, 277, 283, 351-2, 377, 395, 413 of Otelands, 195, 197

Herbert, Life of, Walton's, 21

Herne Hill, 423-4

Herring, Thomas, 393

Hether, a yeoman family, 338

Hever Castle, 413

Highcombe Bottom, 151

Highdown Ball, 171

Highways and Byways in London, 433

Hindhead, 14, 25, 36, 54, 85, 87, 97, 139-53, 156, 162, 177, 210, 324, 337

Hod, William, 290

Hogarth, William, 134

Hog's Back, 7, 8, 55-63, 82, 95, 324, 356

Hogsmill, the river, 103, 244, 270

Holland, Lord, Royalist Leader, 2, 249, 348-9 Lord, and Lady (Fox family), 188-9

Holloway College, 204

Holmbury, 316, 326, 337-8

Holmwood, 322

Holt Forest, 23

Home, Gordon, 268

Honeywood, Robert, 247

Honywood, Sarah, 205

Hood, Thomas, 237

Hook, J.C., 161

Hooker, Life of, Walton's, 21

Hope, Thomas ("Anastasius"), 328-30

Hopkins, John (Vulture Hopkins), 428-9

Horley, 292, 380-3, 385, 392

Horne, 383

Horn Hatch, 96

Horse and Groom inn, Merrow, 115-6

Horsell, 95, 217-8

Horsham, 174

Horsley, East, 95, 120-1 West, 95, 119-21

Hoskins, Charles and Ann, 419

Hounslow, 348

Howard, family, 122, 329, 397 Catherine, 395 of Effingham, first Lord, William, 121, 350-1 second Lord (Earl of Nottingham), 103, 121, 318, 350

Howleigh, Archbishop, 378

Hugh, Abbot of Winchester, 180

Hull, Richard, 323

Humble, Richard, 437

Humphrey, Tom, cricketer, 313

Hunt, Mrs., 391 Hurts, Burstow, 383-4, 392 Chiddingfold, 172 Lord Leconfield's, 171

Hurlingham, 432

Hurst Castle, 28 Park, 254

Hurt Wood, 177

Huskisson, 304

Hutchinson, Dr. Jonathan, 141

Hut Pond, Ripley, 224

Huts Hotel, Hindhead, 148

Hutton, Archbishop, 362 Richard Holt, 203

I

Icehouse, Wood, 59

Idylls of the King, the, 214

Ifold, 163

Imber Court, 251

Intelligencer, the, 393

Iron-smelting, 157, 410

J

James I., 16, 66, 74, 83, 104, 137, 195, 219, 234, 240, 383, 424-5, 428 II., 19, 43, 105, 165, 197, 261, 285 Major-General E. Renouard, 5, 8, 9

Jeffrey, 304

Jeffreys, Judge, 285

Jekyll, Gertrude, 130-1

Jennings, Louis, 142, 148, 176, 301, 309, 351, 391, 397

"Jessamy Bride, the," 196

John, King, 51, 66, 69, 97, 100, 107, 114, 204, 345, 347

Johnson, Dr., 144, 268, 274, 316, 426-7

Johnson, Esther, 45

Johnston, Philip Mainwaring, 284, 322, 379

Jolly Farmer inn, Farnham, 22 Bagshot, 211

Jonson, Ben, 426

Jordan, Family of Gatwick, 388

Juniper Hall, 299, 301-3

Jupp, Henry, 313

Justitiarius Justificatus, 18

Juxon, Archbishop, 359

K

Keats, 304-5

Kemble family, 170, 190-1, 194, 208

Kenley, 373

Kennington, 253, 313, 433-6

Kettlebury Hill, 154

Kew, 23, 233, 235, 244

King, Dr. William, 143 Family of, 193, 225-6

King's Arms, Bagshot, 211 Godalming, 126-7, 131

King's Head, Dorking, 309, 311 Epsom, 260-1

Kingsley, Charles, 73, 150

King's Oak, 39, 40

King's Prize at Bisley, 215

Kingston, 18, 103, 148, 186, 219, 235, 244-9, 250, 348

Kingston, Evelyn, Duke of, 31

Kingswood, 274

Kinnersley Manor, 355

Kipling, Rudyard, 116-7, 337, 378

Kirke's Lambs, 76

Kitkat Club, 432

Kneller, Sir Godfrey, 432

Knightley, name in Leatherhead Register, 286

Knowle, 173

Kyngham, the, 248

L

Ladder of Life, the, 374-5

Lady Susan, a tame wild sow, 93

Lamb, Charles, 252

Lambert, family of, 124, 273 William, 42

Lambert's Oaks, 264

Lambeth, 350-1, 377, 433

Langton, Stephen, 69, 90, 347

Latton family, the, 277

Laud, Archbishop, 72, 358

Lauderdale, Duke of, 237

Lawrence, Sir Thomas, 304

Layton, Dr. Richard, 52

Lea, 151

Leatherhead, 82, 95, 115, 120, 125, 199, 280-7, 292, 296, 298 Church, 284-6

Leconfield, Lord, 171

Leech, John and Mehetabel, of Lea, 161 draughtsman, 185

Legend of Chertsey, the, 186

Leigh, 332, 334, 352, 383

Leith Hill, 3, 54, 87, 149, 316, 319-27, 335-8, 341

Lennox, Colonel, 430

Leoni, 117, 368

Leopold, King of the Belgians, 275

Lewes, 2, 345-6

Lewis, Monk, 196

Lilly, William, astrologer, 258

Limpsfield, 390, 414, 419-21

Linacre, Thomas, 377

Lincoln, Earl of, 196-7

Lingfield, 350, 390, 401-8

Literature and Dogma, 294

"Little Comedy," 196

Livesey, Sir Michael, captain of horse, 249, 348

Livingstone, John, 263

Lloyd, Eleanor, 194

Loch Leven trout, 145

Locked churches, 120, 125

Lockhart, Scott's biographer, 304

Locks, family of, Norbury Park, 299-301

Lockyer, Tom, 351

Londonderry, Lord, 430

Long Ditton, 251, 253

Long, Edward Noel, 57

Longley, Archbishop, 378

Long Parliament, the, 104

Lonsdale, Lord, 354-5

Lord's cricket ground, 41

Loseley, 53, 77, 136-8, 174, 231, 395-6

Louis Philippe, 194, 275, 277

Love in the Valley, 306

Lovekyn's Chapel, Kingston, 244

Lucas, E.V., 286

Luck of Roaring Camp, the, 213

Ludlam, Mother, a witch, 32, 47

Lumley, family of, 72, 272

Lunatic asylums, 378

Lyall, Edna, 25

Lyttelton, Lord, 268-9

M

Macaulay, Lord, 278, 301, 304, 361

Macdonald, George, 145

Machyn's Diary, 313

Madderson, Richard, 315

Magna Charta, 204, 346

Malden, H.E., 326, 338, 348, 382

Malthus, David, 320

Manning, Owen, 111-2, 131

Mapp, Hill, 264

Marlborough, Duke of, 234

Marlowe, 231

Marquis of Granby inn, Dorking, 308-9

Marshall, William, 292

Martyr, John, 83

Mary, Queen (1553), 82, 121, 395 (1688), 45, 213, 271 Queen Of Scots, 16, 257

Mawby, Sir Joseph, 261

May-games, 248

Maypole Dancing, 59

Memoirs of a Surrey Labourer, 30, 56

Merchant Adventurers, Company of, 71

Meredith, George, 305-6, 320

Merlinus Anglicus Junior, 258

Merriman, Dr., 80

Merrow, 101, 115-7

Merstham, 11, 375-7, 391

Merton, 427

Mew, Bishop Peter, 19

Michel, Louise, 289

Mickleham, 282, 285, 296-9, 303

Middlemarch, 145

Middleton, Dr. Conyers, 171

Midleton, Lords, 136, 141

Mildmay, Sir Henry, 307

Milford, 139, 159, 160, 167

Mill, John Stuart, 304

Millet, Jean Francois, 236

Milton, 45

Mitcham, 210, 330, 427, 435

Mitchell, Frances, 234

Mitchells, a family cricket eleven, 96, 382

Mole, the river, 11, 219, 275, 282-5, 287, 289, 292-4, 298-9, 304-7, 330

Molesey, East and West, 254

Molyneux, James More, 142

Monmouth, Duke of, 2, 19, 72

Monson, Lord, 352-3

Moor Park, 30, 32, 43-54

Moore, Colonel Thomas, 124 Tom, 251-2, 304

Moorland Idylls, 150

Morasteen, Kingston, 245-6

More, Sir Christopher, 136 Sir George, 137, 231 Sir Thomas, 174 Sir William, 53, 77, 136-8

Mores, family of, 142

Morley, Bishop, 19, 21

Morris dances, 248

Mortlake, 431-2

Morton, Mrs. Mary, 247

Munstead, 129

Mynn, Alfred, 351

Mystery of the Old Cause, the, 362

My Winter Garden, 150

N

Nash, Beau, 261 Thomas, 425

National Gallery, 29 Rifle Association, 215, 430

Neighbours on the Green, 203

Nelson, Lord, 304, 427

Nemours, Duchess of, 194, 275

Netley, 87

Nettlebed, 87, 152

Nevill, Ralph, 65, 131, 164

Newark Priory, 219, 221, 227-9

Newcastle, Duke of, 188, 196-7

Newdigate, 165, 341-2

Newhaven, 149

Newland, Abraham, 103

Newland's Corner, 10, 87-8, 101, 103, 140, 177

Newton, Isaac, 385

Nicholas, family, 120

Nicholson, Sir Charles, 99

Nixon, Francis, 427

Nonsuch, 219, 260-1, 284, 351

Norbury, 20 Lady Anne, 290 Park, 286, 299, 301, 303

Norfolk, Dukes of, 16, 121, 313-4, 329, 350

Nork House, 273

North, Bishop, 16

Northumberland, Duke of, 106

Norton, George, 99, 252

Norwood, 424

Notebook of a Surrey Justice, 415

Nottingham, Earl of, 103, 121

Novel's Oak, 39

Nutfield, 70, 383, 398-400

Nyren, John, 40-42, 221

O

Oaks, historic trees, 38 Horse-race, the, 264-5

Oakwood, 341

Oatlands, 188, 190-2, 195-7, 219, 249

Ockham, 224-7

Ockley, 313, 326-7, 335-41

O'Connor, Feargus, 434

Odo of Bayeux, Bishop, 90

Oglethorpe, family of, 134, 142-4

Ognersh, 98

Old customs at Dorking, 311-3 King's Head inn, Croydon, 364 Oak Chair, the, 421 Queen's Head inn, Nutfield, 399 Road, The, 5 West Surrey, 130 Woking, 218

Oliphant, Mrs., 203

Onslow, family of, 18, 103, 117, 119, 142 Sir Arthur, 76, 80, 251, 317

Orleans, Duke of, 406 Duchess of, 194

Osborne, Dorothy (Lady Temple), 45

Ossory, Lord, 132

Outwood, 383-4

Oval, Kennington, 253, 313, 433, 435

Oxted, 11, 109, 390, 414, 416-9

P

Pains Hill, 294-5

Pallinghurst Farm, 164

Palmerston, Lord, 80, 393

Paris, Comte de, 194

Parker, Archbishop, 358

Parkhurst, John, Bishop of Norwich, 80 Mr., 261

Parr, Katherine, 428

Paul and Virginia, 320

Paulet family, 124

Paull, John, 430

Penfold, J.W., 144

Penny Pot, 216

Peperharow, 136

Pepys, Samuel, 81, 211, 260, 271

Perrers, Alice, 247

Peterborough, Countess of, 397

Peter Porcupine, 22

Petersham, 180, 235, 237

Peter, the Great, 127

Pevensey Castle, 344

Pewley Hill, 10, 86-7

Phillips, Mrs., 299, 300

Phoenician Traders, 1

Picard Nicholas, 290

Pied Puldreaux, or Pie Powder, Court of, 97

Pierrepont House, 31

Pilch, Fuller, 351

Pilgrim s Progress, 6, 96-7

Pilgrim's Way, 1-13, 58, 96, 355, 373, 376

Pirbright, 63, 209

Pitch Hill, 177

Pit Place, Epsom, 268

Pitt, William, 188, 430

Pleasure Excursions, 363

Plough Inn, Cobham, 292 Coldharbour, 325

Pokeford, Peter, 168

Polesden, 125, 317

Pope, 428-9, 432

Porch House, 182, 184

Porson, 304

Portman, Sir William, 72

Portmore Park, 190, 197

Portmore, First Lord, 198

Pownall, historian of Epsom, 260-2, 264-6

Praeterita, 363, 423-4

Prince Bluecher inn, Effingham, 121

Prize-fighting, 214

Promenade round Dorking, 301, 317

Province of Jurisprudence Determined, the, 194

Purley, 373-4, 379

Putney, 244, 276, 430, 432-3

Puttenham, 7, 58-9, 61-2

Pyrcroft, 184

Pyrford, 218, 221, 229, 231-2, 287

Q

Queen Alexandra Nursing Home, 119

Queen's, The, Regiment, 76

Quelche, William, 369

R

Rack Close, 71

Radcliffe, John, 370

Raglan, Lord, 124-5

Rainbow trout, 145

Raleigh, Sir Walter, 121

Randall's, 286-7

Randyll, Sir Edward, 104

Ranelagh Club, 432

Ranmer Church and Common, 199, 274, 317

Rapley family, the, 339-41

Ray, John, 157

Read, Maurice, 253 W.W., 351

Recollections of Brighton, 35

Red Cross inn, Reigate, 349

Redhill, 334, 356, 390, 398

Red Lion inn, Betchworth, 331 Dorking, 311, 315 Godalming, 131 Guildford, 80-2 Thursley, 147, 153

Reigate, 2, 11, 42, 85, 87, 122, 214, 249, 328, 330, 332, 334, 344-56 Castle, 249, 344-6, 348, 351 Heath, 334, 349

Reve, Henry, 103

Reynolds, Sir Joshua, 29, 274

Richardson, Charles, 172 the Novelist, 113 Tom, 253

Richard I., 227 II., 120, 136, 240 III., 184

Richmond, 23, 235-43, 277, 431

Rifle clubs, 88

Ripley, 93, 221-5, 227, 287

Risbridger, the family, 113

Robinson, Mrs., 29, 203

Roehampton, 432

Rogers, Samuel, 187, 196

Roman camps, 175, 177-8, 287 villa at Titsey, 422

Rookery, the, 320

Roper, Margaret, 174

Rose and Crown inn, Godstone, 390

Rosebery, Lord, 259, 268

Rotherhithe, 103, 437

Round, J.H., 292

Rumming, Eleanour, 283-4

Runemede, 200, 204, 347

Running Horse, inn, Leatherhead, 282-3

Rupert, Prince, 18, 211, 249

Rural Rides, 23-5, 85, 382, 390

Ruskin, John, 363-4, 368-9, 423-4

Russell, John, 75, 81 Lord John, 80, 304

Rysbrach, 117, 226

S

St. Anne's Hill, 140, 149, 180, 184, 186-9, 206

St. Benedict, 48

St. Catherine's Chapel, 8, 9, 90, 92, 97 Hill, 7-9

St. Christopher, 68

St. Dunstan, 53

St. Francis, 21

St. George's Chapel, Windsor, 110 Hill, 140, 148-9, 198-9, 326

St. Hilaire, Barthelemy, 194

St. John the Baptist's well, 215

St. John's School, Leatherhead, 285

St. Leonards, Lord, 251

St. Martha's chapel, 5, 8-10, 88, 90-2, 95, 134, 186, 317

St. Mary's chapel, Kingston, 245 church, Guildford, 65-6, 77-8 Southwark, 361, 437

St. Nicholas, church of, Guildford, 8, 64, 77

St. Paul's cathedral, 187, 199, 317, 438

St. Saviour's, Southwark, 433, 437

St. Thomas's shrine, Reigate, 11, 13

Salisbury Plain, 1, 3, 7, 9

Salmon, historian, 33

Salmon in the Wey, 21

Salvin, Captain, 93

Samborne, James, 377

Sandby, Thomas, 200-1

Sanderstead, 357, 378

Sandown, 278

Saunder, family of, 388

Saxby, William, 404

Sayes Court, 319

Scott, Sir Gilbert, 12, 131, 350, 361, 391 Sir Walter, 237-8, 275, 304

Seale, 7, 57-8, 62

Sedley, Catherine, 197 Sir Charles, 261

Sedgmoor, 2, 19, 20, 72, 76

Sedgwick, S.N., 284

Selous, Frederic, 93

Selwyn, John, 256-7

Semaphores, 86

Send, 218, 220-1, 231, 258, 287

Severn, Joseph, 352

Shackleford, 137

Shakespeare, 45, 184, 408, 425

Shalford, 6, 9, 95-7, 100-1, 165, 382

Sharp, Richard ("Conversation" Sharp), 303-4, 328

Sheen, 219, 237, 240

Sheldon, Archbishop, 359, 361

Shelley, the poet, 202

Shenstone, the poet, 434

Shepherds Hunting, the, 18

Sherborne (Shirebourne) farm and ponds, 107-9

Shere, 10, 100-1, 109-15, 131, 206, 419

Shergold, 353-4

Sheridan, Richard Brinsley, 99, 196, 304, 317, 427

Shiers, family of, 288-9

Shooting at a cormorant, 248

Shottermill, 145-6, 149

Shrewsbury, Lord, 354 and Countess (temp. Charles II.), 432

Shuter, John, 253

Sidney Wood, 164, 166-7

Silent Pool, the, 107-9

Six Bells inn, Horley, 381

Skelton, John, 283-4

Skern, Robert, 247

Slipshoe lane, 11, 348

Slyfield family, 123, 287-90 Place, 123-4, 287-90, 320

Smallfield Place, 383, 392

Smith, A.L., 431 Albert, of Chertsey, 185 Henry ("Dog" Smith), 98

Smugglers, 166-7, 337-8

Somers, Lord, 351

Somerset, Lady Henry, 351

South Sea Bubble, 263, 370

Southcote family, 377

Southey, Robert, 304

Southwark, 26, 405, 425, 434, 437, 439

Spectator, the, 87, 90, 122

Speed, John, 132, 424 Samuel, 132

Stafford family, 394-5

Stane Street, or Stone Street, 11, 174, 296, 313, 326, 335-6, 341, 344

Stanley, Lord, 272

Star inn, Lingfield, 404

Steere, a yeoman family, 338

Steinman, G.S., 362, 364

"Stella," Esther Johnson, 45-6

Stephan Langton, 107

Stephenson, H.H., 253

Sterborough, 404, 406

Stevens, "Lumpy," 42, 221, 223, 258

Stevenson, R.L., 210

Stillwell, James, 148

Stocks, village, in Surrey, 96, 165, 322

Stockwell, 436

Stoke D'Abernon, 125, 287-96

Stonehenge, 1

Strachey, John St. Loe, 87

Streatfeild, "Mr. Antiquary," 420

Streatham, 426-7

Stuart, Charles Edward, 434

Sueter, Tom, 42

Sumner, Archbishop, 19, 378

Surbiton, 235, 249-51, 255

Surrey rifle clubs, 88

Surrey Side, the, 432-40

Sussex, Duke of, 314

Sutton, 371-2 Place 93, 136

Swallows of the Mole, the, 298

Swan inn, Haslemere, 140 Leatherhead, 284 Reigate, 348, 353 Thames Ditton, 250, 253

Swanton, E.D., 141, 144

Swasso, Baron, 263

Swete, C.J., 271, 303

Swift, Jonathan, 43, 45, 48, 393

Sydney family, the, 124

T

Tabard inn, 13, 439

Table Talk, 187, 196

Talbot inn, Ripley, 223 (The Tabard), 439

Tale of a Tub, the, 23, 43, 45

Talleyrand, 300, 302, 305

Tandridge, 389-91, 414-17 Hill Lane, 12, 13

Tangley Manor, 100, 413

Tanhurst, 338

Tankerville, Lord, 42

Tasmania, Bishop of, 435

Tate, Archbishop, 378

Tatsfield, 98, 139, 414, 422

Tattenham Corner, 266

Taverns in Ten Shires near London, Catalogue of, 80, 353

Taylor, John, 80, 353-4

Temple, Sir William, 43, 45, 317 Lady, 45

Tennyson, Lord, 141, 145

Thackeray, W.M., 138

Thames, the, 103, 179, 180-1, 183, 202, 204, 237, 247, 258, 273, 336, 405, 431, 437-9

Thames Ditton, 250, 254

Thanet, 1, 87

Thimble, Thomas, 119

Thomas, Bishop, 16

Thomson, James, 237

Thorold, Anthony, Bishop, 21

Thorpe, 109, 206

Thorncroft, 285, 298

Thorwaldsen, 329

Thrales, the, 426-7

Three Compasses inn, Kingston, 244

Thrush in February, the, 305

Thunderfield Castle, 382

Thunder Hill, 153

Thursley, 14, 145, 147, 150-1, 153-61, 165, 168, 206, 229, 341

Tilford, 30-42, 136

Tillingbourne, the river, 10, 91, 100-1, 104-5, 107, 320

Timbs, John, 301, 317, 329

Titsey, 4, 13, 356, 390, 414, 416, 422

Tofts, Mary, 133-4

Toland, John, 262-3

Tollsworth Farm, 11, 376

Tongham, 55-6

Tonson, Jacob, 432

Tooke and Horne Tooke, 379

Tooley Street, 437

Tooth, Thomas, 303

Toplady, Augustus, 25

Tower Hill, 120, 395 of London, 184

Townsend, Meredith, 122

Tradescants, the, 436-7

Trecothick, Mrs. Grizzel, 378

Trout Farms, 145

Tumble Beacon, 273

Tunnyng of Eleanor Rumming, the, 283-4

Tupper, Martin, 69, 71, 90, 107, 114, 346-7

Turner, Lady Diana, 285

Turner, Thackeray, 81

Turpin, Dick, 211

Tyers, Tom, and Jonathan, 316

Tyndall, John, 141, 146

Tytings, 10

U

Unicorn inn, Farnham, 48

Unstead Farm, 97-8

V

Vachery Manor and Pond, 173-4, 325

Vanbrugh, Sir John, 275

Vancouver's Island, 237

'Vanity Fair,' 6, 96

Vassall, Samuel, 71, 130

Vauxhall, 82, 316, 433, 436

Vernons, at Farnham, 27-8

Victoria History of Surrey, the, 105

Victoria, Queen, 16, 275, 278, 430

Villiers, Barbara, 260-1, 272 Lord Francis, 249 Thomas Hyde, 393

Vincent, Sir Thomas and Lady, 290

Virginia Water, 200-1

W

Waggoner's Wells, 149

Waldegrave family, 377

Waller, J.G., 78-9, 375, 405 Sir William, 18-9

Wallin, Miss, 263

Wallington, 368

Wall Paintings, 78-80, 229-30, 374-5, 386-8

Walpole, Horace, 196, 272, 301

Walton Heath, 273 Izaak, 21, 361 on Thames, 42, 255-8 on the Hill, 270, 273-4 on the Naze, 273

Wanborough, 61-3, 98

Wanderer, the, 301

Wandle, river, 365, 368

Wandsworth, 362-3

Ward, the family, 437

Warlingham, 378-9, 390

Warwick, Earl of, 405

Waterer's rhododendrons, 210

Waterloo, 83, 124, 126, 197, 278 Bridge, 438

Watney, John, 332 family, Horely, 382

Watson, Marriott, 109 William, 88, 177

Watts, George Frederick, 60

Waverley Abbey, 7, 30, 38, 43-55, 83, 136 William, Abbot of, 52-3 Way, the, 1, 13, 66, 87-8, 97, 376

Webb, Charles, 341 Philip Carteret, 142

Weekly Political Register, 22

Wellington, Duke of, 124, 435

Westcott, 317, 320, 328

West End, 216

West Humble, 299, 301

Westminster Abbey, 45, 183, 317 School, 23

Weston, family, the, 93, 99

Wey, the river, 9, 21-3, 34, 38, 43, 45, 48, 55, 64-6, 70, 77, 90, 92, 101, 126, 130, 135-6, 157, 167, 179, 191, 193, 198-9, 207, 217-35, 292, 344

Wey Salmon, 21

Weybridge, 130, 179, 188, 190-9, 219, 228, 257, 259, 330

Weyhill Fair, 9, 14, 26

Wharton, Sir Polycarpus, 105

Whinney Moor, 375

Whitaker, Admiral, Sir Edward, 370

White, Burstow huntsman, 383, 385 family of, 124 Gilbert, 148, 228

White Hall, Cheam, 272 Hart inn, Bletchingley, 392 Godalming, 126 Guildford, 80 Reigate, 353-5 Wittey, 160, 162 Hill, 11 Horse inn, Dorking, 309, 312 Hascombe, 170 Haslemere, 140 Shere, 10, 109 Lion inn, Cobham, 29 "Shock," 42

Whitewaysend, 55, 59

Whitgift, Archbishop, 358-9, 361

Whitgift's Hospital, 74, 359-60, 364 School, 360

Whitmoor House, 93

Whymper, C., painter, 141 Josiah Wood, 141

Wigan, family, Mortlake, 382

Willey Green, House and Mill, 65

William I., 219 III., 105, 258, 277, 351, 370

William of Waynflete, 276-7

Williamson, Dr. G.C., 68, 70

Wilsham Farm, 65

Wiltshire, of the Feathers inn, Kingston, 247

Wimbledon, 215, 427-30

Winchester, 2, 4, 6, 7, 14, 23, 53, 66, 83, 97, 151, 336, 344-5

Windle Brook, 216

Windlesham, 209-10

Windsor, Andrew, 15

Windsor, 28, 110, 122, 204 Castle, 186-7, 199 Forest, 16, 208 Park, 104, 200, 202, 257

Winstanley, the "Leveller," 198

Winterton, Lord, 168

Wisley, 218, 222, 228, 231, 233 Garden, 231

Wither, George, 17-9

Witley, 139, 141, 145, 153, 159-62 Heights, 161

Wogheners, 98

Woking, 95, 217-21, 227, 229, 231, 235, 321, 356 Forest, 219

Woldingham, 139, 378-9, 390

Wolfs Hill, 326

Wolley, Sir John, 231

Wolsey, Cardinal, 219, 276-7

Wonersh, Wonish, 70-1, 95, 98-9, 130

Woodhouse, local poet, 286

Woodmansterne, 270, 273

Wool trade in Surrey, 70-1, 130

Worcester, Earl of, 104

Wordsworth, William, 252, 305

Worplesdon, 63, 93, 95

Worthies', Fullers', 298, 377

Wotton, 100, 103-5, 112, 316-21, 323 Hatch, 317, 321

Wrecclesham, 30, 40, 42

Wriothesley, Henry, second Earl of Southampton, 138

Wyatt, Richard, 134 Sir Thomas, 121

Wycliff, John, 208

Y

Yalden, William, ironmaster, 157 of Chertsey, cricketer, 42

Yews, at Alfold, 165 Crowhurst, 171, 408 Dunsfold, 165 Hambledon, 165, 171 Hascombe, 170 Newlands' Corner, 177 Norbury Park, the Druids' Walk, 301-2 along the Way, 11

York, Duchess of, 196-7 Dukes of, 190, 196-7, 430 Town, 209

Z

Zouch, Sir Edward, 219 Lord, 73



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WESTMINSTER GAZETTE.—"A delightful addition to an excellent series.... Such beauty and character has the county, it requires of the writer who would do justice to Sussex a graceful and sprightly pen, as well as fulness of knowledge. Mr. Lucas is well endowed in these things. His knowledge of Sussex is shown in so many fields, with so abundant and yet so natural a flow, that one is kept entertained and charmed through every passage of his devious progress.... The drawings with which Mr. Frederick Griggs illustrates this charming book are equal in distinction to any work this admirable artist has given us."

Highways and Byways in South Wales. By A.G. BRADLEY. With Illustrations by FREDERICK L. GRIGGS.

TIMES.—"A book which may be described honestly as one of the best of its kind which has ever been published."

SPECTATOR.—"Mr. Bradley has certainly exalted the writing of a combined archaeological and descriptive guide-book into a species of literary art. The result is fascinating."

MACMILLAN AND CO., LTD., LONDON.

Highways and Byways in London. By Mrs. E.T. COOK. With Illustrations by HUGH THOMPSON and FREDERICK L. GRIGGS.

GRAPHIC.—"Mrs. Cook is an admirable guide; she knows her London in and out; she is equally at home in writing of Mayfair and of City courts, and she has a wealth of knowledge relating to literary and historical associations. This, taken together with the fact that she is a writer who could not be dull if she tried, makes her book very delightful reading."

Highways and Byways in Hertfordshire. By HERBERT W. TOMPKINS, F.R. Hist. S. With Illustrations by FREDERICK L. GRIGGS.

WESTMINSTER GAZETTE.—"A very charming book.... Will delight equally the artistic and the poetic, the historical and the antiquarian, the picturesque and the sentimental kinds of tourist."

ST. JAMES'S GAZETTE.—"Cram full of interest and entertainment. The county is singularly rich in material for gossip and comment, and Mr. Tompkins has made a very charming book from it. Nothing more can well remain to be said, yet all that is said in these pages is to the point."

Highways and Byways in the Lake District. By A.G. BRADLEY. With Illustrations by JOSEPH PENNELL.

ST. JAMES'S GAZETTE.—"A notable edition—an engaging volume, packed with the best of all possible guidance for tourist's. For the most part the artist's work is as exquisite as anything of the kind he has done."

DAILY TELEGRAPH.—"Mr, Bradley has done his work amazingly well. His heart has been in his subject, Mr. Joseph Pennell has found abundant scope for his graceful art."

Highways and Byways in East Anglia. By WILLIAM A. DUTT. With Illustrations by JOSEPH PENNELL.

WORLD.—"Of all the fascinating volumes In the 'Highways and Byways' series, none is more pleasant to read.... Mr. Dutt, himself an East Anglian, writes most sympathetically and in picturesque style of the district."

PALL MALL GAZETTE.—"It is all splendid reading for those who know the country; it should persuade many to take a trip through it, and it will provide some fascinating hours even for those who will never see East Anglia, except in the excellent sketches with which these 'Highways and Byways' volumes are illustrated."

MACMILLAN AND CO., LTD., LONDON.

Highways and Byways in North Wales. By A.G. BRADLEY. With Illustrations by HUGH THOMSON and JOSEPH PENNELL.

PALL MALL GAZETTE.—"To read this fine book makes us eager to visit every hill and every valley that Mr. Bradley describes with such tantalising enthusiasm. It is a work of inspiration, vivid, sparkling, and eloquent—a deep well of pleasure to every lover of Wales."

Highways and Byways in Devon and Cornwall. By ARTHUR H. NORWAY. With Illustrations by JOSEPH PENNELL and HUGH THOMSON.

DAILY CHRONICLE.—"So delightful that we would gladly fill columns with extracts were space as elastic as imagination.... The text is excellent; the illustrations of it are even better."

WESTMINSTER GAZETTE.—"Will be read with intense interest by every west-countryman from Axminster to the Land's End, and from Land's End to Lynton, for within this triangle lie the counties of Devon and Cornwall."

Highways and Byways in Yorkshire. By ARTHUR H. NORWAY. With Illustrations by JOSEPH PENNELL and HUGH THOMSON.

PALL MALL GAZETTE.—"The wonderful story of Yorkshire's past provides Mr. Norway with a wealth of interesting material, which he has used judiciously and well; each grey ruin of castle and abbey he has re-erected and re-peopled in the most delightful way. A better guide and story-teller it would be hard to find."

Highways and Byways in Donegal and Antrim. By STEPHEN GWYNN. With Illustrations by HUGH THOMSON.

DAILY CHRONICLE.—"Charming.... Mr. Gwynn makes some of the old legends live again for us, he brings the peasants before us as they are, his descriptions have the 'tear and the smile' that so well suit the country, and with scarcely an exception he has brought his facts and his figures up to date."

DAILY TELEGRAPH.—"A perfect book of its kind, on which author, artist, and publisher have lavished of their best."

Highways and Byways in Normandy. By PERCY DEARMER, M.A. With Illustrations by JOSEPH PENNELL.

ST. JAMES'S GAZETTE.—"A charming book.... Mr. Dearmer is as arrestive in his way as Mr. Pennell. He has the true topographic eye. He handles legend and history in entertaining fashion."

ACADEMY.—"Between them Mr. Dearmer and Mr. Pennell have produced a book which need fear no rival in its own field for many a day."

MACMILLAN AND CO., LTD., LONDON.

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