Book 3 — INDEX
Reading edition
Abingdon, 263-5
Alfred, King, 141, 249
All Hallows, Barking, 75
Ancient Britons, 120-6
Arnold, Matthew, 261
Arthur, King, 287
Barking, 71-6
Abbey, 72-5
Sewage Works, 75-6
Barnes, 338-9
Battersea, 340, 347
Baynards Castle, 160
Becket, Thomas, 145, 151, 274
Benfleet, 39
Besant, Sir Walter, 162-3, 184
Big Ben, 225
Billingsgate, 101-2
Black Death, 161
Blackfriars, 195-7
Blackwall, 112-3
Tunnel, 113
Boatrace, Universities, 259, 338
Boleyn, Anne, 175-7, 310-11
Brentford, 336
Bridges, 205, 230, 232, 242
Buckingham Palace, 208
Bushey Park, 316
Canning Town, 114
Canute, 141-2
Canvey Island, 38-9
Cement, 49, 55-6
Chatham, 46-7
Chaucer, Geoffrey, 162, 294
Chelsea, 341, 343-4, 347
Cherwell, 257-8
Chilterns, 10, 268-70
Cholsey, 284
Churn, River, 240
Cleopatra’s Needle, 228
Cliveden Woods, 282-3
Coal, 114-5, 164-5
Coldharbour Palace, 160
Colne, River, 240
Cookham, 279
Cooling Castle, 52-3
County Hall, 232-3
Cremorne Gardens, 343
Cricklade, 240
Crosby Hall, 159
Culham, 284
Cumnor, 243
Customs Officers, 115-6
Dagenham Breach, 70
Dagenham Dock, 71
Marshes, 68-71
Danes, 18, 33, 140-1
Defoe, Daniel, 36, 183-4
Dene-holes at Grays, 67-8
De Ruyter, 41
Dickens, Charles, 51, 52
Dockland, 24-6
Docks: Blackwall, 112-3
East India, 104
Execution, 102, 110
London, 110-1
Millwall, 112
Regent’s Canal, 111
Royal Albert, 113-4
St. Katherine’s, 102, 105
St. Saviour’s, 102, 108
Surrey Commercial, 112
Victoria, 113
West India, 112
“Don Saltero,” 343
Dorchester, 265-6
Duke of Buckingham, 205
Dumouriez, 53
Durham Palace, 207
Dutch in the Medway, 42-5
Eastchurch, 35
East Ham, 113-4
East India Docks, 104
Edward the Confessor, 211
Eleanor of Provence, 153, 223
Embankment, The, 227-8
Estuary, The, 16-19, 31-39
defence of, 52
Eton College, 298-304
Evelyn, John, 41, 61-2, 186-90
Evenlode, River, 243
Execution Dock, 110-1
Fire of London, the Great, 159
FitzStephen, 145-7
Flamsteed, 99
Fleet River, 193-5
Street, 195
Fobbing, 60
Fort Grain, 35
Franklin, Sir John, 66
Frindsbury, 49
Fulham, 339
Godstow, 243
Goring Gap, 267-8
Gravesend, 52-6
proposed dam, 62-3
Grays, 67
Great Marlow, 281-2
Greenhithe, 21, 66
Greenwich, 87-100
Hospital, 92-7
Ministerial dinners at, 91
Observatory, 98-100
Royal births at, 89
Grey, Lady Jane, 175
Hakluyt, 90-1
Halley, 100
Hampton Court, 305-16
Harold, King, 143, 288
Henley, 280-1
Holiday Thames, 279-284
Houses of Parliament, 220-6
Howard, Katherine, 175-7
“Humphrey Clinker,” 342
Humphrey, Duke, 88
Hungerford House, 206
Iffley, 262
Isis, 239, 259
Isle of Dogs, 112
Grain, 35
Isleworth, 332
Jack Straw, 60
John Ball, 60
Jones, Inigo, 92
Kelmscott, 241
Kennet, River, 277
Kew Gardens, 333-5
Palace, 335
Kingston, 317-25
Knights of the Garter, 296-7
Knights Templar, 199-202
Lambeth, 344-7
Lechlade, 239
Legal quays, 102
Limehouse, 111-2
Basin, 111
Reach, Medway, 49
Llyndin Hill, 125, 130
London, a city of palaces, 157
and the Danes, 140-2
Fire of, 181-192
fires in, 25, 151, 181
fogs, 23
foundation of, 123-9
Friars in, 195-8
Hospitals, 233
in Norman days, 143-6
in Middle Ages, 157-65
in Roman days, 130-6
in Saxon days, 137-40
Plague in, 183-4
reasons for position of, 126-9
remains of Roman Wall, 133-6
Tower of, 166-80
London Bridge, 147-156
a great procession on, 155
a tournament on, 154
its dangers, 151
its relation to the City, 128-9
L.C.C. County Hall, 232
London Dock, 110-1
London Stone, Yantlet Creek, 35
Lower Reaches, 19-23
Macfarlane, Charles, 42
Maidenhead, 46
Marshes on banks, 16, 64-76
Mandeville, Geoffrey de, 171-2
Matilda, Empress, 170-2
Maud of Boulogne, 105, 171
Medway, River, 40-51
Merton, Walter de, 251
Millwall Dock, 112
Minster-in-Sheppey, 32
Monument, The, 181-2
Morris, William, 241-2
Mortlake, 338
New Bridge, 242
Nore Lightship, 15, 118
Northfleet, 65-6
Northumberland House, 207
Old Windsor, 287
Oxford, 246-262
Bodleian Library, 255
Castle, 256
Colleges, 251-5
founding of the University, 249-51
its origin, 247-8
Tom Tower, 254
Pangbourne, 279
Peasants’ Revolt, 60
Pepys, Samuel, 34, 77, 186
Peter of Colechurch, 148
Pett, Peter, 47
Pilots, 55
Placentia, Palace of, 89
Plague, the Great, 183-4
Pool, The, 26-8
Port Meadow, 243
Port of London, 23-6, 101-19
Authority, 15, 118-19
Port Victoria, 35
Princes in Tower, 171
Purfleet, 68
Putney, 338-9
Queenborough, 35
Queenhithe, 101
Radley, 284
Ranelagh Gardens, 343
Reading, 271-8
Abbey, 272-6
and the Civil War, 275
modern, 277-8
Regent’s Canal Dock, 111
Richmond, 326-31
River police, 116-8
Rochester, 49-51
Roding, River, 71-2
Roman remains in London, 132-5
Rosherville Gardens, 65
Rotherhithe, 113
Royal Albert Dock, 113-4
Victoria Dock, 113-4
Savoy Palace, 204-5
Saxon Kings crowned at Kingston, 319-20
“Scholar Gypsy,” 261-2
Scotland Yard, 207
Shadwell, 105
Sheen, 327
Sheerness, 34
Sheppey, 31-3
Shoeburyness, 37-8
Shooter’s Hill, 77-9
Silvertown, 114
Sion House, 332
Somerset House, 203
Sonning, 279-80
Southend, 36-7
St. James’s Park, 207
St. Katherine’s Dock, 102, 105
St. Paul’s Cathedral, 124, 188, 191, 211
St. Saviour’s Dock, 102, 108
St. Thomas’s Hospital, 233
Staple Inn, 159
Stephen, King, 170, 256, 267
Stow, 161, 179
Strand, The, 193
Streatley, 268
“Stripling Thames,” 237-45
Stroud, 49
Surrey Commercial Dock, 112
Swale, The, 41
Tea, 106
Teddington, 325
Temple Bar, 232
Church, 201
Gardens, 202
Temple, The, 199-203
Thame, River, 265
Thames Haven, 68
Thames Head, 237
Thames River, early tributaries of, 239
geology of, 267-70
locks on, 243-5
material brought down by, 64-5
origin of, 2-5
reasons for importance, 11-14
terraces of bed, 283-4
the basin of, 7-10
the sources, 237-9
tunnels under, 113
Thorney Island, 130, 211-2
Tilbury, 57-63
Docks, 71, 104
Fort, 57
Elizabeth at, 57-8
Tower Bridge, 231
Tower of London, 166-80
Trewsbury Mead, 237-9
Twickenham, 325
Upnor Castle, 4
Vale of the White Horse, 241
Vauxhall Gardens, 341-3
Wallingford, 144, 266-7
Wandle, River, 340
Wandsworth, 339
Wapping, 108-10
Old Stairs, 108-10
Watling Street, 126, 130, 132, 144
Wat Tyler, 60, 156, 204
Waynflete, William, 299
West Ham, 113-4
West India Dock, 104, 112
Westminster, 209-226
the founding of, 210
Westminster Abbey, 212-9
Chapter House, 218
Confessor’s Chapel, 213
founding of, 212
Henry VII. Chapel, 215
Poets’ Corner, 215
Remains of Old Abbey, 213
Tomb of Unknown Warrior, 218
Westminster Hall, 222
Palace, 220
Whitefriars, 197-9
Whitehall Palace, 207-8
Whittington, Dick, 165
Widths of the Thames, 15, 26
William and Mary, 92, 309
William the Conqueror, 73, 143, 256, 266, 285, 288
Windrush, River, 242
Windsor, 285-304
growth of Castle, 288-95
origin of, 287
Round Tower, 297
St. George’s Chapel, 296
Wolsey, Cardinal, 207, 253, 305
Woolwich, 77-86
Arsenal, 81-6
Dockyard, 80-1
Wren, Sir Christopher, 92, 228, 309, 312
Wykeham, William, 35, 293, 298
Yantlet Creek, 35
York House, 205
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