INDEX.
Reading edition
LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS. [5]
Portrait of Mr. Andrew Percival Title Page
Peterborough Market Place in 1836 9
Sedan Chair 19
Cottages in Paston 20
The Old Bridge over the Nene 27
Sexton Barns 29
Peterborough Market Place in 1795 36
Map of Whittlesey Mere 47
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Advertisement, A peculiar 40
An Alibi 43
Balls 19
Barns 29, 31
Beacon, A lighted 22
Beadle, The City 16
Breweries 10
Bridge, The old wooden 27
Buckle’s Brewery 10, 11
Burglaries 43
Burial at Cross Roads 32
Burial Ground, The Old 34
Butcher’s Piece, The 41
Cabbage Row 31
Calculating Boy 10
Castor, Old system of farming at 22
Cattle Market 33
Cemetery, The 34
Coaches, Mail 11, 12, 13
Constables, Parish 17
Contrast, A 13
Cost of Travelling 12
Distemper, The 40
Draining the Great Level 23
Epitaphs 35
Executions 41
Extraordinary Medley 34
Fairs 19
Fen around Peterborough 23
Fen Drainage 23, 25
Fen Taxes 27
Franking Letters 16
Frisby’s Feat 12
Frog Hall 32
Gaols 17, 30
Gas Works started 32
Gates, Toll 9
God’s Acre 34
Guildhall, The 41
Hangings 41
Hostelry, The Thorpe Road 30
Infirmary, The 10
Intelligent Fenmen 27
Jaunt through the City 29
Ladies and the Cattle 33
Land, Improvement in value of 27
Level, The Great 23
Level, Draining the Great 23
Lock-up Story 43
Mail Coaches 11
Market, Cattle 33
,, The old 33
„ Wednesday 34
Mere, Whittlesey 19
Mill, The Old 14, 27, 29
Mill system of Draining 25
Mud Case, The 44
Nene Outfall, The 25
Newspapers 38, 39, 40
Newtown 31
Notorious Family, A 17
Oasis in the Desert 21
Packets, River 15
Parish Constables 17
Paston 22
Ponds 31
Poor House 31
Poor Law 30
Post Office 37
Postal Charges 15
Railways 11, 14, 44
Railways and Earl Fitzwilliam 14
Retrospective 45
River Packets 15
Robbery at the Vicarage 43
Sedan Chairs 19
Sexton Barns 29
Smothering the Cathedral 14
Snatched from the Sea 25
Tales of the Coaching days 12
Theatre 17
Toll Gates 9
Tombstone Rhymes 35
Tythe Barn, Boroughbury 31
Value of land improved 27
Whalley, Mr. G. H. 15
Whittlesey Mere 19