INDEX.

Alkham, 238 Bapchild, 144, 162 Barham, 233 Barham Downs, 1, 96, 218, 222-233, 236 Barham Family, 233-235 Barham, Rev. Richard Harris, 80, 234 Becket, Thomas à, 13, 18, 19, 95, 134, 151, 186, 194, 197, 207-213, 216, 233 Bell Grove, 44 Bexley, 45 Bexley Heath, 44, 45-47 Blackheath, 18, 24-35 Black Prince, The, 185, 204-207 Black Robin’s Corner, 236 Borough, The, 7-18 Bossenden Woods, 179-182 Boughton-under-Blean, 172, 173, 179, 181 Bridge, 217 Broome Park, 236 Buckland, 241 Cade, Jack, 6, 31 Cæsar, Julius, 1, 96, 145, 148, 218-226, 244-246 Canterbury, 3, 74, 97, 174, 183, 187-216, 228 Canterbury Pilgrims, 11-18, 172, 183-186, 194-197, 207-213, 216 Caroline, Princess of Wales and Queen, 25, 56 Chalk, 66, 81-86 Charles II, 33, 68, 70, 89, 90, 121 Charlton, 34, 35 Chatham, 126-140, 200 Chaucer, Geoffrey, 11, 172, 183, 184 “Church Ales”, 82 Clavell, John, 87 Cleves, Anne of, 117-119 Coaches:— “Blue-eyed Maid”, 8 “Defiance”, 3 “Eagle”, 3 “Express”, 3, 4 “Foreign Mail”, 3 “Phœnix”, 3 “Royal Mail”, 3 “Tally-ho”, 3, 216 “Telegraph”, 3 “Union”, 3 “Worthington’s Safety”, 3 Coaching, 3-5, 23, 39, 45, 58, 92, 216 Coal and Wine Dues, 50 Cobham Park, 61, 97 “Coldharbours”, 228-230 Colet, Dean, 185, 209-212 Courtenay’s Rebellion, 175-183 Crayford, 47-49 Crook Long, 45 Cycling Records, 201 “Danes” Holes, 46 Dartford, 49-60, 97, 118, 200 Denton, near Canterbury, 233-236 Denton by Gravesend, 79-81 Deptford, 23 Dickens, Charles, 81, 87, 90-93, 102-104, 106, 126, 141 Don Juan, 37-39, 213, 243 Dover, 220, 242-257 Drellingore Stream, 239 Dunkirk, 181-183 Elizabeth, Queen, 6, 23, 26, 119 Erasmus, Disiderius, 185, 209-212 Falstaff, Sir John, 87, 93 Faversham, 146, 166, 170-172 Gad’s Hill, 86-95 Gravesend, 4, 18, 60, 62, 66-70, 86, 91 Greenhithe, 60, 62, 89 Greenstreet, 163 Greenwich Park, 25 Gundulf, Bishop, 54 Gutteridge Gate, 216 Harbledown, 173, 183-186, 194 Hengist and Horsa, 48 Henry V, 30, 154 Henry VIII, 117-119, 151, 195-197 Hermits, 55, 151-153, 161, 163, 171 Hernhill, 168, 181 Highwaymen, 25, 36-40, 71, 87-90, 217 Hops, 163 Horn’s Cross, 62 Huggens’ College, 66 Ingoldsby Legends, The 80, 134, 234-236 “Ingoldsby Abbey”, 80 Inns (mentioned at length):— “Blue-eyed Maid,” Southwark, 8 “Bull,” Dartford, 55, 107 “Bull,” Rochester, 107 “Bull,” Shooter’s Hill, 36 “Crispin and Crispianus,” Strood, 101, 171 “Crown,” Rochester, 119 “Falstaff,” Canterbury, 187 “Falstaff,” Gad’s Hill, 90, 94 “George,” Sittingbourne, 155 “George,” Southwark, 7, 8 “Golden Cross,” New Cross, 22 “Gun,” Sittingbourne, 156 “Half Moon,” Southwark, 8 “Key,” Key Street, 148 “Lion,” Sittingbourne, 155, 160 “Lord Nelson,” Chalk, 86 “Red Lion,” Canterbury, 189-192 “Red Lion,” Dunkirk, 181, 182 “Red Lion,” Sittingbourne, 154 “Rose,” Canterbury, 174, 189 “Rose,” Sittingbourne, 155 “Spur,” Southwark, 8 “Tabard,” Southwark, 8, 12, 13, 18 “White Hart,” Sittingbourne, 156, 157 James II, 70, 121, 170 “Jezreel, James Jershom”, 137-140 John’s Hole, 62 Kearsney, 2, 38, 240 Kent Street, 9 Key Street, 97, 148 Kidbrook, 34, 35 London Bridge, 2, 5-7, 12, 19, 30, 44, 200 Lydden, 238 Marlowe, Christopher, 23 “Milestones on the Dover Road”, 19 Milton-next-Gravesend, 77-79 Milton-next-Sittingbourne, 146, 153, 159 “Mockbeggars”, 230 Moor Street, 141 Murston, 153, 161 Nevison, John, 90 New Cross, 21, 23, 200 Newington, 142-149, 226 Northfleet, 61, 62-64, 66, 97 “Old England’s Hole”, 223 Old Kent Road, 5, 19-22, 200 Old-Time Travellers, in general, 11-18, 22, 56, 70-77, 87-90, 115-122, 183-186, 190-201 Old-Time Travellers:— Albert of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha, Prince Consort, 199-201 Bassompierre, Marshal de, 70 Cossuma Albertus, Prince, 89 Dalkeith, Countess of, 198 Grosley, M., 73-77 Henrietta Maria, Princess, 198 Moritz, Pastor, 56 Nivernais, Duc de, 104, 190-194 Peel, Sir Robert, 199 Rochefort, M. Jouvin de, 71 Sorbière, M. Samuel de, 72 Zinzerling, Herr Justus, 154 Ospringe, 97, 145, 149, 161, 165 Pepys, Samuel, 36, 121 Pilgrims, 11-18, 161, 172, 183-186, 207-213 Preston, 166 Radfield, 163 Rainham, 140-142 River, 240 Rochester, 95, 97, 102-125, 200 Rochester Castle, 54, 106, 114 Rochester Cathedral, 54, 105, 108-113 Romans, The, 27, 47, 60, 76, 95-99, 144-148, 199, 218-233, 244 Rosherville Gardens, 64 St. Radigund’s Abbey, 240 St. Thomas à Watering, 18 St. William of Perth, 111 Schamel, Hermitage of, 151-153 Shooter’s Hill, 35-40 Shoulder of Mutton Green, 44 Sittingbourne, 97, 144, 150-161 Southwark, 7-18 Spielman, Sir John, 51-53 Springhead, 61, 65 Stone, 62 Strood, 60, 61, 94, 97, 100-102 Swanscombe, 60 Tappington, Everard, 236 Telegraph Hill, 11 Telegraph Tower, Southwark, 9-11 Temple Ewell, 238, 240 Teynham, 163 Thom, John Nichols (calling himself “Sir William Percy Honeywood Courtenay”), 174-183 Tong, 163 Tramps, 41-44 Turnpike Gates, 62, 216 Turpin, Dick, 90 Tyler, Wat, 27-30, 57 Watercress, 65 Watling Street, 34, 47, 60, 95-99, 144-148, 214, 223 Watts, Richard, 119 Welling, 44 White Hill, 49 Wolsey, Cardinal, 31, 195

Footnotes:

[1] The real names of these two brothers are unknown. They took the names by which they are known in history from the banners under which their men fought; banners which bore the cognizance of a white horse: Hengist and Horsa being merely the Jutish-Saxon words for “horse” and “mare.” The Danish, indeed, still use the word “hors” for mare, and a survival of the old badge of these fierce pagans is still to be met with in the familiar white horse of Brunswick-Hanover. The prancing steed that remains to this day the Kentish device, with its dauntless motto “Invicta,” is also a survival from the days when Hengist and Horsa founded the first Saxon kingdom in Britain.

[2] He meant Harbledown, Boughton, and Ospringe: Green-street, Sittingbourne, Newington, and Rainham.

[3] “Gad’s,” i.e. “rogues,” Hill.

[4] One of the many originals of “Samivel’s father” put forward. One was supposed to have been at Bath, another at Dorking; and others still have claims to have originated this humorous character.

[5] Collectors for “Hospital Saturday” funds come within the meaning of this unrepealed Act.

[6] He was here also in 1661, giving a very amusing account of how he was entertained, and how he kissed and sang and danced: it is too long, though, for quotation here. But look it up.

[7] Mr. Gladstone has said, most notoriously, that to be “hemmed in” is not to be “surrounded.” But that was part of the political game of bluff, and may not be regarded as a contribution to philology.

[8] An excellent story is told of the cold that rages up here in the winter. It belongs to coaching times, and was told by a coachman who had a new guard with him one frosty night, when the temperature was going down to 15°; a cockney guard who was unused to exposure, and who, moreover, had not the experience which led the Jehu to wrap himself up in layers of flannel, a many-caped coat, and three or four waistcoats. “Ain’t it cold?” asked the guard several times, climbing over the coach roof with numbed hands and blue nose. “Cold!” returned the coachman, “not at all.” “That’s all very well,” says the guard, “but your eyes are watering like hanythink.” “Oh! are they?” rejoins the coachman, “I suppose that’s the perspiration!”

[9] There are “Mockbeggars” in Kent, as in most other counties. There is one near Rochester. Some old buildings pulled down in 1771 at Brighthelmstone were called Mockbeggars. Local opinion held the belief that there had been a Mendicant Priory, but this was not generally credited. The name seems to have been generally applied to objects wearing at some distance the appearance of an hospitable mansion, to which travellers would be drawn out of their road only to meet with a disappointment in finding an empty house, or no house at all. Two such places, so called, are to be instanced: one is an isolated rock at Bakewell in Derbyshire, presenting from the road the semblance of a house, to which it is said beggars and tramps wend their way, only to be mocked by a freak of nature: seeking for bread they find, literally, a stone. The other is an old Tudor mansion, called Mockbeggar Hall, at Claydon in Suffolk, standing in a conspicuous situation, near the road leading from Ipswich to Scole; a place to which mendicants would naturally be attracted, in expectation of finding inhabitants there, but which has, according to tradition, remained so long unoccupied as to have earned its name a hundred years, or more, ago.

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