INDEX

A, B, C, D, E, F, G, H, I, J, K, L, M, N, O, P, Q, R, S, T, V, W, Y

Abbotsworthy, 34 Abbott, E., “St. Thomas of Canterbury,” 11 note Abinger, 90; discovery of Roman remains at, 99 Addington, cromlechs at, 146 Æthelred II., 153 Agincourt, battle of, 198 Albury, 18, 82; yew hedge, 84; church, 83; Downs, 80; view from, 80; Park, 80, 87 Alexander III., Pope, 14 Alfred, King, 21, 72; founds the Abbey of Hyde, 28 Alice Holt forest, 50 Allen, Mr. Grant, 5 Alresford, 35, 38; New, cloth trade at, 39; result of the Civil Wars, 40; Old, 38 Alton, 28, 50 Anderida, forest of, 5 Apulderfelde, Thomas de, effigy of, 164 Aragon, Katherine of, portrait of, 131 Arle, ford of the, 38 Arundel, Thomas Howard, Earl of, 83; collector of the Arundel marbles, 83; portrait of, 83 Ash, 54 Ashburton, Lord, his famous Grange, 37{218} Ashford, 127; vale of, 184 Athelstan, 112, 134, 153, 169 Atholl, Isabel, Countess of, 183 Austen, Cassandra, 48 Austen, Jane, 46; her cottage at Chawton, 48; novels, 48; mode of life, 48; letters, 49 Avington Park, 36 Aylesford, 144; Common, 146 Badlesmere, Lord, of Leeds, 183 Baldwin, Archbishop, 172 Baliol, John, 212 Becket, St. Thomas, Archbishop of Canterbury, his murder, 7-9; championship for the rights of the Church, 9; journey to Canterbury, 9; miracles and cures wrought by, 10-12, 206; canonisation, 14; removal of his body, 15, 206; shrine, 16, 208-212; fame, 16; his house at Otford, 129; legends, 131; relics, 205, 207 Beggars’ Corner, 58 Belloc, Hilaire, “The Old Road,” vii Bentley Station, 52 Betchworth Park, 98 Bigberry Camp, 185; wood, 185 Birinus, church of, 22 Birling, 142; Place, 138{219} Bishop Sutton, 43 Black Prince, at Harbledown, 188; memorials of, 190; death, 191; tomb, 210 Black Prince’s Well, 190 Blackdown, 80 Blagge, Mistress, portrait of, 92 Blean, forest of, 186 Bletchingley, discovery of Roman remains at, 100 Blois, Henry of, 24, 52 Bocton, Aluphus de, 178 Bohemia, Queen Anne of, the arms of, 175 Boleyn, Anne, portrait of, 67 Boniface, Archbishop, 143 Boscawen, Mrs., her birthplace, 132 Botley Hill, 118 Botolph, St., church of, 122; monuments, 122 Boughton Aluph church, 178 Boughton, Bocton or Boltune, 178 Boughton Lees, 178 Boughton Malherbe, 154 Boulogne, Eustace, Count of, 178 Box Hill, 94, 98 Boxley, the Cistercian Abbey of, 146; relics, 147 Boxley, 151; church, 152 Brabœuf Manor, 69 Brabourne, Lord, 49 Brent, Amy, 172 Brighton Downs, 107 Browne, Sir Richard, portrait of, 92 Brydges, George, 36 Buckingham, George Villiers, Duke of, 37 Buckland, 99 Bunker’s Farm, 142 Bunyan, John, 101 Burford, 96{220} Burham church, 145 Calehill, 168 Calva, Ruald de, 77 Camden, W., 104, 195 Canterbury, routes taken by pilgrims, 3-6, 20, 28; number of, 16-18, 193, 198; characteristics, 195; the Chequers of the Hope Inn, 198; religious houses, 200; Priory of Christ Church, 200; the Omers or Homers, 200; Guest Hall, 201; the Almonry, 201 Canterbury Cathedral, the murder of Becket in, 9; “the choir of Conrad” destroyed by fire, 14; rebuilt, 14; number of pilgrims, 16-18, 193, 198; master-builders, 203; completion, 204; Transept of the Martyrdom, 205; relics, 205, 207; miracles and cures, 206; number of crusaders, 206; amount of offerings, 207; the Shrine, 208-212; the Church of Our Lady of the Undercroft, 213 Challock, 178 Chanctonbury Ring, 76, 107 Chantrey, Sir F. L., his effigy of Lady Frederica Stanhope, 124 Chantry Woods, 75 Chantry Ford, 87 Charing, 18; height of, 138; chapel, 170; church, 168, 171-173; traditions, 169; relic in, 171; destroyed by fire, 173; rebuilt, 173; fair at, 170; Hill, 168; manor, the residence of Archbishops, 170 Charles I., King, 53; Prayer Book used by, 94 Charles II., King, 36{221} Charterhouse 80 Chatham, Lord, his visits to Chevening, 122 Chaucer, G., lines from, 17, 186; his pilgrims, 61, 191 Chawton, 46 Cheney, Sir John, 158 Cheney, Sir Thomas, 184 Chequers of the Hope Inn, 198 Cheriton battle, 41 Chevening church, 122; monuments in, 122; manor, 121; Park, 121; village, 122 Chilham Castle, 182-184; manor-house, 184; Park, 182 Chillenden Prior, 198, 201 Chilworth, 78; powder-mills, 78-80 Ciderhouse Cottage, 75; Lane, 75 Clere, St., mansion, 132 Cobbett, Richard, 54 Cobbett, William, his “Rural Rides,” 5, 35, 76, 78, 106, 109, 152; his birthplace, 54; at Albury, 84; Godstone, 114 Cold-harbour Green, 118 Colet, Dean, at Harbledown, 188-190; his visit to Canterbury Cathedral, 208; in the Church of Our Lady of the Undercroft, 213-215; treatment of the relics, 214 Colley Farm, 99; discovery of Roman remains at, 99 Compton, 58, 63, 69; church, 63 Copley, Sir Roger, 109 Corby Castle, 30 Courtenay, Archbishop, 143 Crooksbury, heights of, 54 St. Cross, Hospital of, 24 Crowborough Beacon, 107 Culpeper, Elizabeth, Lady, monument to, 158 Culpeper, John, Lord, the tapestries{222} and altar-cloth worked by his daughters, 156; monument to, 158 Culpeper, Sir Thomas, 159 Cuxton ford, 141 Dacre, Lord, 121. See Lennard Danefield, 129 Darent valley, 126 Dartford, 126 Dawkins, Prof. Boyd, 185 Day, Bishop, letter from, 68 Deane, Archbishop, 130 Deepdene Park, 98 Denbies Park, 97 Denmark, Anne of, 66; portrait of, 66 Deptford, 3 Detling, 152; height of, 138 Digges, Sir Dudley, 184 Dios, Mr., 173 Dorking, 95, 97 Dover, 3 Dover, Fulbert de, 183 Drummond, Mr., 83 Dungeness, 168 Dürer, Albert, 112 East Grinstead, 107 Eastbridge Hospital, 196 Eastwell, 176; church, 177; House, 177; Park, 126 Edinburgh, H.R.H. the Duke of, his residence Eastwell House, 177 Edward I., King, 26, 130, 142, 212; at Harbledown, 188 Edward II., King, 50; his visit to Boxley Abbey, 148 Edward III., King, 196 Edward IV., King, 173 Edward VI., King, 105; portrait of, 67{223} Edward, the Black Prince, at Harbledown, 188; memorials of, 190; death, 191; tomb, 210 Effingham, Lady Howard of, 105 Egbert, King, 33 Egerton Church, 168 Eleanor of Castille, Queen, 188 Elizabeth, Queen, 53; her visits to Loseley, 66; to Leeds Castle, 154 Elliston-Erwood, Mr., “The Pilgrims’ Road,” vi Erasmus, at Harbledown, 188-190; his impressions of Canterbury Cathedral, 192, 203; on the relics, 207; in the Church of Our Lady of the Undercroft, 213-215 Estria, Prior Henry of, 179, 202 Ethelbald, King of Wessex, 52 Ethelred the Unready, 113 Ethelwold, Bishop, 22 Evelyn, John, 78, 84; his home at Wotton, 90; portrait, 92 Evershed’s Rough, 90 Ewhurst Mill, 80 Fairlawn House, 136 Fairlight hill, 168 Farnham, 52; Castle, 52 Farrer, Sir Thomas, 100 Farringford, 180 Farthing copse, 77 Fitz Urse, Reginald, 9 Froyle Park, 52 Gatton church, 111; House, 111; park, 108, 112; town hall, 110 George I., King, 121 Gethin, Dame Grace, inscription on her monument, 159 Gethin, Sir Richard, 159 Giffard, Lady, 56{224} St. Giles’ Hill, fair at, 31 Godmersham, 50; church, 179; manor, 179; park, 178, 182 Godstone, 114; The White Hart or Clayton Arms, 114 Godwin, Earl, 168, 178 Goldstone, Prior, 203, 213 Gomshall station, 94 Gravesend, 138 Greenway Court, 157 Greenwich, 3 Gresham, Sir John, 119 Gresham, Sir Marmaduke, 119 Gresham, Sir Thomas, 119; founder of the Royal Exchange, 119; portrait, 119 Grey, Richard de, founds a Carmelite Priory, 145 Grose, F., “Antiquities of England and Wales,” 77 note Grove Court, 157 Guildford, 3, 51, 57, 72; fair at, 58 Gurdon, Adam de, 45, 51 Hackhurst Downs, 94 Halfpenny Lane, 77 Halling, Lower, 142; Upper, 142 Hampshire, 20 Harbledown, 179, 186; leper-house, 186; relic in, 187; royal visitors, 198; first sight of Canterbury Cathedral from, 191 Harrietsham, 160; church, monuments in, 161 Hastings, 168; Battle of, 161 Headbourne Worthy, 31; derivation of the name, 33; church, 33 Helix pomatia, 18 Hengist, proclaimed the first king of Kent, 146 Henry I., King, 29, 41{225} Henry II., King, his penance at Becket’s tomb, 4, 14, 206; visit to the leper-house at Harbledown, 188 Henry III., King, 16, 24, 52, 57, 206 Henry IV., King, monument of, 208 Henry V., King, 211 Henry VI., King, 109, 161 Henry VII., King, 158; his visit to Charing, 171 Henry VIII., King, 109, 129, 130; portrait of, 131; visit to Charing, 171 Herault, Isaac, 94 Hethe, Bishop Hamo de, 142 Hindhead, 72, 76, 80, 107 Hog’s Back, 54, 57, 63, 76 Holbein, Hans, 66 Holland, Mary Sybilla, 179 Hollingbourne, 152, 153; height of, 138; history, 153; church, monuments in the, 158; manor-house, 154; traditions, 154 Holm Castle, 104. See Reigate Holmbury, 90 Holmesdale, valley of, 104 Honywood, Anthony, 165 Honywood, Dame Mary, 165 Horn Hatch, 101 Horne, Robert, Bishop of Winchester, letter from, 68 Hutton, W. H., “Thomas Becket,” 9 note Hyde, Abbey of, 28; history, 29; ruins, 30; desecration of tombs, 30 Ightham House, 136 Isabel, Queen, her reception at Chilham, 183 Islip, Simon, 130, 134{226} Itchen Abbas, 35, 37 Itchen river, 28, 29, 39; valley, 35 Itchen Stoke, 37 James I., King, 65; his visit to Loseley, 66; portrait, 66 James, Capt. E. Renouard, “Notes on the Pilgrims’ Way in West Surrey,” 101 note John, King, 38, 73, 178; legend of, 82; coronation, 206 John, King of France, 188 Johnson, Mrs. Hester, 56 Jones, Sir Inigo, 121, 132 Josse, St., shrine of, 29 Julaber’s grave, 183 Katherine’s, St., Chapel, 69, 71; Hill, fair at, 59 Kemsing, 132; church and well, 132 Ken, Morris, 50 Kent, Aldric, king of, 129 Kent, John, brass to, 33 Kent, Pilgrims’ Way through, 126 Kingsworthy, 33 Kitchin, Dean, on the fair at St. Giles’ Hill, 32, 40 Kits Coty House, 145 Knight, Sir Richard, his monument in Chawton Church, 46 Knockholt down, height of, 138 Laberius, Julius, 183 Lambarde, W., 190; at Otford, 132 Lanfranc, Archbishop, 153, 169, 176; founds a lazar-house at Harbledown, 186 Langton, Stephen, Archbishop, 16 Leeds Castle, 154, 157 Leith Hill, 107{227} Leland, J., 170, 184, 195, 201 Len river, 161 Lenham, 161; church, 162-165; tithe barns, 165 Lennard, John, his monument, 122 Lennard, Richard, Lord Dacre, 121 Leveson, Sir John, quarterings of, 143 Leveson-Gower, Mr., 100, 119 Leyborne, Juliana de, 161, 178 Limnerslease, 69 Limpsfield Lodge Farm, 117 Littleton Cross, shrine of, 69 Long Beech Woods, 175 Loseley manor, 64; royal visitors, 66; portraits, 67; royal warrants, 67; letters, 68 Louis VII., King of France, 212 Louis VIII., King of France, 72, 105 Lucy, Bishop Godfrey, 25; rebuilds the town of Alresford, 38 Lyall, Sir Alfred, 180; his verses, 180; death, 180 Maidstone, 143 Marden Park, 116 Martha’s, St., Hill, 80; chapel, 70, 76; view from, 76 Martyr’s Hill, 76 Martyrsworthy, 34 Massilia, 4 Medway river, 140, 142; valley, 137, 138 Mercia, Cenulph, King of, 169 Mercia, Offa, King of, 129, 169 Meredith, G., “Diana of the Crossways,” 91 note Merstham, 108, 112; church, 113 Miller, Sir Hubert, 52{228} Milton, John, his line on the River Mole, 95 Mole river, 95, 99; valley, 94 Monks’ Hatch, 69 Monks’ Walk, Winchester, 31, 33 Monson, Lord, 109, 111 Moor Park, 55 More, Antonio, 119 More, Sir Christopher, 64 More, Sir William, 64 Morley, Bishop, 53 Morne Hill, 25 Morton, Cardinal, his buildings at Charing, 170 Moyle, Sir Thomas, Speaker of the House of Commons, 177 Mytens, D., his portraits, 66 Newark Hospital, 143; Priory, 77 Newcourt, Geoffery de, 174 Newcourt manor, 174 Newlands Corner, 80, 82 Nore, the, 138 Nore Hill, 46 Norfolk, Duke of, 53 North Downs, 107, 118 Nowell, Alexander, Dean of St. Paul’s, letter from, 68 Nuns’ Walk, Winchester, 31 Odo of Bayeux, 161 Otford, 126; manor-house, 129; battles at, 129; the Bull Inn, 131; legends, 131 Oxted, 117 Paddlesworth or Paulsford, 138 Palmer, Mr., his treatise on “Three Surrey Churches,” vi Palmers Wood, 19, 116 Paternoster Lane, 19, 98 St. Paul’s Cathedral, 76{229} Peckham, John, the Franciscan Archbishop, 170 Penenden Heath, 150; memorable assembly held at, 150 Pett Place, 174 Pette-juxta-Charing, 174 Pilgrims to Canterbury, routes taken by, 3-6, 20, 28; number of, 12, 16-18, 193, 198; traces of, 18, 58; characteristics, 60 Pilgrims’ Chapel, 98 Pilgrims’ Ferry, 19, 74 Pilgrims’ House, 138 Pilgrims’ Lodge, 19, 120 Pilgrims’ Place, 43 Plantagenet, Richard, his death at Eastwell, 177 Plantagenet’s Well, 177 Pray Meadows, 98 Puttenham, 58; fair at, 59; Heath, 63 Quarry Hangers, 114 Quarry Hills, 101, 168 Ranmore Common, 98 Redhill, 96 Reigate, 99, 103; chapels, 104; hill, 107; park, 106 Richard Cœur de Lion, his return from the Holy Land, 171; at Harbledown, 188; Canterbury, 206 Richard III., King, 177 Ripley, 77 Robbers’ or Roamers Moor, 58 Robertson, T. C., “Materials for the History of Archbishop Becket,” 12 note Rochester, 3, 141 Romney Marsh, 168 Rood, the miraculous, or winking image, 148{230} Ropley, 43 Rotherfield Park, 43 Rumbold, St., the image of, 147 Rupibus, Peter de, 45 Rutupine, Port, 4 Salisbury, John of, Bishop of Chartres, 12 Saltwood Castle, 9 Sandwich Haven, 3, 4, 73 Sandy Lane, 69 Scott, Sir Walter, on the death of Jane Austen, 50 Seale, 58; church, 59 Selborne, 44 Sellyng, Prior William, 154, 203 Sesto, Cesare da, 111 Sevenoaks, 107 Shalford, 74; fair at, 59, 74; park, 75 Shere, 88; church, 87 Shoelands, manor-house of, 58 Shooters’ Hill, 138 Shrewsbury, Francis, Earl of, 37 Shrewsbury, Lady, 36 Shrewsbury, Roger de Montgomery, Earl of, 64 Silchester, 28 Silent Pool, 82; legend of, 82 Sittingbourne, 3 Snails, or Helix pomatia, 18 Snodland, limestone works, 137, 140 Snowden-Ward, Mr. H., “The Canterbury Pilgrimages,” vi Somers, Earl, 106 Somerset, Lady Henry, 106 South Downs, 76 South Leith Hill, 76 Southampton, 3, 20, 35 Spenser, Edmund, his lines on the Mole, 95 Stane Street, 97{231} Stanhope, Charles, Earl, 122 Stanhope, General, 121 Stanhope, Lady Frederica, effigy of, 124 Stanhope, Lady Hester, 122 Stanhope, James, Earl, monument to, 124 Stanley, Dean, 5; extract from his account of the Canterbury pilgrimage, 6; on the characteristics of pilgrims, 60 Stede, Sir William, monument to, 161 Stede Hill, 160 Stour river, 162, 196; valley, 182, 185 Strangers’ Hall, Winchester, 26 Stratford, Archbishop, 196, 197; at Charing, 170 Sudbury, Simon of, 193 Surrenden Dering, 168 Sussex Downs, 168 Swift, J., 56 Swithun, St., Bishop of Winchester, 3; his shrine, 21; removal of his bones, 22; miracles wrought, 22; number of pilgrims to his shrine, 25 Tatsfield church, 120 Temple, Sir William, 56 Thames river, 126; valley, 76, 138 Thomas’, St., Hill, 195; Hospital, 196; Well, 117 Thurnham, 152 Tichborne, Isabella, 41 Tichborne, Sir Roger, 41 Tichborne Park, 41; legend of the Dole, 41-43 Tillingbourne stream, 87 Titsey Park, 117; discovery of Roman remains at, 100; Place, 117{232} Trottescliffe (Trosley), 138 Tunbridge Wells, 107 Tupper, Martin, 82 Tyting’s Farm, 77 Vandyck, A., portrait by, 83 Vane, Sir Harry, 136 Vigo Inn, 138 Vinci, Leonardo da, iii Walkelin, Bishop, his church, 25 Walter, Archbishop Hubert, 196, 206 Wanborough, 59; church, 60 War Camp or Cardinal’s Cap, 114 Warham, Archbishop, 149, 171, 208 Warrenne, William of, 104 Watling Street, 141, 186 Watts, George Frederic, 69 Wauncey, Richard de, 69 Waverley Abbey, 56, 59 Waynflete, Bishop William of, 45, 78 Wen, the, 5 Wessex, 21 Westerham, 121 Westhumble Lane, 98 Weston Wood, 80 Westwell, 175; church, 175; manor, 176 Wey, river, 51, 57, 72, 75 White, Gilbert, his house at Selborne, 44 White Hill Downs, 114 Whiteway End, 57 Whitgift, Archbishop, 196 Whorne Place, 142 Wibert, Prior, 203 Wickens, manor-house, 172 Wilberforce, Samuel, Bishop of Winchester, place of his death, 90{233} William III., King, 56, 106 William, King of Scotland, at Canterbury, 206 Winchelsea, Archbishop, 130, 164; his enthronement, 194; death, 194; statutes, 201 Winchester, 3, 20; the shrine of St. Swithun, 21; number of churches and chapels, 22; buildings, 24; number of pilgrims, 25; Nuns’ Walk, 31; St. Giles’ Hill, fair at, 31 Winders’ Hill, 116 Windsor Castle, 76 Wolsey, Cardinal, 149 Wolvesey, castle of, 24, 29{234} Wotton, 90 Wotton, Sir Henry, 154 Wren, Christopher, 36 Wriothesley, Thomas, his treatment of the Abbey of Hyde, 29 Wrotham, 132; church, 135; hill, 135; manor-house, 134; palace, 136 Wulfstan, on the removal of St. Swithun’s bones, 22 Wykeham, William of, 24, 25, 45 Wye, the, 184 Yaldham, manor of, 136 Yew trees, 6, 82, 84, 94, 99, 108, 126

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