INDEX

Abbey towns,210-29 Abbot's Ann, 381 ---- Hospital, Guildford, 343 Abingdon, 278 ---- bridge, 320 ---- hospital, 344 ---- archives of, 365 Age, a progressive, 2 Albans, St., Abbey, 212 ---- inn at, 254 Aldeburgh, 18 Aldermaston, 196, 381 Alfriston, 256 Allington Castle, 124 Alnwick, 31 Almshouses, 333-48 Almsmen's liveries, 346 American rapacity, 6-7, 164, 183 Ancient Monuments Commission, 392 Anglo-Saxon Chronicle on Castles, 116 Armour, 184 Art treasures dispersed, 5 Ashbury camp, 208 Atleburgh, Norfolk, 147 Avebury, stone circle at, 207 ---- manor-house, 180 Aylesbury, Vale of, 86, 91 ---- inn at, 256

Bainbridge, inn at, 254 Banbury, 83 Barkham, 148 Barnard Castle, 119 Barrington Court, 189 Bartholomew's, St., Priory, 351-9 Bath, city of, 220 Beauty of English scenery vanishing, 383-91 Berkeley Castle, 118 Berwick-on-Tweed, 29, 31 Beverley, 303, 310 Bewcastle Cross, 288 Bledlow Crosses, 303 Bodiam Castle, 125 Bonfires of old deeds, 366 Bosham, 16 Bournemouth, 17 Bowthorpe, 139 Boxford, 145 Bradford-on-Avon, 142, 328 Branks, 315 Bray, Jesus Hospital at, 340 Bridges, destruction of, 10 ---- old, 318-32 Bridgwater Bay, 17 Bridlington, 17 Bristol Cathedral, 220 Burford, 94 Burgh-next-Walton, 17 Burgh Castle, 112

Caister Castle, 126 Canals, 389 Canterbury Cathedral, 211 ---- inns at, 248 Capel, Surrey, 82 Castles, old, 111-32 Cathedral cities, 210-29 Caversham bridge, 322 Chalfont St. Giles, 88 Charms of villages, 67 Chester, 50 Chests, church, 159 Chests in houses, 196 Chichester, 164 ---- hospital at, 335 Chingford, Essex, 141 Chipping Campden, 345 Chipping monuments, 164 Church, a painted, 158 ---- furniture, 158 ---- plate, 160 Churches, Vanishing or Vanished, 133-65 Churchwarden's account-books, 366 Cinque Ports, 23 Cirencester, 270 Clipping churches, 378 Clock at Wells, 214 Cloth Fair, Smithfield, 356 Coast erosion, 15-27 Coastguards, their uses, 27 Cobham, 336 Coleshill bridge, 326 Colston Bassett, 139 Commonwealth, spoliation during the, 148, 220 Compton Wynyates, 174 Conway, 31 Corhampton church, 397 Cornwall, prehistoric remains in, 204 Corsham, 345 Cottages, beauties of old, 68, 108 Covehithe, 17 Coventry, 58, 255, 345 Cowper at Weston, 170 Cranbrook registers, 372 Crane bridge, Salisbury, 327 Cromer, 17 Crosses, 283-305 ---- wayside, 293 ---- market, 293 ---- boundary, 300 ---- at Cross-roads and Holy Wells, 300 ---- sanctuary, 303 ---- as guide-posts, 303 Crowhurst, 181 Croyland bridge, 324 Cucking stool, 314 Curious entries in registers, 373 Customs that are vanishing, 375-82

Deal, 86 Derby, West, stocks restored, 312 Devizes, inn at, 260 Dickens, C., and inns, 242 Disappearance of England, 15-27 Documents, disappearance of old, 364-74 Dover Castle, 117 Dowsing, W., spoliator, 148 Dunwich, 22

Eashing bridge, 327 Eastbourne, 17 Easter customs, 379 Easton Bavent, 17 Edwardian castles, 123 Elizabethan house, an, 104, 178 Ely fair, 363 ---- registry plundered, 369 England, disappearance of, 15-27 Essex, 100 Estate agents, 10 Evesham, 223 Ewelme, 345 Exeter town hall, 280 Experience, a weird, 171

Fairs, vanishing, 349-63 Fastolfe, Sir John, 126 Felixstowe, 18 Fig Sunday, 379 Fires in houses, 166 Fishermen's Hospital, 342 Fitzstephen on Smithfield Fair, 352 Flagon, a remarkable, 194 Football in streets, 378 Forests destroyed, 386 Foreign governments and monuments, 392-5 Friday, Good, customs on, 379 Furniture, old, 196 ---- church, 158

Galleting, 78 Garden cities, 384 Gates of Chester, 51 Geffery Almshouses, 337 Gibbet-irons, 316 Glastonbury, 147, 250 ---- powder horn found at, 192 Gloucester, 252 Goodening custom, 377 Gorleston, 45 Gosforth Cross, 289 Grantham, inns at, 240 ---- crosses at, 298 Greenwich, the "Ship" at, 260 Grouting machine, 396 Guildford, 343 Guildhalls, 268 Guildhall at Lynn, 38 Gundulf, a builder of castles, 115

Hall, Bishop, his palace, 246 Halton Cross, 291 Hampton, 17 Happisburgh, 17 Hardy, T., on restoration, 156 Hartwell House, 196 Heckfield, 160 Herne Bay, 17 Hever Castle, 124 Higham Ferrers, 335 Hints to Churchwardens, 153 Holinshed quoted, 177, 191 Holman Hunt, Mr., on bridges, 318 Honiton Fair, 360 Hornby Cross, 292 Horsham slates, 80 Horsmonden, Kent, 82 Hospitals, old, 333-48 Houses, old, 104, 171 ---- destroyed, 5 ---- half-timber, 57, 74, 107 Hungate, St. Peter, Norwich, 140 Hungerford, 308, 314 Huntingdon, inn at, 240 ---- bridge at, 327

Ilsley, West, sheep fair, 362 Inns, signs of, 262 ---- old, 230-65 ---- retired from business, 259 ---- at Banbury, 84 Intwood, Norfolk, 140 Ipswich, 45 Irving, Washington, on Inns, 234 Ivy, evils of, 141

Jessop, spoliator, 150 Jousts at Smithfield, 353

Kent bridges, 326 Keswick, Norfolk, 140 Kilnsea, 17, 21 Kirby Bedon, 139 Kirkstead, 141

Leeds Cross, 290 ---- Castle, 123 Leominster, 314 Levellers at Burford, 97 Lichgate at Chalfont, 90 Links with past severed, 3 Liscombe, Dorset, 140 Littleport, 86 Llanrwst bridge, 320 Llanwddyn vale destroyed, 384 London, vanishing, 11 ---- churches, 135 ---- growth of, 70 ---- Inns, 238 ---- Livery Companies' Almshouses, 338 ---- Paul's Cross, 304 ---- St. Bartholomew's Fair, 351-9 ---- water supply threatens a village, 385 Lowestoft, 150 Lynn Bay, 17 Lynn Regis, 35, 342

Mab's Cross, Wigan, 304 Maidstone, 280 Maidenhead bridge, 320 Maldon, 103 Manor-houses, 177 Mansions, old, 166-202 Marlborough, inn at, 259 Martyrs burnt at Smithfield, 353 Megalithic remains, 203 Memory, folk, instance of, 208 Menhirs, 203, 204 Merchant Guilds, 267 Milton's Cottage, 88 "Mischief, the Load of," 262 Monmouthshire castles, 128 Mothering Sunday, 379 Mottes, Norman, 111, 115 Mumming at Christmas, 376 Municipal buildings, old, 266-82

National Trust for the Protection of Places of Historic Interest, 141, 189, 278, 281, 386 Newbury, stocks at, 309 ---- town hall, 274 Newcastle, 111 ---- walls, 34 New Forest partly destroyed, 386 Newton-by-Corton, 17 Norham Castle, 120 Norton St. Philip, 255 Nottingham Goose Fair, 360 Norwich, 244, 271 ---- hospitals at, 342

Ockwells, Berks, 187 Olney bridge, 330 Orford Castle, 118 Oundle, 338 Oxford, 70 ---- St. Giles's Fair, 360

Palimpsest brasses, 147 Palm Sunday customs, 379 Pakefield, 17 Paston family, 126, 140, 246 Penshurst, 181 Pevensey Castle, 112 Plaster, the use of, 180 Plough Monday, 378 Pontefract Castle, 121 Poole, 17 Porchester Castle, 112 Ports and harbours, 84 Portsmouth, 86 Poulton-in-the-Fylde, 311 Pounds, 312 Prehistoric remains, destruction of, 203-9 Preservation of registers, 374 Progress, 2 Punishments, old-time, 306-17

Quainton, Bucks, 337

Radcot bridge, 323 Ranton, house at, 107 ---- priory, 138 Ravensburgh, 20, 21 Reading, guild hall at, 274 ---- Fair, 360 Rebels' heads on gateways, 32 Reculver, 23 Reformation, iconoclasm at, 145, 218 Register books, parish, 368 Restoration, evils of, 9, 10, 151, 153, 156, 220 Richard II., murder of, 121 Richmond, 111, 260 Ringstead, 140 Rochester, 35, 248 Rollright stones, 204 Roman fortresses, 114 Rood-screens removed, 158 Roudham, 140 Rows at Yarmouth, 42 ---- —— Portsmouth, 86 Ruskin, 3, 67, 198, 200 Ruthwell Cross, 289 Rye, 60

Saffron Walden, 100 Salisbury, halls of guilds at, 281 Sandwich, 34 St. Albans Cathedral, 212 ---- inn at, 254 St. Audrey's laces, 363 St. Bartholomew's, Smithfield, 351-9 St. Margaret's Bay, 17 Salisbury, halls of guilds at, 281, 294 Sandwich, 34 Saxon churches, 144 Scenery, vanishing of English, 3, 383-91 Scold's bridle, 315 Sea-serpent at Heybridge, 104 Selsea, 23 "Seven Stars" at Manchester, 252 Shingle, flow of, 26 Shrewsbury, 52, 270 Shrivenham, Berks, 165 Shrovetide customs, 378 Signboards, 264 Sieges of towns, 32 Simnels, 379 Skegness, 21 Skipton, 310 Smithfield Fair, 351-9 Smuggling, 258 Society for Protection of Ancient Buildings, 141, 320, 326 Somerset, Duke of, spoliator, 146 Somerset crosses, 296 Sonning bridges, 318 Southport, 16 Southwell, inn at, 144 Southwold, 17, 18 Staircases, old, 196 Staffordshire churches, 136 Stamford, hospitals at, 336 Stilton, inn at, 243 Stocks, 306-17 — in literature, 307 Stonehenge, 205 Storeys, projecting, 72 Stourbridge Fair, 362 Stow Green Fair, 362 Strategic position of castles, 114 Streets and lanes, in, 67-110 Stump Cross, 304 Suffolk coast, 20 Surrey cottages, 76 Sussex coast, 17 Sussex, Robert, Earl of, spoliator, 147 Swallowfield Park, 194

Tancred, description of an inn, 236 Taunton Castle, 129 Tewkesbury, inns at, 252 Thame, 91, 367 Thatch for roofing, 78 Thorpe-in-the-Fields, 139 Tile-hung cottages, 77 Tournaments at Smithfield, 353 Towns, old walled, 28-66 ---- abbey, 210-29 ---- decayed, 266 ---- halls, 266-82 Turpin's ride to York, 240 Tyneside, coast erosion at, 21

Udimore, Sussex, 94 Uxbridge, inn at, 256

Viking legends, 290, 291

Walberswick, Suffolk, 148 Walled towns, old, 28-66 Walls, city, destroyed, 12 Wallingford, 276, 313 Warwick, 70, 159 Wash, land gaining on sea, 16 Water-clock, 196 Well customs, 381 Wells, cross at, 297 Wells Cathedral, 213-16 Welsh castles, 130 Weston house, 170 Whipping-posts, 306-17 White Horse Hill, 206 Whitewash, the era of, 157 Whittenham Clumps, 207 Whittenham, Little, 152 Whitling church, 139 Whittington College, 338 Winchester, St. Cross, 334 Winchmore Hill Woods, destroyed, 386 Window tax, 180 Winster, 278 Witney Butter Cross, 297 Wirral, Cheshire, 25 Wokingham, 277 ---- Lucas's Hospital at, 340 Wood, Anthony, at Thame, 93 Wymondham, 256, 297

Yarmouth, 17, 40, 147, 342 York, 48 ---- walls of, 34 Yorkshire coast, 17 Ypres Tower, Rye, 64