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LONDON:
PRINTED BY SAMUEL BENTLEY,
Bangor House, Shoe Lane.
CONTENTS
TO THE SECOND VOLUME.
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CHAPTER I.
Ruins of Godstow Nunnery. - The Legends of Fair
Rosamond. - The Monks of Ensham. - Woodstock Park
and its Memories.-Rosamond's Bower.-Chaucer's House.
-His Description of Woodstock Park.-Queen Elizabeth's
Verses while a Prisoner. - The Ghosts of Woodstock.
Blenheim.
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CHAPTER II.
Stanton Harcourt. - English and French Epitaphs.-The
River Windrush. The Splendid Shilling. A Poet's
Whim. Battle of Radcot Bridge.
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Gower the
Poet. Grave of Massinger. Origin of Billingsgate.-
Geoffry Chaucer and the Custom House. The Prisoners
of the Tower of London. · St. Katherine's Hospital and
Docks. The Lord Mayor and the Lion.—The London
Docks. - The Poetry of Commerce. The Thames Tunnel.
-Wapping and Rotherhithe.-The Commercial Dock.
The Isle of Dogs.
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CHAPTER IV.
Deptford. The Victualling Office. The Dock-yard.
-John Evelyn and Peter the Great. Peter and the
Quakers. The river Ravensbourne. - Tradition of Julius
Cæsar.
Placentia,
Early History of Greenwich and its Palace of
Coronation of Anne Boleyn. Festivities at
Greenwich during the Reign of Elizabeth.- Flattery of
the Poets.
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CHAPTER V.
Visits of Sully to King James I. at Greenwich. Demo-
lition of the Palace of Placentia. Building of a New
Palace. — Origin, and completion of the Hospital. The
Funeral of Nelson. The View from the Hill.- The Le-
gend of St. Alphege.--The humours of Greenwich Fair. 110
CHAPTER VI.
White Bait Dinners at Blackwall.-Assault on London by
Falconbridge. The East India Docks. The River Lea.
Reminiscences of Isaac Walton. - Poetics of Hoddes-
don. - Want's Inn at Broxbourne. - Theobalds. - A Good
Appetite; a Story of Henry VIII. and the Abbot of Wal-
tham. Epping Forest. The Bell at Edmonton. - The
Tournament of Tottenham.-True Philosophy at Tottenham
Cross. Stratford-le-Bow and Bromley.
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John and the Miller's Wife.. Woolwich. The Dock-
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CHAPTER VIII.
The Devil's House.- The River Roding. Barking. -
Green Street House. The Gunpowder Plot. Rainham
and Hornchurch. -Edward the Confessor and the Nightin-
gales of Havering atte Bower. - Dagenham Breach.-
Erith. — Purfleet.-The National Powder Magazine.—The
River Darent. Holmsdale. Thomas à Becket.
The
Nightingales of Otford. The Ford of Darent. Dart-
ford. John Tyler and Wat Tyler. The Martyr's Ashes.
-The River Cray.
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CHAPTER IX.
Stone Castle.-Greenhithe.—The Men of Kent at Swans-
combe.
Gravesend.
Gray's Thurrock. - Northfleet and Southfleet.
- Falstaff on Gad's Hill. Elizabeth at Tilbury
Fort. The Hundred of Hoo. - Higham Ferry.- Cowling
Spenser's Bridal of the Thames and Medway. The
Mutiny at the Nore. Sheerness and Queenborough.-The
Legend of our Lady of Gillingham.
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CHAPTER XI.
Chatham. Rochester and Stroud.
Rochester Bridge
and Castle.-Aylesford.-Birth-place of Sir Charles Sedley,
-Hengist and Horsa. Remarkable Cromlechs. - Kit's
Cotty House. The Rood of Grace, and Tricks of the
Monks of Boxley.-Penenden Heath.
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