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,

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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.

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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

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Funeral of Nelson. The View from the Hill.- The Le-

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gend of St. Alphege.--The humours of Greenwich Fair. 110

CHAPTER VI.

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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.

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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-

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combe.

Gravesend.

Gray's Thurrock. - Northfleet and Southfleet.

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- 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.

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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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