CONTENTS

TO THE SECOND VOLUME.

CHAPTER I.

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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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CHAPTER III.

The Return to London. The Shipping.

Poet.

Gower the

Grave of Massinger. - Origin of Billingsgate.-

Geoffry Chaucer and the Custom House. The Prisoners

of the Tower of London. St. Katherine's Hospital and

The Lord Mayor and the Lion. -The London

The Poetry of Commerce. The Thames Tunnel.

-Wapping and Rotherhithe.-The Commercial Dock.-

Docks.

Docks.

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The Isle of Dogs.

CHAPTER IV.

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Deptford. The Victualling Office. - The Dock-yard.

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- John Evelyn and Peter the Great. Peter and the

Quakers. The river Ravensbourne. Tradition of Julius

Cæsar. - Early History of Greenwich and its Palace of

Placentia, Coronation of Anne Boleyn. Festivities at

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Greenwich during the Reign of Elizabeth.

the Poets.

CHAPTER V.

Visits of Sully to King James I. at Greenwich. Demo-

lition of the Palace of Placentia.

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Building of a New

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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.

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Reminiscences of Isaac Walton.

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Poetics of Hoddes-

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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.

Tournament of Tottenham.-True Philosophy at Tottenham

Cross. Stratford-le-Bow and Bromley.

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and his May Games. Charlton Horn Fair

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John and the Miller's Wife. Woolwich. The Dock-

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yard. Wonders of the Royal Arsenal.

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CHAPTER VIII.

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The Devil's House.-The River Roding. Barking. -

Green Street House.

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-

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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.

·Gray's Thurrock. · Northfleet and Southfleet.

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Gravesend. Falstaff on Gad's Hill.

Fort. The Hundred of Hoo. Higham Ferry.- Cowling

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Elizabeth at Tilbury

Hadleigh and

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Leigh. Southend. The Isle of Grain.. The Ocean.

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Conclusion of the Thames.

CHAPTER X.

Spenser's Bridal of the Thames and Medway. - The ·

Mutiny at the Nore. Sheerness and Queenborough.-The

Legend of our Lady of Gillingham.

Chatham. Rochester and Stroud. Rochester Bridge

and Castle.-Aylesford.-Birth-place of Sir Charles Sedley.

-Hengist and Horsa. Remarkable Cromlechs.

Cotty House. -The Rood of Grace, and Tricks of the

Monks of Boxley.-Penenden Heath.

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