Abinger Church described,337.Abury and Stonehenge,14.Ale, Panegyric on,68.Ale, Saxon,67.Ale and Beer in the5th Century,66.Ale-wife, The,68.Alfred's Jewel, at Oxford,53.All-heal and Mistletoe of the Druids,17.Almonds, early use of,199.Almsgiving and Doles of Queen Isabella,155.Architecture, Saxon and Norman,46,47.Arnott, Dr., on House-heating,135.Arriage and Carriage Services,230.Arthur, King, and the Round Table,90.Arundel Castle described,103.Arundel Castle, history of,106-108.Aubrey's description of the Great Hall,123.Autograph of Richard, Duke of Gloucester,303.Awnd-irons, or Fire-dogs,141.Ballad on Cheshire Cheese,211.Banbury Cakes, history of,245.Banbury Cakes for the Judges,249.Banbury Cheese,210,249.Banbury Cross,250.BanburyZealandVeal,246.Bankes, Lady, her Defence of Corfe Castle,86.Banquets of Princes and Nobles,162.Battle of Bosworth Field,300.Battle of Hastings described,295.Battle of Hastings, Memorial of, in Normandy,297.Battle of Tewkesbury described,299.Battle of Towton described,298.Baynard's Castle and Richard III.,304.Beadle, duties of the,233.Bedford Castle, Siege of,79.Bed, Standing and Truckle,177.Beds, olden varieties of,177,178.Beer and Ale, distinction of,213.Beer, the national English Drink,215.Beltane superstition,226.Birds, Keeping, in the Middle Ages,264.Biscuits, olden,200.Black Boy Inn, Chelmsford, at Plantagenet lodge,304.Blankets, origin of,178.Boleyn, Anne, at Battersea,351.Bolingbroke House taken down,345.Bolingbroke, Lord, at Battersea,343.Bolingbroke, Lord, death of,344.Boon-days, Love-days, and Law-days,224.Bordars and Cottars,219.Bosphrennis Bee-hive Huts,4.Bosworth Field described,300.Bowles, Canon, and Windsor Castle,94,95.Brambletye House, account of,132.Bread, early varieties of,192.Bread, Saxon,65.Brewing in Monasteries and Colleges,67.Brigantes, Houses of,5.Brindswood, curious Tenure,358.Britain before the Roman Colonization,8.Britain, early Exports of,21.British Caves in Cornwall,213.British Ships, early,23.British War-chiefs,22.Britons, early, Dwelling-places of,1.Brooke, Mr., hisVisits to Battle-fields,299,311.Brougham, Lord, on Lord Bolingbroke,344,350.Buckhurst Hill,361.Cæsar, his Account of the Britons,43.Campden, Gloucestershire, built,116.Carpentry, Ornamental,129.Carpets and Rushes,181.Carving by Ladies,166.Castle, Conisborough,76.Castle Rising, Queen Isabella at,149.Castles, Anglo-Norman,76.Castles, Roman,71.Castles,temp.Edward III.,86.Cavaliers and Roundheads, distinction of,326.Cavendish'sLife of Wolsey,280,288,291.Caves, British, in Cornwall,2.Celts, the, in Britain,8.Celts' Hatchets,11.Chairs, ancient,180.Chamber Furniture,temp.Henry VII.,181.Chamber of a Queen,178.Charles II. visits Stonehenge,14.Chaucer, Clerk of the Works at Windsor Castle,93.Cheese, Antiquity of,209.Cheesecakes, Islington and Holloway,253.Cheney, Sir John, at the battle of Bosworth,308.Cheshire Cheese, famous,210.Chimney, Ventilation by,145.Chimneys, Introduction of,136,138.Chimneys made of Wood,138.Chingford Hall,358.Christmas Game Pie, Salters' Company,195.Civilization, Early British,24.Clipping, or Sheep-shearing,229.Coal-fires, open,145.Coal first burnt,140.Cobbett on Sussex Cottages,131.Coffee introduced,197.Coins, Roman, found at London,36.College University Halls,122.Confettes and Ipocrass,205.Congleton Cakes and Gingerbread,251.Conveyance Service,230.Conveying Land, Ancient,237.Cookery, olden English,161.Cookery, Saxon,64.Cooks,temp.Richard II.,195.Coral, Paternoster of,186.Corfe Castle described,84.Corfe Castle, Siege of,85.Cornwall, its early Trade,20.Cottages, early English,131.Cottages, Sussex,131.Country Life,17th century,186.Court Cupboard, the,182.Coventry God-cakes,248.Cowdray, in Sussex,112.Creeper-irons,141,142.Crosby Hall fireplace,139.Crosby Place and Richard III.,304.Cuming, Mr., hisMemorials of Richard III.,302.Curfew, orCouvre-feu, History of,146.Curfew-ringing,147.Curiosities of Hatfield,315.Curiosities of Wotton Place,335,340.Czar Peter at Sayes Court,333.Danes, great Drinkers,69.Danish Houses,69.Deer-stealing in Epping Forest,358.Dessert Fruits introduced,200.Dinner in the Middle Ages,50.Disputed Forest rights,355.Distaff and Spindle, Saxon,56.Domestic Life of the Saxons,46.Dona, or Gifts of Queen Isabella,158.Donegal, Countess, Lines on, by Swift,337.Dress and Personal Ornaments, Olden,184.Drinking-Horns, Ancient,51.Druid Doctors,18.Druid Schools,19.Druidism, account of,10,11.Druids, eloquence of the,16.Durham Castle described,82.Dwelling-places of Early Britons,1.Edward II., Murder of,160,note.Edward III. and Windsor Castle,90.Eleanor, Queen, and Fair Rosamund,272.Elecampane, Uses of,66.Elizabeth's Oak at Hatfield,315,316.Elizabeth, Princess, at Hatfield,320.Elizabeth, Queen, her Hunting Lodge,357.Elizabeth, Queen, at Kenilworth,102.Elizabeth, Queen, Portraits of,318,319.Elizabeth, Queen, and Windsor Castle,93.Eltham Palace Hall,125.Encampments, Roman and British,25,30.English Castle-building,71.English Housewife, The, by Gervase Markham,161.English Manor-house, the,111.Englishman's Fireside, the,135.Epping forest, the last of,353.Esher Place, Vicissitudes of,291.Essay on Man, by Pope, where written,346.Ethelwulf, his Ring,54.Evelyn, John, plants Wotton woods,331.Evelyn, John, at Paris and Padua,332.Evelyn, John, at Sayes Court,333.Evelyn, John, hisSylvaand Planting,334.Evelyn, the pious Mrs.,339.Evelyns, the, at Wotton,329.Fair Rosamund, Story of,269.Fall of Wolsey,284.Feasts, Anglo-Saxon,65.Fire-places, various,137,138."Firm locks make faithful servants,"234.Flodden Field, Tradition,295.Flue-tiles for heating Houses and Baths,145.Forest Officers,357.Forest Scenery, Picturesque,354.Fruit Trenchers, Ornamental,202.Gardening, Evelyn on,334.George IV. restores Windsor Castle,94.Giants, Shropshire, Legends of,37.Glass-making, Saxon,55.God's Sunday,139.Godstow Nunnery,270.Grand Remonstrance, the,323.Grates, invention of,143,144.Griffin's Egg-cup, the,53.Guy, Earl of Warwick,100.Haddon Hall described,117.Hainault Forest,353,355.Hall Fire, the,136,137.Hall, the Great, described,118.Hall at Hatfield House,320.Hall at Hampton Court,120.Hall of the Manor-house,111.Halls of the City Companies,112.Hart, Hunting the, in Enfield Chase,360.Harvest, ancient,224.Hastings, Battle of, described,295.Hatfield, Curiosities of,315.Hatfield House built,116.Hatfield House, curiousFairPicture at,225.Hatfield House and Park described,315.Hatfield House, Pictures at,319.Hawk and Eagle, strange incident,266.Hayfield, Service of Tenants,227.Hayward, Services of the,224.Henry II. and Fair Rosamund,271.Henry III. and Windsor Castle,89.Henry VII. and Windsor Castle,92.Herefordshire Lady in the time of the Civil War,167.Hermitages, Services of,258.Hever Castle, Five Days at,141.Hock-day Customs,227,228.Holland House, Kensington, built,115.Hops introduced,213,214.Horselydown Fair,temp.Queen Elizabeth,254.House-furnishing in the Middle Ages,177.Household Antiquities,109.Housekeeping,17th century,172.Housemarks, olden,235.Housewife, the English,161.Hunting, Queen Elizabeth's fondness for,360.Hypocausts at Uriconium,39.Inns of Court Halls,122.Iron-smelting, Roman, in Britain,57.Isabella, Queen of Edward II., Private Life of,148.Isabella, Queen, Death and Funeral of,154.Isabella, Queen, Pilgrimages of,150,153.Jewels, Queen Isabella's love of,156,157.Kenilworth Castle, Remains of,101,130.Kenilworth Ruins, Picturesqueness of,102.Kent, Woollen Cloths of,56.Kidder, the "Pastry-master,"194.Kitchen at Hampton Court Palace,288.Kitchen of Raby Castle,82.Lady's Dress in the17th Century,171.Lambs'-wool, how made,216.Lappenberg's Picture of Early Britain,8,9.Laundry in olden times,184.Legend of Richard III., from Speed,310.Legend of Stonehenge,13.Legends of English Castles,83.Lending Money in old times,169.Lincoln's Inn Fruit and Vegetable Garden,202.Lodge, Hunting, in Epping Forest,357.Lombard Street, Queen Isabella resides in,150.London, ancient, site of,2.London mostly built of Wood,128.London, Old Houses in,130.London of Roman origin,31.London, Roman Remains in,34.Longleat, Wilts, described,115.Loseley, in Surrey, described,183.Loving Cup, Origin of,50.Mallet at Bolingbroke House,348.Malting and Nutting,223.Manchets, recipes for,193.Manciple, duties of the,194.Manor-house, Old English,127.March-pane and Macaroons,198,199.Marking Ducks, Swans, Oxen, &c.,235.Markland, Jeremiah, at Milton Court,341.Mary, Queen, at Hatfield,320.May-day Carol, on Magdalen College Tower,238.May-day and Raine's Charity,242.May-day in Northamptonshire,243.May-day Song at Saffron Walden,241.May-poles in the present-day,242.Mazer-bowls,52.Mead, origin of,63.Mead-hall, or Beer-hall, Saxon,48.Meal-hours,temp.Richard III.,152.Meals, British, Anglo-Roman, and Saxon,61.Messengers' and Minstrels' Expenses,158,159.Metal-working, early British,22.Middle Age Life at Oxford,243.Mill, Horizontal, at Battersea,345.Milton Court, Jeremiah Markland at,341.Minced pie superstition,248.Mistletoe and the Druids,11.Montague, Lady M. W., on Carving,166.Mortimers, The, and Queen Isabella,151.Mulgrave Castle, Legend of,84.Neckam, Alexander, curious Treatise by,264.Norman Houses,110,128.Oak, Owen Glendower's,37.Oak, Queen Elizabeth's at Hatfield,317.Orange-flower Water and Orange Butter,200.Oranges introduced,201.Oxford Ale,68.Oxford, May-day at,239,240.Oxford, Picture of,243.Oysters, British, famous,62.Pastry-making taught in Schools,194.Pavements, Roman, in London,32.Peasant Life, English,217.Peg Tankards, origin of,51.Pevensey Castle, Remains of,72,73.Pevensey and the Norman Conquest,72.Phillips, Professor, on British and Roman Roads,27.Phœnicians, Trade of,20.Picts and Scots, the,45.Picts' Houses in the Orkneys,5.Pilgrimage of Queen Isabella,150,153.Pin and Needle-makers, London,189.Pins and Pin Money,188.Pins, first made in England,188.Pins, olden,189,190.Pins, what becomes of them?191.Plate-room at Windsor Castle,97.Ploughing for the Lord,221.Pomanders, or Scent-balls,185.Pope, Alexander, at Battersea,343."Pope's Parlour," Bolingbroke House,345.Porcelain and China, early,206.Pottery found at Uriconium,40,41.Precations, autumnal,225.Provisions, ancient Names of,70.Provisions, early,192.Provisions, rapid conveyance of,208.Puritans and Banbury Cakes,245.Queen Isabella, Private Life of,148.Raby Castle described,79.Raglan Castle,86.Richard III., Burial-place of,310.Richard III., Inn at Leicester,305.Richard's Strategy at Bosworth,307.Richard's Well, Bosworth,301.Rimbault, Dr., on the Oxford May Carol,240.Roads, bad, in Kent and Sussex,59.Roads, early British,26.Roman arts in Britain,21.Roman Bricks and Tiles,75.Roman Houses in Britain,40.Roman Pottery and Glass,35.Roman Road-making,51.Roman Roads in Britain,26,27.Roman Roads and British Railways,27.Roman Supper,62.Roman Towns in Britain,32.Roman Wall, London,33.Romans in England, the,24.Rosamund, Fair, Story of,269.Rosamund, Fair, new Legend of,275.Rosamund's Bower and Well,269.Rosamund's Tomb,275.Rose-tree Tradition,313.Round Table and Round Tower, Windsor Castle,90.Royal Chase from Epping to London,353.Rumford, Count, on House-heating,135.Rushes used in Rooms,140.Sacheverel's Passage through Banbury,248.Sack Brewage at Congleton,252.Sage and other herb Cheese,212.St. George's Chapel, Windsor Castle,89,91.Salads first in England,208.Salisbury, the Earl of, builds Hatfield,321.Salmon and the Herefordshire apprentices,167.Sarcophagus for Wolsey's Remains,290.Saxon Beds,49.Saxon Dinner,64.Saxon Embroidery,56.Saxon Halls,363.Saxon Hospitalities,63.Saxon Houses in Britain,47,48.Saxon Ladies,49.Saxon Provisions,64.Saxons arrive in Britain,43.Scripture Texts on Fruit Trenchers,203.Serpents' Eggs of the Druids,15.Sheep-shearing customs,229,230.Silchester, exploration of,42.Silver Fire Implements,142.Sleeping in Church,233.Smith, Mr. Roach, on Roman London,33.Spices, early Use of,198.Spinning, Olden,165.Stirrups, Spurs, and Bridles, ancient,60.Stonehenge, account of,12.Storm, Great, of 1703,334.Sugar-candy and loaf-sugar,196.Sugar-cane in the Sandwich Islands,196.Sugar first introduced,195.Sussex Iron Manufacture,57.Tea introduced,197.Tenants, Operative,218.Tenants' Small Services,222.Tewkesbury Field described,299.Thornbury Castle, history of,113.Thorpe, John, the Architect,115.Tillage of Land Services,220.Tin-trade, ancient, of Cornwall,20.Towton Field described,298.Traditions of Battle-fields,293.Traditions, real worth of,313.Travelling in Saxon Times,59.Trenchers and Trenchermen,207.Trenchers for Dessert Fruit,203.Tunbridge Castle described,78.Uriconium, Destruction of,38.Uriconium, Roman City of,36.Vegetables used in the Middle Ages,207.Victoria, Queen, at Hatfield,124.Villeins, how they held Land,219.Vineyard at Arundel Castle,106.Vineyards, British,69.Vortigern and Rowena,49.Vraic, in the Channel Islands,231.Wake Festivals in the Black Country,259.Walpole, Sir R., and Lord Bolingbroke,343.Waltham Forest,353.Ward-penny, the,232.Wardrobes, early,183.Ware, Great Bed of,179.Warming-pan, antiquity of,180.Wars of the Roses,312.Warton's Sonnet on Stonehenge,15.Warwick Castle described,98.Warwick Castle, Pictures at,99.Wassail-cup, origin of the,50.Watch and Ward customs,232.Wayneflete's Tower at Esher Place,290.Wednesbury Cock-fighting,261.Whigge, or Whey, olden,164.William the Conqueror, Remains of,72.William of Wykeham and Windsor Castle,91.Window-glass at Uriconium,55.Windsor Castle described,86.Windsor Castle, interior of,96,97.Windsor Castle, Pictures at,96.Windsor Castle, St. George's Day at,153.Wines introduced by the Normans,69.Wingfield Manor-house described,112.Wolsey and Christchurch,287.Wolsey at Cawood,286.Wolsey at Esher Place,278.Wolsey, Dr. Johnson's Lines on,285.Wolsey's Tomb-house at Windsor,289,290.Wood used in House-building,128.Woollen Cloth known to the Britons,55.Woollen Clothing, olden,185.Woolverton House and the Russell Family,75.Worsted, origin of,178.Wotton Place and House described,331.Wotton, olden Mills at,336.Wren, odd Notion about,269.Wright, Mr. T., hisGuide to Uriconium,41.Wroxeter, Uriconium at,36.Wyatville and Windsor Castle,94.York and Lancaster Wars,298.York House, Battersea, Wolsey at,351.Yorkshire, ancient Houses in,5-7.Yorkshire, ancient and modern Roads in,27.