Alkham,238Bapchild,144,162Barham,233Barham Downs,1,96,218,222-233,236Barham Family,233-235Barham, Rev. Richard Harris,80,234Becket, Thomas à,13,18,19,95,134,151,186,194,197,207-213,216,233Bell Grove,44Bexley,45Bexley Heath,44,45-47Blackheath,18,24-35Black Prince, The,185,204-207Black Robin’s Corner,236Borough, The,7-18Bossenden Woods,179-182Boughton-under-Blean,172,173,179,181Bridge,217Broome Park,236Buckland,241Cade, Jack,6,31Cæsar, Julius,1,96,145,148,218-226,244-246Canterbury,3,74,97,174,183,187-216,228Canterbury Pilgrims,11-18,172,183-186,194-197,207-213,216Caroline, Princess of Wales and Queen,25,56Chalk,66,81-86Charles II,33,68,70,89,90,121Charlton,34,35Chatham,126-140,200Chaucer, Geoffrey,11,172,183,184“Church Ales”,82Clavell, John,87Cleves, Anne of,117-119Coaches:—“Blue-eyed Maid”,8“Defiance”,3“Eagle”,3“Express”,3,4“Foreign Mail”,3“Phœnix”,3“Royal Mail”,3“Tally-ho”,3,216“Telegraph”,3“Union”,3“Worthington’s Safety”,3Coaching,3-5,23,39,45,58,92,216Coal and Wine Dues,50Cobham Park,61,97“Coldharbours”,228-230Colet, Dean,185,209-212Courtenay’sRebellion,175-183Crayford,47-49Crook Long,45Cycling Records,201“Danes” Holes,46Dartford,49-60,97,118,200Denton, near Canterbury,233-236Denton by Gravesend,79-81Deptford,23Dickens, Charles,81,87,90-93,102-104,106,126,141Don Juan,37-39,213,243Dover,220,242-257Drellingore Stream,239Dunkirk,181-183Elizabeth, Queen,6,23,26,119Erasmus, Disiderius,185,209-212Falstaff, Sir John,87,93Faversham,146,166,170-172Gad’s Hill,86-95Gravesend,4,18,60,62,66-70,86,91Greenhithe,60,62,89Greenstreet,163Greenwich Park,25Gundulf, Bishop,54Gutteridge Gate,216Harbledown,173,183-186,194Hengist and Horsa,48Henry V,30,154Henry VIII,117-119,151,195-197Hermits,55,151-153,161,163,171Hernhill,168,181Highwaymen,25,36-40,71,87-90,217Hops,163Horn’s Cross,62Huggens’ College,66Ingoldsby Legends, The80,134,234-236“Ingoldsby Abbey”,80Inns (mentioned at length):—“Blue-eyed Maid,” Southwark,8“Bull,” Dartford,55,107“Bull,” Rochester,107“Bull,” Shooter’s Hill,36“Crispin and Crispianus,” Strood,101,171“Crown,” Rochester,119“Falstaff,” Canterbury,187“Falstaff,” Gad’s Hill,90,94“George,” Sittingbourne,155“George,” Southwark,7,8“Golden Cross,” New Cross,22“Gun,” Sittingbourne,156“Half Moon,” Southwark,8“Key,” Key Street,148“Lion,” Sittingbourne,155,160“Lord Nelson,” Chalk,86“Red Lion,” Canterbury,189-192“Red Lion,” Dunkirk,181,182“Red Lion,” Sittingbourne,154“Rose,” Canterbury,174,189“Rose,” Sittingbourne,155“Spur,” Southwark,8“Tabard,” Southwark,8,12,13,18“White Hart,” Sittingbourne,156,157James II,70,121,170“Jezreel, James Jershom”,137-140John’s Hole,62Kearsney,2,38,240Kent Street,9Key Street,97,148Kidbrook,34,35London Bridge,2,5-7,12,19,30,44,200Lydden,238Marlowe, Christopher,23“Milestones on the Dover Road”,19Milton-next-Gravesend,77-79Milton-next-Sittingbourne,146,153,159“Mockbeggars”,230Moor Street,141Murston,153,161Nevison, John,90New Cross,21,23,200Newington,142-149,226Northfleet,61,62-64,66,97“Old England’s Hole”,223Old Kent Road,5,19-22,200Old-Time Travellers, in general,11-18,22,56,70-77,87-90,115-122,183-186,190-201Old-Time Travellers:—Albert of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha, Prince Consort,199-201Bassompierre, Marshal de,70Cossuma Albertus, Prince,89Dalkeith, Countess of,198Grosley, M.,73-77Henrietta Maria, Princess,198Moritz, Pastor,56Nivernais, Duc de,104,190-194Peel, Sir Robert,199Rochefort, M. Jouvin de,71Sorbière, M. Samuel de,72Zinzerling, Herr Justus,154Ospringe,97,145,149,161,165Pepys, Samuel,36,121Pilgrims,11-18,161,172,183-186,207-213Preston,166Radfield,163Rainham,140-142River,240Rochester,95,97,102-125,200Rochester Castle,54,106,114Rochester Cathedral,54,105,108-113Romans, The,27,47,60,76,95-99,144-148,199,218-233,244Rosherville Gardens,64St. Radigund’s Abbey,240St. Thomas à Watering,18St. William of Perth,111Schamel, Hermitage of,151-153Shooter’s Hill,35-40Shoulder of Mutton Green,44Sittingbourne,97,144,150-161Southwark,7-18Spielman, Sir John,51-53Springhead,61,65Stone,62Strood,60,61,94,97,100-102Swanscombe,60Tappington, Everard,236Telegraph Hill,11Telegraph Tower, Southwark,9-11Temple Ewell,238,240Teynham,163Thom, John Nichols (calling himself “Sir William Percy Honeywood Courtenay”),174-183Tong,163Tramps,41-44Turnpike Gates,62,216Turpin, Dick,90Tyler, Wat,27-30,57Watercress,65Watling Street,34,47,60,95-99,144-148,214,223Watts, Richard,119Welling,44White Hill,49Wolsey, Cardinal,31,195
Footnotes:
[1]The real names of these two brothers are unknown. They took the names by which they are known in history from the banners under which their men fought; banners which bore the cognizance of a white horse: Hengist and Horsa being merely the Jutish-Saxon words for “horse” and “mare.” The Danish, indeed, still use the word “hors” for mare, and a survival of the old badge of these fierce pagans is still to be met with in the familiar white horse of Brunswick-Hanover. The prancing steed that remains to this day the Kentish device, with its dauntless motto “Invicta,” is also a survival from the days when Hengist and Horsa founded the first Saxon kingdom in Britain.
[2]He meant Harbledown, Boughton, and Ospringe: Green-street, Sittingbourne, Newington, and Rainham.
[3]“Gad’s,”i.e.“rogues,” Hill.
[4]One of the many originals of “Samivel’s father” put forward. One was supposed to have been at Bath, another at Dorking; and others still have claims to have originated this humorous character.
[5]Collectors for “Hospital Saturday” funds come within the meaning of this unrepealed Act.
[6]He was here also in 1661, giving a very amusing account of how he was entertained, and how he kissed and sang and danced: it is too long, though, for quotation here. But look it up.
[7]Mr. Gladstone has said, most notoriously, that to be “hemmed in” is not to be “surrounded.” But that was part of the political game of bluff, and may not be regarded as a contribution to philology.
[8]An excellent story is told of the cold that rages up here in the winter. It belongs to coaching times, and was told by a coachman who had a new guard with him one frosty night, when the temperature was going down to 15°; a cockney guard who was unused to exposure, and who, moreover, had not the experience which led the Jehu to wrap himself up in layers of flannel, a many-caped coat, and three or four waistcoats. “Ain’t it cold?” asked the guard several times, climbing over the coach roof with numbed hands and blue nose. “Cold!” returned the coachman, “not at all.” “That’s all very well,” says the guard, “but your eyes are watering like hanythink.” “Oh! are they?” rejoins the coachman, “I suppose that’s the perspiration!”
[9]There are “Mockbeggars” in Kent, as in most other counties. There is one near Rochester. Some old buildings pulled down in 1771 at Brighthelmstone were called Mockbeggars. Local opinion held the belief that there had been a Mendicant Priory, but this was not generally credited. The name seems to have been generally applied to objects wearing at some distance the appearance of an hospitable mansion, to which travellers would be drawn out of their road only to meet with a disappointment in finding an empty house, or no house at all. Two such places, so called, are to be instanced: one is an isolated rock at Bakewell in Derbyshire, presenting from the road the semblance of a house, to which it is said beggars and tramps wend their way, only to be mocked by a freak of nature: seeking for bread they find, literally, a stone. The other is an old Tudor mansion, called Mockbeggar Hall, at Claydon in Suffolk, standing in a conspicuous situation, near the road leading from Ipswich to Scole; a place to which mendicants would naturally be attracted, in expectation of finding inhabitants there, but which has, according to tradition, remained so long unoccupied as to have earned its name a hundred years, or more, ago.
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