Part 20
Coaches:-- "Blue-eyed Maid", 8 "Defiance", 3 "Eagle", 3 "Express", 3, 4 "Foreign Mail", 3 "Phoenix", 3 "Royal Mail", 3 "Tally-ho", 3, 216 "Telegraph", 3 "Union", 3 "Worthington's Safety", 3
Coaching, 3-5, 23, 39, 45, 58, 92, 216
Coal and Wine Dues, 50
Cobham Park, 61, 97
"Coldharbours", 228-230
Colet, Dean, 185, 209-212
Courtenay's Rebellion, 175-183
Crayford, 47-49
Crook Long, 45
Cycling Records, 201
"Danes" Holes, 46
Dartford, 49-60, 97, 118, 200
Denton, near Canterbury, 233-236
Denton by Gravesend, 79-81
Deptford, 23
Dickens, Charles, 81, 87, 90-93, 102-104, 106, 126, 141
_Don Juan_, 37-39, 213, 243
Dover, 220, 242-257
Drellingore Stream, 239
Dunkirk, 181-183
Elizabeth, Queen, 6, 23, 26, 119
Erasmus, Disiderius, 185, 209-212
Falstaff, Sir John, 87, 93
Faversham, 146, 166, 170-172
Gad's Hill, 86-95
Gravesend, 4, 18, 60, 62, 66-70, 86, 91
Greenhithe, 60, 62, 89
Greenstreet, 163
Greenwich Park, 25
Gundulf, Bishop, 54
Gutteridge Gate, 216
Harbledown, 173, 183-186, 194
Hengist and Horsa, 48
Henry V, 30, 154
Henry VIII, 117-119, 151, 195-197
Hermits, 55, 151-153, 161, 163, 171
Hernhill, 168, 181
Highwaymen, 25, 36-40, 71, 87-90, 217
Hops, 163
Horn's Cross, 62
Huggens' College, 66
_Ingoldsby Legends_, The 80, 134, 234-236
"Ingoldsby Abbey", 80
Inns (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, 157
James II, 70, 121, 170
"Jezreel, James Jershom", 137-140
John's Hole, 62
Kearsney, 2, 38, 240
Kent Street, 9
Key Street, 97, 148
Kidbrook, 34, 35
London Bridge, 2, 5-7, 12, 19, 30, 44, 200
Lydden, 238
Marlowe, Christopher, 23
"Milestones on the Dover Road", 19
Milton-next-Gravesend, 77-79
Milton-next-Sittingbourne, 146, 153, 159
"Mockbeggars", 230
Moor Street, 141
Murston, 153, 161
Nevison, John, 90
New Cross, 21, 23, 200
Newington, 142-149, 226
Northfleet, 61, 62-64, 66, 97
"Old England's Hole", 223
Old Kent Road, 5, 19-22, 200
Old-Time Travellers, in general, 11-18, 22, 56, 70-77, 87-90, 115-122, 183-186, 190-201
Old-Time Travellers:-- Albert of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha, Prince Consort, 199-201 Bassompierre, Marshal de, 70 Cossuma Albertus, Prince, 89 Dalkeith, Countess of, 198 Grosley, M., 73-77 Henrietta Maria, Princess, 198 Moritz, Pastor, 56 Nivernais, Duc de, 104, 190-194 Peel, Sir Robert, 199 Rochefort, M. Jouvin de, 71 Sorbiere, M. Samuel de, 72 Zinzerling, Herr Justus, 154
Ospringe, 97, 145, 149, 161, 165
Pepys, Samuel, 36, 121
Pilgrims, 11-18, 161, 172, 183-186, 207-213
Preston, 166
Radfield, 163
Rainham, 140-142
River, 240
Rochester, 95, 97, 102-125, 200
Rochester Castle, 54, 106, 114
Rochester Cathedral, 54, 105, 108-113
Romans, The, 27, 47, 60, 76, 95-99, 144-148, 199, 218-233, 244
Rosherville Gardens, 64
St. Radigund's Abbey, 240
St. Thomas a Watering, 18
St. William of Perth, 111
Schamel, Hermitage of, 151-153
Shooter's Hill, 35-40
Shoulder of Mutton Green, 44
Sittingbourne, 97, 144, 150-161
Southwark, 7-18
Spielman, Sir John, 51-53
Springhead, 61, 65
Stone, 62
Strood, 60, 61, 94, 97, 100-102
Swanscombe, 60
Tappington, Everard, 236
Telegraph Hill, 11
Telegraph Tower, Southwark, 9-11
Temple Ewell, 238, 240
Teynham, 163
Thom, John Nichols (calling himself "Sir William Percy Honeywood Courtenay"), 174-183
Tong, 163
Tramps, 41-44
Turnpike Gates, 62, 216
Turpin, Dick, 90
Tyler, Wat, 27-30, 57
Watercress, 65
Watling Street, 34, 47, 60, 95-99, 144-148, 214, 223
Watts, Richard, 119
Welling, 44
White Hill, 49
Wolsey, 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 deg.; 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.
Transcriber's Notes:
Passages in italics are indicated by _italics_.
The notation [symbol] is used to represent various geometric shapes.
The following misprints have been corrected: "conjuction" corrected to "conjunction" (page 24) "ong" corrected to "long" (page 77) "ot" corrected to "to" (page 78) "botton" corrected to "bottom" (page 238) "Admiraly" corrected to "Admiralty" (page 249) "Rebell on" corrected to "Rebellion" (index)
Other than the corrections listed above, inconsistencies in spelling and hyphenation have been retained from the original.