CHAPTER I. INTRODUCTION
II. THE DISAPPEARANCE OF ENGLAND
III. OLD WALLED TOWNS
IV. IN STREETS AND LANES
V. OLD CASTLES
VI. VANISHING OR VANISHED CHURCHES
VII. OLD MANSIONS
VIII. THE DESTRUCTION OF PREHISTORIC REMAINS
IX. CATHEDRAL CITIES AND ABBEY TOWNS
X. OLD INNS
XI. OLD MUNICIPAL BUILDINGS
XII. OLD CROSSES
XIII. STOCKS AND WHIPPING-POSTS
XIV. OLD BRIDGES
XV. OLD HOSPITALS AND ALMSHOUSES
XVI. VANISHING FAIRS
XVII. THE DISAPPEARANCE OF OLD DOCUMENTS
XVIII. OLD CUSTOMS THAT ARE VANISHING
XIX. THE VANISHING OF ENGLISH SCENERY
XX. CONCLUSION
INDEX
LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
The George Inn, Norton St. Philip, Somerset (Frontispiece)
Canopy over Doorway of Buckingham House, Portsmouth (Title page)
Rural Tenements, Capel, Surrey
Detail of Seventeenth-century Table in Milton's Cottage, Chalfont St. Giles
Seventeenth-century Trophy
Old Shop, formerly standing in Cliffe High Street, Lewes
Paradise Square, Banbury
Norden's Chart of the River Ore and Suffolk Coast
Disused Mooring-post on bank of the Rother, Rye
Old Houses built on the Town Wall, Rye
Bootham Bar, York
Half-timbered House with early Fifteenth-century Doorway, King's Lynn, Norfolk
The "Bone Tower," Town Walls, Great Yarmouth
Row No. 83, Great Yarmouth
The Old Jetty, Gorleston
Tudor House, Ipswich, near the Custom House
Three-gabled House, Fore Street, Ipswich
"Melia's Passage," York
Detail of Half-timbered House in High Street, Shrewsbury
Tower on the Town Wall, Shrewsbury
House that the Earl of Richmond stayed in before the Battle of Bosworth. Shrewsbury
Old Houses formerly standing in Spon Street, Coventry
West Street, Rye
Monogram and Inscription in the Mermaid Inn, Rye
Inscription in the Mermaid Inn, Rye
Relic of Lynn Siege in Hampton Court, King's Lynn
Hampton Court, King's Lynn, Norfolk
Mill Street, Warwick
Tudor Tenements, New Inn Hall Street, Oxford (now demolished)
Gothic Corner-post. The Half Moon Inn, Ipswich
Timber-built House, Shrewsbury
Missbrook Farm, Capel, Surrey
Cottage at Capel, Surrey
Farm-house, Horsmonden, Kent
Seventeenth-century Cottages, Stow Langtoft, Suffolk
The "Fish House," Littleport, Cambs.
Sixteenth-century Cottage, formerly standing in Upper Deal, Kent
Gable, Upper Deal, Kent
A Portsmouth "Row"
Lich-gate, Chalfont St. Giles, Bucks
Fifteenth-century Handle on Church Door, Monk's Risborough, Bucks
Weather-boarded Houses, Crown Street, Portsmouth
Inscription on Font, Parish Church, Burford, Oxon
Detail of Fifteenth-century Barge-board, Burford, Oxon
The George Inn, Burford, Oxon
Maldon, Essex. Sky-line of the High Street at twilight
St. Mary's Church, Maldon
Norman Clamp on door of Heybridge Church, Essex
Tudor Fire-place. Now walled up in the passage of a shop in Banbury
Cottages in Witney Street, Burford, Oxon
Burgh Castle, Suffolk
Caister Castle, Norfolk
Defaced Arms, Taunton Castle
Knightly Basinet (_temp._ Henry V) in Norwich Castle
Saxon Doorway in St. Lawrence's Church, Bradford-on-Avon, Wilts.
St. George's Church, Great Yarmouth
Carving on Rood-screen, Alcester Church, Warwick
Fourteenth-century Coffer in Faversham Church, Kent
Flanders Chest in East Dereham Church, Norfolk, _temp_. Henry VIII
Reversed Rose carved on "Miserere" in Norwich Cathedral
Oak Panelling. Wainscot of Fifteenth Century, with addition _circa_ late Seventeenth Century, fitted on to it in angle of room in the Church House, Goudhurst, Kent
Section of Mouldings of Cornice on Panelling, the Church House, Goudhurst
The Wardrobe House, the Close, Salisbury
Chimney at Compton Wynyates
Window-catch, Brockhall, Northants
Gothic Chimney, Norton St. Philip, Somerset
The Moat, Crowhurst Place, Surrey
Arms of the Gaynesfords in window, Crowhurst Place, Surrey
Cupboard Hinge, Crowhurst Place, Surrey
Fixed Bench in the hall, Crowhurst Place, Surrey
Gothic Door-head, Goudhurst, Kent
Knightly Basinet (_temp._ Henry V) in Norwich Castle
Hilt of Thirteenth-century Sword in Norwich Museum
"Hand-and-a-half" Sword. Mr. Seymour Lucas, R.A.
Seventeenth-century Boot, in the possession of Ernest Crofts, Esq., R.A.
Chapel de Fer at Ockwells, Berks
Tudor Dresser Table, in the possession of Sir Alfred Dryden, Canon's Ashby, Northants
Seventeenth-century Powder-horn, found in the wall of an old house at Glastonbury. Now in Glastonbury Museum
Seventeenth-century Spy-glass in Taunton Museum
Fourteenth-century Flagon. From an old Manor House in Norfolk
Elizabethan Chest, in the possession of Sir Coleridge Grove, K.C.B.
Staircase Newel, Cromwell House, Highgate
Piece of Wood Carved with Inscription. Found with a sword (_temp._ Charles II) in an old house at Stoke-under-Ham, Somerset
Seventeenth-century Water-clock, in Norwich Museum
Sun-dial. The Manor House, Sutton Courtenay
Half-timber Cottages, Waterside, Evesham
Quarter Jacks over the Clock on exterior of north wall of Wells Cathedral
The Gate House, Bishop's Palace, Well
House in which Bishop Hooper was imprisoned, Westgate Street, Gloucester
The "Stone House," Rye, Sussex
Fifteenth-century House, Market Place, Evesham
Fifteenth-century House, Market Place, Evesham
Fifteenth-century House in Cowl Street, Evesham
Half-timber House, Alcester, Warwick
Half-timber House at Alcester
The Wheelwrights' Arms, Warwick
Entrance to the Reindeer Inn, Banbury
The Shoulder of Mutton Inn, King's Lynn
A Quaint Gable, the Bell Inn, Stilton
The Bell Inn, Stilton
The "Briton's Arms," Norwich
The Dolphin Inn, Heigham, Norwich
Shield and Monogram on doorway of the Dolphin Inn, Heigham
Staircase Newel at the Dolphin Inn
The Falstaff Inn, Canterbury
The Bear and Ragged Staff Inn, Tewkesbury
Fire-place in the George Inn, Norton St. Philip, Somerset
The Green Dragon Inn, Wymondham, Norfolk
The Star Inn, Alfriston, Sussex
Courtyard of the George Inn, Norton St. Philip, Somerset
The Dark Lantern Inn, Aylesbury, Bucks
Spandril. The Marquis of Granby Inn, Colchester
The Town Hall, Shrewsbury
The Greenland Fishery House, King's Lynn. An old Guild House of the time of James I
The Market House, Wymondham, Norfolk
Guild Mark and Date on doorway, Burford, Oxon
Stretham Cross, Isle of Ely
The Market Cross, Salisbury
Under the Butter Cross, Witney, Oxon
The Triangular Bridge, Crowland
Huntingdon Bridge
The Crane Bridge, Salisbury
Watch House on the Bridge, Bradford-on-Avon, Wilts
Gateway of St. John's Hospital, Canterbury
Inmate of the Trinity Bede House at Castle Rising, Norfolk
The Hospital for Ancient Fishermen, Great Yarmouth
Inscription on the Hospital, King's Lynn
Ancient Inmates of the Fishermen's Hospital, Great Yarmouth
Cottages at Evesham
Stalls at Banbury Fair
An Old English Fair
An Ancient Maker of Nets in a Kentish Fair
Outside the Lamb Inn, Burford
Tail Piece