Mab's Cross, Wigan, 304 Maidstone, 280 Maidenhead bridge, 320 Maldon, 103 Manor-houses, 177 Mansions, old, 166-202 Marlborough, inn at, 259 Martyrs burnt at Smithfield, 353 Megalithic remains, 203 Memory, folk, instance of, 208 Menhirs, 203, 204 Merchant Guilds, 267 Milton's Cottage, 88 "Mischief, the Load of," 262 Monmouthshire castles, 128 Mothering Sunday, 379 _Mottes_, Norman, 111, 115 Mumming at Christmas, 376 Municipal buildings, old, 266-82
National Trust for the Protection of Places of Historic Interest, 141, 189, 278, 281, 386 Newbury, stocks at, 309 ---- town hall, 274 Newcastle, 111 ---- walls, 34 New Forest partly destroyed, 386 Newton-by-Corton, 17 Norham Castle, 120 Norton St. Philip, 255 Nottingham Goose Fair, 360 Norwich, 244, 271 ---- hospitals at, 342
Ockwells, Berks, 187 Olney bridge, 330 Orford Castle, 118 Oundle, 338 Oxford, 70 ---- St. Giles's Fair, 360
Palimpsest brasses, 147 Palm Sunday customs, 379 Pakefield, 17 Paston family, 126, 140, 246 Penshurst, 181 Pevensey Castle, 112 Plaster, the use of, 180 Plough Monday, 378 Pontefract Castle, 121 Poole, 17 Porchester Castle, 112 Ports and harbours, 84 Portsmouth, 86 Poulton-in-the-Fylde, 311 Pounds, 312 Prehistoric remains, destruction of, 203-9 Preservation of registers, 374 Progress, 2 Punishments, old-time, 306-17
Radcot bridge, 323 Ranton, house at, 107 ---- priory, 138 Ravensburgh, 20, 21 Reading, guild hall at, 274 ---- Fair, 360 Rebels' heads on gateways, 32 Reculver, 23 Reformation, iconoclasm at, 145, 218 Register books, parish, 368 Restoration, evils of, 9, 10, 151, 153, 156, 220 Richard II., murder of, 121 Richmond, 111, 260 Ringstead, 140 Rochester, 35, 248 Rollright stones, 204 Roman fortresses, 114 Rood-screens removed, 158 Roudham, 140 Rows at Yarmouth, 42 ---- ---- Portsmouth, 86 Ruskin, 3, 67, 198, 200 Ruthwell Cross, 289 Rye, 60
Saffron Walden, 100 Salisbury, halls of guilds at, 281 Sandwich, 34 St. Albans Cathedral, 212 ---- inn at, 254 St. Audrey's laces, 363 St. Bartholomew's, Smithfield, 351-9 St. Margaret's Bay, 17 Salisbury, halls of guilds at, 281, 294 Sandwich, 34 Saxon churches, 144 Scenery, vanishing of English, 3, 383-91 Scold's bridle, 315 Sea-serpent at Heybridge, 104 Selsea, 23 "Seven Stars" at Manchester, 252 Shingle, flow of, 26 Shrewsbury, 52, 270 Shrivenham, Berks, 165 Shrovetide customs, 378 Signboards, 264 Sieges of towns, 32 Simnels, 379 Skegness, 21 Skipton, 310 Smithfield Fair, 351-9 Smuggling, 258 Society for Protection of Ancient Buildings, 141, 320, 326 Somerset, Duke of, spoliator, 146 Somerset crosses, 296 Sonning bridges, 318 Southport, 16 Southwell, inn at, 144 Southwold, 17, 18 Staircases, old, 196 Staffordshire churches, 136 Stamford, hospitals at, 336 Stilton, inn at, 243 Stocks, 306-17 -- in literature, 307 Stonehenge, 205 Storeys, projecting, 72 Stourbridge Fair, 362 Stow Green Fair, 362 Strategic position of castles, 114 Streets and lanes, in, 67-110 Stump Cross, 304 Suffolk coast, 20 Surrey cottages, 76 Sussex coast, 17 Sussex, Robert, Earl of, spoliator, 147 Swallowfield Park, 194