The Banqueting Room--The Library--Royal Bedroom--North and South Galleries--Queen Adelaide's apartments--Great Kitchen--Chapel--Stables--Riding House 285-300
Visit of William IV.--Alterations contemplated--Visit of the King and Queen--Story of the Duke of Cambridge--Alterations in the Pavilion--The Royal Family snowed up Queen Victoria's first visit--Second visit--Third, with the Royal children--Fourth, and last--The Pavilion dismantled--Sold to the Corporation of Brighton 301-308
MRS. FITZHERBERT. _Condé, after Cosway._ 1792. _Frontispiece_
ATTACK MADE BY THE FRENCH UPON BRIGHTHELMSTONE, 1545 _To face p._ 9
GEORGE IV. AS PRINCE OF WALES. (_Artist unknown._) _February 1, 1782_ " 36
GEORGEY IN THE COALHOLE. _Gillray._ _July 1, 1800_ " 53
RETURNING FROM BROOKS'S. _Gillray._ _April 18, 1784_ " 72
WIFE AND NO WIFE; OR, A TRIP TO THE CONTINENT. _Gillray._ _March 27, 1786_ " 92
LOVE'S LAST SHIFT. _Gillray._ _February 26, 1787_ " 102
CAPTAIN MORRIS. _Gillray._ _July 23, 1790_ " 157
A VOLUPTUARY UNDER THE HORRORS OF DIGESTION. _Gillray._ _July 2, 1792_ " 167
THE RAGE. _Newton_ or _O'Keefe_ del., _W. Hintin_ sculpt. _November 22, 1794_ " 177
THE GUARDIAN ANGEL. _Gillray._ _April 22, 1805_ " 211
HIGH LIFE BELOW STAIRS. _J. R. Cruikshank._ _March 25, 1819_ " 256
WEST FRONT OF THE PAVILION. _A. Pugin._ 1825 " 271
Early history of Brighthelmstone--Domesday Book--The Flemings--The French harry the South Coast--At Brighthelmstone--Defences of the town--Rumours of the Spanish Armada--Armament of the town.
We who live in these latter days, when Brighton, the 'London-on-the-Sea,' has a standing population of 115,873,[1] and contains 19,543 houses, can hardly realize its small beginnings. That it was known to the Romans there can be no doubt, for, about 1750, an urn was dug up near the town, which contained a thousand _denarii_, ranging from Antoninus Pius to Philip; and others have since been found. In the Anglo-Saxon time Brighthelmstone was a manor, and the great Earl Godwin succeeded in the lordship of it to his father, Ulnoth. On his banishment from the kingdom, this manor, with his other possessions, was seized by King Edward, but, afterwards, he recovered it, and held it until his death, on April 14, 1053, when it lapsed into the hands of his son Harold, who held it until his death at the Battle of Senlac, on October 14, 1066.