List of Illustrations

SEPARATE PLATES
Entrance to Hastings, by Minnis Rock and the oldLondon Road[Frontispiece]
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Lewisham[19]
Entrance to the Widows’ College[27]
In the First Quadrangle, Widows’ College, Bromley[31]
The Road across Bromley Common[45]
Knockholt Beeches[59]
An old Wayside Cottage, below Polhill[67]
The South Front, Knole (Photo C. Essenhigh Corke & Co.)[99]
The Pantiles, Tunbridge Wells[127]
The Toad Rock[135]
Kent[149]
Lamberhurst[155]
Scotney Castle[161]
Weird Oast-houses, Lamberhurst165
The Moated Castle of Bodiam[183]
“Duke William comforts his Young Soldiers” (CentralIncident of the Battle of Hastings. From theBayeux Tapestry)[211]
Battle Abbey[229]
Hastings Old Town[261]
ILLUSTRATIONS IN THE TEXT
Business-Card of the “Bolt-in-Tun” Coach Office[9]
The Colfe Almshouses[22]
The Old Toll-house, Pratt’s Bottom[56]
A Phyllis of Knockholt[61]
Longford[69]
Riverhead[72]
Sign of the “Blackboy” Inn[78]
Sign of the “Bricklayers’ Arms”[79]
Old Mansion, formerly the “Cats” Inn[81]
Seal of Sevenoaks Grammar School[83]
Knole, from the Road[89]
The Gateway, Knole[92]
The Stone Court, Knole[95]
The “Dumb Bell” 101
The Seven Oaks[103]
The “White Hart” Inn[105]
River Hill and the Kentish Weald[110]
Tonbridge Castle[114]
The “Chequers,” Tonbridge[118]
A Sporting Weather-vane[119]
Church of King Charles the Martyr[124]
Tunbridge Ware[133]
Scene at “High Rocks”138
The Marquis of Abergavenny’s “A”[139]
The Neville Gate, Frant[140]
The “Blue Boys” Inn[143]
Bayham Abbey: Across the Water-meadows[158]
Etchingham Church[172]
The Ancient Vane, Etchingham[174]
Brass of Sir William de Etchingham[175]
The Fox preaching to the Geese[176]
The Abbey Farm[179]
William the Conqueror (Bayeux Tapestry)[198]
Last Stand of the English (Bayeux Tapestry)[213]
Flight of the English Churls (Bayeux Tapestry)[215]
A Descendant of the Saxon Churls[227]
Battle Church[232]
A Bye-road at Battle[233]
The Road past Crowhurst Park[235]
Junction of Roads spoiled by Tramways, Baldslow[238]
“Huz and Buz”: Entrance to Holmhurst[241]
Queen Anne, at Holmhurst[245]
Ruins of the Old Church, Ore[247]
The Old London Road[249]
All Saints’[253]
Old House, All Saints’ Street[258]
Old Tackle-boxes, Hastings[265]
St. Clement’s Church[279]
A Slain Norman (Bayeux Tapestry)[284]