The Thames

by G. E. Mitton

INDEX

• Abbey Hotel, Medmenham, [126]
• Abbey River, [165], [168]
• à Becket, Thomas, [67]
• Aberlash, [74]
• Abingdon, [37]
• Abingdon Abbey, [41]
• Adam, [199]
• Addison, [228]
• Albert Bridge, [223]
• Ankerwyke Park, [157]
• Archbishop Laud, [71]
• Arnold, Dr., of Rugby, [167]
• Arnold, Matthew, [5], [167]
• Arragon, Katherine of, [196]
• Arundel House, [215]
• Athens, [149]
• Bankside, [211]
• Barbour, Geoffrey, [39]
• Barges, [234]
• Barn Elms Park, [228]
• Barrage, [232]
• Barrington Shute, [56]
• Barry, [218]
• Battersea Bridge, [226]
• Baynard's Castle, [213]
• Bell Weir Lock, [159]
• Benson Lock, [59]
• Billingsgate, [210]
• Birds, [17]
• Birinus, [50]
• Bisham Abbey, [112]
• Bisham Church, [111]
• Bishop of Winchester's Palace, [212]
• Bishop's Park, [227]
• Blackfriars Bridge, [213], [214]
• Bloomfield, [224]
• Blount, Sir Arthur, [66]
• Boat Race, [2], [201]
• Boleyn, Anne, [158]
• Bolney Court, [84]
• Borlase, Sir John, [127]
• Boulter's Lock, [128]
• Bourne End, [139]
• Boveney Lock, [150]
• Boyle Farm, [185]
• Bradshaw, [175]
• Braganza, Catherine of, [230]
• Brandenburg House, [229]
• Bray, [152]
• Bray Lock, [151]
• Brent River, [200]
• Brentford, [200]
• Bridges:
  • Battersea, [226]
  • Blackfriars, [213], [214]
  • Charing Cross, [216]
  • Chelsea, [223]
  • Folly, [25]
  • Hammersmith, [229]
  • Lambeth, [221]
  • London,210
  • Old London, [208]
  • Putney, [227]
  • Tower, [210]
  • Walton, [173]
  • Waterloo, [216]
• Brightwell Barrow, [49]
• Buckingham, Duke of, [137]
• Burford Bridge, [38]
• Burney, Miss, [143], [199]
• Burton, Sir Richard, [204]
• Bushey Park, [181]
• Cæsar, Julius, [172]
• "Camp-shedding," 238
• Canning, George, [204]
• Carfax Monument, [36]
• Carlyle, [224]
• Caversham, [71]
• Charing Cross Bridge, [216]
• Charles I., [65], [98], [180]
• Charles II., [127]
• Chaucer, [213]
• Chelsea Bridge, [223]
• Chelsea Embankment, [224], [225]
• Chertsey, [168]
• Chertsey Abbey, [168]
• Cherwell, [26]
• Chestnut Sunday, [181]
• Chiswick, [201]
• Chiswick House, [204]
• Christ's Hospital, Abingdon, [40]
• Cleeve Lock, [59]
• Cleopatra's Needle, [216]
• Clieveden, [136]
• Clifton Hampden, [45]
• Climenson, Mrs., [96]
• Coln River, [159]
• Compleat Angler Hotel, Marlow, [107]
• Congreve, [228]
• Conway, Field-Marshal, [102]
• Cookham, [138]
• Cooper's Hill, [146], [157]
• Cornish, J. C., [85]
• Countess of Nottingham, [195]
• Countess of Suffolk, [193]
• Cowley, [5], [6], [169], [174]
• Cowley Stakes, [172]
• Cranmer, [221]
• Cromwell, [55], [180]
• Crowmarsh, [54]
• Cuckoo Weir, [149]
• Culham, [42]
• Custom House, [210]
• Damer, Mrs., [99]
• Danesfield, [124]
• Datchet, [146]
• Day, Thomas, [82]
• Day's Lock, [47]
• Denham, [5], [24]
• Denham, Sir John, [146]
• Despencer, Lord Le, [126]
• Ditton House, [185]
• Donne, Dr., [190]
• Dorchester, [49]
• Dorchester Abbey, [51]
• Dowgate, [213]
• D'Oyley, Robert, [53]
• D'Oyley, Sir Cope, [103]
• Drayton, [4], [5], [22]
• Dredging, [233]
• Druce, Claridge G., [32], [62]
• Duc d'Aumale, [192]
• Duchess of York, [171]
• Dudley, Robert, [196]
• Duke of Buckingham, [137]
• Duke of Gloucester, [192]
• Duke of Marlborough, [150]
• Duke of York, [172]
• Duke's Meadows, [201]
• Durham House, [216]
• Dyers' Company, [122]
• Earl of Essex, [196]
• Earl of Leicester, [215]
• Edward IV., [213]
• Edward VI., [180]
• Edward Plantagenet, [113]
• Edward the Confessor, [140]
• Eel-pie Island, [191]
• Eights, The, [28]
• Eliot, George, [227]
• Embankment, The, [214]
• Empress Maud, [67]
• Essex, Earl of, [196]
• Essex House, [215]
• Eton, [7], [148]
• Evelyn, [229]
• Exe River, [175]
• Fair Maid of Kent, [54]
• Faringford, Hugh, [69]
• Fawley Court, [101], [102]
• Ferry Hotel, Cookham, [138]
• Fielding, Henry, [8], [190]
• Fingest, [103]
• Fishing, [236]
• Fleet River, [213]
• Floods, [217]
• Flora of Oxfordshire, [62]
• Folly Bridge, [25]
• Forbury Public Garden, Reading, [70]
• Fox, Charles James, [169], [204]
• Frogmill, [125]
• Fulham Palace, [228]
• Fuller, [67], [152], [198]
• Garrick's Villa, [183]
• Gaunt, John of, [67], [216]
• Gaveston, Piers, [54]
• Gay, [190], [193]
• General description, [9] ff
• George III., [98]
• George IV., [98], [172]
• George Hotel, Bray, [154]
• George Hotel, Wargrave, [82]
• Gloucester, Duke of, [192]
• Goring, [57]
• Goring Church, [61]
• Gray, [5]
• Great Hall, Westminster, [219]
• Great Marlow, [106]
• Great Western Railway, [8]
• Greenhill, [60]
• Greenlands, [103]
• Greenwich Palace, [6]
• Grey, Lady Jane, [198]
• Gwynne, Nell, [127]
• Halliford, [175]
• Ham House, [191], [193]
• Hambleden, [103]
• Hammersmith Bridge, [229]
• Hampton, [177]
• Hampton Court, [6], [178]
• Hampton Green, [182]
• Hardwicke House, [65]
• Harp Hill, [48]
• Hartslock Woods, [62]
• Hedsor Church, [138]
• Henley, [97]
• Henley Regatta, [3], [100]
• Henry I., [42], [141], [195]
• Henry V., [195]
• Henry VI., [169]
• Henry VII., [195]
• Henry VIII., [68], [158], [178]
• Hoby, Sir Thomas, [111]
• Hogarth, [6], [183], [204]
• Holme Park, [75]
• Home Park, [145]
• Hook, Theodore, [184]
• Horton, [158]
• Hotels, [18]
• House-boats, [235]
• Houses of Parliament, [218]
• Howard, Katherine, [198]
• Hurley, [116]
• Hurlingham Club, [227]
• Hurst Park Racecourse, [182]
• Icknield Street, [59]
• Iffley, [29]
• Isleworth, [197]
• James II., [221]
• James Stuart, [143]
• Joan, [54]
• John, [78], [156], [213]
• Johnson, Dr., [183]
• Jones, Inigo, [199]
• Juxon, [221]
• Kelmscott Press, [230]
• Kempenfelt, Admiral, [120]
• Kew Gardens, [199]
• Kew Observatory, [197]
• Kew Palace, [6]
• Kingis Quair, [144]
• King's Stone, [187]
• Kingston, [186]
• Kingston Rowing Club, [186]
• Kit-Kat Club, [228]
• Kneller, Sir Godfrey, [190], [191], [228]
• Lady Place, [116]
• Laleham, [161], [167]
• Lambeth Bridge, [221]
• Lambeth Palace, [221]
• Laud, Archbishop, [71], [221], [228]
• Leicester, Earl of, [215]
• Leicester House, [215]
• Leland, [78]
• Llyn-din, [212]
• Locks, [239]
  • Bell Weir, [159]
  • Benson, [59]
  • Boulter's, [128]
  • Boveney, [150]
  • Bray, [157]
  • Cleeve, [59]
  • Marsh, [102]
  • Teddington, [187]
  • Temple, [115]
• Loddon River, [92]
• London and South Western Railway, [9]
• London Bridge, [210]
• London Stone, [159]
• Long Ditton, [185]
• Long Mead, [157]
• Louis Philippe, [192]
• Lower Hope, [149]
• Lower Mall, [230]
• Macaulay, [120]
• Magna Charta Island, [155]
• Maidenhead, [132]
• Mapledurham House, [65], [66]
• Marble Hill, [193]
• Marlborough, Duke of, [98], [150]
• Marryat, [230]
• Marsh Lock, [102]
• Medmenham Abbey, [125]
• Merchant Taylors' School, [213]
• Milton, [5], [7], [158]
• Mole River, [184]
• Molesey Lock, [182]
• Molesey Regatta, [184]
• Mongewell, [56]
• Monkey Island, [150]
• Monmouth House, [225]
• Montfichet, [213]
• Moore, Thomas, [185], [188]
• More, Sir Thomas, [225]
• Morris, William, [230]
• Mortlake, [202]
• Mount Lebanon, [192]
• Naval Volunteer Training Ship, [214]
• New Cut, [27]
• Northumberland Avenue, [218]
• Northumberland House, [218]
• Nottingham, Countess of, [195]
• Nuneham Courtney, [35]
• Oatlands Park, [171], [174]
• Obstructions, [234]
• Old Deer Forest, [197]
• Old London Bridge, [208]
• Old Windsor, [146]
• Orleans House, [191]
• Oxford, [7]
• Oxford Meadows, [32]
• Pang River, [64]
• Pangbourne, [63]
• Park Place, [102]
• Parr, Catherine, [225]
• Penton Hook, [161]
• Pepys, [229]
• Phyllis Court, [101], [102]
• Pope, [5], [6], [145], [190], [193], [204]
• Pope's Villa, [189]
• Prince de Joinville, [192]
• Prince Henry, [193]
• Princess Elizabeth, [225]
• Puddle Dock, [213]
• Punting competition, [170]
• Putney Bridge, [227]
• Quarry Woods, [109]
• Queen Anne, [192]
• Queen Caroline, [229]
• Queen Eleanor, [213]
• Queen Elizabeth, [70], [113], [240]
• Queen Mary, [180]
• Queen Maud, [54]
• Queenhithe, [213]
• Radley College Boat-house, [34]
• Ranelagh, [223], [228]
• Raven's Ait, [186]
• Ray Mead Hotel, Maidenhead, [135]
• Reading Abbey, [67]
• Reading Castle, [70]
• Red Lion Hotel, Henley, [98]
• Richard II., [195]
• Richard III., [213]
• Richmond, [194]
• Richmond Palace, [6], [195]
• Rivers:
  • Abbey, [165], [168]
  • Brent, [200]
  • Coln, [159]
  • Exe, [175]
  • Fleet, [213]
  • Loddon, [92]
  • Mole, [184]
  • Pang, [64]
  • Thame, [52]
  • Wandle, [227]
  • Wey, [173]
• Robsart, Amy, [196]
• Rodney, Admiral, [175]
• Romney Island, [148]
• Rose Garden, Sonning, [72]
• Rossetti, [227]
• Royal Hospital, Chelsea, [223]
• Runney Mead, [156]
• Rupert, Prince, [201]
• St. Anne's Hill, [170]
• St. Helen's Nunnery, Abingdon, [40]
• St. Mary Overies, [210]
• St. Patrick's Stream, [92]
• St. Saviour's, [210]
• St. Thomas's Hospital, [221]
• Salisbury House, [216]
• Sandford, [33]
• Savoy, The, [216]
• Scotland Yard, [218]
• Seagulls, [218]
• Seymour, Thomas, [225]
• Shelley, [106]
• Shenstone, [99]
• Shepperton, [170], [175]
• Shiplake, [95]
• Shrewsbury House, [225]
• Sinodun Hill, [48]
• Skindle's Hotel, Maidenhead, [133]
• Smith, Rt. Hon. W. H., [103]
• Smith, Sydney, [78]
• Smollett, [225]
• Somerset, Lord-Protector, [198], [215]
• Somerset House, [214]
• Sonning, [72]
• Spenser, [5], [213], [215]
• Staines, [159]
• Star and Garter Hotel, Richmond, [194]
• Steele, [228]
• Stephen, [54]
• Stokenchurch, [103]
• Stow, [239]
• Strawberry Hill, [188]
• Streatley, [57]
• Sunbury, [175]
• Surbiton, [186]
• Surley Hill, [150]
• Sutton Courtney, [43]
• Sutton Pool, [43]
• Swan Hotel, Thames Ditton, [184]
• Swans, [121]
• Swift, [190], [193]
• Syon House, [197]
• Tagg's Island, [182]
• Taplow, [132]
• Tate Gallery, [223]
• Teddington Lock, [187]
• Temple, [214]
• Temple Island, [101]
• Temple Lock, [115]
• Temple Mill, [115]
• Tennyson, [95], [191]
• Terry, Ellen, [166]
• Thame, The, [52]
• Thames Conservancy, [233]
• Thames, derivation of, [4]
• Thames Ditton, [184]
• Thames Gardens, [19]
• Thomson, [6], [137], [230]
• Thorney Island, [222]
• Torpids, The, [29]
• Tow-path, [237]
• Tower, [210]
• Tower Bridge, [210], [211]
• Tower Royal, [213]
• Turner, [173], [191], [226], [230]
• Twickenham, [191]
• Twickenham Reach, [188]
• Upper Hope, [149]
• Upper Mall, [230]
• Upper Thames Sailing Club, [139]
• Vanbrugh, [228]
• Vauxhall Bridge, [223]
• Vintners' Company, [122]
• Walbrook, [208]
• Walbrook Wharf, [212]
• Walker, Frederick, [153]
• Wallingford, [53]
• Walpole, Horace, [6], [183], [189], [228]
• Walton Bridge, [173]
• Walton Church, [174]
• Walton, Izaak, [147]
• Wandle River, [227]
• Wandsworth, [227]
• Warbeck, Perkin, [196]
• Wargrave, [80]
• Warwick, "King Maker," 113
• Waterloo Bridge, [216]
• Watermen, [206]
• Weirs, [239]
• Westminster Abbey, [222]
• Westminster Bridge, [220]
• Westminster Palace, [6]
• Wey River, [171]
• Weybridge, [170], [171]
• Whitchurch, [63]
• Whitehall, [218]
• Whitehall Palace, [6]
• White Hart Hotel, Sonning, [74]
• Whitehill, [60]
• Wigod, [53]
• William the Conqueror, [53], [141]
• William III., [141], [180]
• Winchester House, [225]
• Windsor Castle, [140]
• Wittenham, Little, [47]
• Wittenham Woods, [47]
• Wolsey, [178]
• Worcester House, [216]
• Wordsworth, [220]
• Wotton, Sir Henry, [147]
• Wren, Sir Christopher, [181], [182]
• Wyatt, Sir Thomas, [210]
• York, Duchess of, [171]
• York, Duke of, [172]
• York House, [191], [217]

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