FOOTNOTES:
[8] Erasmus, the reformer, speaks of 'many herds' of bears which he saw being trained for baiting when he was in England in the reign of Henry VIII.
[9] This description is taken from "The Reminiscences of an Octogenarian," published in The Reading Observer. He describes a visit made by himself when a youth, to Wokingham, under the guidance of an elder companion, to see the bull-baiting. Other particulars have been derived from information given to the writer of this article by those, most of them now dead, who were spectators of the sports.
[10] The particulars of this scene were given to the writer by the farmer who had been one of the boys in the chaise.
[11] The description of this scene is taken partly from an old picture, and partly from the narrative of an eye-witness.
Index.
Abbot, power of, [133]-[134]
Alfred the Great, [98]-[114]
Agriculture languishing, [14]
Albert Memorial Chapel, [41]
Abingdon, chronicles of, [63]-[64];
Fair, [93];
Guild, [121]
Bacon, M.J., Berkshire Words and Phrases, [235]-[243]
Barber's Guild, [124]-[126], [129]
Berkshire Words and Phrases, [235]-[243]
Bible, Alfred attempts to translate the, [107]
Binfield, [211]-[234]
Binfield and Easthampstead, 1700-1716, and the early years of Alexander Pope, [211]-[234]
British tribes, [2]
Bull-baiting in Berkshire, [244]-[258]
Burney, Fanny, life at Windsor described by, [37]
Burning at the Stake, [14]
Celtic times, [2]
Chapel Royal, [40]-[41]
Charles I. a prisoner at Windsor, [34];
execution and burial, [34];
snow at his funeral, [35]
Christianity, spread of, [8]
Civil War, [14]-[18]
Cloth-trade destroyed at Reading, [160]
Cumnor Place and Amy Robsart, [63]-[97]
Cumnor Church, [65]-[69]
Danes destroy Churches, [7]-[8];
defeated, [104]
Disobedience, fine for, [126]
Ditchfield, P.H. Historic Berkshire, [1]-[20];
Guilds of Berkshire, [115]-[136]
Dragon stories, [140]
Dudley, Lord Robert, [74]-[91]
Easthampstead, [211]-[234]
Elfreda's crimes, [179]
Elizabeth, Queen, patroness of baiting animals, [246]
England united under Alfred, [7]
Faringdon, Hugh, [153]-[159]
Field, J.E., Wallingford Castle, [47]-[62]
First Battle of Newbury, [193]-[203]
First monarch interred at Windsor, [31]
Freedom of towns sold, [131]
Gardiner, E.R., Scouring of the White Horse, [137]-[152]
Garter, institution of, [26]
Gaunt, John of, marriage, [186]
Gilt cup as a New Year's present, [159]
Good Friday, baiting animals on, [247]
Guilds of Berkshire, [115]-[136]
Handbill, quaint, [144]
Herne's oak, [44]
Heart of St. George brought to Windsor, [30]
Highwayman, story of a, [142]-[143]
Historic Berkshire, [1]-[20]
Holy Cross, Guild of, [135]
Hunting, [113]
Ingleby, Miss Evelyn, Windsor Castle, [21]-[46]
Inns in Berkshire, [87]
Isabella bestowes Wallingford Castle on Mortimer, [56]
Jack of Newbury, [13]
James, flight of, [36]
Jewel, Alfred's [103]
John signs the Magna Charta, [11]-[12]
Knighthood, flower of, [26]
Lamplough, E., First Battle of Newbury, [193]-[203];
Second Battle of Newbury, [204]-[210]
Last of the Abbots, [153]-[159]
Law-giver, Alfred the, [110]-[114]
Library at Windsor, [42]-[43]
Magna Charta, [11]-[12], [23]
Martin, regicide, [163]
Mercatory guild, [128]
Merry Wives of Windsor, [33]
Murder of Amy Robsart, [88]
Newbury, First Battle, [193]-[203];
Second Battle, [204]-[210]
Nicholas, St., College of, [60]
Norman Conquest, [65]
Norman invaders, [9]
Oaks, ancient, [44]
Origin of Guilds, [116]
Parliament held at Reading, [13];
at Wallingford, [53]
Parsons, Robert, Author of 'Leicester's Commonwealth,' [76]-[77]
Penny, C.W., Binfield and Easthampstead, [211]-[234]
Pepys at Windsor, [35]
Philippa, Queen, death of, [26]-[28]
Poet and scholar, Alfred, [106]-[110]
Poetry, Anglo-Saxon, [100]
Pomp and vanity at Windsor, [25]
Pope, Alexander, [217]-[234]
Physical peculiarity, [241]
Reading Abbey, [179]-[192];
Guilds, [117], [123]
Reformation, doctrines of, [14]
Reid, H.J., F.S.A., Cumnor Place and Amy Robsart, [63]-[97]
Restoration rejoicings, [18]
Restoration of Windsor Castle, [39]
Revolution of 1688, [18]-[19]
Richard II. at Windsor, [28];
death, [29]
Robsart, Amy, [74]-[91], [78]-[82]
Roman times, [2]-[4]
Rome visited by Alfred, [100]
Royal county, [1]
Royal prisoners, story of, [25]
Saxon times, [5]
Scott, Sir Walter, on Cumnor, [73]
Scouring of the White Horse, [137]-[152]
Second Battle of Newbury, [204]-[210]
Settlements of the Saxons, [5]-[6]
Seymour, Jane, buried at Windsor, [32]
Shaw, the Lifeguardsman, [149]
Ship-money, [162]
Shoemaker's guild, [126]-[127]
Siege of Reading, [160]-[178]
Simon de Montfort, [12], [24]
Snow at the funeral of Charles I., [35]
Soldiers taking down a weathercock, [67]
Sports, [141]-[142]
Standard, Saxon, [138]-[139]
Staverton, George, strange bequest, [248]
Stephen and the Empress Maud, wars of, [10]-[11]
Sturges, Canon, Bull-baiting in Berkshire, [244]-[258]
Sunday shaving, [124]-[126];
Sports, [127]
Superstitions, [241]
Tailors ordered to make clothes for soldiers, [165]
Tennyson, quoted, [46]
Thompson, W.H., Alfred the Great, [98]-[114]
Tiles as fines, [125]
Tobacco, prize for smoking, [149]
Trade, increase of, [12]
Voting £70,000 for a tomb, [35]
Victuallers' Company, [127]-[128]
Village Feasts, [137]
Wallingford Castle, [47]-[62]
Wantage, birth place of Alfred, [98]
Warrior-king, Alfred, [100]-[106]
Wellington on a victory, [160]
White Horse, [137]-[152]
Windsor Castle, [21]-[46]
William the Conqueror at Wallingford, [48]
Wokingham, bull-baiting at [247]-[256]
Wolsey's Tomb-House, [22]
Words and Phrases, [235]-[243]
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Trancribers Note:
The text contains unpaired double quotation marks which could not be corrected with confidence.
Brian Fitzcount and Brien Fitzcount (or Fitz-Count) in "Historic Berkshire" and "Wallingford Castle" may or may not be the same person. The authors didn't say and I cannot reliably determine.
Hugh Farringdon and Hugh Faringdon in "The Last of the Abbotts" most certainly were the same person. Which is correct, the reader can take his choice. An on-line search shows both, hopefully Hugh knew.
The same applies to Colonel Whichcott and Colonel Whitchcott in "Windsor Castle".