He has also to thank Dr. F. J. Furnivall, Messrs. E. Kelsey and H. R. Browne of Eastbourne, and the Librarian of Uppingham School, for kind permission to reproduce seven of the illustrations; also the Editor of the Home and Counties Magazine for similar courtesy with regard to the plan of Chaucer’s Aldgate included in a 16th-century survey published for the first time in that magazine (vol. i. p. 50).
Eastbourne
CONTENTS
| PAGE | |
| PREFACE | [v] |
| LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS | [xi] |
| [CHAPTER I] | |
| ENGLAND IN EMBRYO | [1] |
| [CHAPTER II] | |
| BOYHOOD AND YOUTH | [12] |
| [CHAPTER III] | |
| THE KING’S SQUIRE | [25] |
| [CHAPTER IV] | |
| THE AMBASSADOR | [36] |
| [CHAPTER V] | |
| THE MAN OF BUSINESS | [51] |
| [CHAPTER VI] | |
| LAST DAYS | [64] |
| [CHAPTER VII] | |
| LONDON CUSTOM-HOUSE | [76] |
| [CHAPTER VIII] | |
| ALDGATE TOWER | [93] |
| [CHAPTER IX] | |
| TOWN AND COUNTRY | [104] |
| [CHAPTER X] | |
| THE LAWS OF LONDON | [119] |
| [CHAPTER XI] | |
| “CANTERBURY TALES”—THE DRAMATIS PERSONÆ | [137] |
| [CHAPTER XII] | |
| “CANTERBURY TALES”—FIRST AND SECOND DAYS | [151] |
| [CHAPTER XIII] | |
| “CANTERBURY TALES”—THIRD AND FOURTH DAYS | [160] |
| [CHAPTER XIV] | |
| KING AND QUEEN | [173] |
| [CHAPTER XV] | |
| KNIGHTS AND SQUIRES | [188] |
| [CHAPTER XVI] | |
| HUSBANDS AT THE CHURCH DOOR | [202] |
| [CHAPTER XVII] | |
| THE GAY SCIENCE | [217] |
| [CHAPTER XVIII] | |
| THE GREAT WAR | [232] |
| [CHAPTER XIX] | |
| THE BURDEN OF THE WAR | [245] |
| [CHAPTER XX] | |
| THE POOR | [257] |
| [CHAPTER XXI] | |
| MERRY ENGLAND | [272] |
| [CHAPTER XXII] | |
| THE KING’S PEACE | [282] |
| [CHAPTER XXIII] | |
| PRIESTS AND PEOPLE | [294] |
| [CHAPTER XXIV] | |
| CONCLUSION | [304] |
| INDEX | [317] |