CONTENTS

CHAP. PAGE
[I.]Manorial Inns[1]
[II.]Monastic Inns[14]
[III.]The Hospices[29]
[IV.]The Rise of the Towns[41]
[V.]The Craft Guilds and Traders’ Inns[56]
[VI.]Church Inns and Church Ales[67]
[VII.]Coaching Inns[81]
[VIII.]Wayside Inns and Alehouses[96]
[IX.]Historic Signs and Historic Inns[112]
[X.]Sports and Pastimes[135]
[XI.]The Inns of Literature and Art[148]
[XII.]Fanciful Signs and Curious Signboards[160]
[XIII.]Haunted Inns[181]
[XIV.]Old Inns and their Architecture[195]
[XV.]The Commercial Traveller[209]
[XVI.]The New Inn and its Possibilities[220]
[XVII.]Inn Furniture[237]
[XVIII.]The Innkeeper[256]
[XIX.]Public House Reform[272]

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

PAGE
The Chequers, Loose[Frontispiece]
The King’s Arms, Hemel Hempstead[x]
The Spread Eagle, Midhurst[8], [10]
The Bull, Sudbury[19]
Pigeon House at the Bull, Long Melford[21]
Yard of the White Horse, Dorking[27]
The White Hart, Brentwood[42]
The Swan, Felstead[51]
The Bricklayers’ Arms, Caxton[61]
The Golden Fleece, South Weald[63]
Porch, Chalk Church, Kentfacing[67]
Church House, Penshurst[72]
The Punch Bowl, High Easter[74], [76]
Yard of the White Hart, St. Albans[84]
Coach Gallery at the Bull, Long Melford[86]
Fireplace at the White Hart, Witham[89]
Old Coaching Inns, St. Albans[94]
Botolph’s Bridge Inn, Romney Marsh[95]
The White Horse, Pleshy[99]
The Chequers, Doddingtonfacing[104]
The Chequers, Redbourne[106]
The Three Horse Shoes, Papworth Everard[108]
The Horseshoes, Lickfold[109]
The Red Lion, Wingham[113]
The Swan, Sutton Valence[116]
The King’s Head, Roehampton[119]
The Nelson, Maidstone[129]
The Horse and Groom, near Waltham St. Lawrence[136]
The Falstaff, Canterbury[149]
The Sir John Falstaff, Newington[152]
Sign of the Fox and Hounds, Barley[165]
Sign of Black’s Head, Ashbourne[170]
Sign of White Hart, Witham[173]
The Angel, Theale[175]
The Clothiers’ Arms, Stroudfacing[184]
The Greyhound Inn, Stroud"[190]
The Ship, Wingham[194]
The King’s Head, Aylesbury[196]
Tap-room at the Bull, Sudbury[198]
The King’s Head, Loughton, Essexfacing[200]
Fireplace at the Sun, Feering[203]
Fireplace at the Noah’s Ark, Lurgashall[207]
Fox and Pelican Inn, Haslemerefacing[212]
The White Horse Inn, Stetchworth, Newmarket"[228]
The Woodman Inn, Farnborough, Kent"[240]
The Wheatsheaf Inn, Loughton, Essex"[248]
The Skittles Inn, Letchworth, Herts"[254]
Recreation Room in the Skittles Inn, Letchworth, Herts"[266]
The Bell Inn, Bell Common, Epping"[280]
Sign of the Angel Inn, Woolhampton[285]

The King’s Arms, Hemel Hempstead