[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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