Milton-next-Sittingbourne, 146, 153, 159
"Mockbeggars", 230
Moor Street, 141
Murston, 153, 161
Nevison, John, 90
New Cross, 21, 23, 200
Newington, 142-149, 226
Northfleet, 61, 62-64, 66, 97
"Old England's Hole", 223
Old Kent Road, 5, 19-22, 200
Old-Time Travellers, in general, 11-18, 22, 56, 70-77, 87-90, 115-122,
183-186, 190-201
Old-Time Travellers:--
Albert of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha, Prince Consort, 199-201
Bassompierre, Marshal de, 70
Cossuma Albertus, Prince, 89
Dalkeith, Countess of, 198
Grosley, M., 73-77
Henrietta Maria, Princess, 198
Moritz, Pastor, 56
Nivernais, Duc de, 104, 190-194
Peel, Sir Robert, 199
Rochefort, M. Jouvin de, 71
Sorbiere, M. Samuel de, 72
Zinzerling, Herr Justus, 154
Ospringe, 97, 145, 149, 161, 165
Pepys, Samuel, 36, 121
Pilgrims, 11-18, 161, 172, 183-186, 207-213
Preston, 166
Radfield, 163
Rainham, 140-142
River, 240
Rochester, 95, 97, 102-125, 200
Rochester Castle, 54, 106, 114
Rochester Cathedral, 54, 105, 108-113
Romans, The, 27, 47, 60, 76, 95-99, 144-148, 199, 218-233, 244
Rosherville Gardens, 64
St. Radigund's Abbey, 240
St. Thomas a Watering, 18
St. William of Perth, 111
Schamel, Hermitage of, 151-153
Shooter's Hill, 35-40
Shoulder of Mutton Green, 44
Sittingbourne, 97, 144, 150-161
Southwark, 7-18
Spielman, Sir John, 51-53
Springhead, 61, 65
Stone, 62
Strood, 60, 61, 94, 97, 100-102
Swanscombe, 60
Tappington, Everard, 236
Telegraph Hill, 11
Telegraph Tower, Southwark, 9-11
Temple Ewell, 238, 240
Teynham, 163
Thom, John Nichols (calling himself "Sir William Percy Honeywood
Courtenay"), 174-183
Tong, 163
Tramps, 41-44
Turnpike Gates, 62, 216
Turpin, Dick, 90
Tyler, Wat, 27-30, 57
Watercress, 65
Watling Street, 34, 47, 60, 95-99, 144-148, 214, 223
Watts, Richard, 119
Welling, 44
White Hill, 49
Wolsey, Cardinal, 31, 195
FOOTNOTES:
[1] The real names of these two brothers are unknown. They took the names
by which they are known in history from the banners under which their men
fought; banners which bore the cognizance of a white horse: Hengist and
Horsa being merely the Jutish-Saxon words for "horse" and "mare." The
Danish, indeed, still use the word "hors" for mare, and a survival of the
old badge of these fierce pagans is still to be met with in the familiar
white horse of Brunswick-Hanover. The prancing steed that remains to this
day the Kentish device, with its dauntless motto "Invicta," is also a
survival from the days when Hengist and Horsa founded the first Saxon
kingdom in Britain.
[2] He meant Harbledown, Boughton, and Ospringe: Green-street,
Sittingbourne, Newington, and Rainham.
[3] "Gad's," _i.e._ "rogues," Hill.
[4] One of the many originals of "Samivel's father" put forward. One was
supposed to have been at Bath, another at Dorking; and others still have
claims to have originated this humorous character.
[5] Collectors for "Hospital Saturday" funds come within the meaning of
this unrepealed Act.
[6] He was here also in 1661, giving a very amusing account of how he was
entertained, and how he kissed and sang and danced: it is too long,
though, for quotation here. But look it up.
[7] Mr. Gladstone has said, most notoriously, that to be "hemmed in" is
not to be "surrounded." But that was part of the political game of bluff,
and may not be regarded as a contribution to philology.
[8] An excellent story is told of the cold that rages up here in the
winter. It belongs to coaching times, and was told by a coachman who had a
new guard with him one frosty night, when the temperature was going down
to 15 deg.; a cockney guard who was unused to exposure, and who, moreover, had
not the experience which led the Jehu to wrap himself up in layers of
flannel, a many-caped coat, and three or four waistcoats. "Ain't it cold?"
asked the guard several times, climbing over the coach roof with numbed
hands and blue nose. "Cold!" returned the coachman, "not at all." "That's
all very well," says the guard, "but your eyes are watering like
hanythink." "Oh! are they?" rejoins the coachman, "I suppose that's the
perspiration!"
[9] There are "Mockbeggars" in Kent, as in most other counties. There is
one near Rochester. Some old buildings pulled down in 1771 at
Brighthelmstone were called Mockbeggars. Local opinion held the belief
that there had been a Mendicant Priory, but this was not generally
credited. The name seems to have been generally applied to objects wearing
at some distance the appearance of an hospitable mansion, to which
travellers would be drawn out of their road only to meet with a
disappointment in finding an empty house, or no house at all. Two such
places, so called, are to be instanced: one is an isolated rock at
Bakewell in Derbyshire, presenting from the road the semblance of a house,
to which it is said beggars and tramps wend their way, only to be mocked
by a freak of nature: seeking for bread they find, literally, a stone. The
other is an old Tudor mansion, called Mockbeggar Hall, at Claydon in
Suffolk, standing in a conspicuous situation, near the road leading from
Ipswich to Scole; a place to which mendicants would naturally be
attracted, in expectation of finding inhabitants there, but which has,
according to tradition, remained so long unoccupied as to have earned its
name a hundred years, or more, ago.
Transcriber's Notes:
Passages in italics are indicated by _italics_.
The notation [symbol] is used to represent various geometric shapes.
The following misprints have been corrected:
"conjuction" corrected to "conjunction" (page 24)
"ong" corrected to "long" (page 77)
"ot" corrected to "to" (page 78)
"botton" corrected to "bottom" (page 238)
"Admiraly" corrected to "Admiralty" (page 249)
"Rebell on" corrected to "Rebellion" (index)
Other than the corrections listed above, inconsistencies in spelling and
hyphenation have been retained from the original.