or a wider and more shopless dispersion of its cottages on one long street, which is really the highroad back to Northampton. Some bad little boys hung on to the rear of our carriage, and other little boys, quite as bad, I dare say, ran beside us, and invited our driver to "Cut be'oind, cut be'oind!" probably in the very accents, mellow and rounded, of our ancestral Washingtons. They all dropped away before we stopped at the gate of the very simple house where these Washingtons dwelt. It is a thatched stone house, of a Tudor touch in architecture, with rooms on each side of the front door and a tablet over that, lettered with the text, "The Lord giveth and the Lord taketh away: blessed be the name of the Lord." Perhaps in other times it was of the dignity of a manor-house, but now it was inhabited by decent farmfolk, and very neatly kept. The farmwife who let us go up-stairs and down and all through it was a friendly soul, but apparently puzzled by our interest in it, and I fancied not many pilgrims worshipped at that shrine. It was rather ruder and humbler within than without; the flooring was rough, and the whitewashed walls of the little chambers were roughly plastered; neither these nor the living-rooms below had the beauty or interest of many colonial houses in New England. There was a little vegetable-gardened space behind the house, and a low stable, or some sort of shed, and on the comb of the roof an English true robin redbreast perched, darkly outlined against the clear September sky, and swelled his little red throat, and sang and sang. It was very pretty, and he sang much better than the big awkward thrush which we call a robin at home.

Our lovely day which had begun so dim, was waning in a sweet translucency, and we drove back to Northamp

ton over gentle uplands through afternoon influences of a rich peacefulness. The road-side hedgerows now kept us from seeing much beyond them, but they were red, like those we passed in coming, with haws and wild rosepips, which we again took for a flush of American autumn in their leaves; but the trees were really of a sober yellow, with here and there, on a house wall, a flame of Japanese ivy or Virginia creeper. The way was dotted with shoe-hands, men and girls, going home early from the unprosperous shops which our driver said were running only half-time. But even on half-pay they earned so much more than they could on the land that the farmers, desperate for help, could pay only a nominal rent. Much of the land was sign-boarded for sale, and this and the unusual number of wooden cottages gave us a very home feeling. In our illusion, we easily took for crows the rooks sailing over the fields.

INDEX

CABOT, JOHN, 346, 348, 349.
Cæsar's camp, Folkestone, 375,
398-401.

Cambridge, Duke of, 286.
Canterbury, 399, 400, 407-418.
Canterbury Cathedral, 409.
Canterbury, pilgrim road to, 400.
Carisbrooke, 358.

Bedford Circus, Exeter, 265, 266. Castlemaine, Lady, 132.

Charles I., 131, 171, 172, 198,
202, 205, 258, 265, 331, 358,
406, 459, 474, 491, 503, 511.
Charles II., 131, 171, 197, 201,
202, 239, 342, 406, 415, 511,
512.

Charles III., 467.
Chamberlain, Joseph, 403.
Chapman, George, 201.
Charing Cross Station, 202, 220,
222, 223.

Char, the, Oxford, 429-432, 445.
Chatham, Earl of, 283.
Chatterton, Thomas, 346.

Crosby Place, Bishopsgate, 117,
118, 119.

Crosby, Sir John, 117.
Cruikshank, George, 313.
Culmer, Richard, 412-414.
Cunningham, Peter, 177, 180,
181, 188, 191, 193, 194, 202, 205.
Curston, General, 499.

DARWIN, CHARLES ROBERT, 501,

502.

Davenport, Reverend Mr., 205.
Dean's Eye, Wells, 338.
Dee, the, 454, 455, 460, 461.

Chaucer, Geoffrey, 176, 400, 407, De Foe, Daniel, 310.

410.

Covent Garden Market, 176.
Coverdale, Miles, 178.
Cowes, 357, 360.

Cowper, William, 190, 283, 311.
Crickmore, Havell, 459.
Cromwell, Oliver, 172, 173, 177,
185, 285, 343, 347, 413, 414,
509, 510.

Cromwell, Richard, 131.

De Quincey, Thomas, 311.
Devonport, 243.

Dibdin, Charles, 363.

Dickens, Charles, 149, 241, 311-
313, 385.

Digby, Mrs., 491.

Disraeli, statue of, 123, 460.
Doré, Gustave, 143.

Dover, 380, 386, 393, 405, 406.
Downing, George, 196.

Drake, Francis, statue of, 236,
237, 239.

Dryden, John, 218.

Duckenfield, Colonel, 459.

Dun Cow Inn, 505.

Dyer, Edward, 176.

EAST INDIA COMPANY, 118.
Edward II., 330.

Edward III., 367.
Edward IV., 267, 503.

Edward VI., 130, 181, 501, 502.
Edward VII., 136.

Edinburgh, 274.
Eelham, 418, 419.

Elizabeth, Queen, 130, 365, 412,
493.

Ely, cathedral of, 338.
Emanuel College, 176.
English Bridge, 505.
Exe, the, 266.

Exeter, 254-270, 272-274, 279.
Exeter Cathedral, 258–261.

FARQUHAR, GEORGE, 205.
Fermor, Arabella, 134.

Cromwell, Thomas, 285, 413, 414. | Finsbury Chapel, 191, 192.