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DACRE, Lord, at Flodden Field, 85
Danbury in Essex, water-mill, 16
Danby Bridge, Yorkshire, 82
Dancing, mediæval, 311
Danes, the, in England, 182-186
Dark ages of English farming, 332.

See also under FREE TRADE
Darling, Grace, her heroism, 56, 60,
61

David I. of Scotland, 57; David II.,

141

Dawe, George, R.A., English

painter, in his relation to Mor-
land and to Charles Lamb, 6, 7
Decline of sheep farming, its results,

320

Dunstanborough Castle, 12, 13,
24, 44, 48, 55

Durham, 59, 109, 132, 141, 142,
143

EARLS of Arundel, 203, 204; of
Richmond, 90

Early English Architecture, 127,
128, 142, 144

Early MSS. and their illustrations,
II, 12

Eata, pupil of St. Aidan, 57
Economics, during the Middle
Ages, 159

Edward I. of England, 174; at

Norham, 191; and forest out-
laws, 225, 226

Edward II. of England, 58; and
Gaveston, 206; his tragic life,

208-210

Edward III. of England, his navy,

55; his son John of Gaunt, 90;
his forests, 226

Edwin, or Eadwine, 118, 119
Egbert, 197, 198, 228
Eleanor of England, mother of
Edward I., 20, 52

Elizabeth, Queen, and archery, 259

De Wint, Peter, English painter, Ely Cathedral, 82, 154, 156

3, 13, 238

Diploma gallery at Burlington
House, 8

Dogs, how Shakespeare hated
them, 280, 281

Domestic servants, mediæval, 159,

224

Douglas, Lord James, 90, 91
Dovecots, medieval, their destruc-

tive influence on manor farms, 300
Drovers in the Forest of Anderida,

233

Elyot, Sir Thomas, and archery, 248
Enemies of archery, the, 259, 260
England, her destiny is on the sea,
22; made by the Church, 116;
her present-day tendencies in
religion, 149

English archers, 249 et seq.; at
Flodden, 86, 87

English cements used in mediæval
buildings, 46

English genius, the, 276-278
English Gothic architecture, 142

Drunkenness, in medieval England, English love of animals, 279-282

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FABLES, about Brutus, 32; about
Julius Cæsar, 32-35; religious
fables, 103-108

Farm accounts of the Middle Ages,
17; see also under CUXHAM
MANOR
Farming, English, in the Middle
Ages, 114; see also chap. 10
Farne Islands, 50, 55, 60
Fenn, W.W., his description of
Stokesay Castle, 200, 201
Fens in old England, 214
Festivals, medieval, 311-313
Feudalism, 17, 88

Figure painters, their want of ap-
preciation for rustic and landscape
art, 4, 5, 6, 7

Filthy habits of the mediaval
see also chap-

English, 42;

ter 9
Fishing on the sea-coast, 40, 41
Flambard, Ralph de, Bishop, and
Norham Castle, 185, 189
Flats, how they had their origin in
castles, 175

Flodden Field, 85-87; the Flodden
Bow, 86

Forests, English, 15, 18, 25, 26, 89,
93, 212 et seq., 226 et seq.
Formation of the English race,
181, 182, 183

Fosse-Way, the Roman, 72, 73, 75
Foster, Birket, his pictures of

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Furness Abbey, 108, 109, 121-
125

Fuseli, Henry, R.A., his opinion of
Constable's landscapes, 4

GAINSBOROUGH, Thomas, R.A., 14
Gardner, W. Biscombe, pictures of
Surrey, 236, 237

Gaveston, Piers, his character and
life, 206-208

Genius misunderstood at first, 1
Geoffrey of Monmouth, English
Chronicler, 31, 32; Geoffry de
Noiers, an architect, who helps
Bishop Hugh of Avalon at
Lincoln Cathedral, 112

Georgian mills, 32, 38, 272, 284
Ghost story concerning Mary Queen
of Scotland, at Nappa Hall,
Yorkshire, 168

Gipsy's caravan, story of a, 81
Girtin, Thomas, English painter, a,
13, 238

Gospels, the, among the Early
Christians, 10I

Grace Darling, English heroine, 56,
60, 61

Graham's Dyke, 67

Great Pillage of the Monasteries,
146, 147

Greensted Chapel, in Essex, built
of timber in 1013, 116
Gregory the Great and the little boys
from Deira, 184

Grey, Lady Jane, 18
Grosseteste, Robert, Bishop of

Lincoln, his father a serf, 306
Guild of the Holy Cross, Birming-

ham, 97; guilds, their historic
value, 243; and Henry VIII., 288
Gurth, in "Ivanhoe," 230
Gyrth, Harold's brother, 36
Gytha, Harold's mother, 36

HADDON Hall, 290

Hadrian, Roman Emperor, how he
injured Trajan's bridge, 66

Hamo de Morston, amusing story | Holy Island, 44, 46, 50, 55–61,

about, and Old Shoreham Bridge,

79

Hampton Lucy Church, 144, 282
Handicraft as history, II
Hare-coursing, how Shakespeare
hated it, 280-281

Harold, last Saxon King of England,
35, 36, 37, 38; his march from
Stamford Bridge, 99
Haywood, a modern Warwickshire
<shire
peasant, murders Ann Tennant
for witchcraft, 273

Hearne, Thomas, English painter, 13

Height and breadth often disliked

in the Middle Ages, 81 Heli, 32

Henry I. of England, and castles, 176; and Robert de Belesme,

177

Henry II. of England, 178, 193, 194, 196

con

Henry III. of England, 220 Henry VIII. of England, concerning monasteries, 146-148; cerning archery, 248, 254, 257, 258; his bad influence on farming, 288, 330

Hentzner, Paul, on English husband

men, 269; on harvest-homes,
311, 312

Heron, John, called the Bastard, at
Flodden Field, 85
Hexham, thieves at, 192
Historians, their neglect of land-
scape backgrounds, 213, 216
Historic misconceptions, 98-100;

historic value of illustrated MSS., 11, 12; historic bows, 266, 267 History in art, 8

Hogarth, William, English painter,

7

Hogge, Ralph, cast a cannon in

one solid piece, 235 Holidays, mediæval, 158 Holland, James, English painter, 3

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Macbeth, the witches in Shake-

speare's, 273, 274
Magus, Simon, Christian legends
that concern him, 104, 105
Maid Marian, in the Robin Hood
Ballads, probable influence on
Shakespeare, 285

Making of England, the, recorded
in her landscapes, 9
Malmesbury, William of, English
chronicler, 36

Man against Nature, 214, 217, 218
Mangold field in Surrey, 212, 216
Manor courts, 298, 299

Manorbier Castle, South Wales, 203
Manors, English, 18, 21; at Witley,
240, 242; manor rolls, 287; con-
sidered as little Kingdoms, 296-
300; manor houses, 220, 307-
309; Cuxham Manor, 303-305
Marches of Wales, 197

Mary Queen of Scots, 165-168;

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at Tutbury, 196, 197

Mary Rose," bows recovered from
this ship, 266, 267
Maserfield, Battle of, 49, 58
Mathilda, Queen of William the
Conqueror, 93; Mathilda, Mother
of Henry II., 193

Matthew of Westminster, the chroni-

cles attributed to, 31, 107, 140
May-day festivals, 311,312,313,314
Medieval hours of work, 44, 45,

158, 163; legends about Julius
Cæsar, 32 et seq.; masonry, 44,
46, 47; myths, 31, 102, 103;
roads, 63, 64, 78, 97, 98-100;
sheepfolds, see chap. 10; storm
scenes, 19, 20, 50-54,

wages, 159, 332

217;

Merton College, Oxford, cost of the

Melrose, 57

bell-tower, 160

Midsummer-Night's Dream, Shake-
speare's, 280, 282
Military bishops, 185
Miller, the, 18, 19, 315, 316, 317
Millet, Jean François, his sympathy
for the French peasant, 265
Milton's "Masque of Comus," first
played at Ludlow Castle, 199
Misconceptions concerning castles,
176; and forests, 212, 213
Modern war, 171; modern slaves,
307
Mommsen's "History of Rome," 76
Monasteries, 117, 146-148
Money for building purposes, 110,
III, 151, 152, 154
Monnow Bridge, Monmouth, 80
Moresin, his description of an
English harvest home, 312
Morland, George, English painter,
6-7

Murder of Thomas Becket, 94, 95

NAPOLEON, 22, 173

Nappa Hall, Yorkshire, 164, 168,
169

Narberth Castle, South Wales, 203
National Gallery, London, 3
Nature's war, 214-217
Navy, the English, 54, 55
Nennius, 32, 33

Newton Abbot, South Devon,
bridge at, 69

Nîmes, the Pont du Gard at,
Roman aqueduct, 65
Norham Castle, 176, 185, 187,
188-192, 193

Norman church-building, 109, 110
Northumberland, the Earls of, how
they travelled, 100

Northumberland scenes by James
Orrock, 24, 52, 56, 80, 84, 172,
176, 304

Metcalf, Sir Christopher, and Mary Northumbria, 183, 184, 185

Queen of Scots, 168

Michiel, Giovanni, A.D. 1557, on
English archery, 258, 259

Norton, Christopher, and Mary
Stuart, 166, 167

Noiers, Geoffry de, architect, 112

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