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.,
Dawe, George, R.A., English
painter, in his relation to Mor- land and to Charles Lamb, 6, 7 Decline of sheep farming, its results,
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,
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
Diploma gallery at Burlington House, 8
Dogs, how Shakespeare hated them, 280, 281
Domestic servants, mediæval, 159,
Douglas, Lord James, 90, 91 Dovecots, medieval, their destruc-
tive influence on manor farms, 300 Drovers in the Forest of Anderida,
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
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-
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
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,
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,
Henry II. of England, 178, 193, 194, 196
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,
Hogge, Ralph, cast a cannon in
one solid piece, 235 Holidays, mediæval, 158 Holland, James, English painter, 3
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;
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,
Merton College, Oxford, cost of the
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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