CONTENTS.

LACOCK ABBEY, AND ELA COUNTESS OF SALISBURY.

Village of Lacock, 1; Nunnery of Lacock, 2; William Longspé, Earl of

Sarum, 2; Childhood of Ela, 2; Annals of Lacock, 3; Pilgrimage

of William Talbot, 3, 4; Marriage of Ela, 4; Salisbury Cathedral

founded, 5; Death of the Earl of Salisbury, 6; Ela Sheriff of

Wiltshire, 7; Lacock Abbey founded, 7; Ela's Abbacy, 8; Death

of Ela, 9; Lacock preserved, 11; A Love Adventure, 12; Mr. Fox

Talbot and Photography, 13; Lacock Abbey described, 14, 15;

Mrs. Crawford's account of Lacock, 15; Lady Shrewsbury and Miss

Dormer, 16; Legend of Spye Park and the Bayntons, 17, 18.

THE LUMLEY PORTRAITS.

Lumley Castle, Durham, 19; Liulph the Saxon, 19; Series of Family

Portraits, 20; Surtees' and Planché's accounts of the Pictures, 20-22.

FOTHERINGHAY AND ITS MEMORIES.

Village of Fotheringhay, 23; Fotheringhay Castle built, 23; Mary of

Valence, her good works, 24; Fetterlock plan of the Castle, 25;

College and Church of Fotheringhay, 25-27; Cicely Duchess of

York, 26; History of the Castle, 28; Henry v. buried, 29; Richard

III. born, 29; State Funeral, 30; The Duchess Cicely, death of, 32;

Catharine of Aragon at Fotheringhay, 33; Ampthill Park, 33;

Fotheringhay a Prison of State, 34; Mary Queen of Scots impri-

soned here, 34; Mary's Trial, 35; Sentence, 36; Elizabeth and

Mary, 37; Souvenirs of Mary, 37, 38; Execution of Mary, 42;

Conduct of Elizabeth, 42; Portraits of Mary, 43; Ruins of Fother-

inghay Castle, 44, 45; Case of Mary Queen of Scots and Mr.

Froude's Views, 46, 47.

TRADITIONS OF WALLINGTON AND THE

CALVERLEYS.

Wallington Border Tower, 48; Sir John Fenwick's Hospitality, 48;

his Execution, 49; Walter Calverley's Adventures, 50; the Vava-

sours of Weston, 51; Yorkshire Tragedy, 51; Headless Horse

Superstition, 52; Calverley Wood, 52.

FORTUNES OF THREE EARLS OF KILDARE.

The Irish Geraldines, 54; The Earl of Kildare saved from fire in

Woodstock Castle, 54; The Vescis and the Geraldines, 55; The

Baron of Offaly, 56; Gerald the Great Earl of Kildare, 57; Lam-

bert Simnel and Perkin Warbeck, 57, 58; The Lord of Clanricarde,

58, 59; Death of Kildare, 59; Gerald Oge, ninth Earl, 60, 61;

Strange Story, 61; 'Silken Thomas,' 62; His Rebellion, 63; Lord

Edward Fitzgerald, 64.

SIR ANTHONY BROWNE AND HIS DESCENDANTS.

Sir Anthony Browne's family connection with Royalty, 66, 67; Huns-

don House and the Earl of Surrey, 66; The Fair Geraldine's Story,

67; Mabel Browne, 67; Gerald eleventh Earl on his Travels, 68, 69;

Cardinals Pole and Farnese, 69; Battle Abbey and Sir Anthony

Browne, 71; Schaffhausen catastrophe, 71, 72; Cowdray Castle

and Viscount Montague, 72; The Family of Browne, 72, 73.

THE OSBORNE AND LEEDS FAMILIES.

Edward Osborne, the Gallant Apprentice of London Bridge, and Sir

William Hewet, Cloth-worker, 76; Hewet's Daughter saved, 76;

Family of Osborne, 77; Prints and Pictures of Osborne, 78, 79.

FATALITIES IN FAMILIES.

House of Neville, 80; Calamities of Cicely Duchess of York, 80-83;

House of Percy and its Misfortunes, 83; Reverses of the Paulets,

Marquises of Winchester, 84; Sacking of Basing House, 86; John

Earl of Oxford imprisoned Twelve Years, 86; a Duke of Exeter

Begging his Bread, 86; Brancepeth Castle, its vicissitudes, 87;

Tresham Family and Rushton Hall, 88; Sir Edward Dering the

anti-royalist, 88; Staffords of Penshurst, 89; Fallen Fortunes of

the Buckinghams, 91; Bosworth Field strategies, 92, 93; Thorn-

bury Castle and Edward Stafford, Duke of Buckingham, 93; His

Trial and Execution, 93, 94; Duke of Buckingham assassinated

by Felton, 95; Buckingham and Shrewsbury Duel, 95; Pope's

Lines on the Death of Buckingham, 96; John Villiers, 97; Dukes

of Buckingham and Chandos, 97-101; Princely Stowe, 97-99;

Lineage of the Duke of Buckingham, 101; Reresbys of Thrybergh

Park, Fall of, 102; Two Unfortunate Baronets, 102; Plantagenets

fallen, 102; Conyers' Family reverses, 103.

THE HUNGERFORD FAMILY.

The Hungerfords of Somerset and Wilts, 104; Sir Richard Colt Hoare's

Hungerfordiana, 104; Farleigh Castle, History of, 104, 105; An

Episode of Bosworth Field, 106; Lady Hungerford Executed at

Tybourn, 106; Hungerfords, 107; Lord Hungerford of Heytes-

bury, 108; Inventory of Lady Hungerford's Goods, 108; The

Hungerford Badge and Crest, 113, 114; Heytesbury Manor-house,

116; Bottreaux Shield in the Hungerford Arms, 117; Hungerford

House, Strand, 117; A Five Hundred Guinea Wig, 118; Aubrey

and Britton's Accounts of the Hungerford Family, 119, 120.

THE HOUSE OF FERRERS.

The Family of Shirley, 121; Lordship of Etington, 121; Sir Thomas

Shirley, 122; Chartley Estate, 123; Staunton Harold Church, 123;

Sir Robert Shirley, 123, 124; Laurence Earl Ferrers murders his

Steward, 124; Trial of Lord Ferrers, 127; Execution of Lord

Ferrers, 129-132; Chartley Tradition, 133.

THE HOUSE OF TALBOT.

The Earl of Shrewsbury, 135; Gooderich Castle, 136; John Talbot,

136; Wars of Henry V., 137; Monument at Whitchurch, 138;

Sir Gilbert Talbot at Bosworth, 138; George Earl of Shrewsbury

and Mary Queen of Scots, 139; The Duke of Shrewsbury and

Addison, 140; The Great Shrewsbury Will Case, 140, 141; In-

scription in Bromsgrove Church, 142.

GEORGE VILLIERS, DUKE OF BUCKINGHAM, ASSASSI-

NATED BY JOHN FELTON.

Buckingham the Favourite of James 1. and Charles I., 143; 'Sweet

Steenie,' 144; Death of Dr. Lambe, 'the Duke's Devil,' 145;

Attempts upon Buckingham's Life, 146; Assassination by Felton

at Portsmouth, 146, 147; Paper found in Felton's Hat, 148;

Charles I. at Southwick, 149; Account of Felton, 149; Purchase

of the Knife, 150; Execution of Felton, 151; Funeral of Bucking-

ham, 151; D'Israeli on the Assassination, 152; Poems and Songs

printed by the Percy Society, 153; Mutiny at Portsmouth, 154;

Forster's Life of Sir John Eliot, 154.

DRAGON LEGENDS.

Wolves exterminated, 156; Serpent, Dragon, and Crocodile Stories,

157; Lindwurm or Dragon in Moravia, 158; The Dragon of Want-

ley, 159-161; St. Leonard's Forest Serpent or Dragon, 161–163;

Geological Lights, 163, 164; Sir John Conyers, the Dragon-slayer,

165; Worm of Lambton Hall, 166, 167; The Lambton Family,

168; Gigantic Snail and Laidly Worm, 169; 'Serpent in the Sea,'

170.

LEGENDS OF THE RED HAND.'

Heraldry, its uses, 171; 'The Red Hand of Ulster,' 171; Hatchment
at Hagley, 172; Holt Tradition and Aston Church, 172, 173; Red
Hand at Wateringbury and Gray's Inn, 175, 176; Legend of Sir
Richard Baker, 176–178; Stoke D'Abernon Church, 178; Legend

of the Bodach Glass, 179-182; Oxenham Family and white-

breasted Bird, 182.

DONINGTON CASTLE AND CHAUCER.

Castles near Newbury, and Leicestershire, 183; Castle Doningtons,

the two, 185; Chaucer's Residence question, 185; 'Chaucer's

Oak,' 186; Death of Chaucer, 188; The Stauntons and the Shir-

leys, 190.

THE HOUSE OF HOWARD.

Sir John Howard, the eminent Yorkist, 191; Creation of Earl Marshal,

192; Catherine Howard, 193; The Earl of Surrey, statesman,

poet, and warrior, 193; Thomas Duke of Norfolk, 194; Lines by

Queen Elizabeth, 195; Philip Earl of Arundel, 'the Renowned

Confessor,' 196-199; The Earls of Arundel and Charles I., 199;

The Howards and the Deepdene, 200.

THE TRAGEDY OF SIR JOHN ELAND.

Eland Hall and the Family of Eland, 201; Fray and Feud in York-

shire, 202; Eland, Beaumont, Lockwood, and Quarmby, 202;

Attack on Crossland Hall, 202; Sir John Eland slain, 204-207;

Search for his Murderers, 207; Revenge at Eland Mill and Hall,

208-211; Quarmby's Fate, 211; The Lockwoods extirpated, 212;

Old Ballad quoted, 213.

PONTEFRACT CASTLE AND ITS ECHOES.

Pontefract Town and its Castle, 214; Three Sieges, 215; Towers of the

Castle, 216; Magnificence of Thomas Earl of Lancaster, 216; The

Earl tried in Pontefract Castle, and beheaded, 218, 219; Remorse

of Edward II., 220; Deposing of Richard II., 221; Richard in

Flint Castle, 221, 222; Richard II. in the Tower, 222, 223; Tradi-

tion of the King's Death, 223; Murdered by Sir Piers of Exton,

224; Execution of Rivers, Grey, and Vaughan, 225; Tragedies at

Pontefract, 226; Three Sieges of the Castle, 226-228; Views from

the Heights, 228, 229; Pontefract and Pomfrete, 229; Pontefract

Cakes, 230.