CHAPTER XXI

Travel in the old days--Sequestered Sussex--Country homes--A mellow land--A gibbet post and its story--Chiddingly and its church--The Pelham buckle--Wayside crosses--St. Dunstan's tongs and his anvil--A curious brass--Iron Stocks--Home again 379

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ILLUSTRATIONS

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A MOATED MANOR-HOUSE _Frontispiece_

HAUNTED! 20

A SUSSEX FARMSTEAD 24

OLD COACHING HOSTELRY, SHEFFIELD PARK, SUSSEX 42

AN ANGLER'S MODEST INN 42

AN OLD TUDOR HOME, WEST HOATHLY 67

A PRE-REFORMATION PRIEST-HOUSE, WEST HOATHLY 72

"A GOOD HONEST ALEHOUSE" 87

AT "THE QUEEN'S HEAD" 96

AN OLD MILL 108

OLD TOLL-HOUSE ON BATH ROAD 111

THE VILLAGE POST OFFICE 116

SYDE CHURCH 133

GATEHOUSE, STANWAY 138

SAXON DOORWAY, STANTON LACY CHURCH 159

A BIT OF WILD WALES 170

WELSH MOUNTAINS AND MOORLANDS 186

THE RUINED HALL OF MORETON CORBET 208

HAUGHMOND ABBEY, CHURCH DOORWAY 217

HAUGHMOND ABBEY, CHAPTER-HOUSE 218

BUILDWAS ABBEY, LOOKING EAST 229

BUILDWAS ABBEY, LOOKING WEST 230

MADELEY COURT 236

MADELEY COURT, GATEHOUSE 239

LILLESHALL ABBEY 250

FIGURE OF SIR ARTHUR VERNON, TONG CHURCH 257

BOSCOBEL 257

THE PRIEST'S DOORWAY 296

DOORWAY OF THE CROWN INN, SHIPTON-UNDER-WYCHWOOD 303

BABLOCKHYTHE FERRY 318

BOARSTALL TOWER FROM THE MOAT 328

A FOURTEENTH-CENTURY DOORWAY 344

AN OLD-TIME HOME 367

A JACOBEAN DOORWAY 383

A LEISURELY TOUR IN

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