Stella & Rose's Books

Contents

• I. Forest legends - The founding of Waltham Abbey
• II. Royal Forest - Barking Abbey - Henry VIII and Anne Boleyn
• III. Mary Tudor at Copt Hall - John Foxe at Waltham Abbey - Foxe's family
• IV. Servants of the queen - Roger Ascham at Walthamstow - Sir Thomas Smith at Theydon Mount
• V. The Green Knight, George Gascoigne of Walthamstow
• VI. Sweet pipings - Nicholas Breton at Walthamstow - Queen Elizabeth at Wanstead
• VII. Thomas Lodge at Leyton - The martyrdom on Stratford Green - 'Rosalynde' and 'As You Like It'
• VIII. Ben Jonson and Lady Mary Wroth - Ben Jonson at Loughton Hall
• IX. Priest and presbyter - Archbishop Harsnett at Chigwell
• X. Donne and holy Mr; Herbert - John Donne at Abury Hatch
• XI. Francis Quarles of Romford - Elizabeth of Bohemia
• XII. Hunting and hawking - King James - Juliana Berners - Bishop Hall at Waltham Abbey
• XIII. Honest Izaak - Izaak Walton and the river Lea - Walton and Fuller at Waltham Abbey
• XIV. John Eliot, the Apostle of the Indians - Essex and New England - Charles I at Barking
• XV. Worthy Doctor Fuller - Thomas Fuller at Waltham Abbey - The effect of the Commonwealth on the Forest
• XVI. Pepys in Epping Forest - Transport of timber - Sir John Minnes at Loughton
• XVII. Old Strype of Leyton
• XVIII. Daniel Defoe - The merry grant to Randolph Peperking - journal of the Plague Year
• XIX. The Waltham Blacks - Dick Turpin - 'The Green Man' at Leytonstone
• XX. Prior at Down Hall - Dr. Thomas Newton - Locke at High Laver
• XXI. Watts and Wesley - Aaron Hill's crazy schemes - John Adkins - Elizabeth Tollet
• XXII. Elizabeth Fry of Plashet - Lord Lister - John Fothergill
• XXIII. John Clare with Dr. Allen at Hight beach
• XXIV. The Easter Hunt - Hood at Wanstead - Wanstead House
• XXV. Tennyson at High Beach - Matthew Arnold at Woodford
• XXVI. The Taylors of Ongar - David Livingston
• XXVII. Writer for children - The Howitts at Theydon Bois - Dr. Southwood Smith - Caroline Smith
• XXVIII. Disraeli at Cogan's school - Mr Cogan - The Forsters - William Morris
• XXIX. Dickens at Chigwell - 'Barnaby Rudge' - Sir Walter Besant's 'All in a Garden Fair'
• XXX. Trollope at Waltham House - Trollop0e in the field - Henry Doubleday, the Epping naturalist
• XXXI. The People's Forest - Enclosures - The Epping Forest Acts
• XXXII. Wellington at the Warren - 'Liza of Lambeth' - T. E. Lawrence at Chingford - Kipling at Loughton
• Topographical Note
• Index