| SEPARATE PLATES |
| The Roadside Inn | Frontispiece |
| FACING PAGE |
| The Last of the Old Galleried Inns of London: The “George,” Southwark. (Photo by T. W. Tyrrell) | 32 |
| The Kitchen of a Country Inn, 1797: showing the Turnspit Dog. (From the engraving after Rowlandson) | 48 |
| Westgate, Canterbury, and the “Falstaff” Inn | 86 |
| Charing Cross, about 1829, showing the “Golden Cross” Inn. (From the engraving after T. Hosmer Shepherd) | 218 |
| The “Golden Cross,” Successor of the Pickwickian Inn, as Rebuilt 1828 | 220 |
| Rochester in Pickwickian Days, showing the Old Bridge and “Wright’s” | 224 |
| The “Belle Sauvage.” (From a drawing by T. Hosmer Shepherd) | 228 |
| The Dickens Room, “Leather Bottle,” Cobham | 230 |
| The “Bull Inn,” Whitechapel. (From the water-colour drawing by P. Palfrey) | 246 |
| The “White Hart,” Bath | 252 |
| The “Bush,” Bristol | 256 |
| The “Coach and Horses,” Isleworth | 276 |
| The “Lion,” Shrewsbury, showing the Annexe adjoining, where Dickens stayed | 298 |
| The “Green Man,” Hatton | 318 |
| The Highwayman’s Hiding-hole | 318 |
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| ILLUSTRATIONS IN TEXT |
| Vignette, The Old-time Innkeeper | Title-page |
| PAGE |
| Preface | v |
| List of Illustrations | xi |
| The Old Inns of Old England, The “Black Bear,” Sandbach | 1 |
| The Oldest Inhabited House in England: The “Fighting Cocks,” St. Albans | 5 |
| The “Dick Whittington,” Cloth Fair | 6 |
| “Ye Olde Rover’s Return,” Manchester | 7 |
| The Oldest Licensed House in Great Britain: The “Seven Stars,” Manchester | 11 |
| An Ale-stake. (From the Louterell Psalter) | 15 |
| Elynor Rummyng | 21 |
| The “Running Horse,” Leatherhead | 25 |
| Facsimile of an Account rendered to John Palmer in 1787 | 54 |
| The Last Days of the “Swan with Two Necks” | 55 |
| Crypt at the “George,” Rochester | 83 |
| Sign of the “Falstaff,” Canterbury | 88 |
| House formerly a Pilgrims’ Hostel, Compton | 91 |
| The “Star,” Alfriston | 93 |
| Carving at the “Star,” Alfriston | 95 |
| The “Green Dragon,” Wymondham | 96 |
| The Pilgrims’ Hostel, Battle | 97 |
| The “New Inn,” Gloucester | 99 |
| Courtyard, “New Inn,” Gloucester | 103 |
| The “George,” Glastonbury | 109 |
| High Street, Glastonbury, in the Eighteenth Century (From the etching by Rowlandson) | 115 |
| The “George,” St. Albans | 119 |
| The “Angel,” Grantham | 121 |
| The “George,” Norton St. Philip | 125 |
| Yard of the “George,” Norton St. Philip | 131 |
| Yard of the “George,” Winchcombe | 135 |
| The “Lord Crewe Arms,” Blanchland | 139 |
| The “Old King’s Head,” Aylesbury | 141 |
| The “Reindeer,” Banbury | 145 |
| Yard of the “Reindeer,” Banbury | 149 |
| The Globe Room, “Reindeer” Inn, Banbury | 153 |
| The “Music House,” Norwich | 157 |
| The “Dolphin,” Potter Heigham | 159 |
| The “Nag’s Head,” Thame | 161 |
| Yard of the “Greyhound,” Thame | 163 |
| The “Crown and Treaty,” Uxbridge | 165 |
| The “Treaty Room,” “Crown and Treaty,” Uxbridge | 167 |
| The “Three Crowns,” Chagford | 169 |
| The “Red Lion,” Hillingdon | 170 |
| Yard of the “Saracen’s Head,” Southwell | 173 |
| King Charles’ Bedroom, “Saracen’s Head,” Southwell | 177 |
| The “Cock and Pymat” | 181 |
| Porch of the “Red Lion,” High Wycombe | 184 |
| The “White Hart,” Somerton | 186 |
| The “Ostrich,” Colnbrook | 191 |
| Yard of the “Ostrich,” Colnbrook | 199 |
| “Piff’s Elm” | 203 |
| The “Golden Cross,” in Pickwickian Days | 215 |
| The “Bull,” Rochester | 223 |
| The “Swan,” Town Malling: Identified with the “Blue Lion,” Muggleton | 226 |
| Sign of the “Bull and Mouth” | 227 |
| The “Leather Bottle,” Cobham | 229 |
| The “Waggon and Horses,” Beckhampton | 233 |
| “Shepherd’s Shore” | 235 |
| “Beckhampton Inn” | 239 |
| The “Angel,” Bury St. Edmunds | 241 |
| The “George the Fourth Tavern,” Clare Market | 243 |
| Doorway of the “Great White Horse,” Ipswich | 247 |
| The “Great White Horse,” Ipswich | 250 |
| Sign of the “White Hart,” Bath | 255 |
| “The Bell,” Berkeley Heath | 257 |
| The “Hop-pole,” Tewkesbury | 259 |
| The “Pomfret Arms,” Towcester: formerly the “Saracen’s Head” | 260 |
| The Yard of the “Pomfret Arms” | 261 |
| “Osborne’s Hotel, Adelphi” | 263 |
| The “White Horse,” Eaton Socon | 267 |
| The “George,” Greta Bridge | 269 |
| The “Coach and Horses,” near Petersfield | 271 |
| “Bottom” Inn | 273 |
| The “King’s Head,” Chigwell, the “Maypole” of Barnaby Rudge | 279 |
| The “Green Dragon,” Alderbury | 283 |
| The “George,” Amesbury | 285 |
| Interior of the “Green Dragon,” Alderbury | 287 |
| Sign of the “Black Bull,” Holborn | 289 |
| The “Crispin and Crispianus,” Strood | 293 |
| The “Ship and Lobster” | 297 |
| “Jack Straw’s Castle” | 301 |
| The “Three Houses Inn,” Sandal | 308 |
| The “Crown” Inn, Hempstead | 309 |
| “Turpin’s Cave,” near Chingford | 311 |
| The “Green Dragon,” Welton | 312 |
| The “Three Magpies,” Sipson Green | 313 |
| The “Old Magpies” | 315 |
| The “Green Man,” Putney | 321 |
| The “Spaniards,” Hampstead Heath | 323 |
