I am particularly grateful to Lord Kenyon for allowing the reproduction of two very interesting contemporary pictures of seventeenth-century lighthouses—those at Dungeness and the Scillies; and to Mr. Mill Stephenson, F.S.A., the Secretary of the Royal Archaeological Institute, for the use of one of the illustrations—the Silver Model of Winstanley’s Eddystone Lighthouse—that appeared, some years ago, in the Journal of the Society. My thanks are due, and I return them with pleasure, to my fellow-worker, Mr. William Page, F.S.A., who has always brought to my knowledge any fact connected with Lighthouse history that he came upon in his researches. In presenting to the public the last volume which I published through the Religious Tract Society, _The Handwriting of the Kings and Queens of England_, I was permitted to thank the Rev. Richard Lovett, M.A., the Society’s Book Editor, for his constant help and advice in bringing out that work. I trust that I may be again accorded the privilege of thanking him for his unfailing courtesy and good nature in discussing and settling points of detail in connection with this present work. W. J. HARDY. CONTENTS PAGE CHAPTER I. ANCIENT AND MEDIAEVAL LIGHTHOUSES 17 CHAPTER II. THE TRINITY HOUSE 29 CHAPTER III. ANCIENT METHODS OF LIGHTING 39 CHAPTER IV. GRACE DARLING 45 CHAPTER V. THE SPURN HEAD 53 CHAPTER VI. THE HUMBER TO THE THAMES 62 CHAPTER VII. THE NORE LIGHTSHIP 71 CHAPTER VIII. THE GOODWIN SANDS AND THE FORELANDS 79 CHAPTER IX. DUNGENESS LIGHTHOUSE 95 CHAPTER X. ST. CATHERINE’S POINT TO THE EDDYSTONE 101 CHAPTER XI. SUGGESTIONS FOR A LIGHTHOUSE ON THE EDDYSTONE—HENRY WINSTANLEY 108 CHAPTER XII. THE FIRST EDDYSTONE 120 CHAPTER XIII. THE SECOND EDDYSTONE 140 CHAPTER XIV. THE THIRD AND FOURTH LIGHTHOUSES AT THE EDDYSTONE 148