Local Names--The Alkborough "Julian's Bower"--Juxtaposition to Ancient Ecclesiastical Site--A Fragment of Folk-lore-- De la Pryme's Diary--The Breamore Mizmaze--Romantic Situation--The Wing Maze--The Boughton Green Shepherd's Race--Its Literary References--A Victim of the Great War-- Mazes of Ripon and Asenby--The Song of the Fairies--Other Lincolnshire and Yorkshire Mazes--Stukeley on Julian's Bowers--Wide Distribution of British Turf Mazes 71-78 CHAPTER XI TURF LABYRINTHS (_continued_) The Winchester Mizmaze--The Vanished Mazes of Dorset: Leigh, Pimperne, Dorchester and Bere Regis--Aubrey's Notes on Wiltshire and Cotswold Mazes--The Saffron Walden Maze-- The Comberton "Mazles"--The Hilton Maze and its Obelisk-- The Cumberland "Walls of Troy": Burgh and Rockcliffe-- The Nottingham Mazes: Sneinton and Clifton--The Somerton "Troy-town"--Records of Old Mazes at Guildford, the Malverns, and in Kent--"Julaber's Barrow" 79-91 CHAPTER XII THE ORIGIN OF TURF MAZES An old Welsh Custom--"Troy" or "Turnings"?--Dr. Trollope on the Ecclesiastical Origin of Turf Mazes--The Welsh Figure-- Criticism of the Ecclesiastical View--"Treading the Maze" in Tudor Times--Shakespearean References--Alchemy and the Labyrinth of Solomon--Figure in a Greek Monastery--Heraldic Labyrinths--The Question of the Roman Origin of Turf Mazes 92-99 CHAPTER XIII THE FLORAL LABYRINTH AND THE DWARF-SHRUB MAZE The Dwarf Box--Its use by Tudor and Roman Gardeners--Floral Labyrinths by De Vries--Some Quaint Horticultural Books: Parkinson, Estienne, Hill, and Lawson--Designs of Islip and Commelyn--"Queen Mary's Bower" 100-109 CHAPTER XIV THE TOPIARY LABYRINTH, OR HEDGE MAZE Topiary work of the Romans--Pliny's "Hippodromus"--Dubious Mediaeval References--Rosamond's Bower--Early French "Daedales"--Mazes painted by Holbein and Tintoretto-- Du Cerceau's Sketches--Elizabethan Mazes: Theobalds and Hatfield--Versailles and other Famous Labyrinths of France-- Some German Designs--Belgian, Spanish, Italian and Dutch Mazes--William III and his Gardeners 110-127 CHAPTER XV THE TOPIARY LABYRINTH, OR HEDGE MAZE (_continued_) Hampton Court: the Maze and the Little Maze--Other English Mazes of the Period--Batty Langley and Stephen Switzer-- Allegorical Labyrinth of Anhalt--A Wimbledon Maze--The Mazes of Westminster and Southwark 128-136 CHAPTER XVI THE TOPIARY LABYRINTH, OR HEDGE MAZE (_continued_) _Latter-day Developments_