Alexander Neckam and his Treatise--Love of Animals--Hawk and Eagle--Parrot--Barnacle--Swan, Nightingale, Sparrow, Raven, and Crow; Cuckoo, Cock, Wren, &c. 264-268 VI. Historic Sketches. THE STORY OF FAIR ROSAMUND. Woodstock Bower, and Rosamund's Well--The Nunnery at Godstow, near Oxford--Rosamund born--Known to Henry II.--Maze at Woodstock--The Silken Clue--The Poison Cup--Rosamund's Tomb at Godstow--Legend from the _French Chronicle_ 269-277 CARDINAL WOLSEY AT ESHER PLACE. Fall of Wolsey--Retires to Esher--His Servants and Retainers--Henry VIII. demands a cession of York House--The "comfortable Message"--Death of Wolsey at Leicester--The Abbey--Esher Place embellished by Kent--Dr. Johnson's Portrait of Wolsey--At Cawood--Weighing his Plate--Wolsey and Christchurch--Death and Interment of Wolsey--Tomb-house and Sarcophagus--Cavendish's _Life of Wolsey_ 278-292 TRADITIONS OF BATTLE-FIELDS. Worth of Tradition--Antiquity of Tenure--The Wapshotts--Flodden Field Tradition--BATTLE OF HASTINGS described--Roll of the Conqueror's Companions--TOWTON FIELD described--TEWKESBURY FIELD explored--BOSWORTH FIELD--The Battle--Relics of Richard, Duke of Gloucester--His Autograph--Black Boy Inn, Chelmsford, a Plantagenet Lodge--Baynard's Castle and Crosby Place--King Richard's Inn, Leicester--Omens to the King--Oxford, Norfolk, and Surrey--Richard's Last Charge--Sir John Cheney--Combat of Richard and Richmond--Richard's Body carried to Leicester--Legend on the Corporation Bridge--Wars of York and Lancaster--Rose-tree at Longleat--False Traditions 293-314 CURIOSITIES OF HATFIELD. Princess Elizabeth kept Prisoner here--Old Palace--Park--Queen Elizabeth's Oak--The Vineyard--Historical Documents at Hatfield--Olden Furniture--Portraits of Queen Elizabeth, and other Pictures--Elizabeth's Abode at Hatfield--The Mansion built by the Earl of Salisbury 315-322 THE GRAND REMONSTRANCE 323-325 CAVALIERS AND ROUNDHEADS 326-328 THE EVELYNS AT WOTTON. The Evelyn Family--Wotton House built--Grounds planned and laid out by John Evelyn--His Tour in France and Italy--Public Services--Sayes Court--Retires to Wotton--Great Storm of 1703--Mills on the rivulet at Wotton--Lord Abinger--Lines, to the Countess of Donegal, by Swift--Abinger Church--Kneller's Portrait of Evelyn--Historical Curiosities--Character of Mrs. Evelyn--Evelyn's "Elysium Britannicum"--His Planting--Milton Court and Jeremiah Markland 329-342 LORD BOLINGBROKE AT BATTERSEA.