For, after all, the old antiquary whom we met with in the chapter on the Church Inns was right. The keynote of the public-house and its true purpose in life is Christian Charity. Charity which suffereth long and is kind, bearing all things, envying not, nor believing any evil; and without which we are nothing. The greatest thing in Earth or Heaven. [Illustration] INDEX _Acland Arms_, Exmoor, 188 Addington, _Angel_, 23 _Albion_, South Norwood, 131 Alfriston, _Star_, 24, 201 _Anchor_, Hartfield, 78, 142 ---- Liphook, 133 _Angel_, Addington, 23 ---- Basingstoke, 23 ---- Bury St. Edmunds, 23 ---- Grantham, 23 ---- Guildford, 23 ---- Islington, 24 ---- Theale, 175 ---- Woolhampton, 285 _Antelope_, Godalming, 116 Ashbourne, _Green Man and Black’s Head_, 171 Ash Vale, _Swan_, 143 Aylesbury, _George_, 159 ---- _King’s Head_, 59, 195 Bagworth, _Maynard Arms_, 236 Barking, _Bull_, 18, 22 Barley, _Fox and Hounds_, 165 _Barley Mow_, Hartford, 79 Basingstoke, _Angel_, 23 Battersea, _Falcon_, 122 _Bear_, Chelsham, 174 ---- Maidenhead, 126 ---- Southwark, 20 ---- Wantage, 174 _Bear and Ragged Staff_, Cumnor, 124 _Bee Hive_, Grantham, 168 _Bell_, Edenbridge, 171 ---- Edmonton, 154 ---- Epping, 234 ---- Finedon, 77 ---- Westminster, 77 ---- Warwick Lane, 77 Bermondsey, _Simon the Tanner_, 61 Bettws-y-Coed, _Royal Oak_, 157 Birdbrook, _Plough_, 243 _Bird in Hand_, Bromley, 139 _Bishop Blaise_, New Inn Yard, 61 _Black Bear_, Devizes, 151 _Black Lion_, Walsingham, 115, 151 _Black Swan_, Lichfield, 260 Bletchingley, _White Hart_, 146 _Blue Boar_, Leicester, 117 _Blue Cap_, Sandiway, 140 _Book in Hand_, Mabelthorpe, 166 _Bournville Public House_, 236 Bracknell, _Hind’s Head_, 187 Brentford, _Three Pigeons_, 153 Brentwood, _White Hart_, 41, 42, 199 _Bricklayers’ Arms_, Caxton, 61 _Bridge Inn_, Port Sunlight, 236 Brighton, _Old Steyne_, 216 Broadway, _Lygon Arms_, 244 _Bull_, Barking, 18, 22 ---- Coventry, 133 ---- Dartford, 18, 87 ---- Long Melford, 21, 87, 197 ---- Malling, 18 ---- Newington, 19 ---- Reading, 19 ---- Rochester, 22, 204 ---- St. Albans, 21 ---- Sudbury, 198 ---- Theale, 18 ---- Woodbridge, 150 _Bull and Bush_, Hampstead, 148 _Bull and Mouth_, St. Martins le Grand, 82, 127 Bury St. Edmunds, _Angel_, 23 _Cæsar’s Head_, Great Palace Yard, 112 Canterbury, _Chequers_, 106 ---- _Falstaff_, 152 ---- _Fountain_, 1 _Castle_, Hurst, 75 ---- Marlborough, 91 Castleton, _George and Dragon_, 234 Caxton, _Bricklayers’ Arms_, 61 ---- _George_, 86 Chelsham, _Bear_, 174 _Chequers_, Canterbury, 106 ---- Doddington, 107 ---- Loose, 107 ---- St. Albans, 107 ---- Slapestones, 110 Chester, _King Edgar_, 112 Chiddingfold, _Crown_, 208 Chigwell, _King’s Head_, 158 Clare, _Swan_, 175