LEWISHAM 19 ENTRANCE TO THE WIDOWS’ COLLEGE 27 IN THE FIRST QUADRANGLE, WIDOWS’ COLLEGE, BROMLEY 31 THE ROAD ACROSS BROMLEY COMMON 45 KNOCKHOLT BEECHES 59 AN OLD WAYSIDE COTTAGE, BELOW POLHILL 67 THE SOUTH FRONT, KNOLE (_Photo C. Essenhigh Corke & Co._) 99 THE PANTILES, TUNBRIDGE WELLS 127 THE TOAD ROCK 135 KENT 149 LAMBERHURST 155 SCOTNEY CASTLE 161 WEIRD OAST-HOUSES, LAMBERHURST 165 THE MOATED CASTLE OF BODIAM 183 “DUKE WILLIAM COMFORTS HIS YOUNG SOLDIERS” (_Central Incident of the Battle of Hastings. From the Bayeux Tapestry_) 211 BATTLE ABBEY 229 HASTINGS OLD TOWN 261 ILLUSTRATIONS IN THE TEXT Business-Card of the “Bolt-in-Tun” Coach Office 9 The Colfe Almshouses 22 The Old Toll-house, Pratt’s Bottom 56 A Phyllis of Knockholt 61 Longford 69 Riverhead 72 Sign of the “Blackboy” Inn 78 Sign of the “Bricklayers’ Arms” 79 Old Mansion, formerly the “Cats” Inn 81 Seal of Sevenoaks Grammar School 83 Knole, from the Road 89 The Gateway, Knole 92 The Stone Court, Knole 95 The “Dumb Bell” 101 The Seven Oaks 103 The “White Hart” Inn 105 River Hill and the Kentish Weald 110 Tonbridge Castle 114 The “Chequers,” Tonbridge 118 A Sporting Weather-vane 119 Church of King Charles the Martyr 124 Tunbridge Ware 133