Scene at “High Rocks” 138 The Marquis of Abergavenny’s “A” 139 The Neville Gate, Frant 140 The “Blue Boys” Inn 143 Bayham Abbey: Across the Water-meadows 158 Etchingham Church 172 The Ancient Vane, Etchingham 174 Brass of Sir William de Etchingham 175 The Fox preaching to the Geese 176 The Abbey Farm 179 William the Conqueror (_Bayeux Tapestry_) 198 Last Stand of the English (_Bayeux Tapestry_) 213 Flight of the English Churls (_Bayeux Tapestry_) 215 A Descendant of the Saxon Churls 227 Battle Church 232 A Bye-road at Battle 233 The Road past Crowhurst Park 235 Junction of Roads spoiled by Tramways, Baldslow 238 “Huz and Buz”: Entrance to Holmhurst 241 Queen Anne, at Holmhurst 245 Ruins of the Old Church, Ore 247 The Old London Road 249 All Saints’ 253 Old House, All Saints’ Street 258 Old Tackle-boxes, Hastings 265 St. Clement’s Church 279 A Slain Norman (_Bayeux Tapestry_) 284 [Illustration: _The HASTINGS ROAD_] I The road to Hastings is measured from what, in these times, seems the unlikely starting-point of London Bridge, and is identical with the Dover Road as far as New Cross, where it turns to the right and goes through Lewisham, the Dover Road continuing by Deptford and Blackheath. Few would now choose such a starting-point for a journey to Hastings, but there is reason in most things, and when this road was first travelled there was a very special reason for this choice. London Bridge was, until 1750, the only bridge that crossed the Thames between London and Putney, and the sole way to the southern counties therefore lay through Southwark.