Edward II. leaves the Tower, 85. Edwardes obtains Cholsey, 166. Elizabeth restores purity of currency, 134. England, history of, dependent on river system, 1-3. Englefield, Sir Robert, obtains Cholsey, 167; obtains Pangbourne, 167. Essex occupies Abingdon, 87. Essex, earldom of, conferred on Thomas Cromwell, 158. Eynsham, 10; monastery of, 107. Fawley, parish with special water front, 9. Fords, 22-34, 33, 99. Forest, Windsor, 70, 77, 78. Fortifications, rareness of, along Thames, 47; on Thames, examples of, 47; theory of, 62, 63; mediæval, never urban, 66, urban, Louvre an example of, 67. Fosse Way, 38, 44. Fuller obtains Chertsey, 165. Fyfield, example of parish with special water front, 10. Gentry, territorial, their origins before Reformation, 141-143; See Oligarchy. Godstow, nunnery of, mentioned, 109. Goring, track of Icknield Way through, 42. Gundulph, Bishop of Rochester, 83. Hammond obtains Chertsey, 164. Harold, his council at Oxford, 56. Henley, growth of, 187-190. Henry I. enlarges Windsor, 70. Henry II. at Wallingford, 37. Henry III., his misfortunes connected with the Tower, 83. Henry VI., his childhood passed at Wallingford, 61; buried at Chertsey, 97. Henry VIII. loses the spoils of the Dissolution, 145. Hinchinbrooke, seat of the Williamses, 159. Hind obtains Chertsey, 165. Hinkseys, fate of land of, 166. Hoby, Edward, son of Sir Philip Hoby, 163. Hoby, Sir Philip, obtains Bisham, 163; Peregrine, son of Sir Philip Hoby, 164. Horseferry Road, Westminster, 44. Howards, noble family of, embezzled property, 155. Huntingdon, two foundations in, given to Richard Williams, 156. Icknield Way, 38, 40-44. Islip, birth of the Confessor there, 55; a private manor of Queen Emma, 55. Jews in Tower, 85. Joel, Solomon, contrasted with gentry of the Dissolution, 158. John, King, 71-76. Kelmscott, loneliness of neighbourhood of, due to nature of soil, 7. Knowles obtain Cholsey, 166. Lanfranc colonises Bermondsey Abbey, 105. Lechlade, small Priory of, 107. Lincoln succeeds Dorchester as a see, 52. Little Marlow, nunnery of, mentioned, 109. Littlemore, example of parish with special water front, 10, 11. London, 65-68, 73, 86, 87, 89. Longchamps surrenders Tower, 84. Long Wittenham, ford at, 23. Lords, House of, utterly transformed by Dissolution of monasteries, 151. Louis of France called in by barons, 75. Magna Charta, 29, 71-76, 84. Maidenhead, probable origin of name, 32; growth of, 190-194. Mandeville holds Tower, 83. Manors, in monastic hands in Thames Valley, 124-126; English, probably Roman in origin, certainly Saxon, 141, 142; royal lapse of, 144; mutability of ownership in, after Dissolution, 161-169. Matilda, fealty sworn to, at Windsor, 70. Medmenham, Priory of, 109. Mill, family of, succeeds Hobys at Bisham, 164. Monasteries, system of, 91-93. Monastic foundations on Thames, list of, 122, 123.