In addition to the many standard works on London as a whole, including those by Sir Walter Besant, Edward Walford, James Thorne, G. E. Mitton, and others, the author of the present volume has consulted William Howitt's _Northern Heights of London_; _The Records of Hampstead_, edited by F. E. Baines; _The Hampstead Annals; The Transactions of the Antiquarian and Historical Society of Hampstead; Wyldes and its Story_, by Mrs. Arthur Wilson; Harrow, by J. Fischer Williams; _Epping Forest_, by Edward North Buxton; _Chislehurst Caves and Dene Holes_, by W. G. Nicholls; _The History and Antiquities of Richmond, Kew, Petersham, and Ham_, by G. Beresford Chancellor; _Ham House_, by Dr. Williamson; _Bygone Putney_, by Ernest Hammond; _The History of Hampton Court_, by Ernest Law; supplementing them by the collection of recent information on the spot in the various districts treated. {307} INDEX ABBEY WOOD, 92. Aberdeen, Lord, 46. Abershaw, Jerry, 204. Abney, Sir Thomas, 33. Aconzio, Giacomo, 93. Acton, 277. Adam, Robert, 283. Addington, 142. Addington, Henry, 219. Addiscombe, 143. Addison, 14, 33, 194. Ælffic, 152, 153. Æthelbricht, King of Kent, 198. Æthelred, King, 208. Ainger, Canon, 21. Airey, Sir George, 114. Akenside, Dr., 15. Alcock, Thomas, 157. Aldborough Hatch, 72, 73. Alfred, King, 100, 101, 124, 208. Algar, Earl, 295. Alleyn, Edward, 131, 132, 133. Allingham, William, 18. Amelia, Princess, 260, 261, 277. Amelia, Queen, 256. Anerley, 135. Angoulême, Duchesse d', 22. Anjou, Margaret of, 229. Anne of Bohemia, 120, 228. Anne of Cleves, 104, 117, 130, 234, 299. Anne of Denmark, 108. Anne, Princess, 242, 283, 287, 303. Anne, Queen, 111, 163, 167, 225, 271. Antraigues, Count d', 195. Aragon, Katharine of, 59, 86, 103, 232, 233, 245, 266, 286. Archer, Lady, 195. Argyll, Duke of, 264. Arran, Earl of, 249. Arthur, Prince, 232, 266. Arundel, Archbishop, 149. Arundel, Earl of, 161. Ashurst, Sir William, 35. Athelstan, King, 192, 263, 265. Atterbury, Bishop, 33. Atterbury, Dr., 33, 39. Aubrey, Lord, 152. Auckland, Lord, 130. Audley, Lord, 116. Aulus Plautius, 138. Aylmer, John, 95.