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CHAPTER XIX

"A precious piece of architecture"—Guest at an inn—A
pleasant city—Unexpected kindness—A medieval lavatory—An
honest lawyer!—The cost of obliging a stranger—Branston—A
lost cyclist—In search of a husband!—Dunston
Pillar—An architectural puzzle—A Lincolnshire
spa—Exploring—An ancient chrismatory 372


CHAPTER XX

A long discourse—The origin of a coat-of-arms—An English
serf—A witch-stone—Lincolnshire folk-lore—A collar for
lunatics—St. Mary's thistle—A notable robbery—An
architectural gem—Coningsby—Tattershall church and
castle—Lowland and upland—"Beckingham-behind-the-Times"—Old
Lincolnshire folk 395


CHAPTER XXI

A cross-country road—A famous hill—Another medieval inn—"The
Drunken Sermon"—Bottesford—Staunton Hall—Old
family deeds—A chained library—Woolsthorpe
manor-house—A great inventor!—Melton Mowbray—Oakham—A
quaint old manorial custom—Rockingham
Castle—Kirby 415


CHAPTER XXII

A well-preserved relic—An old English home—Authorities
differ—Rooms on the top of a Church tower—A medieval-looking
town—A Saxon tower—Bedford—Bunyan's birth-*place—Luton—The
end of the journey 436

Appendix 443

Index 445