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Runnymede, conjectured etymology of, 80; meeting of barons and John at, 81

Rupert, Prince, attempts to recapture Abingdon, 94

Russell, Member of Commons consenting to loot of monasteries, 157

St Augustine begins the civilisation of England, 98

St Frideswides receives new Protestant bishopric of Oxford, 114

St John, Chapel of, in Tower, windows of, 91

St Thomas, dream of priest concerning, in connection with Tower, 91

Sandford, change in character of soil at, 8

Saxon Chronicle, first mention of Oxford in, 58

Saxon origin of first part of place names on Thames, 33; of Oxford Castle, 58; of English manors probable, 152, 153

Seymour, obtains Chertsey, 178; obtains Radley, 178

Sheen, monastery of, late foundation of, 117

Sinodun Hills, fortification of, 52; geological parallel to Windsor, 71

Sir Philip Hoby obtains Bisham, 176

Smith. See Cromwell

Somerford Keynes, ford at, 23

Sonning, fate of land of, 181, 182

Squires. See Oligarchy

Squires, English, their origins and rise before Reformation, 151-154; permanently get the upper hand after the Dissolution, 154

Staines, only certain site of Roman bridge above London, 48; strategically superior to Windsor, 73, 74; town near Runnymede at which barons gather, 80; for long a village, 209; its bridge, 210

Stephen, Civil Wars under, Tower besieged during, 90

Stonehouse obtains Radley, 178

Stow, in Lincolnshire, mother house at Eynsham, 115

Stratton, monastic lands of, sold by Oliver Williams, 172

Streatley, ford at, 36; indirect Roman derivation of name, 35; probable point of passage of Icknield Way, 45

Stuart contrasted with weakness of Tudor character, 159

Sweyn at Oxford, 59

Tailboys, Member of the Commons consenting to loot of monasteries, 157

Talbot, Member of the Commons consenting to loot of monasteries, 157

Taxes a basis for calculation of prices, 143, 144

Tenant right under monastic system, 162

Territorial gentry, English, their origins and rise before Reformation; permanently get the upper hand after the Dissolution,

Thames, surface soil of valley of, 7-9; estuary of, unimportant in early history, 13; probably a boundary under Diocletian, 36; a boundary between counties, 37; points at which it is crossed, 39; traffic upon, begins after entry of Churn at Cricklade, 42, 43; absence of traces of Roman bridges on, 49; military value of, 50; imaginary voyage down, before Dissolution, 120-124

Thames Valley, in Civil Wars, 93-96; affords William III. his approach to London, 96; affords Charles I. his approach to

London, 96; economic importance of sites therein, produced by the monastic system, 126-130; railway of, draws its prosperity

from beyond the valley; towns of, 182-214

Thomas Rowland, last Abbot of Abingdon, 150