Highways and byways in Surrey . Briscoe, of Abinger. April 17,23. One of the later entries in the Registers is interesting to I 114 STARVING A RETAINER historians. Harriet Grote, widow of George Grote, died atShere in 1878, aged 86. Her grave is south of the church :Grote lies in Westminster Abbey. Shere and Gomshall are only divided by an avenue of elms—half a mile of the pleasantest and shadiest of is a village scattered round many lanes ; it has aBlack Horse inn near the station, but the prettiest Gomshallcottages are away from the Black Horse, down the lanes offthe main road
Highways and byways in Surrey . Briscoe, of Abinger. April 17,23. One of the later entries in the Registers is interesting to I 114 STARVING A RETAINER historians. Harriet Grote, widow of George Grote, died atShere in 1878, aged 86. Her grave is south of the church :Grote lies in Westminster Abbey. Shere and Gomshall are only divided by an avenue of elms—half a mile of the pleasantest and shadiest of is a village scattered round many lanes ; it has aBlack Horse inn near the station, but the prettiest Gomshallcottages are away from the Black Horse, down the lanes offthe main road. Gomshall Manor, now a boarding-house, hastraditions of the Middle Ages. There is a story of a doorleading to a secret chamber which ought to be somewhere inMartin Tuppers books, but I cannot find it. King John wasannoyed with a retainer, shut him in this room and turned thekey in the door, and there the miserable retainer starved todeath. It was just like King John to do it, but what he did atGomshall only tradition ^^tlE^s w w ///.>^ Govishall. CHAPTER X GUILDFORD TO LEATHERHEAD Merrow.—The Horse and Groom.—]\rr. Kipling on Surrey downs.—Clandon Paris.—Tlie village mole-catcher.—A fearful battle.—February sunshine.—Wide Ploughs.—Thomas Goffe and ThomasThimble.—Locked churches.—An atmosphere of war.—Effinghamand its admirals.—Little Bookham.—General dArblay in his Mistletoe. Of the two roads which run parallel to the downs east ofGuildford, doubtless the road south of the ridge runs throughthe prettiest villages. Albury, Shere and Gomshall are amore charming trio than any three that lie on the northernroad, if only because of the woods about them and the cleartrout stream that runs under their walls and bridges. Thevillages north of the ridge hardly have a good-sized pondbetween them. But the walk from Guildford to Leather-head, which can be shortened at any railway station youplease from Clandon to Bookham, is for all that a wa
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