Highways and byways in Surrey . to Kingston. Holland, who had planned arising on Banstead Downs, and had hoped to capture and holdReigate Castle, was in full retreat. At Reigate he had fearedto hold the position he had taken up; he retreated onDorking, and from Dorking, pursued by Major Audley ofLiveseys Horse, he fled north. On Kingston Common, alittle south-east of where Surbiton to-day takes train for London,his horse turned on their enemy; his infantry fell back. Fromeach side a few spurred out, playing valiantly, Audleywrites. But the Royalists were beaten. Lord Francis Villiers,younger b
Highways and byways in Surrey . to Kingston. Holland, who had planned arising on Banstead Downs, and had hoped to capture and holdReigate Castle, was in full retreat. At Reigate he had fearedto hold the position he had taken up; he retreated onDorking, and from Dorking, pursued by Major Audley ofLiveseys Horse, he fled north. On Kingston Common, alittle south-east of where Surbiton to-day takes train for London,his horse turned on their enemy; his infantry fell back. Fromeach side a few spurred out, playing valiantly, Audleywrites. But the Royalists were beaten. Lord Francis Villiers,younger brother to the Duke of Buckingham, a boy of greatpersonal beauty, fought alone in their rear. His horse wasshot under him ; he backed towards an elm, and fought withsix of them. They came up behind him, pushed off his helmetand cut him to the ground. Report came to London that hewas wounded, and orders were sent out to care for him. ]5uthe was found dead, and his pockets were rifled. The eveningwas the end of the war in ^^^Ip The Swan, Thames Ditton. CHAPTER XXIII THE DITTONS AND WALTON Surbiton trains.—Thames Ditton.—Parks for trotting ponies.—A forlorngarden.—The Dandies Fete. — Graveyard poetry.—The Pleasance of aFerry.—Giggs Hill cricket.—Ditton Tulips.—Hampton Bridge.—Adreary road.—Walton.—The Scolds Bridle.—^John Selwyn and theStag.—Terror at an elephant.—William Lilly, astrologer. Surbiton is a growth of seventy years, and was born whenthe raihvay came. Once it was called a suburb of Kingston ;now it has suburbs of its own. Tramways join it to London ;the railway empties Surbiton into London every morning andpours London back again in the evening. Nearly seventytrains a day stop at Surbiton on their way down from Waterloo ;nearly eighty stop on their way up. It must be quiteinspiriting to lose your train, and to know that you have onlythree minutes to wait; or to catch the train before your train,or to choose which you will have of t
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