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A History of the County of Essex
… Loughton, i, 11. E.R.O., D/CT 255. E. Hardingham, Lays and Legends of the Forest of Essex, 113. …
A History of the County of Sussex
… forest as a romantic place of wild natural beauty, rich in legends and supernatural happenings. The first recorded … 19th century, the story has remained potent. 74 Other legends concern St. Leonard's slaying of a dragon, … named in 1720, was blown down in 1836, and replanted. Such legends were still widely believed in the earlier 19th …
Old and New London
… years before Christ. Our later antiquaries, ruthless as to legends, however romantic, consider its original name to have … churches, is not a romantic building; yet it has its legends. Robert of Gloucester, a rhyming chronicler, …