It is not indeed until we come to Boughton that we are reminded of them.

The older part of the parish of Boughton is South Street, where, however, nothing now remains older than the sixteenth century at the earliest.

About a mile, or rather less, to the south, and clean off the road, stands on the crest of a steep, though not a high hill, the lovely village of Boughton under Blee, which, curiously enough, if we consider what is omitted, is mentioned by Chaucer, When ended was the lyf of seint Cecyle, Er we had riden fully fyve myle, At Boghton under Blee us gan atake

It is, however, more important to explain, if we can, what the pilgrims were doing more than a mile off the true Way at Boughton under Blean.

No good explanation has yet been offered, but perhaps we may be near the truth if we suggest that Chaucer and his pilgrims never visited Boughton under Blean and the church of SS.

It is equally certain that the village of Dunkirk was known as Boughton until the middle of the eighteenth century, when a set of squatters took possession of the ground, then extra parochial as of a "free- port" from which no one could dislodge them.

Now Boughton Hill rises abruptly beyond the village of Dunkirk, and it may well be that this and not the tiny hamlet nearly a mile to the south of the great Way, was Chaucer's Boghton under Blee, where the Canon and his yeoman overtook the "joly companye," and rode in with them to Canterbury.

All that wonder which greets you from Mad Tom's corner upon Boughton Hill is, rightly understood, the work of St Thomas, and we might say indeed that the great Angel Steeple was the last of his miracles for it is the last of the Gothic in England, and it rose above his tomb, while that tomb was still a shrine and a monument in the hearts of men.

Armand Dumaresq Puritans Going to Church After the painting by G. H. Boughton.

Such cases, indeed, as that of Miss Bland, or of Captain Donnellan, and Sir Theophilus Boughton, shall never have any countenance from me.

To the late Lady Rouse Boughton. 'Tis said, that jealous of a name We all would praise confine, And choke the leading path to fame In our peculiar line.

Estate of Charles Boughton, by Geo. A. Boughton, Ex. ...

Estate of Charles Boughton, by Geo. A. Boughton, Ex. ...

Mrs. L.R. Boughton ...

Australian chap. by Arthur Boughton.

Australian chap. by Arthur Boughton.

She and Mrs. Boughton, Lord Lyttelton's ancient Delia, are revived again in a young court that never heard of them.

[Illustration: Photographed by Miss Alice Boughton SARAH HOLLAND, ELLEN TERRY'S DRESSER]

L. Boughton, John Kneene, Wm. Cossentine, C.F. Larigo and Charles Randall.