Annals of Dover

Author: John Bavington Jones
Date: 1916

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Title
Preface
Dover Castle
The Dawn
Remains of Roman Works
Roman, Saxon and Norman Defences
Outer Walls and Towers
Later Fortifications
In Times of War
In Times of Peace
The Constables and Wardens
Officers of the Castle
Soldiers of the Fortress
The Port of Dover
As the Romans Found It
The Eastern Harbour
The Western Harbour
Failure, and New Projects
Making of the Great Pent
James the First's Charter
From James I to Charles II
Harbour Affairs from 1670 to 1723
A Period of Small Improvements
John Smeaton's Report
The Guilford Administration
Sir Henry Oxenden's Day
A Harbour Master's Engineering
Parliamentary Enquiry, 1836
The Wellington Period
Building of the Admiralty Pier
The New Constitution
The Admiralty Harbour
The Passage
The Earliest Passengers
The Ships and their Management
Mail Packets and the Post Office
The Last Sailing and First Steam Packets
Post Office and Admiralty Packets
The Railways and the Passage
Independent Adventurers
The Passage Poll Tax
Addenda
The History of Religion
Druidism and Christianity
The Canons of Dover
The Founding of the Priory
Two Ancient Hospitals
The Ancient Churches of Dover
Before the Reformation
After the Reformation
The Uprising of Nonconformity
The First Dissenters' Chapels
Early Nineteenth Century Churches
The Origin of Methodism in Dover
Early Nineteenth Century Chapels
The Church of England after 1850
Nonconformists after 1850
The Corporation and the Old Churches
The History of the Corporation
Saxon Origin
Norman and Later
Boundaries, Limbs, and Liberties
In the Middle Ages
Tudor and Stuart Periods
The Revolution and After
Local Rule by Statute
Parliamentary and Municipal Reform
Women in the Corporation
Borough Records
The Municipal Buildings
Dover of To-day
A Roll of Municipal Service
The Mayors and their Times
The Early Civic Chiefs
The Roll from Domesday
From the First Mayor
From the Writing of the Customal
From the Suspension of the Liberties
From the Establishment of the Common Council
From the Transfer of the Harbour
From the Charter of Charles II
From the Paving Commission
From the Town Council
From the Public Health Act
From the Widening of Biggin Street to the Pier Viaduct
Officers of the Corporation
Offices and Officers
The Bailiffs
The Chamberlains
The Town Clerks
The Recorders
The Coroners
Clerks of the Peace
Clerks to the Magistrates
Borough Surveyors
Chief and Other Constables
Sergeants, Porters, Cryers, and Town Messengers
Dover in Parliament
Three Electoral Periods
Elections of the First Period
Elections of the Second Period
Elections of the Third Period
Retrospect of Representation
Social History
Roads : Ancient and Modern
Locomotion
Inns : Old and New
Commerce and Industry
State Establishments
The Pilots
Dover Schools
The Poor
A Concluding Retrospect
Errata

Annals of Dover

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