The New Forest: its history and its scenery/Index

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 INDEX.

  • Abbacies, held by William II., at the time of his death, 104 (foot note).
  • Abbey, Beaulieu, see Beaulieu.
  • Abbey Walls, the, or St. Leonard's Grange, 69.
  • Acquitaine, Eleanor of, buried at Beaulieu Abbey, 67.
  • Adages, in the Forest, 180; see also Proverbs.
  • Adder's-tongue Fern, 256.
  • Alarnus de Insulis, on the death of William II., 102.
  • Alexander I., Pope, bull from, 71 (foot-note.)
  • Amberwood Corner, barrows near, 208.
  • Ambrosius Anrelianus, defeated by Cerdic, 118; his name preserved in the word Amesbury, 119; in Ambrose Hole and Ampress Farm, 198.
  • Ancestry, our, 2.
  • Anderwood Enclosure, Roman and Romano-British potteries at, 215.
  • America, Old-English character of its provincialisms, 172.
  • Anselm, foretold by the Abbot of Cluny of the death of William II., 101.
  • Anses Wood, mound near, 209, 210.
  • "Apostles, the Twelve," 83.
  • Assart lands, granted by James I., 43.
  • Ash, Mark-, Wood, 17.
  • Ashley Rails, Roman and Romano-British potteries at, 221.
  • Attachment, Court of, 87.
  • Augustine, St., injunctions to his canons, 69.
  • Aurelianus, Ambrosius, see Ambrosius.
  • Avon, the, at Castle Hill, 118; at Ibbesley, 120; at Winkton, 128; eel peculiar to, 125, 126.
  • Avon, the Valley of the, 116; Flora of, 253.
  • Avon Tyrrel, 126.


  • Babington, Churchill, synopsis of the birds of Charnwood Forest by, 275.
  • Baddesley, Preceptory of the Knights Templar formerly at, 156.
  • Balm, Bastard (Melittis Melyssophyllum), in the Forest, 256.
  • Bandits, troop of, at Lymington, 169.
  • Bargery Farm, 71.
  • Barn, or spicarium, of Beaulieu Abbey, 69, 70.
  • Barney Barns Hill, 197 (foot-note), 210.
  • Barrows, named after fairies, 177, 197; opened by Warner, 198; in the east part of the Forest, 197 (foot-note), 211; on Sway Common, 198; on Bratley Plain, 199-205; near Ocknell Pond, 205, 206; near Darrat's Lane, 206 (foot-note); on the West Fritham Plain, 207; near Amberwood, 208; on Butt's Plain, 209; on Langley Heath, 211.
  • Barton Cliffs, the, 147; Middle-Eocene beds of the, 4; atmospheric effects seen from the, 15, 16; geology of, 421,422.
  • Beacon, Burley, 82.
  • Beaulieu Abbey, its foundation and endowments, 62; its dedication, 63; the Countess of Warwick and Perkin Warbeck come to its sanctuary, 64; its dissolution, 65; beauty of its situation, 65; the abbot's house, cloisters, and chapter-house, 66; church, 67; refectory, 67, 68; the pulpit of the refectory, 68; barn of, 69; granges of, 69-71.
  • Beauty, exists in the beholder's mind, 18, 19; God's love of, 127, 128; the chief end and aim of Nature, 5.
  • Becton Bunny, 149; house burnt down, 170; geology of, 240.
  • Beeches, measurements of, in the Forest, 16 (foot-note). ​
  • Bees, folk-lore about, 181.
  • Bellus locus, former name of Beaulieu, 62.
  • Bentley Wood, North, 113.
  • Beteston Roger, tenure of, at Eyeworth, 114.
  • Bible, words in the, now provincialisms, 193.
  • Birds, bones of, discovered amongst the foundations of the Priory Church, Christchurch, 14 (foot-note); see Ornithology.
  • Bishop's Ditch, 79.
  • Black Bar, large mound at, 210.
  • Blackheath Meadow, Roman pottery at, 210.
  • Boghampton, village of, 127.
  • Boldre, derivation of, 80; church, 79.
  • Books, at Beaulieu Abbey, just before the dissolution, 65 (foot-note).
  • Botany of the Forest, 250-257; contradictions in the, 251; characterized by its soil, 251, 252; bog-plants, 252; carices abundant, 252; its position under Watson's system, 253, 254; its trees, 254; its St. John's Worts, 254, 255; its ferns, 255, 256; other plants, 256, 257. (See Appendix II., 289.)
  • Bottom, meaning of the word, 187.
  • Bowles, Caroline, married to Southey at Boldre church, 80.
  • Bouvery Farm, 69.
  • Bramble Hill, oaks at, 16; view from, 111.
  • Bramshaw, village of, 111.
  • Bratley Wood, 113.
  • Bratley Plain, barrows upon, 113, 199-205.
  • Breamore, village of, 119.
  • Brinken Wood, 83.
  • Brockenhurst, derivation of, 75; tenure at, 76; church, 77; scenery round, 78.
  • Brook Beds, the, 245, 246.
  • Brook Common, 111.
  • Buckholt, in Domesday, 51 (foot-note).
  • Buckland Rings, Roman coins found at, 154; described, 199.
  • Burgate, village of, 120.
  • Burleigh, Lord, his advice to his son, 1, 2.
  • Burley, 82; Lodge, 83.
  • Bustard, last seen in the Forest, 14 (foot-note).
  • Butt's Ash Lane, barrows near, 197 (foot-note), 211 (foot-note).
  • Butt's Plain, barrows on, 209.
  • Buzzard, Honey, breeding habits of, 262-265; weight of the eggs of the, 264 (foot-note); common, breeding of the, 265, 266.


  • Cadenham Oak, the, 110.
  • Cadland's Park, 50.
  • Calshot Castle, built by Henry VIII., 52; mentioned by Colonel Hammond, 52 (foot-note); the *Cerdices-ora of the Chronicle, 53; different forms of the name, 53, 54.
  • Canterton, held by Chenna, in Domesday, 28.
  • Canute, Forest laws of, 35; Charta de Forestâ of, extracts from, 36 (foot-note).
  • Castle Hill, 118.
  • Castles, so-called, in the Forest, 32.
  • Catharine's, St., Hills, 126.
  • Cattle, right of turning out, in the Forest, 46.
  • Cerdices-ford, now Charford, 54, 118.
  • Cerdices-ora, probably Calshot, 52, 53.
  • Chapel, chantry, of the Countess of Salisbury, 137,138; of Robert Harys, 143; of John Draper, 143.
  • Charford, the Cerdices-ford of the Chronicle, 118.
  • Charles I., his attempt to revive the Forest laws, 42; gives the New Forest as security to his creditors, 42; embarks for Carisbrook from Leap, 56; seized by Colonel Cobbit, 152; imprisoned in Hurst Castle, 153, 154; how treated by Colonel Hammond, 153 (foot-note); by Colonel Cobbit, 154.
  • Charles II. bestows the young woods of Brockenhurst to the maids of honour, 43; encloses three hundred acres for oaks, 44.
  • Charnwood Forest, the birds of, 275.
  • Chestnuts, formerly common in the Forest, 13 (foot-note).
  • Chewton Glen, 147, 148.
  • Chichester, Reginald Pecock, Bishop of, on the legend concerning the man in the moon, 177.
  • Chough, its increasing scarcity, 275.
  • Christchurch, 129; its Old-English names, 131; Æthelwald at, 131; in Domesday, 131; the castle of, 131, 132; Norman House at, 132; Chamberlains' Books of, 135 (foot-note); Priory Church of, 135, 141-144; the conventual buildings of, 138, 139; legend of the Priory Church of, 175.
  • Chronicle, The, on the afforestation of the New Forest, 25, 26; the great value of its evidence, 23.
  • Church, its date should be told by its style, 123.
  • Churches in the Forest mentioned by Domesday, still in part standing, 31. ​
  • Church Green, in Eyeworth Wood, 32 (foot-note).
  • Church Lytton, at Wootton, 32, 33 (foot-note).
  • Church Moor, near Mark Ash, 32 (foot-note).
  • Church Place, at Sloden, 32 (foot-note).
  • Churchwardens' Books, at Ellingham, extracts from, 229-231; at Fordingbridge, extracts from, 230, 231.
  • Chydioke, effigy of Sir John, in the Priory Church of Christchurch, 142, 176, 177.
  • Clay Hill, view from, 86.
  • Cluny, Hugh, Abbot of, foretells the death of William II., 101.
  • Coleridge, at Mudeford, 145.
  • Colgrimesmore, the ancient name of Souley Pond, 72.
  • Commoners, rights of the, in the New Forest, 46.
  • Coronella lævis, 259 (foot-note).
  • Corporation Books, extracts from the Christchurch, 135, 136 (foot-note); from the Lymington, 155 (foot-note).
  • Court, Moyles, 120, 121.
  • Crockle, Roman and Romano-British potteries at, 217-219; their probable date, 222.
  • Cross, the Staple, 146; the, at Bargate, 120.
  • Cuckoo, sayings concerning the, 180.
  • Customs, old, in the Forest, 178.


  • Dame Slough, 273.
  • Dauphin of France, arms of the, formerly in Boldre Church, 80; embarked at Leap, 55.
  • Defoe, his plan for colonizing the Forest with the Palatine refugees, 47.
  • Deer in the Forest, abolished in 1851, 46; a few left, 113.
  • Deer-stealing, method of, 171.
  • Denny Wood, 79; heronry at, 273.
  • Dibden, church at, 50, 51 (foot-note).
  • Diodorus Siculus, quotation from, 57 (foot-note).
  • Dissolution of the religious houses, its need, 64, 137; of Beaulieu Abbey, 65; of Christchurch Priory, 138.
  • Domesday, analysis and evidence of, on the afforestation of the New Forest, 26, 27, 28, 29, 31; churches in the Forest still in part remaining mentioned in, 31; Eling in, 51 (foot-note); ltedbridge in, 51 (foot-note); Lyndhurst in, 87 (foot-note); Fordingbridge in, 117; Christchurch in, 131; mills in, rented by a payment of eels, 128, 119 (foot-note); Ringwood in, 123 (foot-note); Christchurch in, 131; Beckley, Baishley, and Milton in, 148 (foot-note); Lymington in, 155.
  • Draper, John, the last prior of Christchurch Priory, character of, 137, 138.
  • Drift, in the Forest, its contents, 236.
  • Durham, Simon of, on the afforestation of the New Forest, 25 (foot-note); on the death of William II., 95 (foot-note).


  • Eagle, golden, the, 260; sea, the, 261.
  • Eaglehurst, 59.
  • Easter Sepulchre, at Brockenhurst Church, 77.
  • Ecclesiastica, or the Book of Remembrance, 122 (foot-note).
  • Edward I. issues writs for the perambulation of the Forest, 41; possesses the Castle of Christchurch, 132.
  • Edward III., corbel head of, in Sopley Church, 127.
  • Edward VI. at Christchurch, 134.
  • Eel, peculiar to the Avon, an, 125.
  • Eels, mills rented by a payment of, 119 (foot-note), 128.
  • Eling, in Domesday, 51 (foot-note); extract from parish register of, 228.
  • Ellingham, cross roads at, 120; Church of, 122, 123; extract from Churchwardens' Books of, 229, 230, 231.
  • England, its peculiar interest to Englishmen, 2; ignorance of, by Englishmen, 2.
  • Everton, etymology of, 75.
  • Exbury, 59; herons feeding near, 273.
  • Exe, the river, 69; derivation of, 163.


  • Fairies in the New Forest, 174, 175.
  • Falcon, peregrine, 261.
  • Fawley, village of, 51; church, 51; Norman doorway of church, 59.
  • Ferns in the Forest, 255, 256.
  • Ferrels, or "Verrels," meaning of, 82.
  • Fidley, Wood-, rain, meaning of, 79.
  • Flambard, hated by the clergy, 102; builds the Priory Church of Christchurch, 136.
  • Florence of Worcester, on the afforestation of the New Forest, 24; on the death of William II., 95 (foot-note).
  • Flowers. See Botany.
  • Folk-lore, value of, 173; in the New Forest, 174-180.
  • Font, Norman, at Brockenhurst, 77.
  • Fordingbridge, 117; church of, 118; ancient tenure at, 117 (foot-note); extracts from Churchwardens' Books of, 230, 231. ​
  • Forest, meaning of the word, 10 (foot-note); government of an ancient, 35, 36; life in an ancient, 36 (foot-note).
  • Forest-Laws. See Laws.
  • Forest Rights. See Rights.
  • Frame Wood, 78, 79.
  • Fritham, country round, 114.
  • Fritham Plain, East. 113; West, 114.
  • Fulchered and William II., 94,102.


  • Gemeticensis, Gulielmus, on the afforestation of the New Forest, 23.
  • Geology, the, of the Forest, 234; in the Eocene period, 235; the drift and its contents, 236; the Middle-Eocene of the Hordle and Barton Cliffs, 237-242; the Bracklesham Beds in the valley of Canterton, 242-248; the great aim of, 248.
  • Gilpin, author of Forest Scenery, his love for Nature, 15 (foot-note); buried in Boldre churchyard, 79, 80.
  • Gipsies, principal families of, in the Forest, 159; their marriages, 159; their present mode of life, 159, 160.
  • Godshill, in Gough's time, 14 (foot-note).
  • Goreley Bushes, vast Keltic graveyard near, 207.
  • Government, duty of, to protect the finest trees in the Forest, 18.
  • Grange, St. Leonard's, 69; barn and chapel at, 70; Park, 71; Somerford, 138, 147.
  • Guest, Dr., on Natan-Leaga, 33 (foot-note); on Cerdices-ora, 53; on the "Belgic Ditches," 130; on the "Early English Settlements in South Britain," 163 (foot-note), 166 (foot-note).
  • Guesten-hall, the, of the Abbot's House at Beaulieu, 66.


  • Hall, Union of the Families of Lancaster and York, by, quotation from, 151.
  • Handycross Pond, barrow near, 209.
  • Harriers, marsh and hen, 268.
  • Hat, meaning of, in the Forest, 182,183.
  • Hatchet Gate, 75.
  • Hawfinches, in the Forest, 274, 275.
  • Heather, its one defect, 81.
  • Hengistbury Head, derivation of, 165.
  • Hemingburgh, Walter, on the afforestation. 25 (foot-note); on the death of William II., 95 (foot-note).
  • Henry III., confirmation of privileges to Beaulieu Abbey, by, 63.
  • Henry VIII., patriotism of, 151, 152.
  • Herbert's Memoirs, 153, 154
  • Herons in the Forest, 273, 274.
  • High Cliff Beds, the, 242.
  • Hill Top, 59, 61.
  • Hinchelsea, Bottom and Knoll, 81.
  • History, our, written on the country, 2, 129; tradition, value of, in history, 97, 98; truth in, 106.
  • Hoadley, Bishop, on the deer in Waltham Chase, 171.
  • Hob, Fairy, 175 (foot-note).
  • Hobby, the, 261; weight of the eggs of, 264 (foot-note).
  • Holland's Wood, near Brockenhurst, 78.
  • Holly, springing up in the Forest, 12 (foot-note).
  • Holme Bush, explanation of a, 179.
  • Holmsley, 81, 82.
  • Honey, the Forest, 184.
  • Hoopoe, its occurrence, 274.
  • Hordle, its church, when built, 31 (foot-note); churchyard, 150; Freshwater deposits at, 237.
  • "Horse, the Great," 126 (foot-note).
  • House, Barman's, at Beaulieu, 66.
  • House, Norman, at Christchurch, 132.
  • House, the Queen's, at Lyndhurst, 87.
  • Hoveden, Roger, on the afforestation of the New Forest, 25 (foot-note); on the death of William II., 95 (foot-note).
  • Howard, the philanthropist, lived at Watcombe, 75.
  • Huntingdon, Henry of, on the afforestation, 25 (foot-note); on the death of William II., 95 (foot-note).
  • Hurst, meaning of the word, 35.
  • Hurst Beach, 151; Castle, built by
  • Henry VIII., 151; Charles at, 152-154; importance of, 152 (foot-note).
  • Hyde or Hungerford, 120.
  • Hythe, village of, 50.


  • Ibbesley, view at, 120; extracts from parish register of, 232, 233.
  • Ictis, the Isle of Wight, 57, 58.
  • Idleness, profitable, 90.
  • Innocent III., grants the right of a sanctuary to Beaulieu Abbey, 63.
  • Insulis, Alanus de, on the death of William II., 102.
  • Iron's Hill Wood. 75.
  • Iron-works at Souley Pond, 72.
  • Isabella de Fortibus, her possessions at Christchurch, 132; at Lymington, 154.
  • Island Hills, the, 78.
  • Island Thorn, Roman and Romano-British Potteries at, 220.


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  • James I. grants twenty assart-lands in the Forest, 43.
  • Jar-bird, meaning of a, 187.
  • John, King, his oppression of the Cistercian order, 61; founds Beaulieu Abbey, 62.


  • Kalkesore, old name of Calshot, 54.
  • Keltic element in the dialect of the New Forest, 163; in the topography, 164.
  • Kestrel, eggs of, weight of the, 264.
  • "Keystone under the hearth," meaning of the proverb, 170.
  • King's Day, the, explanation of, 231.
  • King's Rue, 56.
  • Kitts Hill, 91.
  • Knives, flint, found at Eyeworth, 297 (foot-note).
  • Knoll, Black, 78, 84.
  • Knyghton, on the afforestation of the New Forest, 24; his authority of no value, 95 (foot-note).
  • Knyghtwood Oak, the, 16.


  • Labourers in the New Forest, average wages of, 47 (foot-note).
  • Lane, Jane, 121.
  • Langley Heath, barrows on, opened by the Rev. J. P. Bartlett, 211.
  • Lappenberg, his account of the afforestation of the New Forest by William I., 21; on the Ictis of the ancients, 56.
  • Latchmore Pond, 81,199.
  • Lawrence, the sprite, in the Forest, 174.
  • Law-Courts, last of the Forest, 12, 87.
  • Laws, Forest-, Canute's, 35; made still severer by William I., 38; Charles I., attempts to revive, 42.
  • Leap, 55; the spot where the Dauphin, Louis VIII. of France, embarked, 55; where Charles I. embarked, 56; British and Roman road at, 56; mass of tin found near, 57.
  • Lease to, meaning of, 193.
  • Leighton, Mr., fresco in Lyndhurst church by, 88.
  • Leland on the death of William II., 96 (foot-note).
  • Lepidoptera, list of the Forest, Appendix IV., 319.
  • Lewis, Sir George G, on the Ictis of the ancients, 57; his theory corroborated, 58.
  • Lichens, used as specifics in the Forest, 176.
  • Lichmore Pond, 81, 199.
  • Life, modern, its hurry and confusion, 73.
  • Liney Hill Wood, 83.
  • Lisle, Alice, 121.
  • Lonte, to, meaning of, 188.
  • Lungs of oak (Sticta pulmonaria), used as a specific for consumption, 176.
  • Lung-wort, narrow-leaved, the, 69, 256.
  • Lymington, port of, 154; its history, 155, 156; extracts from the Corporation Books of, 155 (foot-note).
  • Lyndhurst, derivation of, 86 (foot-note); church of, 87; scenery round, 89, 90; ancient tenure at, 86, 87; woods round, 90, 91.


  • Malmesbury, William of, on the afforestation of the New Forest, 25 (foot-note); on the death of William II., 93, 94 (foot-note), 95 (foot-note); on the physical appearance of William II., 99 (foot-note).
  • Map, Ordnance, mistake of the, 128 (foot-note).
  • Mapes, Walter, on the afforestation of the New Forest, 24.
  • Mark Ash Wood, 17.
  • Mead, made in the New Forest, 184.
  • Merlin, breeding of the, in the Forest, 267, 268 (foot-note); weight of supposed egg of, 161, 264.
  • Middle Marine Bed, the, at Mineway, 237, 238.
  • Milford, church of, 150, 151.
  • Millaford Brook, the, 83, 90.
  • Mills in the New Forest, comparative value of, by Domesday, 29; rented by a payment of eels, in Domesday, 119 (foot-note).
  • Milton, words used by, now provincialisms, 191.
  • Milton, village of, mentioned in Domesday, 148 (foot-note).
  • Minestead, 92.
  • Monastery, average library of a, 65 (foot-note); life in a, 72, 73.
  • Monmouth's Ash, 122.
  • Monmouth, capture of, 122; writes to James, the Queen Dowager, and the Lord Treasurer, 123.
  • Moon-Hill Woods, the, 75.
  • Morefalls, the Lord Treasurer, Southampton, on the evils of granting, 43, 44 (foot-note).
  • Movies Court, 120, 121.
  • Moyne, William le-, tenure of, at Lyndhurst, 87.
  • Mudeford, 146.


  • Natan-Leaga, the name preserved, 33.
  • Nation, history of a, how best read, 224; its aesthetic life, how best determined, 224, 225. ​
  • Nature, beauty the end and aim of, 5; her care for trees, 10; the proper spirit with which to see, 19.
  • Natural history, its value, 235, 276.
  • Needsore, 54; derivation of, 165.
  • Netley Abbey Church, ruins of, 49; fort, 49, hospital, 50.
  • New Forest, the; its connection with our history, 3; scenery of, 4; trees of, 16, 17; in the winter, 18; its boundaries in the reign of Edward I., 26, 21; its afforestation by William I., 21; value of land in Domesday, 29; geology of, 4, 10, 29, 30, 234-249; botany of, 250, 257 (see also Appendix II., 289); ornithology of, 258-276 (see also Appendix III., 307); churches of, 4; the first and second perambulations of, 40; character of the second perambulation of, 41, 42; hills of, 10; its former woody nature proved by the local nomenclature, 33; general character of, 11; in the time of the Normans, 12, 13; changes in, 12; granted as security by Charles I. to his creditors, 42; its neglected state under the Stuarts, 43, 44; William III. legislates for, 44; statistics of, 40, 47 (foot-note); present management of, 47 (foot-note); assart lands in, granted by James I., 42; hurricane in, 44; ethnology of, 160, 161; smuggling in, 169, 170; deer-stealing in, 171; folk-lore of, 173, 180; poetry of, 176; love superstitions of, 179; proverbs of, 179; local sayings, 179; provincialisms of, 181, 195 (see, also, Appendix I., 279); traditions in, 96, 97, 180, 181; barrows of, 196-213; Parish Registers and Churchwardens' Books of, 226-233; Lepidoptera of, Appendix IV., 319.
  • New Park, 86.
  • Nodes, the, 197.


  • Oak, the Cadenham, 110.
  • Oaks, character of in the Forest, 16; measurements of, 16 (foot-note); "bustle-headed," meaning of, 183.
  • Ocknell Wood, 113.
  • Onomatopoieia, its occurrence amongst provincialisms, 186.
  • Ordnance map, mistake of, 126 (foot-note).
  • Ore Creek, 54 (foot-note).
  • Ornithology of the Forest, 260; white-tailed eagle, 260; osprey, 261; hobby, breeding of the, 261; honey-buzzard, breeding habits of, 261, 263, 265; common buzzard, breeding habits of, 265; merlin, nesting of, 267, 268 (foot-note); harriers, 268; owls, 269; raven, breeding of, 270; winter birds, 271; woodpeckers, 272; herons, 273; hawfinches, 274; chough, 275; census of birds, 275 (see also Appendix III., 307).
  • Ovest, meaning of, 183.
  • Oxenford and Oxford, true derivation of, 80.


  • Paris, Matthew, on William II.'s death, 94 (foot-note), 95 (foot-note).
  • Parish Registers. See Registers.
  • Park Grange, 71.
  • Park, New, 86.
  • Pennington, the village of, 153.
  • Perambulation of the New Forest, the first, 40; the second, 40, 41; character of the second, 41, 42.
  • Pignel Wood, 272, 273.
  • Pigs, right of turning ont, in the Forest, 46; breed of in the Forest, peculiar, 259.
  • Pitt's Enelosure, Roman and Romano-British potteries, at, 220.
  • Pliny on the Isle of Wight, 57 (foot-note).
  • Poetry of the New Forest, character of, 175, 176 (foot-note).
  • Ponies, Forest, 259.
  • Potteries, Roman and Romano-British, 214; at Crockle, first discovered by the Rev. J. Pemberton Bartlett, 215; at Anderwood, 215; at Oakley, 215; at Sloden, 216; at the Lower Hat, 217; at Crackle, description of, 218, 219; at Island Thorn, 220; at Pitt's Enclosure, 220; at Ashley Rails, 221; at Black Heath, 221.
  • Provincialisms, Keltic element in the New Forest, 163; the real character of, 173; in the New Forest, 181-195. (See also Appendix I., 279).
  • Proverbs in the Forest, 179.
  • Puck, the fairy, in the Forest, 174; names of fields, and woods, and barrows, derived from him, 175.
  • Puckpit's Wood, 112, 113.
  • Pulpit, the, of Beaulieu Refectory, 68.
  • Purkess, family of, 97.


  • Quarr Abbey, 155.
  • Queen's Bower Wood, the, 83.
  • Queen's Mead, the, 83.
  • Queen's North, 11, 113, 114.


  • Raven, its breeding in the Forest, 270.
  • Reachmore Barrow, 113.
  • Redbridge, in Domesday, 51 (foot-note). ​
  • Redstart, Black, its periodical occurrence in the Forest, 274.
  • Refectory of Beaulieu Abbey, now the parish church, 67; pulpit of, 68.
  • Register, Parish, at Eling, extract from, 227, 228; at Ibbesley, extracts from, 233,234; at Christchurch, 234; date of registers in the Forest, 227 (foot-note).
  • Reredos, in the Priory Church of Christchurch, 140,141; in St. Mary's Overie, 141 (foot-note).
  • Rere-mouse, meaning of, 192.
  • Rhinefield, nursery at, 47.
  • Rich and poor, difference between, 5.
  • Rights, Forest-, their origin, 36 (foot-note), 46 (foot-note).
  • Ringwood, 123; fine brass at, 124.
  • Rodford, derivation of, 166.
  • Romans, why they chose the New Forest for their potteries, 224; their influence on the district, 225. See also Potteries and Buckland Rings.
  • Rood-screen in Ellingham Church, 122; at Christchurch, 140.
  • Rose, the Red King by, 33 (foot-note); Gundimore, extract from his, 146, 147 (foot-note).
  • Ross, John, on the afforestation of the New Forest, 25 (foot-note).
  • Rue Copse, 56.
  • Rue, King's, 56.


  • Salisbury Chapel, the, in the Priory Church of Christchurch, 141.
  • Salisbury, Countess of, her execution, 141, 142.
  • Salisbury, John of, on the character of William II., 99 (foot-note); on William II.'s death, 106.
  • Sanctuary of Beaulieu, the right of, given by Innocent III., 63; the Countess of Warwick flies to the, 64; Perkin Warbeck, flies to, 64.
  • Sandyballs, 118.
  • Screen, Rood-, in Ellingham Church, 122; in the Priory Church of Christchurch, 140.
  • Sepulchre, Easter, in Brockenhurst Church, 77.
  • Serlo and William II., 93, 94.
  • Setthornes, 81.
  • Shade, meaning of the word in the Forest, 181, 182.
  • Shakspeare, words used by, now provincialisms, 189.
  • Sheets-axe, meaning of the word, 183.
  • Shepherd's Gutter Beds, the, 244, 245.
  • Shrewsbury, Fulchered, Abbot of St. Peter's at, prophetic words spoken by, 94 (foot-note), 102.
  • Sloden, Roman and Romano-British potteries at, 216.
  • Sloden Hole, plan of, 217 (foot-note).
  • Smoke Silver, 178 (foot-note); explanation of, 232.
  • Smuggling, formerly carried on in the Forest, 169, 170.
  • Snow-storm, great, in the Forest, 180, 181.
  • Solent, traditions concerning the former depth of, 58.
  • Somerford Grange, 147.
  • Songs of the New Forest, 175, 176 (foot-note).
  • Sopley, derivation of, 127; church of, 127.
  • Southey, married his second wife at Boldre Church, 80; at Burton, 146.
  • Southampton, the Lord Treasurer, on the evils of granting moorefalls, 43, 44 (foot-note).
  • Southampton, Sir Bevis of, 3; ships built by Henry V. at, 4.
  • Souley Pond, 72; iron-works at, 72.
  • Spelman, Peter, tenure at Brockenhurst held by, 76.
  • Spotswood, blunder of, 24 (foot-note).
  • Squoyles, meaning of the word, 183.
  • St. John's Worts in the Forest, 254, 255.
  • Staneswood, in Domesday, 51 (foot-note).
  • Staple Cross, the, 145.
  • Stone, Rufus's, 96, 97.
  • Stoney-Cross, views from, 110,112.
  • Streams, character of the Forest, 14; the best guide, 17; beauty of, 83, 84.
  • Sunsets in the Forest, 15, 113; from the Barton Cliffs, 149, 150.
  • Swanimote, Court of, 35.
  • Sway Common, 80, 81; barrows on, 198, 199.


  • Thorougham, now Fritham, the Truham of Domesday, 96 (foot-note).
  • Tiril, Walter, William H. gives him two arrows, 93; according to the Chroniclers shoots the King, 94; his declaration to Suger, 106; his implication in the murder, 106; the cause of his supposed flight, 106; his friendship with Anselm, 102.
  • Towns, historical interest in English, 129, 130; their history, the history of the day, 130.
  • Tradition, its value in history, 97, 98.
  • Traditions in the Forest, 96, 97, 180, 181.
  • Trail of oak, the, meaning of, 183.
  • Travelling, modern, style of, 2.
  • Tree-forms, loveliness of, 9. ​
  • Trees, their comparative value as standing and cut, 18; in the Forest, 254.
  • Truth, involuntarily perverted, 22.
  • Tweonea, the ancient name of Christchurch, 131.
  • Tyrrell Ford, 97, 126.


  • Urns found in Bratley barrow, 201, 202; in Hilly Accombs barrow, 206 (foot-note); in various other barrows, 211 (foot-note); pieces of, in different barrows, 200, 204, 205, 207, 208.
  • Usnea barbata, its abundance in the Forest, 91 (foot-note).


  • Valley of the Avon, its character, 116.
  • Van-winged hawk, the, of the Forest, 261.
  • "Vineyards, the," at Beaulieu Abbey, 67.
  • Vinney, meaning of the word, 190.
  • Vinney Ridge, 82, 83; heronry at, 273,
  • Vitalis on the afforestation of the New Forest, 24; on William II.'s death, 94, 95.


  • Wages, average, of labourers in the New Forest, 47 (foot-note).
  • Walking, advantages of, over driving, 6.
  • Warbeck, Perkin, takes refuge at Beaulieu Abbey, 64.
  • Warwick, Countess of, takes refuge at Beaulieu Abbey, 64.
  • Wendover, Roger, on the afforestation of the New Forest, 25 (foot-note).
  • West-Saxons, superstitious character of, still observable, 160, 161; love of sport, 162; peculiarity of dress, 162; verbal characteristics of, 167.
  • Westminster, Matthew of, on the death of William II., 95 (foot-note).
  • Whitebeams at Sloden, 114; at Castle Malwood, 254.
  • Whiteshoot, square barrow near, 207.
  • Wight, Isle of, atmospheric effects on the, 15; the Ictis of the ancients, 57, 58; Pliny on, 57 (foot-note), 236.
  • William I., his character, 21, 22; his right to make a forest, 23; possessions in the Forest, 23 (foot-note); his love for the chase, 34; his cruelty and oppression, 22, 38.
  • William II., his dream, as recorded, on the night before his death, 92, 93; his speech to the monk from Gloucester, 94; his death, 94; his body brought to Winchester Cathedral, 95; his brother and nephew killed in the Forest, 98; his character 99 (foot-note); the events of his reign, 100 (foot-note); the cause of his death, 101, 102, 103; hated by his clergy, 104; plots against his life, 104, 105; his death read by his life, 108.
  • William III., his legislation for the Forest, 44; not attended to, 45.
  • Wilverley Plantations, 81.
  • Wood, how sold for fuel in the Forest, 46.
  • Woodcocks, their breeding in the Forest, 269.
  • Woodmote, Court of, 87.
  • Woodpecker, great black, breeding of the, 272.
  • Woods, their beauty, 8; as dwelt upon by our English poets, 9 (foot-note); how valued in Domesday, 11, 12 (foot-note); round Lyndhurst, 89, 90.
  • Woollen, affidavits of burials in, 232, 233.
  • Wootton plantations, 81; woodcocks breed in, 269, 270.
  • Worcester, Florence of. See Florence.


  • Yaffingale, local name for the green woodpecker, 272.
  • Yarranton, his report upon making the Avon navigable, 134; on the ironstone of the coast, 151.
  • "Yellow as a kite's claw, as," a Forest proverb, 179.
  • Yews, measurements of various, 78 (foot-note), at Sloden, 114.
  • Ytene, the district of, 33, 163.
  • Yvery, Roger de, leads the Midland barons, 105; possessed land at Lymington, 155.


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