[2] It is absolutely certain that the stone may be made to oscillate: indeed one of the Hadnock woodmen states that when sufficient force is applied to it, at the proper point, you can even hear the gravel grinding underneath.
[4] A corruption, apparently, of the British word “crowll,” meaning “caves.”
[12] We must, however, remember, in calculating the price of labour in the middle ages, that the value of money was about fifteen times greater than at present; and the coins, which were of silver, were double their present weight.
[16] Of these lands the Rev. G. Ridout, the Vicar, has kindly furnished the following list:—
| Acres | |
| Land near English Bicknor, “Hoarthorns,” containing | 199 |
| „ „ Lydbrook „ | 21 |
| „ Ruardean „ | 13 |
| „ „ „ | 81 |
| „ Flaxley, Little Dean „ | 94 |
| „ Abbenhall, “Loquiers” „ | 51 |
| „ Hope Mansel „ | 41 |
| „ Weston „ | 37 |
| „ Lea and Longhope „ | 90 |
| „ Lydney and Blackney „ | 329 |
| „ Paster, Nels, and Whitecroft „ | 507 |
| „ Ellwood „ | 134 |
| „ Whitemead „ | 220 |
| „ Bream „ | 213 |
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| 2030 |
[18] See ante, p. [7] and [13].
[27] One of them, as a specimen, will be found in the Appendix No. II.
[85] The meat market there is reported to have been much injured long before this time, by the singular circumstance of a murderer, named Eli Hatton, having been gibbeted on Pingry Tump, a point on the Forest hills overlooking the town, the flies from the body being supposed to resort to the meat on the butchers’ stalls. The body was cut down in the night time, but the stump of the gallows is yet remembered by old inhabitants as “Eli’s Post,” and as a spot to be avoided, especially at night.
[87] Mr. C. Meek, of the Morse, has ascertained that Lord Nelson spent the 20th, 21st, 22nd of August, 1802, at Rudhall House, near Ross.