The New Forest: Its History and Its Scenery

by John R. Wise

K 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].

L 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 C., 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]. Loute, 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].

M 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). Moyles Court, [120], [121]. Moyne, William le-, tenure of, at Lyndhurst, [87]. Mudeford, [146].

N Natan-Leaga, the name preserved, [33]. Nation, history of a, how best read, [224]; its æsthetic 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., [20], [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].

O 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].

P 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 out, in the Forest, [46]; breed of in the Forest, peculiar, [259]. Pitt’s Enclosure, 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 Crockle, 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].

Q Quarr Abbey, [155]. Queen’s Bower Wood, the, [83]. Queen’s Mead, the, [83]. Queen’s North, [11], [113], [114].

R 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]. Registers, 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].

S 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].

T Thorougham, now Fritham, the Truham of Domesday, [96] (foot-note). Tiril, Walter, William II. 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]. Tyrrel’s Ford, [97], [126].