The word mansio, however, at this period signified merely a posting-station on one or other of the great roads.
Selwood, Sherwood, Needwood, Charnwood, and Epping Forest are all shrunken relics of these wide-stretching woodlands, with which most of the hill ranges seem to have been clothed. See Pearson's 'Historical Maps of England.'
Classical authorities only speak of bears in Scotland. See P. 236.
Cyneget., I. 468.