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With regard to the name “ Forest of Dean.” The word dean 
is believed to be the same as the Celtic dm, a fortified mound or 
fort, and is found also in Rockingham and the New Forest. 
Ardennes, and Arden in Warwickshire are traceable to the same 
root. The Rev. C. Price, in his History of Wales, gives his 
opinion that the Forest of Dean was the original Feryllwg, or land 
between Wye and Severn, which at one time formed one of the 
five divisions of Wales. Feryllwg, corrupted into Ferleg and 
Ferreg, is probably from the iron works with which the district 
abounded, Feryll signifying a worker in metals. 
The Spanish Armada was specially charged to destroy the oaks 
in the Forest of Dean, with the object of putting an end to the 
naval pre-eminence of England. 
The Field Club party took train at Parkend, and reached Bath 
at 7.5, after a pleasant and not too tiring day. The forest was 
looking its best, and with such facilities for travelling, and so much 
to be seen, it is surprising that more people do not visit the forest 
by the Sharpness route. 
Wardour Castle, June r6th, 1903.—Owing probably to the 
very wet weather, only a few of those who had sent in their names 
_ turned up at the Midland Station atg a.m. Changing trains at 
_ Templecombe, Tisbury was reached at 11.24, and the church was 
at once visited. This is very large, with an imposing central 
. tower, which, however, lacks height, and its effect is marred by a 
flue of large drain tiles. The XVI. Century work is good, and 
there are some curious monuments, on one of which, to a former 
vicar, was an inscription, somewhat puzzling, till it was discovered 
‘that the letters after the worthy vicar’s name spelled Jacet hic, cut 
over Hic jacet. The epitaph is in four hexameters, and the 
_ inscription as originally cut would not scan, and was therefore 
_ changed. 
Sir John Davies, Attorney-General of Ireland for James I., was 
born at Tisbury. His eccentric wife has been handed down to 
posterity by Heylin as the author of a foolish anagram on her 
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