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Batramsley, Oxley, Ossumley, Pilley, Boldreford, Vicar's Hill, 

 Yaldhurst, Boldre, and numerous other places.* The manor of 

 Totton, though close to the Forest, was not touched, although 

 all the neighbouring estates were in various degrees afforested, 

 simply because it consisted of only pasture and plough-land, 

 whose value had increased no less than one-fourth. Nothiufj, 

 therefore, can be more conclusive than that the Conqueror did 

 not mercilessly jnake a total wilderness of the district, but, 

 not without some consideration, chose and took only those parts 

 which were suita,ble for the pm-poses of the chase. 



In the woods which were afforested people were allowed to 

 live;t though, probably, they voluntarily left them, as labour 

 could not there be so well obtained as in the unafforested jjarts.J 

 In all other respects there seems to have been no disarrange- 

 ment. Both on the outskirts and in the heart of the Forest, 

 the villains and borderers still worked as before, carrying on 

 their former occupations. § The mills at Bashley, and Milford, 

 and Burgate, all in the Forest, went on the same. The fisheries 

 at Holdenhurst and Dibden were undisturbed. The salterns at 

 Eling and Hordle still continued at work, showing that the 

 people still, as before, sowed and reaped their corn, and pas- 

 tured and killed their cattle. 



* See Domesday (the photo-zincographed fac-simile of the part relating 

 to Hampshire; published at the Ordnance Survey Office, 1861), p. xxix. b, 

 under Bertranielei, Pistelslai, Odetune, Oxelei, &c. 



t See in Domesday^ as before, p. xxvii. b, the entry under Langelei — " Ahiric 

 Petit tenet unam virgatam in Foresta." See, too, p. iii. b, under Edlinges. 



X See in Domeaday^ under Thuinani, Holeest, Slacham, Rinwede, p. iv. a; 

 and Ilerdel, p. xxviii. b. 



§ See in Domesday^ out of many instances, Esselei and Suei, p. xxix. b ; 

 Bailocheslei, p. xiv. b; Wolnetune and Bedeslei, p. xxviii. a; Hentune, 

 p. xxviii. b ; and Linhest, p. iv. a. 



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