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Index. 



Nature, beauty the end and aim of, 5; 

 her care for trees, 10 ; the proper 

 s])irit with which to see, 19. 



Natural history, its vahie, 235, 276. 



Necdsore, 54 ; derivation of, 105. 



Netley Abbsy 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 tlie 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 "ll., 289) ; ornithology of, 

 258-276 {see also Appendix III., 

 307); churches of, 4; the first and 

 second perambulations of, 40 ; cha- 

 racter 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 se- 

 curity by Charles I. to his creditors, 42 ; 

 its neglected state under the Stuarts, 

 43, 44; William III. legislates for, 44; 

 statistics of, 40, 47 {Jbot-note) ; pre- 

 sent management of, 47 {Jbot-note); 

 assart lands in, granted by James I., 

 42 ; hurricane in, 44 ; ethnology of, 1 60, 

 161; smuggling in, 109, 170; deer- 

 stealing in, i71 ; folk-lore of, 173, 

 180; poetry of, 176; love supersti- 

 tions of, 179; proverbs of, 179; local 

 sayings, l79; provincialisms of, 181, 

 195 {see, also. Appendix I., 279); 

 traditions in, 90, 97, 180, 181 ; barrows 

 of, 196-213 ; Parish Registers and 

 Churchwardens' Books of, 226-233; 

 Lcpidoj)tera of, Appendix IV., 319. 



New Park, 86. 



Nodes, the, 197. 



Oak, the Cadenham, 110. 



Oaks, character of in the Forest, 16; 

 measurements of, 16 {foot-note); 

 " bustle-headed," meaning of, 183. 



Ocknell Wood, 113. 



Onomato];oieia, its occurrence amongst 

 jirovincialisms, 186. 



Ordnance maj), mistake of, 120 {foot- 

 note). 



Ore Creek, 54 {foot-note). 



Ornithology of the Forest, 200; white- 

 tailed eagle, 260; osprey, 261; hobby, 

 breeding of the, 201 ; honey-buzzard, 

 breeding habits of, 261, 203, 205; 

 connnon buzziu'd, breeding habits of, 

 334 



265 ; merlin, nesting of, 267, 268 

 {foot-note); han-iers, 208 ; owls, 209; 

 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, tmc derivation 

 of, 80. 



Paris, Matthew, on William II.'s death, 

 94 {foot-note), 95 {foot-note). 



Parish Registers. See Registers. 



Park Grange, 71. 



Park, New, 80. 



Pennington, the village of, 153. 



Perambulation of the New Forest, the 

 first, 40; the second, 40, 41; charac- 

 ter of the second, 41, 42. • 



Pigr.el Wood, 272, 273. 



Pigs, right of turning out, in the Forest, 

 40; breed of in the Forest, peculiar, 

 259. 



Pitt's Enclosure, Roman and Romano- 

 British ]iotteries, at, 220. 



Pliny on the Isle of Wight, 57 {foot- 

 note). 



Poetry of the New Forest, character of, 

 175, 170 {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 Slodeh, 210; at the Lower Hat, 217; 

 at Crockle, description of, 218, 219; 

 at Island Thorn, 220; at Pitt's En- 

 closure, 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, 1 79. 



Puck, the fairy, in the Forest, 174; 

 names of fields, and woods, and bar- 

 rows, derived from him, 175. 



Puckpit's Wood, 112, 11.3. 



Pul] it, the, of Bcaulieu Refectory, 68. 



Purkess, family of, 97. 



QuARR Abbey, 155. 

 Queen's Bower Wood, the, 83. 

 Queen's :\read, the, 83. 

 Queen's North, 11, 113, 114. 



Ravkn, its breeding in the Forest, 270. 



Reaehmore Barrow, 113. 



Rcdbridge, in Domesday, 51 {foot-vote). 



