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Index. 



Bees, folk-lore about, 181. 



Bellas Locus, former name of Beaulieu, 

 62. 



Bentley Wood, North, 113. 



Beteston Roger, tenure of, at Eye- 

 worth, 114. 



Bible, words in the, now provincialisms, 

 193. 



Birds, bones of, discovered amongst the 

 foundations of the Priory Church, 

 Christchurch, 14 (Joot-note); see Or- 

 nithology. 



Bishop's Ditch, 79. 



Black Bar, large mound at, 210. 



Blackheath Meadow, Roman pottery at, 

 210. 



Boghampton, village of, 127. 



Boldre, derivation of, 80; church, 79. 



Books, at Beaulieu Abbey, just before 

 the dissolution, 65 (foot-note'). 



Botany of the Forest, '250-257; contra- 

 dictions in the, 251 ; characterized by 

 its soil, 251, 252; bog-plants, 252; 

 carices abundant, 252 ; its position 

 under Watson's system, 253, 254; its 

 trees, 254; its St. John's Worts, 254, 

 255; its ferns, 255, 256; other plants, 

 256, 257. (See Appendix II., 289.) 



Bottom, meaning of the word, 187. 



Bowles, Caroline, married to Southey at 

 Boldre church, 80. 



Bouvery Farm, 69. 



Bramble Hill, oaks at, 16; view from, 

 111. 



Bramshaw, village of, 111. 



Bratley Wood, 113. 



Bratley Plain, barrows upon, 113, 199- 

 205. 



Breamore, village of, 119. 



Brinken Wood, 83. 



Brockenhurst, derivation of, 75; tenure 

 at, 76; church, 77; scenery round, 78. 



Brook Beds, the, 245, 246. 



Brook Common, 111. 



Buckholt, in Domesday, 51 (foot-note). 



Buckland Rings, Roman coins found at, 

 154; described, 199. 



Burgate, village of, 120. 



Burleigh, Lord, his advice to his son, 

 1, 2. 



Burley, 82; Lodge, 83. 



Bustard, last seen in the Forest, 14 

 (foot-note). 



Butt's Ash Lane, barrows near, 197 

 (foot-note'), 211 (foot-note'). 



Butt's Plain, barrows on, 209. 



Buzzard, Honey, breeding habits of, 

 262-265; weight of the eggs of the, 

 264 ( foot-note); common, breeding of 

 the, 265, 266. 



CADKNHAM OAK, the, 110. 



Cadland's Park, 50. 



Calshot Castle, built by Henry VIII., 

 52; mentioned by Colonel Hammond, 

 52 (foot-note}; the Cerdices-ora of the 

 Chronicle, 53; different forms of the 

 name, 53, 54. 



Canterton, held by Chenna, in Domes- 

 day, 28. 



Canute, Forest laws of, 35; Charta de 

 Foresta of, extracts from, 36 (foot- 

 note). 



Castle Hill, 118. 



Castles, so-called, in the Forest, 32. 



Catharine's, St., Hills, 126. 



Cattle, right of turning out, in the 

 Forest, 46. 



Cerdices-ford, nowCharford, 54, 118, 



Cerdices-ora, probably Calshot, 52, 53. 



Chapel, chantry, of the Countess of 

 Salisbury, 137, 138; of Robert Harys, 

 143; of John Draper, 143. 



Charford, the Cerdices-ford of the 

 Chronicle, 118. 



Charles I., his attempt to revive the 

 Forest laws, 42 ; gives the New 

 Forest as security to his creditors, 

 42 ; embarks for Carisbrook from 

 Leap, 56; seized by Colonel Cobbit, 

 152 ; imprisoned in Hurst Castle, 

 153, 154; how treated by Colonel 

 Hammond, 153 (foot-note); by Colo- 

 nel Cobbit, 154. 



Charles II. bestows the young woods 

 of Brockenhurst to the maids of 

 honour, 43 ; encloses three hundred 

 acres for oaks, 44. 



Charnwood Forest, the birds of, 275. 



Chestnuts, formerly common in the 

 Forest, 13 (foot-note). 



Chewton Glen, 147, 148. 



Chichester, Reginald Pecock, Bishop 

 of, on the legend concerning the man 

 in the moon, 177. 



Chough, its increasing scarcity, 275. 



Christchurch, 129 ; its Old-English 

 names, 131; ^Ethelwald at, 131; in 

 Domesday, 131 ; the castle of, 131, 

 132; Norman House at, 132; Cham- 

 berlains' Books of, 135 (foot-note}; 

 Priory Church of, 135, 141-144; the 

 conventual buildings of, 138, 139; 

 legend of the Priory Church of, 175. 



Chronicle, The, on the afforestation of 

 the New Forest, 25, 26; the great 

 value of its evidence, 23. 



Church, its date should be told by its 

 style, 123. 



Churches in the Forest mentioned by 

 Domesday, still in part standing, 31. 



