The Church. 



the afforestation, Herbert the Forester held one yardland, and 

 only two borderers lived, the rest of the land, which was only 

 two hydes, being thrown into the Forest.* Here, also, as at 

 Brockenhurst, was another of those strange tenures; for, in 

 the time of Edward I., William-le-Moyne held probably these 

 same two hydes of land, which had been disafforested, by the 

 sergeantiy of keeping the door of the King's larder.f 



In the village stands the King's House, built in Charles IL's 

 time, and adjoining it is the Hall where the Courts of Attach- 

 ment, or Woodmote, the last remnant of the terrible old Forest 

 Laws, are regularly held by the verderers, to try all cases of 

 stealing fern and timber. 



Close by is the new, half-finished, church, standing in the 

 old churchyard made famous by Mr. Kingsley's ballad. It is 

 not fair at present to pass a final judgment. When the tower is 

 added, and time shall have touched the walls with a soberer 

 tone, its two great defects will have disappeared, though nothing 

 can remedy the heavy and poverty-stricken window of the north 

 transept with its flattened mullions, and a wretched chimney 

 near the choir utterly spoiling the effect of the beautiful chancel 

 windows. 



* The entry in Domesday (facsimile of the part relating to Hampshire, 

 photo-zincographed at the Ordnance Survey, 1861, p. iv. a) is as follows: 

 "In Bovere Hundredo. Ipe Rex tenet Linhest. Jacuit in Ambresberie c'e 

 firma Regis. Tune, se defendebat pro ij hidis. Modo, Herbertus forestarius 

 ex his ij hidis imam virgatam (tenet), et pro tanto geldat ; alias sunt in 

 foresta. Ibi modo nicliil, nisi ij bordarii. Valet x solidos. Tempore Regis 

 Edwardi valuit vi. libras." It is worth noticing that Lyndhurst is here put 

 by itself, and not with Brockenhurst and Minestead, and other neighbour- 

 ing places under " In Xova Foresta et circa earn ; " a clear proof, which 

 might be gathered from other entries, that the survey was not completed. 



f Blount's Fragmenta Antiquitatis. Ed. Beckwith, p. 183. 1815. Here 

 the place is called Lindeshull. 



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