Index. 



Forest, meaning of the word, 10 (foot- 

 note) ; government of an ancient, 35, 

 36 ; life in an ancient, 36 (foot-note). 



Forest-Laws. See Laws. 



Forest Rights. See Rights. 



Frame Wood, 78, 79. 



Fritham, countrv round, 114. 



Fritham Plain, East, 113; West, 114. 



Fulchered and William II., 94, 102. 



GEMETICENSIS, Gulielmus, on the affo- 

 restation of the New Forest, 23. 



Geology, the, of the Forest, 234; in the 

 Eocene period, 235 ; the drift and its 

 contents, 236; the Middle-Eocene of 

 the Hordle and Barton Cliffs, 237- 

 242; the Bracklesham Beds in the 

 valley of Canterton, 242-248; the 

 great aim of, 248. 



Gilpin, author of Forest Scenery, his 

 love for Nature, 15 (foot-note); buried 

 in Boldre churchyard, 79, 80. 



Gipsies, principal families of, in the 

 Forest, 159; their marriages, 159; 

 their present mode of life, 159, 160. 



Godshill, in Cough's time, 14 (foot- 

 note). 



Goreley Bushes, vast Keltic graveyard 

 near, 207. 



Government, duty of, to protect the 

 finest trees in the Forest, 18. 



Grange, St. Leonard's, 69; barn and 

 chapel at, 70; Park, 71; Somerford, 

 138, 147. 



Guest, Dr., on Natan-Leaga, 33 (foot- 

 note); on Cerdices-ora, 53; on the 

 " Belgic Ditches," 130; on the "Early 

 English Settlements in South Bri- 

 tain," 163 (foot-note), 166 (foot- 

 note). 



Guesten-hall, the, of the Abbot's House 

 at Beaulicu, 66. 



HALL, Union of the Families of Lancaster 

 and York, by, quotation from, 151. 



Handycross Pond, barrow near, 209. 



Harriers, marsh and hen, 268. 



Hat, meaning of, in the Forest, 182, 183. 



Hatchet Gate, 75. 



Hawfinches, in the Forest, 274, 275. 



Heather, its one defect, 81. 



Hengistbury Head, derivation of, 1 65. 



Hcmingburgh, Walter, on the afforesta- 

 tion, 25 (foot-note); on the death of 

 William II., 95 (foot-note). 



Henry III., confirmation of privileges to 

 Bcaulieu Abbey, by, 63. 



Henry VHL, patriotism of, 151, 152. 

 332 



Herbert's Memoirs, 153, 154 



Herons in the Forest, 273, 274. 



Hi-h Cliff Beds, the, 242. 



Hill Top, 59, 61. 



Hinchelsea, Bottom and Knoll, 81. 



History, our, written on the country, 2, 

 129; tradition, value of, in history, 97, 

 98; truth in, 106. 



Hoadley, Bishop, on the deer in Walt- 

 ham Chase, 171. 



Hob, Fain% 175 (foot-note). 



Hobby, the, 261; weight of the eggs of, 

 264 (foot-note). 



Holland's Wood, near Brockenhurst, 78. 



Holly, springing up in the Forest, 12 

 (foot-note). 



Holme Bush, explanation of a, 179. 



Holmsley, 81,82. 



Honey, the Forest, 184. 



Hoopoe, its occurrence, 274. 



Hordle, its church, when built, 31 (foot- 

 note) ; churchyard, 150; Freshwater 

 deposits at, 237. 



" Horse, the Great," 126 (foot-note). 



House, Burman's, at Beaulieu, 66. 



House, Norman, at Christchurch, 132. 



House, the Queen's, at Lyndlmrst, 87. 



Hovcdcn, Roger, on the afforestation of 

 the New Forest, 25 (foot-note); on 

 the death of William II., 95 (foot- 

 note). 



Howard, the philanthropist, lived at 

 Watcombe, 75. 



Huntingdon, Henry of, on the afforesta- 

 tion, 25 (foot-note); on the death of 

 William II, 95 (foot-note). 



Hurst, meaning of the word, 35. 



Hurst Beach, 151; Castle, built by 

 Henry VJII., 151; Charles at, 152- 

 154; importance of, 152 (foot-note). 



Hyde or Hungcrford, 120. 



Hythe, village of, 50. 



IBBESLEY, view at, 120; extracts from 

 parish register of, 232, 233. 



Icti.s, the Isle of Wight, 57, 58. 



Idleness, profitable, 90. 



Innocent III., grants the right of a sanc- 

 tuary to Beaulieu Abbey, 63. 



Insulis, Alanus de, on the death of 

 William II., 102. 



Iron's Hill Wood, 75. 



Iron-works at Souley Pond, 72. 



Isabella de Fortibus, her possessions at 

 Christchurch, 132; at Lymington, 

 154. 



Island Hills, the, 78. 



Island Thorn, Roman and Romano- 

 British Potteries at, 220. 



