Index. 



Nature, beauty the end and aim of, 5; 

 her care for trees, 10 ; the proper 

 spirit with which to see, 19. 



Natural history, its value, 235, 276. 



Needsore, 54 ; derivation of, 165. 



Netley Abbey 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 the 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 IL, 289) ; ornithology of, 

 258-276 (see also Appendix "lIL, 

 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 L to his creditors, 42 ; 

 its neglected state under the Stuarts, 

 43, 44; William ILL legislates for, 44; 

 statistics of, 40, 47 (foot-note) ; pre- 

 sent management of, 47 (foot-note); 

 assart lands in, granted by James L, 

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

 161; smuggling in, 169, 170; deer- 

 stealing in, 171 ; folk-lore of, 173, 

 180; poetry of, 176 ; love supersti- 

 tions of, 179; proverbs of, 179; local 

 sayings, 179; provincialisms of, 181, 

 195 (see, also, Appendix L., 279); 

 traditions in, 96, 97, 180, 181 ; barrows 

 of, 196-213 ; Parish Registers and 

 Churchwardens' Books of, 226-233; 

 Lepidoptera 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. 



Onomatopoieia, its occurrence amongst 

 provincialisms, 186. 



Ordnance map, mistake of, 126 (foot- 

 note). 



Ore Creek, 54 (foot-note). 



Ornithology of the Forest, 260; white- 

 tailed eagle, 260; osprey, 261 ; hoi. by, 

 breeding of the, 261 ; honey-buzzard, 

 breeding habits of, 261, 263, 265; 

 common buzzard, breeding habits of, 

 334 



265 ; merlin, nesting of, 267, 268 

 (foot-note); harriers, 268; owls, 269; 

 raven, breeding of, 270; winter birds, 

 271; woodpeckers, 272; herons, 273; 

 hawfinches, 274; chough, 275; census 

 of birds, 275 (see also Appendix III., 

 307). 



Ove^t, meaning of, 183. 

 i Oxenford and Oxford, true 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, 86. 



Pennington, the village of, 153. 

 i Perambulation of the New Forest, the 

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

 ter of the second, 41, 42. 



Pignel Wood, 272, 273. 



Pigs, right of turning out, in the Forest, 

 46; breed of in the Forest, peculiar, 

 259. 



Pitt's Enclosure, Roman and Romano- 

 British potteries, at. 220. 



Pliny on the Isle of Wight, 57 (foot- 

 note). 



Poetrv of the New Forest, character of, 



175, 176 (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 Sloden, 216; at the Lower Hat. 2! 7 : 

 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, 113. 



Pulpit, the, of Beaulieu Refectory, 68. 



Purkess, family of, 97. 



QCAKR ABBET, 155. 

 Queen's Bower Wood, the, 83. 

 Queen's Mead, the, 83. 

 Queen's North, 11, 113, 114. 



RAYEX, its breeding in the Forest, 270. 



Reachmore Barrow, 113. 



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



