m ti)t f^eto 



" The fire from off the hearth hath fled, 

 The smoke in air has vanished. 

 The last, long, lingering look is given ; 

 The stifled sigh, and the parting groan, 

 And the sufferers on their way are gone." 



THE memorial-tree, from which the arrow of Sir Walter 

 Tyrrel glanced, and beside which the king lay extended 

 on the ground, is now exceeding old, and scarcely a trace 

 remains of its former greatness. It stood in this wild 

 spot, when the stern decree went forth, which enjoined that 

 throughout the whole extent of the south-western part of 

 Hampshire, measuring thirty miles from Salisbury to the 

 sea, and in circumference at least ninety miles, all trace 

 of human habitation should be swept away. William 

 might have indulged his passion for the chase in the 

 many parks and forests which Anglo-Saxon monarchs 

 had reserved for the purpose, but he preferred rather to 

 have a vast hunting-ground for his " superfluous and 

 insatiate pleasure" in the immediate neighbourhood 

 of Winchester, his favourite place of residence. The 

 wide expanse that was thus doomed to inevitable desola- 

 tion was called Ytene or Ytchtene ; it comprised nume- 

 rous villages and homesteads, churches, and ancestral 



