218 Gilpin's forest scbneet. 



wliich, in all probability, promoted tbe disappearance of 

 the tree, facilitated the destruction of the stone erected 

 by Lord Delaware, namely, the depredations of relic 

 hunters. In consequence of the mutilation of the first 

 Memorial Stone, and of the defacement of the original 

 inscription, a new one, encased in iron, with the same 

 inscription as that on the original one, wrought on the 

 iron, was erected on the site of the old stone, in 1841, by 

 Mr. William Sturges Bourne. This is the memorial which 

 now stands in Canterton Glen, the reputed scene of the 

 death of Eufus. We have, in another place,* fully given 

 our own reasons for our belief that the spot marked by 

 the Eufus Stone was the one on which the Eed King 

 actually fell. — Ed. 



The next tree I shall exhibit from New Forest, 

 is the Groaning Tree of Badesley, a village about 

 two miles from Lymington. The history of the 

 Groaning Tree is this. About forty years ago, a 

 cottager, who lived near the centre of the village, 

 heard frequently a strange noise behind his house, 

 like that of a person in extreme agony. Soon 

 after it caught the attention of his wife, who was 

 then confined to her bed. She was a timorous 

 woman, and, being greatly alarmed, her husband 



* ■ In Our Woodland Trees. 



