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and extending northwards as far as North Chardeford, 
<jr North Charford, on the weft, and to Wade and 
Orebrugg, or Owerbridge, on the eaft ; and the greateft 
part, if not the whole, of that extenfive diltrifl: is 
mentioned in Doomfday-book to be foreft belonging 
to the crown. Another perambulation was however 
made in the 29th of the fame king, which leaves out a 
great part of the country contained within the’ former. 
This perambulation which is preferved in the Tower of 
London, confines the foreft to limits which, as far as we 
can trace them, appear to have been followed in the 22<i 
year of Charles II. when the foreft was again perambu¬ 
lated. By the Charta de Forefta, all lands not belonging 
to the crown, which had been afforefted by Henry II. 
Richard I. or king John, were to be difafforefted ; but, 
as no provifion was made for the reduction of the more 
ancient afforeftations, it is not eafy to account for the 
great diminution of this foreft in the reign of Edward I. 
who was not a prince likely to fubmit to any encroach¬ 
ment on his rights. The perambulation of the 22d Charles 
II. is the lalt we find on record ; it contains the prefent 
legal bounds of the foreft, and was given to the furveyors as 
their guide, in taking the plan which they made fome years 
ago by order of the government. From that plan, with 
the approbation of the lords commiffioners of his majefty’s 
treafury, an engraving was made. According to the laft- 
mentioned perambulation, and the plan, the foreft extends 
from Godfiiillon the north-weft to the fea on the fouth-eaft, 
about twenty miles ; and from Hardl.ey on the eaft to Ring- 
wood on the weft, about fifteen miles; and contains within 
thofe'limitsabout 92,365 acres, ftatute-meafure. The whole 
ofthatquantity,however,is not foreft-land,nornow the pro¬ 
perty of the crown : there are feveral manors and other confi- 
derable freehold eftates within the perambulation,belonging 
to individuals, to the amount of about 24,797 acres; about 
fix hundred and twenty-five acres are copyhold orcuftomary 
lands belonging to his majefty’s manor of Lyndhurft ; 
about one thoufand and four acres are leafehold under 
the crown, granted for certain terms of years, and form¬ 
ing part of the demifed land-revenue, under the manage¬ 
ment of the furveyor general of crown-lands ; about nine 
hundred and one acres are purprejlures, or encroachments 
on the foreft; about one thoufand one hundred and ninety- 
three acres more are inclofed lands held by the mafter- 
keepers and groom-keepers, with their refpeflive lodges; 
and the remainder, being about 63,845 acres, are woods 
and wafte lands of the foreft. To perpetuate the fpot , 
where William Rufus was killed, by the glance of an ar¬ 
row (hot at a flag, a triangular ftone was eredled in 1745. 
His majefty George III. vifited this fpot in 1789. In 
Augult 1782, a curious ancient golden crofs was found 
here by a labouring man digging turf. It weighed above 
an ounce of gold, and had on one fide an engraving of our 
Saviour, and on the other the ladder, fpear, nails, and 
other emblems of his fufterings. 
“ A propofal was made to the lord-treafurer Godolphin, 
for re-peopling this foreft. The celebrated Daniel de Foe 
drew up the fcheme, and argued it before that noble lord 
and fome others, who were principally concerned at that 
time in bringing over, or rather providing for when they 
were come over, the poor inhabitants of the Palatinate ; 
a thing in itfelf commendable, but, as it was managed, 
made of no benefit to England, and miferable to thofe 
poor people. Some perfons being ordered, by the no¬ 
ble lord above-mentioned, to confider how thofe people 
fliould be provided for without injury to the pub¬ 
lic, the New Foreft in Hamplhire was lingled out to be 
the place for them. Here it was propofed to draw a great 
iquare line, containing four thoufand acres of land, mark¬ 
ing out two large highways or roads through the centre, 
crofting both ways ; lo that there ftiould be one thoufand 
acres in each divifion, excluftve of the land contained in 
the faid crofs-roads. Then to fingle out twenty men and 
their .families, who fliould be recommended as honeit in- 
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duftrious people, expert in hulbandry, or at leaft capable 
of being inftrufted in it. To each of thefe fhould be par¬ 
celled, but in equal distributions, two hundred acres of 
this land ; fo that the whole four thoufand acres ftiould 
be diftributed to the faid twenty families ; for which they 
ftiould have no rent to pay, and be liable to no taxes but 
fuch as would provide for their own lick or poor, repair 
their own roads, See. this exemption to continue for 
twenty years, and then to pay each fifty pounds to the 
crown. To each of thefe families it was propofed to ad¬ 
vance two hundred pounds in ready money, as a flock to 
fet them to work, a-nd to hire and pay labourers to inqlofe, 
clear, and cure, the land; which, it was luppoled, the firft 
year, could not be fo much to their advantage as the fol¬ 
lowing years; allowing them timber out of’the foreft to 
build themfelves houfes and barns, (lieds, and offices, as 
they ftiould have occafion ; alfo for carts, waggons, 
ploughs, harrows, and the like neceffary implements. 
Thefe twenty families would, by the confequence of their 
own fettlements, employ and maintain fucli a proportion 
of others of their own peoplej that the whole number of 
Palatines would have been provided for, had they been 
many more than they were, and that without being any 
burden upon, or injury to, the people of England ; on the 
contrary, they would have been an advantage, and an ad¬ 
dition of wealth and ftrength, to the nation, and to the 
county in particular where they ftiould be thus leated. 
Two things would have been anfvvered by the execution 
of this fcheme; viz. 1. That the annual rent to be re¬ 
ceived in all thefe lands, after twenty years, would abun- 
dantly pay the public for the firft dilburfements. 2. More 
money than would have done this was thrown away upon 
them here, to keep them in fufpenfe, and afterwards 
ftarve them ; fending them begging all over the nation, 
and fliipping them off to perifh in other countries. The 
fpot where the defign was laid out was near Lyndhurft, 
in the road from Romfey to Lymington.” 
LYND'HURST WOOD, eaft of Mansfield in Nottino-- 
Ihire. *“ 
LYN'DON, a village in Rutlandfhire, five miles from 
Stamford, in the great north road. 
LYN'DRIDGE, a village in Kent, between Tunbridge 
and Rye. 
LYN'DSAY (Sir David.) See Lindsa.y, vol. xii. p. 742. 
LY'NE, a town of Scotland, in the county of Peebles, 
at the conflux of the Lyne and the Tweed : three miles 
weft of Peebles. 
LY'NE, or Lyn'ne, a river of Scotland, which runs 
into the Tweed at Lyne. 
LY'NE, a river of England, which runs into the Trent 
near Nottingham. 
LY'NEMERSTOCK, a member of the lordlhip of 
Woller, Northumberland. 
LY'NER, Lyn'her, or Li'ner, a river of England, in 
the county of Cornwall, which rifes about five miles 
north of Lilkeard, and runs into the river Tamar a little 
below Saltafh. 
LY'NEY, a townlhip of England, in Gloucefterfliire, 
with 783 inhabitants; twenty miles fouth-weft of Glou- 
cefter. 
LYN'FORD (Great and Little), villages in Bucking- 
hamfhire, near Newport-Pagnel. At the former is a cha- 
rity-fchool: the latter was anciently achapelry, in the pa- 
rifh of Newport. 
LYNHA'VEN BA'Y, a bay or harbour at the fouth end 
of Chefapeak Bay, on the coaft of Virginia, between Cape 
Henry and the mouth of James River. Here de Graffs 
moored the principal part of the French Fleet,at the block¬ 
ade of York Town, in the year 1781. Lat. 36. 58. N. Ion 
76.7. W. 
LYN'IEL, a village in Shropfhire, north-weft of Wera. 
LYNK'HORN BAY, a bay on the coaft of Virginia, 
at the bottom of Chelapeak Bay, two or three miles weft of 
Cape Henry, Lat. 76, 56. W. Ion. 76. 6 , W. 
LYN'LEY, 
