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NEW'-ENTRUSTED, adj. Lately put into truft.— 
Their father’s ftate, and new-entrujied fceptre. Milton's 
Comas. 
NEW'-FALLEN, adj. Lately or juft fallen : 
Ah Blouzelind ! I love thee more by half 
Than does their fawns, or cows the newfall'n calf. Gay. 
NEW-FA'NE, the chief town of Windham county, in 
Vermont, America, lituafed on the Weft-river, twelve 
miles north-weft of Brattleborough ; containing 1000 in¬ 
habitants. 
NEW-FANGLE, or New-Fangled, adj. [Some have 
pretended that nova evangelia, “ new gofpels,” gave rife 
to this word; it being much ufed, they fay, about the 
time that the gofpellers, or reformers, began toflourifh in 
England. But it was in ufe long before. Fangle was 
probably a cant term, corrupted from Jingo, to form, to 
fa (hi oh ; jingle, fangle.'] Delirous of new things.—Flefh is 
fo neive-fangle. Chaucer's Mane. Tale. —Formed with vain 
or fooli(h love of novelty.—Thole charities are not new¬ 
fangled devices of yefterday, but are raoft of them as old 
as the reformation. Atterbury. 
At Chriftmas I no more defire a rofe, 
Than with a fnow in May’s new-fangled (hows ; 
But like of each thing, that in feafon grows. Shahefpcare. 
To NEW'-FANGLE,.«). a. To change by introducing 
novelties.—To controul and nexv-fangle the Scripture. 
Milton's Prelat. Epifcopacy. 
NEW'-FAN'GLEDNESS, or New Fangleness, f. 
Vain and foolifh love of novelty.-—The women would be 
loth to come behind the fafliion in newfanglenejs of the 
manner, if not in coftlinels of the matter. Carew. 
NEW'-FASHION, or New-Fash'ioned, adj. Lately 
come into falhion,—Learn all the new-fajliion words and 
oaths. Swift. 
When pleading Matho, borne abroad for air, 
With his fat paunch fills his new-fajhion'd chair. Dryden. 
NEW FOR'EST, a large traft of wood-land, in the 
county of Hants, about forty miles in circumference, 
which contained many populous towns and villages, and 
thirty-fix mother-churches, till it was deftroyed and 
turned into a foreft by William the Conqueror in 1079. 
As this large traft lay many ages open and expoied to in- 
vafions from foreigners, king Henry VIII. built fome 
caftles in it; and it has now feveral pretty towns and vil¬ 
lages. It is fituated in that part of Hamplhire which is 
bounded on the eaft by Southampton-river, and on the 
fouth by the Britifh Channel. It poftefTes advantages of 
situation, with refpedft to the convenience of water-carriage 
and nearnefs to the dock-yards, fuperior to every other 
foreft ; having in its neighbourhood feveral ports, and 
places of fhelter for (hipping timber, among which Ly- 
mington is at the diftance of only two miles, Bewley 
about half a mile, and Redbridge three or four miles, 
from the Foreft ; and the navigation to Portlrnouth, the 
raoft confiderable dock-yard in this kingdom, is only 
about thirty miles from the neareft of thofe places. This 
is the only foreft belonging to the crown of which the 
origin is known. Doomfday-book contains the moftdif- 
tinft account of its. afforeltation by William the Con¬ 
queror ; the contents of every field, farm, or eftate, affio- 
refted, in hides, carucates, or virgates, by which the ex¬ 
tent of land was then computed, together with the names 
of the hundreds and villages, and of the former proprie¬ 
tors (which are for the inoftpart Saxon) the rent or yearly 
value of each pofteflion, and the tax which had been paid 
for it to the crown during the reign of Edward the Con- 
feffor, before the inhabitants were expelled, and that part 
of the country laid wafte, are all to be found in that rnoft 
curious and venerable record ; but, the names of many of 
the places having been changed fince that time, it is diffi¬ 
cult to afeertain with precifion what were then the limits 
of the foreft. The oldeft perambulation we have met with 
is among the Pleas of the Foreft, in the eighth year of 
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king Edward I. preferved in the chapter-houfe at Weft- 
minller. The boundaries there defcribed include all the 
country from Southampton-river on the eaft to the Avon 
on the weft, following the fea-coaft as far as the fouthern- 
boundary between thofe rivers, and extending northwards 
as far as North Chardeford, or 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 ex- 
teniive diftrift, is mentioned in Doomfday-book to be foreft 
belonging to the crown. Another perambulation was 
however made in the 29th of tire fame king, which leaves 
out a great part of the country contained within the fprmer. 
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 zzd. 
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 an¬ 
cient afrorel'tations, it is nor eal'y to account for the great 
diminution of this foreft in the reign of Edward I. who 
was not a prince likely to fubrnit to any encroachment on 
his rights. The perambulation of the 22d Charles II. is 
the laft 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 have made 
lately by direftion. From that plan, with the approbation 
of the lords commilnoners of his majefty’s treafury, an 
engraving was made. According to the laft-mentioned 
perambulation, and the plan, the foreft extends from 
Godlhill on the north-weft to the tea on the fouth-eaft, 
about twenty miles ; and from Kardley on the eaft to 
Ringwood on the weft, about fifteen miles; and con¬ 
tains within thofe limits about 92,365 acres, ftatute mea- 
fure. The whole of that quantity, however, is not 
foreft-land, or now the property of the crown; there 
are feveral manors and othef confiderable freehold 
eftates within the perambulation, belonging to indivi¬ 
duals, to the amount of about 24,797 acres; about 625, 
acres are copyhold or cultomary lands belonging to his 
majefty’s manor of Lyndhurft; about 1004 acres are leafe- 
hold under the crown, granted for certain terms of years, 
' and forming part of the demifed land-revenue, under the 
management of the furveyor-general of crown-lands; 
about 901 acres are purpreftures or encroachments on the 
foreft; about 1193 acres more are inclofed lands held by the 
mafter-keepers and groom-keepers, with their refpedtive 
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 
arrow (hot at a (tag, a triangular (tone was erected in 1745. 
George III. vilited this fpot in 1789. In Auguft 1782, 
a curious ancient golden crofs was found here by a la¬ 
bouring 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 em, 
blems of his fuft’erings. 
The chief officer of this foreft is the lord-warden ; and 
under him are two diftinft appointments of officers ; the 
one to preferve the venifon of the foreft, and the other to 
preferve its vert: the former term, in the language of 
foreft-law, comprehending every fpecies of game; and 
the latter fignifying every thing that bears a green leaf 
within a foreft that may cover a deer, but efpecially great 
and thick coverts. The office of fuperintending the 
game is now delegated to fifteen keepers, who prelide 
over the fame number of walks, into which the foreft is 
divided. The woods are under the luperintendance of the 
woodward, under whom are twelve regarders. Belides thefe 
officers, who are appointed by the lord-warden, there are 
four others called verderers, who are commonly gentlemen 
of property and interell in the neighbourhood, and are 
elefted, like knights of the (hire, by the freeholders of the 
county. Thefe officers are the only judges of the foreft- 
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