Index.
- Bees, folk-lore about, 181.
- Bellus locus, former name of Beaulieu, 62.
- Bentley Wood, North, 113.
- Beteston Roger, tenure of, at Eyeworth, 114.
- Bible, words in the, now provincialisms, 193.
- Birds, bones of, discovered amongst the foundations of the Priory Church, Christchurch, 14 (foot-note); see Ornithology.
- Bishop's Ditch, 79.
- Black Bar, large mound at, 210.
- Blackheath Meadow, Roman pottery at, 210.
- Boghampton, village of, 127.
- Boldre, derivation of, 80; church, 79.
- Books, at Beaulieu Abbey, just before the dissolution, 65 (foot-note).
- Botany of the Forest, 250-257; contradictions in the, 251; characterized by its soil, 251, 252; bog-plants, 252; carices abundant, 252; its position under Watson's system, 253, 254; its trees, 254; its St. John's Worts, 254, 255; its ferns, 255, 256; other plants, 256, 257. (See Appendix II., 289.)
- Bottom, meaning of the word, 187.
- Bowles, Caroline, married to Southey at Boldre church, 80.
- Bouvery Farm, 69.
- Bramble Hill, oaks at, 16; view from, 111.
- Bramshaw, village of, 111.
- Bratley Wood, 113.
- Bratley Plain, barrows upon, 113, 199-205.
- Breamore, village of, 119.
- Brinken Wood, 83.
- Brockenhurst, derivation of, 75; tenure at, 76; church, 77; scenery round, 78.
- Brook Beds, the, 245, 246.
- Brook Common, 111.
- Buckholt, in Domesday, 51 (foot-note).
- Buckland Rings, Roman coins found at, 154; described, 199.
- Burgate, village of, 120.
- Burleigh, Lord, his advice to his son, 1, 2.
- Burley, 82; Lodge, 83.
- Bustard, last seen in the Forest, 14 (foot-note).
- Butt's Ash Lane, barrows near, 197 (foot-note), 211 (foot-note).
- Butt's Plain, barrows on, 209.
- Buzzard, Honey, breeding habits of, 262-265; weight of the eggs of the, 264 (foot-note); common, breeding of the, 265, 266.
- Cadenham Oak, the, 110.
- Cadland's Park, 50.
- Calshot Castle, built by Henry VIII., 52; mentioned by Colonel Hammond, 52 (foot-note); the *Cerdices-ora of the Chronicle, 53; different forms of the name, 53, 54.
- Canterton, held by Chenna, in Domesday, 28.
- Canute, Forest laws of, 35; Charta de Forestâ of, extracts from, 36 (foot-note).
- Castle Hill, 118.
- Castles, so-called, in the Forest, 32.
- Catharine's, St., Hills, 126.
- Cattle, right of turning out, in the Forest, 46.
- Cerdices-ford, now Charford, 54, 118.
- Cerdices-ora, probably Calshot, 52, 53.
- Chapel, chantry, of the Countess of Salisbury, 137,138; of Robert Harys, 143; of John Draper, 143.
- Charford, the Cerdices-ford of the Chronicle, 118.
- Charles I., his attempt to revive the Forest laws, 42; gives the New Forest as security to his creditors, 42; embarks for Carisbrook from Leap, 56; seized by Colonel Cobbit, 152; imprisoned in Hurst Castle, 153, 154; how treated by Colonel Hammond, 153 (foot-note); by Colonel Cobbit, 154.
- Charles II. bestows the young woods of Brockenhurst to the maids of honour, 43; encloses three hundred acres for oaks, 44.
- Charnwood Forest, the birds of, 275.
- Chestnuts, formerly common in the Forest, 13 (foot-note).
- Chewton Glen, 147, 148.
- Chichester, Reginald Pecock, Bishop of, on the legend concerning the man in the moon, 177.
- Chough, its increasing scarcity, 275.
- Christchurch, 129; its Old-English names, 131; Æthelwald at, 131; in Domesday, 131; the castle of, 131, 132; Norman House at, 132; Chamberlains' Books of, 135 (foot-note); Priory Church of, 135, 141-144; the conventual buildings of, 138, 139; legend of the Priory Church of, 175.
- Chronicle, The, on the afforestation of the New Forest, 25, 26; the great value of its evidence, 23.
- Church, its date should be told by its style, 123.
- Churches in the Forest mentioned by Domesday, still in part standing, 31.330
