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  • James I. grants twenty assart-lands in the Forest, 43.
  • Jar-bird, meaning of a, 187.
  • John, King, his oppression of the Cistercian order, 61; founds Beaulieu Abbey, 62.


  • Kalkesore, old name of Calshot, 54.
  • Keltic element in the dialect of the New Forest, 163; in the topography, 164.
  • Kestrel, eggs of, weight of the, 264.
  • "Keystone under the hearth," meaning of the proverb, 170.
  • King's Day, the, explanation of, 231.
  • King's Rue, 56.
  • Kitts Hill, 91.
  • Knives, flint, found at Eyeworth, 297 (foot-note).
  • Knoll, Black, 78, 84.
  • Knyghton, on the afforestation of the New Forest, 24; his authority of no value, 95 (foot-note).
  • Knyghtwood Oak, the, 16.


  • Labourers in the New Forest, average wages of, 47 (foot-note).
  • Lane, Jane, 121.
  • Langley Heath, barrows on, opened by the Rev. J. P. Bartlett, 211.
  • Lappenberg, his account of the afforestation of the New Forest by William I., 21; on the Ictis of the ancients, 56.
  • Latchmore Pond, 81,199.
  • Lawrence, the sprite, in the Forest, 174.
  • Law-Courts, last of the Forest, 12, 87.
  • Laws, Forest-, Canute's, 35; made still severer by William I., 38; Charles I., attempts to revive, 42.
  • Leap, 55; the spot where the Dauphin, Louis VIII. of France, embarked, 55; where Charles I. embarked, 56; British and Roman road at, 56; mass of tin found near, 57.
  • Lease to, meaning of, 193.
  • Leighton, Mr., fresco in Lyndhurst church by, 88.
  • Leland on the death of William II., 96 (foot-note).
  • Lepidoptera, list of the Forest, Appendix IV., 319.
  • Lewis, Sir George G, on the Ictis of the ancients, 57; his theory corroborated, 58.
  • Lichens, used as specifics in the Forest, 176.
  • Lichmore Pond, 81, 199.
  • Life, modern, its hurry and confusion, 73.
  • Liney Hill Wood, 83.
  • Lisle, Alice, 121.
  • Lonte, to, meaning of, 188.
  • Lungs of oak (Sticta pulmonaria), used as a specific for consumption, 176.
  • Lung-wort, narrow-leaved, the, 69, 256.
  • Lymington, port of, 154; its history, 155, 156; extracts from the Corporation Books of, 155 (foot-note).
  • Lyndhurst, derivation of, 86 (foot-note); church of, 87; scenery round, 89, 90; ancient tenure at, 86, 87; woods round, 90, 91.


  • Malmesbury, William of, on the afforestation of the New Forest, 25 (foot-note); on the death of William II., 93, 94 (foot-note), 95 (foot-note); on the physical appearance of William II., 99 (foot-note).
  • Map, Ordnance, mistake of the, 128 (foot-note).
  • Mapes, Walter, on the afforestation of the New Forest, 24.
  • Mark Ash Wood, 17.
  • Mead, made in the New Forest, 184.
  • Merlin, breeding of the, in the Forest, 267, 268 (foot-note); weight of supposed egg of, 161, 264.
  • Middle Marine Bed, the, at Mineway, 237, 238.
  • Milford, church of, 150, 151.
  • Millaford Brook, the, 83, 90.
  • Mills in the New Forest, comparative value of, by Domesday, 29; rented by a payment of eels, in Domesday, 119 (foot-note).
  • Milton, words used by, now provincialisms, 191.
  • Milton, village of, mentioned in Domesday, 148 (foot-note).
  • Minestead, 92.
  • Monastery, average library of a, 65 (foot-note); life in a, 72, 73.
  • Monmouth's Ash, 122.
  • Monmouth, capture of, 122; writes to James, the Queen Dowager, and the Lord Treasurer, 123.
  • Moon-Hill Woods, the, 75.
  • Morefalls, the Lord Treasurer, Southampton, on the evils of granting, 43, 44 (foot-note).
  • Movies Court, 120, 121.
  • Moyne, William le-, tenure of, at Lyndhurst, 87.
  • Mudeford, 146.


  • Natan-Leaga, the name preserved, 33.
  • Nation, history of a, how best read, 224; its aesthetic life, how best determined, 224, 225.
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