Index.
- Nature, beauty the end and aim of, 5; her care for trees, 10; the proper spirit with which to see, 19.
- Natural history, its value, 235, 276.
- Needsore, 54; derivation of, 165.
- Netley Abbey Church, ruins of, 49; fort, 49, hospital, 50.
- New Forest, the; its connection with our history, 3; scenery of, 4; trees of, 16, 17; in the winter, 18; its boundaries in the reign of Edward I., 26, 21; its afforestation by William I., 21; value of land in Domesday, 29; geology of, 4, 10, 29, 30, 234-249; botany of, 250, 257 (see also Appendix II., 289); ornithology of, 258-276 (see also Appendix III., 307); churches of, 4; the first and second perambulations of, 40; character of the second perambulation of, 41, 42; hills of, 10; its former woody nature proved by the local nomenclature, 33; general character of, 11; in the time of the Normans, 12, 13; changes in, 12; granted as security by Charles I. to his creditors, 42; its neglected state under the Stuarts, 43, 44; William III. legislates for, 44; statistics of, 40, 47 (foot-note); present management of, 47 (foot-note); assart lands in, granted by James I., 42; hurricane in, 44; ethnology of, 160, 161; smuggling in, 169, 170; deer-stealing in, 171; folk-lore of, 173, 180; poetry of, 176; love superstitions of, 179; proverbs of, 179; local sayings, 179; provincialisms of, 181, 195 (see, also, Appendix I., 279); traditions in, 96, 97, 180, 181; barrows of, 196-213; Parish Registers and Churchwardens' Books of, 226-233; Lepidoptera of, Appendix IV., 319.
- New Park, 86.
- Nodes, the, 197.
- Oak, the Cadenham, 110.
- Oaks, character of in the Forest, 16; measurements of, 16 (foot-note); "bustle-headed," meaning of, 183.
- Ocknell Wood, 113.
- Onomatopoieia, its occurrence amongst provincialisms, 186.
- Ordnance map, mistake of, 126 (foot-note).
- Ore Creek, 54 (foot-note).
- Ornithology of the Forest, 260; white-tailed eagle, 260; osprey, 261; hobby, breeding of the, 261; honey-buzzard, breeding habits of, 261, 263, 265; common buzzard, breeding habits of, 265; merlin, nesting of, 267, 268 (foot-note); harriers, 268; owls, 269; raven, breeding of, 270; winter birds, 271; woodpeckers, 272; herons, 273; hawfinches, 274; chough, 275; census of birds, 275 (see also Appendix III., 307).
- Ovest, meaning of, 183.
- Oxenford and Oxford, true derivation of, 80.
- Paris, Matthew, on William II.'s death, 94 (foot-note), 95 (foot-note).
- Parish Registers. See Registers.
- Park Grange, 71.
- Park, New, 86.
- Pennington, the village of, 153.
- Perambulation of the New Forest, the first, 40; the second, 40, 41; character of the second, 41, 42.
- Pignel Wood, 272, 273.
- Pigs, right of turning ont, in the Forest, 46; breed of in the Forest, peculiar, 259.
- Pitt's Enelosure, Roman and Romano-British potteries, at, 220.
- Pliny on the Isle of Wight, 57 (foot-note).
- Poetry of the New Forest, character of, 175, 176 (foot-note).
- Ponies, Forest, 259.
- Potteries, Roman and Romano-British, 214; at Crockle, first discovered by the Rev. J. Pemberton Bartlett, 215; at Anderwood, 215; at Oakley, 215; at Sloden, 216; at the Lower Hat, 217; at Crackle, description of, 218, 219; at Island Thorn, 220; at Pitt's Enclosure, 220; at Ashley Rails, 221; at Black Heath, 221.
- Provincialisms, Keltic element in the New Forest, 163; the real character of, 173; in the New Forest, 181-195. (See also Appendix I., 279).
- Proverbs in the Forest, 179.
- Puck, the fairy, in the Forest, 174; names of fields, and woods, and barrows, derived from him, 175.
- Puckpit's Wood, 112, 113.
- Pulpit, the, of Beaulieu Refectory, 68.
- Purkess, family of, 97.
- Quarr Abbey, 155.
- Queen's Bower Wood, the, 83.
- Queen's Mead, the, 83.
- Queen's North, 11, 113, 114.
- Raven, its breeding in the Forest, 270.
- Reachmore Barrow, 113.
- Redbridge, in Domesday, 51 (foot-note).334
