The New Forest: Its History and Its Scenery

APPENDIX IV.
THE LEPIDOPTERA OF THE NEW FOREST.

As, I am sorry to say, I am entirely ignorant of entomology, Mr. Baker, who possesses one of the finest collections of Lepidoptera in the district, has kindly compiled the following list. For the sake of space the Tineina have been omitted. The arrangement followed is that of Stainton, and the whole list has, to ensure the greatest accuracy, been revised by F. Bond, Esq., F.Z.S. No attempt has been made to classify the rarer and more common species, as both so much vary with the season.

RHOPALOCERA.

SPHENGINA.

BOMBYCINA.

PSYCHIDÆ.

NOCTUINA.

GEOMETRINA.

PYRALIDINA.

DELTOIDES.

PYRALITES.

CRAMBITES.

TORTRICINA.

PTEROPHORINA.

Postscript.

As a further addition to my list of plants, I have received the following from A. G. More, Esq., F.L.S.—those without localities being communicated to him by the late Mr. Borrer as found in the Forest:—

Wahlenbergia hederacea, Reich., Ivy-leaved Bell Flower. Near Lyndhurst, 272.

Sium latifolium, Lin., Broad-leaved Water Parsnep. See Bromfield, in the Phytologist, vol. iii. p. 403; 464.

Trifolium medium, Lin., Zigzag Trefoil. Near Lyndhurst, 683.

Utricularia intermedia, Hayne, Intermediate Bladderwort, 876.

Carex limosa, Lin., Green-and-Gold Carex, 1244.

A word or two may here be added concerning the only true species of cicada (Cicada hæmatoides) which we have in England, and which has hitherto been only found in the New Forest. Mr. Farren, in June, 1858, was fortunate enough to take a specimen sitting on the stem of the common brake, being attracted to it by its peculiar monotonous humming noise. On the second of June, 1862, he captured two others, which rose from the fern, with their curious zigzag flight, and at the same time heard two more.

Mr. Farren, to whom I am indebted for the above information, has kindly sent me the following drawing, made by his brother, from one of the living specimens captured in the Forest.

INDEX.

A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z

A

Abbacies, held by William II., at the time of his death, 104 (foot-note).

Abbey, Beaulieu, see Beaulieu.

Abbey Walls, the, or St. Leonard’s Grange, 69.

Acquitaine, Eleanor of, buried at Beaulieu Abbey, 67.

Adages, in the Forest, 180;

see also Proverbs.

Adder’s-tongue Fern, 256.

Alanus de Insulis, on the death of William II., 102.

Alexander I., Pope, bull from, 71 (foot-note.)

Amberwood Corner, barrows near, 208.

Ambrosius Aurelianus, defeated by Cerdic, 118;

his name preserved in the word Amesbury, 119;

in Ambrose Hole and Ampress Farm, 198.

Ancestry, our, 2.

Anderwood Enclosure, Roman and Romano-British potteries at, 215.

America, Old-English character of its provincialisms, 172.

Anselm, foretold by the Abbot of Cluny of the death of William II., 101.

Anses Wood, mound near, 209, 210.

“Apostles, the Twelve,” 83.

Assart lands, granted by James I., 43.

Ash, Mark-, Wood, 17.

Ashley Rails, Roman and Romano-British potteries at, 221.

Attachment, Court of, 87.

Augustine, St., injunctions to his canons, 69.

Aurelianus, Ambrosius, see Ambrosius.

Avon, the, at Castle Hill, 118;

at Ibbesley, 120;

at Winkton, 128;

eel peculiar to, 125, 126.

Avon, Valley of the, 116;

the Flora of, 253.

Avon Tyrrel, 126.

B

Babington, Churchill, synopsis of the birds of Charnwood Forest by, 275.

Baddesley, Preceptory of the Knights Templar formerly at, 156.

Balm, Bastard (Melittis Melyssophyllum), in the Forest, 256.

Bandits, troop of, at Lymington, 169.

Bargery Farm, 71.

Barn, or spicarium, of Beaulieu Abbey, 69, 70.

Barney Barns Hill, 197 (foot-note), 210.

Barrows, named after fairies, 177, 197;

opened by Warner, 198;

in the east part of the Forest, 197 (foot-note), 211;

on Sway Common, 198;

on Bratley Plain, 199-205;

near Ocknell Pond, 205, 206;

near Darrat’s Lane, 206 (foot-note);

on the West Fritham Plain, 207;

near Amberwood, 208;

on Butt’s Plain, 209;

on Langley Heath, 211.

Barton Cliffs, the, 147;

Middle-Eocene beds of the, 4;

atmospheric effects seen from the, 15, 16;

geology of, 239, 240.

Beacon, Burley, 82.

Beaulieu Abbey, its foundation and endowments, 62;

its dedication, 63;

the Countess of Warwick and Perkin Warbeck come to its sanctuary, 64;

its dissolution, 65;

beauty of its situation, 65;

the abbot’s house, cloisters, and chapter-house, 66;

church, 67;

refectory, 67, 68;

the pulpit of the refectory, 68;

barn of, 69;

granges of, 69-71.

Beauty, exists in the beholder’s mind, 18, 19;

God’s love of, 127, 128;

the chief end and aim of Nature, 5.

Becton Bunny, 149;

house burnt down, 170;

geology of, 240.

Beeches, measurements of, in the Forest, 16 (foot-note).

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.

C

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.

Church Green, in Eyeworth Wood, 32 (foot-note).

Church Lytton, at Wootton, 32, 33 (foot-note).

Church Moor, near Mark Ash, 32 (foot-note).

Church Place, at Sloden, 32 (foot-note).

Churchwardens’ Books, at Ellingham,

extracts from, 229-231;

at Fordingbridge, extracts from, 230, 231.

Chydioke, effigy of Sir John, in the Priory Church of Christchurch, 142, 176, 177.

Clay Hill, view from, 86.

Cluny, Hugh, Abbot of, foretells the death of William II., 101.

Coleridge, at Mudeford, 145.

Colgrimesmore, the ancient name of Souley Pond, 72.

Commoners, rights of the, in the New Forest, 46.

Coronella lævis, 259 (foot-note).

Corporation Books, extracts from the Christchurch, 135, 136 (foot-note);

from the Lymington, 155 (foot-note).

Court, Moyles, 120, 121.

Crockle, Roman and Romano-British

potteries at, 217-219;

their probable date, 222.

Cross, the Staple, 146;

the, at Bargate, 120.

Cuckoo, sayings concerning the, 180.

Customs, old, in the Forest, 178.

D

Dame Slough, 273.

Dauphin of France, arms of the, formerly in Boldre Church, 80;

embarked at Leap, 55.

Defoe, his plan for colonizing the Forest with the Palatine refugees, 47.

Deer in the Forest, abolished in 1851, 46;

a few left, 113.

Deer-stealing, method of, 171.

Denny Wood, 79;

heronry at, 273.

Dibden, church at, 50, 51 (foot-note).

Diodorus Siculus, quotation from, 57 (foot-note).

Dissolution of the religious houses, its need, 64, 137;

of Beaulieu Abbey, 65;

of Christchurch Priory, 138.

Domesday, analysis and evidence of, on the afforestation of the New Forest, 26, 27, 28, 29, 31;

churches in the Forest still in part remaining mentioned in, 31;

Eling in, 51 (foot-note);

Redbridge in, 51 (foot-note);

Lyndhurst in, 87 (foot-note);

Fordingbridge in, 117;

Christchurch in, 131;

mills in, rented by a payment of eels, 128, 119 (foot-note);

Ringwood in, 123 (foot-note);

Christchurch in, 131;

Beckley, Baishley, and Milton in, 148 (foot-note);

Lymington in, 155.

Draper, John, the last prior of Christchurch Priory, character of, 137, 138.

Drift, in the Forest, its contents, 236.

Durham, Simon of, on the afforestation of the New Forest, 25 (foot-note);

on the death of William II., 95 (foot-note).

E

Eagle, golden, the, 260;

sea, the, 261.

Eaglehurst, 59.

Easter Sepulchre, at Brockenhurst Church, 77.

Ecclesiastica, or the Book of Remembrance, 122 (foot-note).

Edward I. issues writs for the perambulation of the Forest, 41;

possesses the Castle of Christchurch, 132.

Edward III., corbel head of, in Sopley Church, 127.

Edward VI. at Christchurch, 134.

Eel, peculiar to the Avon, an, 125.

Eels, mills rented by a payment of, 119 (foot-note), 128.

Eling, in Domesday, 51 (foot-note);

extract from parish register of, 228.

Ellingham, cross roads at, 120;

Church of, 122, 123;

extract from Churchwardens’ Books of, 229, 230, 231.

England, its peculiar interest to Englishmen, 2;

ignorance of, by Englishmen, 2.

Everton, etymology of, 75.

Exbury, 59;

herons feeding near, 273.

Exe, the river, 69;

derivation of, 163.

F

Fairies in the New Forest, 174, 175.

Falcon, peregrine, 261.

Fawley, village of, 51;

church, 51;

Norman doorway of church, 59.

Ferns in the Forest, 255, 256.

Ferrels, or “Verrels,” meaning of, 82.

Fidley, Wood-, rain, meaning of, 79.

Flambard, hated by the clergy, 102;

builds the Priory Church of Christchurch, 136.

Florence of Worcester, on the afforestation of the New Forest, 24;

on the death of William II., 95 (foot-note).

Flowers. See Botany.

Folk-lore, value of, 173; in the New Forest, 174-180.

Font, Norman, at Brockenhurst, 77.

Fordingbridge, 117;

church of, 118;

ancient tenure at, 117 (foot-note);

extracts from Churchwardens’ Books of, 230, 231.

Forest, meaning of the word, 10 (foot-note);

government of an ancient, 35, 36;

life in an ancient, 36 (foot-note).

Forest-Laws. See Laws.

Forest Rights. See Rights.

Frame Wood, 78, 79.

Fritham, country round, 114.

Fritham Plain, East, 113;

West, 114.

Fulchered and William II., 94, 102.

G

Gemeticensis, Gulielmus, on the afforestation of the New Forest, 23.

Geology, the, of the Forest, 234;

in the Eocene period, 235;

the drift and its contents, 236;

the Middle-Eocene of the Hordle and Barton Cliffs, 237-242;

the Bracklesham Beds in the valley of Canterton, 242-248;

the great aim of, 248.

Gilpin, author of Forest Scenery,

his love for Nature, 15 (foot-note);

buried in Boldre churchyard, 79, 80.

Gipsies, principal families of, in the Forest, 159;

their marriages, 159;

their present mode of life, 159, 160.

Godshill, in Gough’s time, 14 (foot-note).

Goreley Bushes, vast Keltic graveyard near, 207.

Government, duty of, to protect the finest trees in the Forest, 18.

Grange, St. Leonard’s, 69;

barn and chapel at, 70;

Park, 71;

Somerford, 138, 147.

Guest, Dr., on Natan-Leaga, 33 (foot-note);

on Cerdices-ora, 53;

on the “Belgic Ditches,” 130;

on the “Early English Settlements in South Britain,” 163 (foot-note), 166 (foot-note).

Guesten-hall, the, of the Abbot’s House at Beaulieu, 66.

H

Hall, Union of the Families of Lancaster and York, by, quotation from, 151.

Handycross Pond, barrow near, 209.

Harriers, marsh and hen, 268.

Hat, meaning of, in the Forest, 182, 183.

Hatchet Gate, 75.

Hawfinches, in the Forest, 274, 275.

Heather, its one defect, 81.

Hengistbury Head, derivation of, 165.

Hemingburgh, Walter, on the afforestation, 25 (foot-note);

on the death of William II., 95 (foot-note).

Henry III., confirmation of privileges to Beaulieu Abbey, by, 63.

Henry VIII., patriotism of, 151, 152.

Herbert’s Memoirs, 153, 154.

Herons in the Forest, 273, 274.

High Cliff Beds, the, 242.

Hill Top, 59, 61.

Hinchelsea, Bottom and Knoll, 81.

History, our, written on the country, 2, 129;

tradition, value of, in history, 97, 98;

truth in, 106.

Hoadley, Bishop, on the deer in Waltham Chase, 171.

Hob, Fairy, 175 (foot-note).

Hobby, the, 261;

weight of the eggs of, 264 (foot-note).

Holland’s Wood, near Brockenhurst, 78.

Holly, springing up in the Forest, 12 (foot-note).

Holme Bush, explanation of a, 179.

Holmsley, 81, 82.

Honey, the Forest, 184.

Hoopoe, its occurrence, 274.

Hordle, its church, when built, 31 (foot-note);

churchyard, 150;

Freshwater deposits at, 237.

“Horse, the Great,” 126 (foot-note).

House, Burman’s, at Beaulieu, 66.

House, Norman, at Christchurch, 132.

House, the Queen’s, at Lyndhurst, 87.

Hoveden, Roger, on the afforestation of the New Forest, 25 (foot-note);

on the death of William II., 95 (foot-note).

Howard, the philanthropist, lived at Watcombe, 75.

Huntingdon, Henry of, on the afforestation, 25 (foot-note);

on the death of William II., 95 (foot-note).

Hurst, meaning of the word, 35.

Hurst Beach, 151;

Castle, built by Henry VIII., 151;

Charles at, 152-154;

importance of, 152 (foot-note).

Hyde or Hungerford, 120.

Hythe, village of, 50.

I

Ibbesley, view at, 120;

extracts from parish register of, 232, 233.

Ictis, the Isle of Wight, 57, 58.

Idleness, profitable, 90.

Innocent III., grants the right of a sanctuary to Beaulieu Abbey, 63.

Insulis, Alanus de, on the death of William II., 102.

Iron’s Hill Wood, 75.

Iron-works at Souley Pond, 72.

Isabella de Fortibus, her possessions at Christchurch, 132;

at Lymington, 154.

Island Hills, the, 78.

Island Thorn, Roman and Romano-British Potteries at, 220.