ABBEY, the, of Reading, 108.
of Vale Royal, 215.

of Birkenhead, 221.

Abbot, George, Archbishop of Canter-
bury, accidentally shoots a park-
keeper, 273.

Abbots' kitchen, Netley Abbey, 161.
Abole, or white poplar, 55.

Abstract of the revenue and expendi-
ture of the chief Forests, 392.

Acorn Patch Nursery, 205.
Adansonia tree, 348.

Adelaide, Queen, buried at St. George's

Chapel, 1849, 129.

Africa, forests of, 347.
Agricola, soldiers of, 34.

Aikin's Memoirs of the Court of King
James I. note, 271.
Akenside, 85.

Alastor, or the Spirit of Solitude, written

by Shelley at Bishopsgate Heath, 98.
Albemarle, Earl of, gigantic oak on the
estate of, 45.

Alder-tree, the, beauty of, 70.
Aleppo, pines of, 348.

Alfred, king, separates the streams of the

River Lea, 140.

Algeria, forests of, 348.
Alleghany mountains, 340.

Alligators of Mexico, 340.

Alpine vegetation referred to, 325.

Amazon, mouth of the river, 329.
America, forests of, 326.

backwoodsmen of, 25.

Andes, 337.

Andredes- Weald Forest, 259.

Anecdotes of birds, 296.

Anemone, 297.

Anne, Queen, drawing-rooms at Windsor

Castle, 116.

109.

Queen, hunting in Windsor Forest,

Annesley Hall, 236.

Antilles, forests on the, 344.

Antiquities found at Holyoake, note,
218.

Appendix A., 362.

B., 381.

C., 385.

Archangel, forests of, 352.
Archery, 274.

at Harrow School, 275.
skill in, 276.

kings expert in, 276.

anecdotes of, 276.
laws, 276.

Archers, English, superiority of, 276.

Arden, forest of, 29.

etymology of the word, 29.

Ardennes, forest of, 21.

Arts, Society of, note, 39.

Arundel, Earl of, conducts the king of
Castile to Windsor Castle, 108.
Arron Isles, forests of, 324.

Ash, the, called by Gilpin the Venus of
the Woods, 57.

the, useful in manufactures, 58.
formerly held in reverence for the
cure of diseases, 59.

tree, the largest stands in Woburn
Park, 59.

the Monmouth, 60.
Ashdowne Forest, 260.

Aspen, 69.

leaves, agitation of, 69.

Aspen-tree, legends of, 70.

Assam, jungles of, 322.

Asser's Life of King Alfred, 35.

Atholl, forest of, 271.

Atures, cataract of, 336.

Augustus, temple of, at Virginia Water,
105.

Australian gum-trees, 324.

BACON, Sir Nicholas, first planted the
plane-tree in his gardens at St. Alban's,
71.

Bacup, town of, 210.

of Old Pendle, 211.
Balade of Maryage, 211.
Bamboos, 336.

Bannockburn, battle of, 276.

Barbary, forests of, 348.

Barnsdale Forest, 226.

Barton, Bernard, on the oak, 42.

Baynard Castle, 232.

Bears used for sport, 283.

Beasts of forest and chase, 281.
Beauclerc, Henry, 266.
Beaulieu Abbey, 159.

founded by King John, 159.
description of, 160.

Beaumont and Fletcher, mention of the
fern, 74.

Bedford, Duke, arrests Joanna of Na-
varre, 145.

Beech-tree, nuts of, 65.

magnificent specimen of, 66.
peculiar formation of leaves, 66.
immense, near Sawyer's Lodge, 107.
Behra Doun, 321.

Bek, Sir Anthony, 253.
Belstone, cottage at, anecdote of, 188.
Belvidere at Virginia Water, 106.
Ben Jonson's lines on the Sidney oak, 48.

New Inn, reference to the fern, 74.
the Gipsies metamorphosed, 116.
Berners, Dame Juliana, prioress of the
Sopewell Nunnery, 279.
Berthelot, M., 346.

Bess of Hardwick, anecdote of, 241.
Bialowiéza, forest of, 354.

Bible, the forests mentioned in, 350.
Bilhaugh, 225.

Binfield, a pretty village in Windsor
Forest, 109.

Bingley's Animal Biography, note, 289.
Birch, the, termed by Coleridge

Lady of the Woods," 64.

Birds of the New Forest, 168.

habits of, 294.

"the

Bloomfield, Robert, 257.

Boadicea, defeat of, 141.
Boar's head, 284.

Boatswain, monument to Lord Byron's
favourite dog, 238.

Bohemia, forests of, 357.

Bokhara, great oasis of, 322.

Bolderwood Walk, New Forest, 168.

Boldre, village of, 162.

Bolingbroke, Lord, 84.

Borderers, character of, 245.

Bow butts, 276.

Bows and arrows used for hunting, 274.
Bowland Forest, 207.

Bowyer, the learned printer, was buried
in Leyton church, 143.
Boyne, battle of, 221.

Bradgate, once the residence of Lady
Jane Grey, anecdote of, 255.
Bradstone Manor House, 186.
Brambletye House, 262.

Bramblings, near Waltham, formerly a
pleasure-house of Henry VIII.'s, 140.
Brambridge, avenue of lime-trees, 176.
Braose, William de, 117.

Brazil, gigantic forests of, 333.

virgin forests of, 327.

Brian, Reginald, Bishop of Worcester,
272.

"British Naturalist," note, 284.

British ship-of-war, the first built of
larch wood, 61.

Bruce, Robert, 271.

Buckland, Dr., the geologist, 43.
Buckstone, the, a few miles from Mon-
mouth, 200.

Bulwer's "Harold, the last of the Saxon
Kings," note, 138.
Burleigh, 147.

Burghley, Lord, 268.
Burlington, Lord, 110.
Byron, Lord, 236.

"Lines written on the occasion of
opening the vault of Charles I." 129.
family ancestry of, 236.

and the Goblin Friar, 238.

Byron's oak, 239.

first love, 240.

CABBAGE-PALMS of Cuba, 345.
Cadenham, village of, 171.
oak, 171.

Cairo, environs of, 350.
California, coast of, 339.
Caliphs, tombs of the, 350.
Cam, the banks of, 56.

Cambridge oak, 56.

Camden's" Britannia," 198.

description of Sherwood Forest, 225.

Cameron, Sir Ewen, said to have killed

the last wolf in Scotland, 283.

Campbell on forest flowers, 296.
Canada, forests of, 343.
Canamracâre, rapids of, 330.
Canary Islands, 345.

Canute the Great, first forest laws passed

in the reign of, 37.
Cape of Good Hope, 348.
Carbet, forest of, 345

Carissa, forest of, 335.

Carlos, Colonel William, 51.
Carol of the boar's head, 285.

Carrington's poem of Dartmoor, 192.
Carta de Foresta, 265.
Cassigniare, river of, 335.

Castelnau, M. F, on the magnolia, 341.
Catherine, Queen, at the tournament,
267.

Catingas, 331.

character of, 332.
Cearne, abbey of, 160.

Cedar of Lebanon, 66, 349.

Cedars, white and black, 337.
Ceylon, forests of, 26, 318.
Chaldea, mountains of, 351.

Chambers' Life of James I., note, 270.
Chandler, Dr. on the use of holly at
Christmas, 73.

Charnwood Forest, 254.

Char-à-banc, presented to Queen Vic-
toria, by Louis Philippe, 117.
Charcoal-burner's hut, 159.

Charles, Prince, in Boscobel Wood, 51.
Charles's oak, 51.

motto over the door of the enclo-
sure where it formerly stood, 52.
Charles I., 82.

takes refuge at Hurst Castle, 162.
tomb of, in St. George's Chapel
Windsor, 126.

Chili, forests of, 326.
Chillingham Park, 186.

395

Chipstead Place, pleasure-grounds of,

63.

Chopwell Wood, 251.

Chronicle of London, 1438, 146.
Church Moor, New Forest, 154.
Place, New Forest, 154.

Churchill, Lord, 259.

Cider-making in the forest of Dean, 199.
Cilicia, forests of, 351.
Cinderford Bridge, 206.

Cistercian monks, abbey of, 144.
Clarac, M. de, 333.

Clare, John, sonnet by, 293.
Clergy, the, and hunting, 273.
Clypstone Park, 230.
Cobham Park, 62.

Coit Andred Forest, 259.
Coleford, 200.

town of, 200.

Coleridge calls the birch tree "the Lady
of the Woods," 64.

Columbus's admiration of the forests of
Haïti, 345.

Colwick Hall, 240.

Commons, examination before the House
of, in reference to the forests, Appen-
dix A, 364.

Complaints in respect to the general
mismanagement of forests, 306.
Conservatory, Virginia Water, 101.
Constantine, province of, 349.
Copped Hall near Epping, 141.
Cordilleras, forests of, 331.
Corfu, forests of, 352.

Cortez and his followers, 339.
Cotton-manufacturer, anecdote of a, 210.
Cotton-tree, 337.

Coupang, bay of, 323.

Cranbourne Lodge, 107.

Cranmer first meets Henry VIII. at
Bramblings near Waltham, 140.
Cranmere Pool, 179.

Crete, ancient forests of, 352.

Crimea, forests of, 353.

Croatia, forests of, 356.

Cromwell, 82.