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.