W Wages, average, of labourers in the New Forest, 47 (_foot-note_). Walking, advantages of, over driving, 6. Warbeck, Perkin, takes refuge at Beaulieu Abbey, 64. Warwick, Countess of, takes refuge at Beaulieu Abbey, 64. Wendover, Roger, on the afforestation of the New Forest, 25 (_foot-note_). West-Saxons, superstitious character of, still observable, 160, 161; love of sport, 162; peculiarity of dress, 162; verbal characteristics of, 167. Westminster, Matthew of, on the death of William II., 95 (_foot-note_). Whitebeams at Sloden, 114; at Castle Malwood, 254. Whiteshoot, square barrow near, 207. Wight, Isle of, atmospheric effects on the, 15; the Ictis of the ancients, 57, 58; Pliny on, 57 (_foot-note_), 236. William I., his character, 21, 22; his right to make a forest, 23; possessions in the Forest, 23 (_foot-note_); his love for the chase, 34; his cruelty and oppression, 22, 38. William II., his dream, as recorded, on the night before his death, 92, 93; his speech to the monk from Gloucester, 94; his death, 94; his body brought to Winchester Cathedral, 95; his brother and nephew killed in the Forest, 98; his character, 99 (_foot-note_); the events of his reign, 100 (_foot-note_); the cause of his death, 101, 102, 103; hated by his clergy, 104; plots against his life, 104, 105; his death read by his life, 108. William III., his legislation for the Forest, 44; not attended to, 45. Wilverley Plantations, 81. Wood, how sold for fuel in the Forest, 46. Woodcocks, their breeding in the Forest, 269. Woodmote, Court of, 87. Woodpecker, great black, breeding of the, 272. Woods, their beauty, 8; as dwelt upon by our English poets, 9 (_foot-note_); how valued in _Domesday_, 11, 12 (_foot-note_); round Lyndhurst, 89, 90. Woollen, affidavits of burials in, 232, 233. Wootton plantations, 81; woodcocks breed in, 269, 270. Worcester, Florence of. _See_ Florence. Y Yaffingale, local name for the green woodpecker, 272. Yarranton, his report upon making the Avon navigable, 134; on the ironstone of the coast, 151. “Yellow as a kite’s claw, as,” a Forest proverb, 179. Yews, measurements of various, 78 (_foot-note_), at Sloden, 114. Ytene, the district of, 33, 163. Yvery, Roger de, leads the Midland barons, 105; possessed land at Lymington, 155. FOOTNOTES [1]_Political Pieces and Songs relating to English History._ Edited by Thomas Wright. Vol. ii., p. 199.