New Forest
New Forest (17th century)- forest, wood - New Forrest Hundred - Hampshire
Period - 1690s-1720s
Shown on an old map by Ogilby 1675
- forest - Hampshire
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Shown on an old map by Ogilby 1675
- forest - Hampshire
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otherwise: Ytene
Period - 17th century
In this County [Hantshire] is New-Forest, formerly called Ytene, being about 30 miles in compass; in which said tract William the Conqueror (for the making of the said Forest a harbour for Wild-beasts for his Game) caused 36 Parish Churches, with all the Houses thereto belonging, to be pulled down, and the poor Inhabitants left succourless of house or home. But this wicked act did not long go unpunished, for his Sons felt the smart thereof; Richard being blasted with a pestilent Air; Rufus shot through with an Arrow; and Henry his Grand-child, by Robert his eldest son, as he pursued his Game, was hanged among the boughs, and so dyed. This Forest at present affordeth great variety of Game, where his Majesty oft-times withdraws himself for his divertisement.
otherwise: Yteme
Shown on an old map by Blaeu 1645
- wood, forest - Rinwood Hundred - Newforrest Hundred - Hantshire
... New-forest's ...
Which every day bewail that deed so full of dread
Whereby she (now so proud) became first forested:
She now who for her sight even boundless seem'd to lie,
Her being that receiv'd by William's tyranny;
Providing laws to keep those beasts here planted then,
Whose lawless will from hence before had driven men;
That where the hearth was warm'd with Winter's feasting fires,
The melancholy hare is form'd in brakes and briars:
The aged ranpick trunk where plow-men cast their seed,
And churches overwhelm'd with nettles, fern, and weed,
By Conquering William first cut off from every trade,
That here the Norman still might enter to invade;
That on this vacant place, and unfrequented shore,
New forces still might land, to aid those here before.
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Shown on an old map by Speed 1611
- wood, forest - Rinwood Hundred - Newforrest Hundred - Hantshire
The place is described in text Camden 1610
- Hantshire
Period - 1600s
King William of Normandie pulled downe all the townes, villages, houses, and Churches far and neere, cast out the poore inhabitants, and when he had so done brought all within thirty miles compasse or thereabout into a forrest and harbour for wild beasts, which the English men in those daies termed Ytene, and we now call New forrest. Of which Act of his, Gwalter Maps who lived immediately after, wrote thus. 'The Conqueror tooke away land both from God and men, to dedicate the same unto wild beasts and Dogs-game: in which space he threw downe six and thirty Mother-churches, and drave all the people thereto belonging quite away.'
Shown on an old map by Norden 1607
- forest, wood - Ringewood Hundred - Newforrest Hundred - Hamshire
Period - 1590s-1600s
- Southampton
