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p. iiPortraits of two Iron-Miners
p. iiiTitle Page
the
FOREST OF DEAN;
an historical and descriptive account,
derived from personal observation, and other sources, public,
private, legendary,and local.
By H. G. NICHOLLS,M.A.,
PERPETUAL CURATE OF HOLY TRINITY, DEAN FOREST.
John Murray, Albemarle Street.
1858.
p.vPREFACE.
Disappointment expressed by others and felt by myself that a History ofthe Forest of Dean should never have appeared in print, and an impressionthat a considerable amount of interesting information relative to it mightbe brought together, combined I may add with the fact that there seemed noprobability of such a work being otherwise undertaken until old usages andtraditions had passed away, have induced me to attempt itscompilation.  I here venture to publish the fruit of my labours, inthe hope that the reader may derive some portion of that pleasure which theprosecution of the work has afforded me, and trusting that the sameindulgent consideration which led the officers of the Government, thegentlemen of the neighbourhood, and many of the intelligent Foresters toaid in the execution, will by them and the public be extended to the workitself.
I have endeavoured to make it as complete as possible by supplying everyknown circumstance, mostly in the words of the original narrator, and yettrying so to harmonize the whole as to engage the attention of the generalreader, but more particularly of the residents in the district, byacquainting them with the past and present state of one of the mostinteresting and remarkable localities in the kingdom.
H. G. N.
July, 1858.
p.viiCONTENTS.
CHAPTER I.—a.d. 1307–1612.
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Origin of the name “Dean”?—The Buck Stone and otherDruidical remains—“The Scowles,” &c., and otherancient iron-mines, worked in the time of the Romans—Symmond’sYat, and other military earthworks—Domesday Book, and investment ofthis Forest in the Crown—William I., and probable date of FreeMiners’ Franchise—Castle of St. Briavel’s first built;Giraldus—Flaxley Abbey founded—King John at Flaxley and St.Briavel’s—The constables of St. Briavel’s, and wardens ofthe Forest—Date of the ruins of St. Briavel’sCastle—Iron-forges licensed by Henry III.—Perambulation of1282, and first “justice seat”—Seventy-two itinerantforges in the Forest—Date of miners’ laws andprivileges—Perambulation of 1302—Edward I., grants in theForest—Newland Church founded—Free miners summoned to th                        
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