The Forest of Dean: An Historical and Descriptive Account
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Chapters (382)
- the FOREST OF DEAN; an historical and descriptive account, derived from personal observation, and other sources, public, private, legendary, and local.
- PREFACE.
- CONTENTS.
- LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS.
- CHAPTER I. a.d. 1307–1612.
- CHAPTER II. a.d. 1612–1663.
- CHAPTER III. A. D. 1663–1692.
- CHAPTER IV. a.d. 1692–1758.
- CHAPTER V. a.d. 1758–1800.
- CHAPTER VI. a.d. 1800–1831.
- CHAPTER VII. a.d. 1831–1841.
- CHAPTER VIII. a.d. 1841–1858.
- CHAPTER IX. THE ORIGINAL OCCUPIERS OF THE FOREST.
- CHAPTER X.
- CHAPTER XI.
- CHAPTER XII.
- CHAPTER XIII.
- THE TIMBER.
- CHAPTER XIV.
- CHAPTER XV.
- CHAPTER XVI.
- APPENDIX.
- No. I. Papers preserved in the Lansdowne Collection at the British Museum.
- No. II. One of the Dean Forest Claims, put in at the Justice Seat, held in Gloucester Castle, 10 Chas. I.
- No. III.
- TABLE I.—FORMED BY MR. MACHEN.
- TABLE 2.—FORMED BY MR. MACHEN.
- TABLE 3.—FORMED BY MR. MACHEN.
- TABLE 4.—FORMED BY MR. MACHEN.
- TABLE 5.—FORMED BY MR. MACHEN.
- No. IV. Mr. Wyrrall’s Survey of the Forest of Dean Iron Works in 1635.
- No. V. Dr. Parson’s description of the mode of making Iron.
- No. VI. Being Minutes, &c., of the Court of Mine Law.
- NOTES.
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