that ruined church, at the foot of the Malwood rampart.' Palgrave:
_Hist. of Normandy and of England_, B. IV: ch. xii.

_Young Richard_; Son to Robert Courthose, and hunting, as his uncle's
guest, in the New Forest in May 1100, was mysteriously slain by a heavy
bolt from a Norman Arbalest.

_The Evil-wood walls_; 'Amongst the sixty churches which had been
'ruined,' my Father remarks, in his notice of the New Forest, 'the
sanctuary below the mystic Malwood was peculiarly remarkable. . . . You
reach the Malwood easily from the Leafy Lodge in the favourite deer-walk,
the Lind-hurst, the Dragon's wood.'

_Through the long Minster_; Winchester. Rufus, with much hesitation, was
buried in the chancel as a king; but no religious service or ceremonial
was celebrated:--'All men thought that prayers were hopeless.'



EDITH OF ENGLAND


1100

Through sapling shades of summer green,
By glade and height and hollow,
Where Rufus rode the stag to bay,
King Henry spurs a jocund way,
Another chase to follow.
But when he came to Romsey gate