. Flora Americae Septentrionalis, or, A systematic arrangement and description of the plants of North America [electronic resource] : containing, besides what have been described by preceding authors, many new and rare species, collected during twelve years travels and residence in that country. Botany. MAT'itBA OF FLANliERS. n ilUff thousands of the unfortunate Saxons perished by famine^ in consequence of having been driven from their homes when the Conqueror converted that once fertile part of England into a chase, for the enjoyment of his favourite amusement of hunting. Prince Richard was b
. Flora Americae Septentrionalis, or, A systematic arrangement and description of the plants of North America [electronic resource] : containing, besides what have been described by preceding authors, many new and rare species, collected during twelve years travels and residence in that country. Botany. MAT'itBA OF FLANliERS. n ilUff thousands of the unfortunate Saxons perished by famine^ in consequence of having been driven from their homes when the Conqueror converted that once fertile part of England into a chase, for the enjoyment of his favourite amusement of hunting. Prince Richard was buried in Winchester cathe- dral : a slab of stone, marked with his name, is still seen there. Drayton gives a political reason for the depopulation of the shore of Hampshire, occasioned by the enclosure of the New Forest, which is well worth the consideration of the historical reader: " Clear Avon, coming in, her sister Stonr doth call, ' ' â » ⢠i: i ; '*'' " And at New Foresfs foot into the sea doth M; ;,j , i ^{j'P That forest now, whose site e'en boundless seeias to lie. Its being erst received from William's tyranny, i Who framed laws to keep those beasts he planted then, - h His lawless will from hence before had driven men > That where the earth was warmed with Winter's festal fires, The melancholic hare now forms ir. '...;^led brakes and briers; j, itW*; . ixettles, fern, and weeds. Stand? now tbo aged ranpick tnmk, where ploughmen cast their seeds. The people were by William here cut off from evei-y trade, â That on this spot the Norman still might enter to invade; ,jj;,f^^^ii,»,. And on this desolated place and unfrequented shore, . . New forces evermore might lend to aid those here ; * *' ^'' The Saxon chronicle comments on the oppressive statutes enacted by the Normau conqueror for the preservation of game in* an eloquent strain of indignant irony, and says, " he loved the tall deer as if he had been their ; That
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