nstructed at Cinderford, by Mr.
Brace, out of an old water-wheel, and the adjoining buildings. In the
year 1819 also, through the exertions of the Rev. H. Poole, the small
chapel at Coleford, erected there in the reign of Queen Anne, was taken
down, and a building more equal to the religious wants of the place was
erected, and duly set apart for Christian worship, by Bishop Ryder, on
the 18th of January, 1821.

The Third Triennial Report of the Commissioners of Woods was issued on
the 18th of June, 1819. It states that three portions of land had been
granted in trust for church purposes to the Lord Bishop of Gloucester,
Lord Calthorpe, and the Right Honourable Nicolas Vansittart, one piece
being attached to Christ Church, Berry Hill, a second to Holy Trinity
Church, and the third for a proposed church at Cinderford. It also
affirms that the whole of the 11,000 acres specified in the Acts for
enclosing the Forest had been taken in and planted, and that the
plantations were generally in a very flourishing state, comprising with
the recent purchases 14,335 acres, the whole of which lands were, from
the nature of the soil and the conveniences of water-carriage, probably
better adapted for that purpose than any other tract of land in the
kingdom lying together and of equal extent. The report concludes by
alluding to the efforts which the commissioners had been making to induce
such parties as occupied encroachments on the Forest to accept leases for
thirty-one years, at an almost nominal rent, with the view of effecting
the ultimate restoration of these lands to the Crown, but regrets that so
liberal a proposal had been refused by nearly all; nevertheless further
steps were about being taken in the matter.

The following particulars relating to this period are abstracted from Mr.
Machen's Memoranda:--"29th May, 1819. The frost was so severe that the
verdure around White Mead, and throughout all the low parts of the
Forest, was entirely destroyed. There was not a green leaf left on any
oak or beech, large or small, and all the shoots of the year were
altogether withered. The spruce and silver firs were all injured: in
short all trees but Scotch fir and poplar suffered severely.--August
10th. The plantations had recovered from the effects of the frost--the
oak more effectually than the beech, and had made more vigorous and
thriving shoots than I ever saw. We measured several shoots in Serridge
and Birchwood more than