BEAULIEU, a liberty in the New Forest (East) division of the county of SOUTHAMPTON, 6 miles (N.E.) from Lymington, containing, with an extra-parochial district within its limits, 1906 inhabitants. The living is a donative, in the patronage of Lord Montagu. The chapel,- dedicated to St. Bartholomew, is a plain edifice of stone with strong buttresses, and was formerly the refectory of the ancient abbey, the church of which, situated to the south-east, has been entirely destroyed. There is a place of worship for Particular Baptists. Beaulieu is situated on a river of the same name, which rises in the New Forest, at the foot of a hill about a mile and a half to the north-east of Lyndhurst, and is navigable hence for vessels of fifty tons' burden to the Isle of Wight channel, which bounds the parish on the south. On reaching the village, it spreads into a wide surface, covering several acres, on the eastern side of which is the spot where the famous abbey formerly stood, the outer walls of which, or a large part of them, still remain. It was founded, in 1204, by King John, for thirty monks of the reformed Benedictine order, and was dedicated to the Blessed Virgin Mary: its revenue, at the dissolution in 1540, was £428. 6. 8. It possessed the privilege of sanctuary, and afforded an asylum to Margaret of Anjou, wife of Henry VI., after the battle of Barnet; and to Perkin Warbeck, in the reign of Henry VII. Various immunities, among which is exemption from arrest for debt, are still attached to the manor. The ruins stand in a beautiful valley, nearly circular in form, bounded by well-wooded hills, and surrounded by a stone wall, nearly entire in many places, and mantled with ivy. The entrance is by an ancient stone gateway, near which is an edifice of a square form, called the Palace, originally built for the abbot's lodging, but converted into a family seat after the dissolution. Over the entrance is a canopied niche, and the hall is handsomely vaulted. Eastward from the building is a long structure, supposed, from the extent and height of the apartments, to have been the dormitory, and beneath are several good cellars; the ancient kitchen is also standing. Near the abbey was a building, called an hospital, inhabited by the knights of St. John of Jerusalem, where travellers and persons in distress were relieved, the revenue of which, at the dissolution, was £100. This hospital was founded a little previously to the abbey, and, from the beauty of its situation, gave the name of Beaulieu to the place; it stood at the distance of about half a mile from the water's edge, at high water mark, on rising ground, having a gentle slope to'the water, and commanding, toward the right,-a view of Hurst Castle and the Needles; to the left, of Spithead, and the entrance to Portsmouth harbour. About two miles distant, and very near the sea-shore, is Park farm, anciently one of the granges attached to Beaulieu abbey, which, like others appertaining to that establishment, possessed the privilege of having divine service celebrated in it, under a bull of Pope Alex- ander I. The chapel is remaining, though much dilapidated, and adjoins the farm-house, a massive stone building of equal antiquity; its length is forty-two feet, and breadth about fourteen; the interior is divided into two compartments by a stone screen, which reaches to the roof. At a short distance from this, on the road to Beaulieu, are the ruins of the extensive barn and the chapel of St. Leonard, the former measuring in length two hundred Ğand twenty-six feet, in breadth seventyseven, and in height sixty, and formerly the principal grange belonging to the abbey. Buckler's Hard is a populous village in this liberty, situated on the Beaulieu river, chiefly inhabited by workmen employed in ship-building: many vessels of war have been built at this place. Beaulieu has long been noted for the manufacture of coarse sacking: near the village of Sowley, in this liberty, are two large mills belonging to some iron-works. Fairs for horses and horned cattle are held on April 15th and September 4th.