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THE 
 
 OGLANDER MEMOIES 
 
 EXTEACTS 
 
 FROM THE 
 
 MSS. OF SIR J. OGLANDER, KT., 
 
 OF NDNWELL, ISLE OF WIGHT, 
 
 DEPUTY-QOVERNOB OF PORTSMOUTH, AND 
 DEPUTY-LIBUTENAKT OF THE ISLE OF WIGHT, 16960648. 
 
 EDITED, 
 
 WITH AN INTRODUCTION AND NOTES, 
 
 BY 
 
 W. H. LONG, 
 
 Author oj "A Dictionary of the Isle of Wight Dialect," die. 
 
 LONDON : REEVES AND TURNER, 196 STRAND. 
 
 PORTSMOUTH : W. H. LONG, 120 HIGH STREET. 
 
 ISLE OP WIGHT : 
 
 G. A. BRANNON, "COUNTY PRESS" OFFICE, NEWPORT. 
 
 1888. 
 
PRINTED BY G. A. BRANNON, 
 'COUNTY PRESS" OFFICE, 26 S'^ JAtlES'S SQUARE, 
 NEWPORT, I.W. 
 
TO THE 
 
 REV. SIR W. H. COPE, BART., 
 
 OF BEAMSHILL, 
 The following Pages are Eespectfully Inscribed 
 
 BY 
 
 W. H. LONG. 
 
NOTE TO THE INTRODUCTION. 
 
 At page xxii., by an oversight of the Editor, Sir J. Oglander is stated to have 
 threatened to distrain the goods of his friend Worsley, of Appulduroombe, in 
 default of paying his apportioned quota of ship money. It was not Sir H. 
 Worsley of Appulduroombe, but his uncle, John Worsley, of Gatoombe, who 
 was refractory. He was of an overbearing and intractable disposition, and 
 resisted the payment of other assessments besides ship money. In November, 
 1637, Thos. Urry and Eichard Roman, churchwardens of Gatcombe, sent a 
 petition to Archbishop Laud, alleging that their parish church had fallen into 
 decay, and that by the directions of Dr. Mason, Chancellor of the Diocese, a 
 meeting had been held to make a church rate to pay for necessary repairs. Mr. 
 Worsley was present, and a rate was made, to which everybody but Worsley 
 consented, and paid their several proportions. He, the most considerable 
 ratepayer, his estate comprising one half of the parish, being of a litigious 
 nature, not only refused to pay the last rate, but also two made previously ; 
 so that the repair of the church was delayed, and the whole fabric in danger 
 of becoming ruinous. There had also been from time beyond the memory of 
 man a church house and garden belonging to the parish, of which Worsley on 
 his own authority had taken possession. The petitioners prayed that he might 
 be admonished to deliver up the house and garden, and to pay the rates due 
 from him ; or be summoned to answer for the same before the Commissioners 
 Ecclesiastical. In reply to this, the Archbishop directed Sir John Lambe to 
 take order for the oflfending party to appear in the Court of High Commission, 
 but this citation was not executed, or failed to produce the desired effect. 
 Some months after, the matter was brought before the Council ; with the result 
 that in Maj', 1638, letters were sent to Dr. Robert Mason, Chancellor of the 
 Diocese of Winchester, and to the Surrogate of the Consistory Court of the 
 same, enclosing a petition of the parishioners of Gatcombe, and a certificate 
 from Dr. Mason himself, showing that by the obstinacy of Mr. Worsley, lord 
 of the manor of Gatcombe, the church there had become quite ruinous, and so 
 decayed that the minister in stormy weather was compelled to read the service 
 in his seat. Worsley not only refused to pay the rates due from him, but also 
 withheld the church house and a piece of land thereto belonging, which he had 
 converted to his own use ; and though he had been presented by the church - 
 wardens, he, being rich, delayed and wearied the parishioners with vexatious 
 suits at law. The Chancellor and Surrogate were ordered to give the matter 
 their consideration, and to take eflFectual measures so that the church might 
 be repaired, and the church house and land restored to the parish ; and to see 
 that no man's power or refractoriness delayed the course of justice. — State 
 Papers, Domestic, Vols. 371, 390, 1637-S. 
 
PREFACE. 
 
 The often quoted manuscript collections of Sir John Oglander, 
 of Nunwell, Isle of Wight, written during the first half of 
 the XVII. century, are now for the first time presented to 
 the public in a form as far as possible of completeness and 
 continuity. Every writer on the Isle of Wight, from the time 
 of Sir R. Worsley (who could scarcely have been aware of their 
 wealth of materials, or he would have made much more 
 extensive use of them in his history), has referred more or less 
 to these interesting MSS.; but not a sixth part of their con- 
 tents has yet been published, and what has been is inferior in 
 interest to the remaining unpublished portion. Nor is this 
 altogether surprising. Much of the Oglander MSS. consists of 
 notes of a very miscellaneous and varied character, written in 
 different volumes, and often — as if on the spur of the moment 
 — on the blank leaves of ledgers and account books, without 
 the least order or arrangement. A good deal of the collection 
 
 is not now worth printing, consisting of references to old 
 
 B 
 
U. PREFACE. 
 
 authors and conjectures on historical and archaeological sub- 
 jects, or on the history of families and descent of lands in the 
 Island; often erroneous, and disproved by modern research. 
 The contents of the following pages are almost entirely derived 
 from a transcript of the original MSS., apparently made early 
 in the present century, probably by or for a member of the 
 Oglander family. This transcript is a folio volume, now the 
 property of the Rev. Sir W. H. Cope, Bt., of Bramshill, Hants, 
 who has kindly consented to the publication of those passages 
 it contained of local or general interest. The notes accom- 
 panying the text could easily have been extended, but the 
 object in them has been to epitomise, and to give all necessary 
 information in the briefest manner possible. Considerable 
 research has been bestowed on the notes and introduction, and 
 no statements are made in them but from the best authorities 
 that could be consulted with the utmost care of the Editor. 
 
 W. H. LONG. 
 
[ iii- ] 
 
 INTRODUCTION. 
 
 In these preliminary pages an attempt is made to place 
 before the reader a sketch, necessarily incomplete and 
 imperfect, of the social state of the Isle of Wight during 
 the first half of the seventeenth century. From 
 their position, the residents of the Island, till within a 
 few years of the period mentioned, lived in the dread and 
 often experienced the evils of foreign invasion ; but after 
 the defeat of the Spanish Armada in 1588, a feeling of 
 security from the annoyance of enemies sprang up, with 
 the best effects on the prosperity and well-being of the 
 Island audits inhabitants. The custom of sending their fami- 
 lies to the mainland on occasions of warlike alarms fell into 
 disuse, and the result of this confidence in themselves 
 and their rulers was the erection of such manor houses 
 as Northcourt, Mottistone, Arreton, Yaverland, Sheat, 
 and others, most of which still remain with their 
 pointed gables, muUioned windows, and oak wainscoting, 
 mementoes of a period of peace and plenty, and the 
 delight of the artist and antiquary. At the beginning 
 
 b2 
 
IV. INTRODUCTION. 
 
 of the reign of Elizabeth the condition of the Island 
 was deplorable, — a state of general stagnation and 
 decay; but by the efforts of the government and the 
 beneficial and vigorous rule of Sir E. Horsey and Sir 
 G. Carey, before the accession of James I. a tide of 
 prosperity had set in, and "money was as plentiful in 
 the yeomen's purses as now in the best of the gentry, 
 and all the gentry full of money and out of debt.''^ 
 About the end of the reign of James there was another 
 period of depression, which gradually passed away; 
 and during the time of the Civil Wars, through its 
 immunity from the battles and sieges which disturbed 
 most parts of the country, the Island was one of the 
 most flourishing places in the kingdom. Strangers 
 from the neighbouring counties were attracted to it by 
 the prospect of peace and quiet, trade increased, and 
 rents rose rapidly above the average — to fall again to 
 their usual level, or beneath it, shortly after the Ee- 
 storation. 
 
 The population of the Island was probably about 
 15,000 or 16,000. The houses were generally built of 
 the native stone and — except those of the gentry — 
 mostly thatched. Each cottage had a garden in which 
 vegetables were grown, with the exception of potatoes, 
 which, though introduced into England before the end of 
 
 1 Oglander MSS, 
 
INTRODUCTION. V. 
 
 the sixteenth century, were for a long time found only 
 in the gardens of the rich, and were not in common cul- 
 tivation till nearly a hundred years later. In 1613 they 
 were sold as luxuries at 2s. per lb. Bread made of 
 wheat flour was commonly eaten, and barley bread only 
 used in times of scarcity. Orchards were common, 
 from which cider was made for home consumption. 
 Excepting the estates of the knights and gentlemen, 
 most of the farms, many of them small, were owned by 
 the farmers themselves, who cultivated wheat, barley, 
 oats, pease, and vetches. The arable land was not all 
 enclosed by hedges, and much of the so-called forest 
 was woodland and unenclosed heath. Pigs fed on the 
 acorns in the parks of Appuldurcombe and Watching- 
 well, and in Avington, now Parkhurst, Forest. Sheep 
 roamed on the downs and commons belonging to the 
 manors, their owners who had rights of pasturage being 
 known as "commoners." The Island possessed a good 
 breed of horses for agricultural purposes, and was noted 
 for the excellence of its sheep. Corn and wool, celebrated 
 for its fineness, were the chief exports, the manufactures 
 being next to none ; but some alum and copperas 
 works were conducted with success. The clergy farmed 
 their glebes, and their unmarried farm servants generally 
 lived in the parsonage with the household. Domestic 
 labour was cheap. The average wages of a man servant 
 
VI. INTRODUCTION. 
 
 was from £3 to £5 per annum ; of a maid servant, £2 ^ 
 to £3. Labourers were paid 4s. per week in summer, 
 and 3s. 6d. per week during the winter. In corn and 
 hay harvest their wages were a shilling per day, but if 
 engaged in task work, as much as might be agreed 
 uponbetweenthemand their employers. The rateofwages 
 of labourers and artizans was generally fixed annually 
 by the Justices at the Easter Sessions of each county, and 
 often did not vary much for years. There was no uni- 
 versal standard, and in some counties the wages were 
 much lower than in others. In 1610, mowers received 
 lOd. per day; skilled artizans. Is. a day in summer, and 
 lOd. in winter. Forty years later, in the time of the Com- 
 monwealth, wages had risen. Ordinary labourers were 
 paid Is. a day, and when engaged in reaping. Is. 6d.; 
 artizans received Is. 6d. a day in summer, and Is. 4d. 
 during winter. 
 
 The average price of wheat was £2 lis. 4d. per 
 quarter, and of malt £1 7s. 7d. The prices of corn 
 varied greatly at intervals of only a few months ; 
 seasons of cheapness and plenty were generally followed 
 by times of scarcity, and sometimes of actual famine, 
 for which the usual remedy was the prohibition of the 
 exportation of gram out of the country. A late or wet 
 
 1 The authorities for the rates of wages, prices of com, &o., when not men- 
 tioned in the text, are churchwardens' accounts, the Sussex Archaeological 
 Collections, and Professor Rogers's " Six Centuries of Work and Wages." 
 
INTRODUCTION. VIl. 
 
 spring or summer caused great distress and loss, and a 
 corresponding increase in the price of food for men and 
 cattle ; in the late spring of 1643, hay sold at £8 14s. 
 per ton. The comparative value of money being con- 
 sidered, this price would be equal to about £20 at the 
 present day. In the year 1607, the average price of 
 wheat was 36s. 8d. per quarter; the year following was 
 a season of scarcity, and the price rose to 56s. 8d. per 
 quarter. In 1613, the average had fallen to 48s. 8d. per 
 quarter, and beef was sold at 4d. per pound. From this 
 year prices steadily declined till 1620 and 1621, when 
 they reached their minimum. To quote a contemporary 
 writer, 1 1621 — "At this time the rates of all sorts of 
 corn were so extremely low, as it made the very prices of 
 land fall from twenty years' purchase to sixteen or seven- 
 teen. For the best wheat was sold for 2s. 8d. and 2s. 6d. 
 the bushel, the ordinary at 2s.; barley and rye at ls.4d. 
 and Is. 3d. the bushel, and the worse of those grains at 
 a meaner rate ; and malt also after that proportion. 
 Nor were horse corns, as oats and pease, at any higher 
 price, which I have the rather observed, though a 
 matter in itself very trivial, because aU farmers of lands 
 generally murmured at this plenty and cheapness ; and 
 the poorer sort that would have been glad but a few 
 
 1 Sir Simonds D'Ewe's Autobiography and Corespondence, edited by J. 
 O. Halliwell, vol. I. 
 
VIU. INTRODUCTION. 
 
 years before of the coarse rye-bread, did now usually 
 traverse the markets to find out the finer wheats, as if 
 nothing else would serve their use or please their 
 palates. Which unthankfulness and daintiness was soon 
 after punished by the high prices and dearness of all 
 sorts of grain everywhere, which never since abated 
 much of that rate, though at some times it were cheaper 
 than at others. So as in the year 1630, wheat was above 
 8s. the bushel, rye at 4s. 6d., and malt and barley 
 about that rate ; and this present year (1637), malt and 
 barley are now sold at 5s. the bushel, though wheat be 
 under that price, and rye at 4s. the bushel." Another 
 contemporary account, 1620-21, says^ — "There is a 
 great scarcity of money within all this kingdom, so that 
 any man cannot depend upon any payment or receat 
 any money due to him, and generally all the country is 
 impoverished. And good livers cannot make any shift 
 for money. The price of all things except corn is at a 
 very low rate. Tradesmen complain they cannot get 
 work to employ themselves, so that many do offer to 
 work for meat and drink only." In the succeeding years 
 prices again rose gradually, till in 1631, a time of famine, 
 the price of wheat was 68s. per quarter. In a Hamp- 
 shire inventory, dated 1636, " a little mare, bridle, and 
 
 1 Diary of Walter Yonge, M.P. for Honiton, edited by J. Roberta for the 
 Camden Society. 
 
INTEODUCTION. IX. 
 
 saddle " was sold for 32s., and the next year the price of 
 "seven horses and their harness" was £23. About this 
 time and for some years after, the price of corn was very 
 variable, wheat being sometimes as low as 44s. per 
 quarter ; but in 1648 and '49, the summers being ex- 
 tremely wet, and according to Aubrey, " deare yeares 
 of corne," the average price of wheat rose to 75s. and 
 80s. per quarter. At such seasons no corn was allowed 
 to be sold but in open market, wlaich was attended by 
 the Justices, or Mayor and Constables, to regulate the 
 prices ; and no forestaller, engrosser, or maltster, was 
 suffered to be a purchaser. No corn brought to market 
 and remaining unsold was allowed to be taken away 
 by the owner, but was kept till the next market day, 
 and again offered for sale. 
 
 The functions of the Justices were more various and 
 their authority much more extensive than at present. 
 They regulated the prices of labour and provisions, 
 licensed and suppressed alehouses, and combined the 
 duties of modern guardians of the poor with those of a 
 local government board. Every parish maintained its 
 own poor, and in extraordinary cases beggars were 
 licensed to solicit alms throughout the Island. Each 
 parish was supposed to keep its own roads in repair 
 with the stones gathered from the fields, but this was 
 often so imperfectly done that the roads were full of 
 
X. INTRODUCTION. 
 
 deep ruts and holes, and in winter generally impassible 
 by wheeled carriages. The highways were few, there 
 was none between Newport and Niton ; and between 
 Newport and Newtown the road was barely a wheel- 
 track which lay through the fields, and was crossed by 
 gates at every few hundred yards. Till nearly the end of 
 the last century the road from Newport to Yarmouth was 
 studded with more than fifty gates, and they were still 
 more numerous in the roads at the the back of the Island. 
 Nearly everybody travelled on horseback, the mistress 
 on a pillion behind the master, coaches being almost 
 unknown. Sir J. Oglander says that his coach was the 
 second ever seen in the Island. Until 1615 there was 
 no regular post to and from London, and fifty or sixty 
 years earlier all letters to the mainland were conveyed 
 across the water by "a coneyman," who visited the 
 Island at short intervals to buy rabbits for the London 
 market. In the coverts and brakes these animals 
 abounded, but hares were comparatively scarce, there 
 being but few or none in the Island before they were 
 introduced by Sir E. Horsey, in the latter part of the 
 preceding century. The Undercliff swarmed with game 
 — partridges, pheasants, curlews, plovers, gulls, and 
 other wildfowl, and the creeks and woodlands of the 
 Island offered almost as many attractions to the 
 sportsman. Sir John Oglander states that his father. 
 
INTRODUCTION. XI. 
 
 with his man, often bagged forty couples of wildr 
 fowl in a night among the shallows and sedges 
 of Brading Harbour. Deer were not plentiful, except 
 in the parks of a few of the gentry, and some that ran 
 wild in Parkhurst Forest, which then extended from the 
 west bank of the Medina to the muddy shores of New- 
 town Creek. The forest nominally belonged to the 
 Captain of the Island, but was really a common pasture 
 ground for the horses and cattle of the whole country. 
 Hawking and coursing were the ordinary pastimes of 
 the knights and gentlemen. On holidays, bull baiting 
 was the recreation of the commonalty. On the feast 
 day of the Mayor of Newport, the Governor of the 
 Island always gave £5 to purchase a bull, which, after 
 being baited, was killed, and its flesh given to the poor. 
 The Mayor and Corporation, with mace bearer and con- 
 stables, attended at the baiting, and the first dog let 
 loose at the bull was decorated with ribbons, and called 
 the Mayor's dog. This sport was not confined to 
 Newport ; a massive bull-ring is still to be seen in the 
 main street of Brading. and no butcher was allowed to 
 kill a bull till it had been " lawfully baited." 
 
 Of the three boroughs of the Island, Newport, with a 
 population of less than 2000, was by far the most import- 
 ant. Early in the reign of James I. a charter of incorpora- 
 tion was granted to the town, substituting for the 
 
XU. INTRODUCTION. 
 
 bailiffs a Mayor, twenty-four burgesses, and a recorder. 
 This, however it might have increased the importance 
 of the town and its inhabitants, was not regarded with 
 favour by the Justices of the Island, as Newport was 
 thus rendered independent of their long established 
 jurisdiction. Sir J. Oglander, writing in 1631, says of 
 tliis matter : — " Before ye Mayoraltie wase (by ye grace 
 of my Lord of Sowthampton, and favor of fflemminge. 
 Lord Chefe Justice) obtayned, they had as Bradinge 
 hath, 2 Baylies, and ye Justices att large did all thinges, 
 license theye alehowses, etc. Itt had been happye for 
 them and ye countery to if itt had soe continued." Sir 
 John was not singular in his opinion, for eleven years 
 later Sir John Dingley, in a report of the state of the 
 Island which he drew up by order of the Earl of 
 Pembroke, says : — " Since the coming of King James, 
 there is a town in the Island (called Newport) made a 
 mare-town, which heretofore was only a Bayly town, 
 and then the livetenants and justices had the same 
 power there they had in the rest of the country, but 
 now they have gotten a charter to be a mare-town, and 
 have justices, a recorder, aldermen, &c., which the other 
 two mare-towns have not, as Yarmouth and Newtown ; 
 they will not be governed as those two mare-towns and 
 the rest of the Island are, which is very prejudicial! to 
 the country, and I wish it might be regulated." At this 
 
INTRODUCTION. XIU. 
 
 time Newtown had sunk to the size of a small hamlet, 
 Yarmouth was in a state of decadence, and surpassed 
 in size and importance by Cowes, the chief port of the 
 Island, and Eyde was but a straggling group of fisher- 
 men's huts. The boroughs of Newport, Newtown, and 
 Yarmouth returned two members each to Parliament, 
 and this recently restored privilege, procured for them 
 by Sir G. Carey in 1584, was accompanied by the claim 
 of the Captain of the Island for the time being to nomi- 
 nate at least one member for each borough as a matter 
 of prescriptive right. The burgesses of Newport, as a 
 mark of gratitude to the Captain, unanimously granted 
 him for hfe the power of nominating one of their mem- 
 bers. In 1601, Carey, then Lord Hunsdon, and Lord 
 Chamberlain to the Queen, in a dictatorial epistle from 
 London, ordered the burgesses of Newtown to elect two 
 members of his appointment, whose names even were 
 not submitted to them. To quote his own words ; — 
 "Whereas her Majestie is purposed to summon a Parlia- 
 ment, for the better service whereof you are to send 
 two burgesses to that Assemblie, there to attend until 
 that Court shall be dissolved ; these shall bee to desire 
 you, that inasmuch as I was the means and procurer of 
 the libertie for your Corporation, you will with all the 
 convenience you may, assemble yourselves together, and 
 with your united consent send up unto me (as hereto- 
 
XIV. INTKODUCTION. 
 
 fore you have done) your wrytt, with a blank, wherein 
 I may insert the names of such persons as I shall think 
 fittest to dis-^harge that deutie for your behoofe, whom 
 I shall take care shall likewise free you of whatsoever 
 shall be dewe by you for the place ; which I desire may 
 be done with all expedicion after your receipt of the 
 wrytt." But this state of things was not permanent, and 
 sometimes the burgesses refused to obey the mandate of 
 the Governor. In the time of Carey's successor, 
 Wriothesley, Earl of Southampton, the townsmen of 
 Yarmouth ventured to select a candidate for one of 
 their seats without consulting or informing the Governor, 
 who. freely expressed his surprise and indignation there- 
 at, and took effectual measures to maintain what he 
 considered to be his undoubted right. At the next 
 election, in 1614, the Earl nominated only one of the 
 members ; but his son made appUcation to the burgesses 
 to be returned for the second seat as a token of respect 
 to his father and favour to himself, and was returned 
 accordingly three times in succession, in 1614, 1620, and 
 1623. At the election of 1628, the burgesses of New- 
 port and Yarmouth declined to return the nominees of 
 Lord Conway (one of them being his son. Sir E. Conway, 
 who had been one of the representatives of Yarmouth in 
 the preceding ParUament of 1625), with which unusual 
 treatment his lordship was so disgusted — " That he 
 
INTRODUCTION. XV. 
 
 professed himselve noe frynd to ye Island in generoU, or 
 his liftennants in p'rticular." Sir J. Oglander further 
 remarks in his "Life of Lord Conway," "That whych 
 made him respectles of tliis Island wase,that he, wrygh- 
 tinge to us, and to Yarmouth, Nutowne, and Nuport 
 for ye Kinge's place at ye Parliament (whychevor they 
 did gratifie former Captaynes with 2 or 3 places), they 
 denied him, and woold not give him one, whych thinge 
 he tooke verie ill." The coolness of Lord Conway 
 toward his lieutenants, Sir E. Dennis and Sir J. Oglander, 
 may be accounted for by the fact that the recalcitrant 
 burgesses of Yarmouth elected them in the place of his 
 son. In the "Short Parliament", of 1640, William 
 Oglander, the son and successor of Sir John, was chosen 
 by the Corporation of Yarmouth as their representative. 
 He did not keep in good accord with the burgesses, and 
 considered himself little honoured by their choice. He 
 complained that they imposed on him duties beneath 
 his dignity to fulfil, and in remarkably plain language 
 asserted that they were "An illbred company of fools 
 and loggerheads," and that "A meaner man than him- 
 self might have served their turn." This, and more, 
 being uttered in the hearing of the wives of some of the 
 burgesses, they informed their husbands of the matter, 
 in spite of the entreaty of Oglander's serving man that 
 there " might be no words of what his young master had 
 
XVI. INTEODUCTION. 
 
 spoken." The Corporation could not endure this affront, 
 a meeting was convened to dehberate on the behaviour 
 of their representative, a protest against his language 
 was entered in their books, and he was unanimously 
 "dismissed and excluded" from his office, as "being 
 altogether unfit to be a burgess for the Parliament," and 
 John Bulkeley, Esq., was chosen in his place. This 
 gentleman represented Yarmouth for a very short time, 
 for after sitting only three weeks the Parliament was 
 dissolved, and in the Long Parliament, which met in the 
 following November, John Bulkeley and Sir John 
 Barrington sat for the borough of Newtown. 
 
 The defences and. military strength of the Island were 
 under the command of the Captain or his deputies, and 
 were far from inconsiderable. In the sixteenth century 
 the Island was divided into ten districts called 
 "Centons," each commanded by a "Centoner," who was 
 always a resident landholder, and who had under him 
 a lieutenant and from 150 to 200 men, with a number 
 of "hobblers" or watchmen, mounted on "hobbies" or 
 small horses ; who were perpetually on the alert, to give 
 warning of the approach of an enemy. Each centoner 
 exercised his company once a month at least; and another 
 of his duties was to see that the field gun of each parish 
 in his district was provided with ammunition and in 
 readiness for service. In the time of the alarm of the 
 
INTRODUCTION. XVU. 
 
 Spanish Armada, the local militia amounted to nearly 
 2000, and, in case of emergency, 3000 men in 
 addition could be supplied from the mainland. In 1625, 
 " A trewe noate of the strength of the Island " was 
 delivered to the Council by Sir John Oglander, from 
 which it appears that the local levies were divided into 
 eleven " bands," each commanded by a knight or 
 gentleman, exclusive of Newport band of 304 men; the 
 total amounting to over 2000 men, of whom more than 
 half were musketeers, and the rest pikemen. "Watches 
 and wards," with beacons ready for firing, were kept 
 on all the downs and headlands, and every point and 
 creek was jealously guarded. The watchmen, with 
 loaded muskets and lighted matches, were changed at 
 sunrise and sunset, and were visited by a " searcher " 
 twice during the day and three times by night. A 
 Lieutenant of the Military Company, of Norwich, who 
 visited the Island in 1635,^ was very favourably 
 impressed by the discipline and efficiency of the local 
 Militia, which he thus eulogistically describes : " This 
 fertile and pleasant Island, for her martial discipline, 
 I found her most bravely and prudently guided by the 
 government of two generous knights lieutenants, and 
 fourteen gentle and expert captains, most of them all 
 
 1 Relation of a Short Survey, &c., by a Lieutenant of the Military Company 
 at Norwich, August, 1635, Lansdovme MSS., SIS. 
 
 c 
 
XVlll. INTRODUCTION. 
 
 worthy knights and gentlemen, having pleasant situa- 
 tions in this isle; and having under their command 
 2000 foot soldiers, of ready exercise, and well dis- 
 ciplined trained men, most of them as expert in hand- 
 ling their arms as our artillery nurseries, which skill 
 they attain to by taking pleasure in that honourable 
 exercise, and training and drilling from their very 
 infancy. Every captain hath his proper field piece, 
 which marches and guards him into the field, where 
 they all often meet together and pitch an equal battle, 
 of 1000 on each side, with an equal distribution of the 
 captains, eight of each party, with the two lieutenants, 
 who are also captains, the East against the West Mede, 
 on St. George's Down, by the river that runs down to 
 Cowes Castle. A brave show there is, and brave ser- 
 vice performed. — They have besides in this Island arms 
 for 2000 more if need should require." 
 
 But it is time to turn to the author of the pages to 
 which these are but introductory, and to endeavour to 
 fill up as far as possible the outline of his own life 
 which he has left us. Sir John Oglander came of a 
 good old stock, and was justified in claiming for his 
 family an antiquity as remote as any in the Island. He 
 says of his ancestors: "They came in with ye conquest 
 out of Normandie, and receaveth name from ye appella- 
 tion of ye place in Normt^ndie from whence they came," 
 
INTKODUCTION. XIX. 
 
 This Statement of the worthy knight, with many others 
 relating to history and antiquities to be found among 
 his writings, is not quite correct. The original home 
 and birth-place of the Oglanders was the Chateau, or 
 Castle, of Orglandes, situated near Valognes, in the 
 department of La Manche, formerly a portion of the 
 province of Normandy. A branch of the family is still 
 flourishing in France, the head of which, with the title 
 of Marquis d'Orglandes, was a member of the Chamber 
 of Dej)uties in 1825. The family did not come in with 
 the Conquest, there is no mention of the name in the 
 Domesday survey of the Island, and at the time it was 
 taken Nunwell was held by the King. In the reign of 
 Henry I., an Oglander was seated at Nunwell, and the 
 manor has remained in the possession of the family till 
 the present day, in an uninterrupted descent of more 
 than 700 years. The founder of the Island branch was 
 probably a follower of Eichard de Eedvers, Earl of De- 
 von, and Lord of the Isle of Wight and of Christchurch, 
 Hants, who died about the end of the reign of Henry I. 
 In the reign of this King, Peter de Oglander was chap- 
 lain to Eichard de Eedvers, and by him was appointed 
 Dean of Christchurch. The family grew in importance. 
 In the reign of Henry III., Eobert Oglander married the 
 daughter of Sir Theobald Eussell, Kt., of Yaverland, 
 and thus allied himself to one of the most distinguished 
 
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XX. INTEODUCTION. 
 
 families of the Island. His successor, Henry, who died in 
 the third year of Edward H., married a daughter of Sir 
 John Glamorgan, of Brooke, and it appears by an inqui- 
 sition taken after his death, he held other lands besides 
 Nuuwell in the Island. The eldest son and successor 
 of Henry Oglander attended Edward III. in his wars 
 in France, and was rewarded with knighthood for his 
 services. The family intermarried with the first of the 
 Island gentry, and after several descents, in the early 
 part of the reign of Henry VIII., Oliver Oglander, great 
 grandfather of Sir John, occupied the post of Lieutenant 
 of the Island of Guernsey. Oliver's son, George, was a 
 Counsellor at Law and a Bencher of Lincoln's Inn, and 
 his son and successor, Wilham, knighted by King James, 
 was the father of Sir John Oglander, the historian of the 
 Isle of Wight in the seventeenth century. This Island 
 worthy has left, among his other writings, a sketch of 
 his own hfe, from his birth till about the year 1630 ; but 
 his narrative ends abruptly. From internal evidence it 
 was written before the premature death of his son 
 George, in 1632, as he makes no mention of this loss, 
 so pathetically bewailed by him in several parts of his 
 memoirs. Sir John seems never to have fully recovered 
 from the shock of this bereavement. Again and again 
 in his MSS., among trivial details hardly worth recording, 
 or matters of historic importance written years after- 
 
INTRODUCTION. XXI. 
 
 wards, one meets with sucli affecting entries as the 
 following: — "Wooldest thou know wheathor Sir John 
 Oglander had an eldor son then WilUam ? I resolve thee, 
 he had ; his name wase George, after his grandfathor 
 Moore's name, for his grandfathor. Sir William Oglander, 
 wase then dedd. And I tell thee he wase sutch a sonn 
 as ye Isle of Wyght nevor bredd ye lyke before, nor 
 evor will ye lyke agayne. Periendo. Perio." "0 George, 
 my sonn George, thou wast to good for mee, all partes 
 naturoU and artificoU did soe abound in thee that hadest 
 thou lived, thou hadst been an honnour to thy famely 
 and countery. But thou art dedd, and with thee all 
 my hopes. Vale, vale, vale, tempore sequor." Allowing 
 for the natural partiality of a parent, George Oglander 
 was undoubtedly a young man of the highest promise, 
 who, while on his travels, died near the cradle of his 
 race, at Caen, in July, 1632, aged 23 years. 
 
 In 1637, Sir John fiUed the office of Sheriff of Hamp- 
 shire, the year in which a majority of the judges decided 
 that the levying of ship money was legal in case of 
 danger to the Kingdom, and that the King was the sole 
 judge as to the existence of such danger. This tax, 
 being most unpopular and hateful to all classes, was 
 collected by the sheriffs in the face of no small obstruc- 
 tion and difficulty. Many towns would not pay without 
 actual distraint, and in some places the sheriffs' assistants 
 
XXU. INTRODUCTION. 
 
 executed their orders at the peril of their lives. The 
 County of Hants was no exception to the general rule, 
 but the resistance to the obtioxious impost was not so 
 determined as in many other parts of the Kingdom, and 
 Sir John was more successful in getting together the 
 sum of £6000, at which the shire had been assessed, 
 than many of his fellow sheriffs. Towards this amount, 
 Southampton was charged £195, Winchester £190 
 (afterwards reduced to £170), and Portsmouth and 
 Basingstoke £60 each. In a letter to Secretary Nicholas, 
 September, 1638,^ Sir John writes, that he had paid to 
 the , receiver, Sir William Eussell, all ship money due 
 from the county, and all from the corporations with 
 the exception of £68, of which Southampton owed £40, 
 Winchester £20, and Andover £8. As sheriff. Sir John 
 executed his duty with such thorough impartiality that 
 he threatened to distrain the goods of his old friend 
 Worsley, of Appuldur combe, in default of paying his 
 proportion of the offensive tax. In a letter written 
 March, 1637, he says: — ^"Mr. Woorseley, as you are a 
 gentleman whome I love and respect, soe I desior you 
 not to fforce mee to distrayne your goodes for his 
 Ma"^'^ shipmoneyes. I shoolde be very loft to doe itt 
 to anye, espetioUy to yourselve ; as ye moneys must 
 be payde to his Ma''°, soe there is littel reason yt I 
 
 1 state Papers, Domestic Series, 1634. 
 
INTRODUCTION. XXlll. 
 
 slioolde besydes my paynes and care paye itt out of my 
 owiie purse. Thus hopinge you will paye your rates 
 imposed upon you, I rest, your ffrynd to command, 
 Jno. Oglander, Vic." (Sheriff). 
 
 But far more stirring and perilous times were at hand. 
 Early in the year 1642, Jerome, Earl of Portland, 
 who had succeeded his father as Governor of the Island ; 
 being suspected of an inclination to popery, and known 
 to be strongly attached to the royal cause, was removed 
 from his post by the Parliament, in spite of a petition 
 in his favour, presented to the House by the inhabitants, 
 and the Earl of Pembroke was appointed in his place. 
 According to Clarendon, some of the charges against 
 Lord Portland were — " His acts of good fellowship, all 
 the waste of powder, and all the waste of wine in the 
 drinking of healths, and the acts of jollity whenever he 
 had been at his Government, from the first hour of his 
 entering upon it." These accusations were not without 
 foundation. The Earl was certainly " a good fellow," 
 and of a very jovial disposition, and with his roystering 
 associates gave great offence to the sober and puritani- 
 cal inhabitants of the Island by his disreputable beha- 
 viour. One day in August, 1639, the people of Newport 
 were scandalised by the sight of their worshipful 
 governor, with his boon companions — Hicks, Nicholas 
 Weston, and the dissolute Colonel Goring, Governor of 
 
XXIV. INTRODUCTION. 
 
 Portsmouth, marching in drunken revelry towards the 
 town gallows. At each health they drank they tore 
 each other's bands and raiment, till by the time they 
 reached their destination their clothes and shirts were 
 in tatters. Then Goring mounted the ladder, and, with 
 tipsy gravity, deUvered his last dying speech to the by- 
 standers, advising them all to take warning by his 
 unhappy end. It had been better for himself and his 
 fame if his wretched buffoonery had been stern reality. 
 On the breaking out of the Civil War, Sir John 
 exerted all his influence on the side of the King, with 
 results very disastrous to himself. The bulk of the 
 inhabitants of the Isle of Wight, the clergy and most 
 of the resident knights and gentry excepted, zealously 
 espoused the cause of the Parliament, and the Royalists 
 soon realised what it was to be regarded as "maliguants" 
 by the opposite party. Sir John was one of the earliest 
 sufferers. In consequence of some reflections or de- 
 monstrations that he indiscreetly made against the 
 popular side, attention was called to "the demeanour 
 and carriage of one Oglander in the Isle of Wight," in 
 the House oif Commons, March 22nd, 1643. Whatever 
 the outcome of this may have been. Sir John was 
 evidently a marked man, and soon felt the consequence 
 of his inadvertence. At this time Colonel Thos. Came 
 was Deputy Governor of the Island for the Parliament, 
 
INTRODUCTION. XXV. 
 
 under the Earl of Pembroke; and Sir Thomas Barrington, 
 M.P. for Newtown, was an active member of the commit- 
 tee for the safety of the Isle of Wight, which body held 
 its meetings in London. Colonel Carne was repeatedly 
 warned to look to the security of his charge, and ordered 
 to arrest or send all suspected persons out of the Island. 
 He was not slack in carrying out his instructions. On 
 June 22nd, 1643, he wrote from Carisbrooke Castle to 
 Sir T. Barrington in London : — i" I have sent up Sir J. 
 Oglander, and sufficient matter to keep liim awhile by 
 the leg, if you will do him but justice ; without it per- 
 adventure the place wiU be the better for his absence, and 
 
 some of the clergy (God wilUng) shall follow him. 
 
 I have seized on horses and mares which were sent to 
 the Island to be secured by malignants, and I under- 
 stand that more of good value are to come over. As 
 they come I will seize on them, though I have no war- 
 rant for it ; but I desire to have one with all speed, that 
 I may do it with authority upon known malignants." 
 Among the "sufficient matter" to keep Sir John "by the 
 leg" was the following, as recorded in the Mercurius 
 Aulicus for August 14th, 1643; but its intelligence 
 seems to ha\e come to hand some weeks after the event 
 took place: — "This day we received intelligence that 
 
 1 MSS. of G. A. Lowndes, Esq., of Barrington Hall, Essex. Historical 
 M8S. Commissimi, Seventh Beport, 1879. 
 
XXVI. INTRODUCTION. 
 
 Sir John Oglander being in the Isle of Wight, one, 
 who is a sufficient brother, said to him that the King's 
 ships were goodly ships. 'Yes,' said Sir John, 'but they 
 would be better if they were restored to their true 
 owner,' meaning his Majesty. The Eoundhead replied, 
 'Why, what would you gain if the King had them all?' 
 'No matter for gain,' said Sir John, 'I would I had given 
 £500 of my own purse, so as the ships were in the 
 right owner's possession.' ' And verily,' said the other, 
 ' it shall cost you £500, and so presently informed against 
 him, and caused him to be fetched to prison, where now 
 the good knight is kept close only for discovering a good 
 wish to his Majesty.'" Sir John was kept a prisoner in 
 London for many months, during which time his wife 
 died; and he was heavily fined before he recovered his 
 liberty. According to tradition, his house in the Island 
 was plundered by a party of Parliamentarians while he 
 was imprisoned. He was residing again at Nunwell in 
 1647, as in November of that year he was visited there 
 by the King, on the Thursday after his arrival at Caris- 
 brooke, the last visit ever made by the Monarch while 
 possessing the semblance of liberty. The trial and exe- 
 cution of the King, whom he knew so well, must have 
 been grievously felt by Sir John, who did not live to 
 welcome in the Eestoration. He died at Nunwell in 
 November, 1655, and was buried in the chapel belong- 
 
INTEODUCTION. XXVU. 
 
 ing to his family at the east end of the church at 
 Brading. There, on opposite altar tombs, are the re- 
 cumbent effigies of his father and himself in full armour, 
 and in a niche above his own figure is another on a re- 
 duced scale of his much lamented son, George ; all now 
 bright in their original colours, Ijdng beneath windows 
 glowing with their arms blazoned in the proper tinctures ; 
 the chapel and the whole church having been restored 
 by the pious care of the last baronet of his race, who 
 died in 1874. On the tomb of Sir John is a brass plate 
 with this inscription, probably written by himself: — 
 "Heere lyeth the body of Sir John Oglander, of Nun- 
 well, Knt., whoe was in his Ufetyme Governour of the 
 Garrison of Portsmouth, under Wm. Earle of Pem- 
 brooke, Lord High Steward of England. Hee was alsoe 
 Deputie Lieutennant of ye Isle of Wight, under Lord 
 Viscount Gonaway, and under ye Earle of Portland, 
 Lord Treasurer of England, and under Jerome, Earle 
 of Portland. Hee was a Justice of ye Peace and Coram, 
 at 22 years old. Hee marryed ffrances, ye youngest 
 daughter of Sir George Moore, of Loosely, in ye County 
 of Surrey, Knt. Shee departed this life in London, ye 
 12th of June, 1644, in ye 52nd yeare of her age ; and 
 hee departed this life at Nunwell, ye 28th of November, 
 1655, in ye 70th yeare of his age. 
 
 Sic transit gloria mundi." 
 
XXVlll. INTRODUCTION. 
 
 As to the authority of Sir John as a chronicler, there 
 can scarcely be two opinions. He was anything but 
 critical, recording what he had heard with very httle 
 discrimination, and he often accepted as truth a good 
 deal of rumour. His chronology is very defective, and 
 his statements of events which occurred before his time 
 will not always bear strict examination. For instance, 
 writing of Portsmouth, he says: "The bodye of that 
 woorthie souldior. Sir Francis Vere, sometime Gouernor 
 of Portesmouth, lyeth buryed att ye end of ye midle 
 chawncel in ye church of Portesmouth, theyre lyeth 
 his bodye, although he hath a fayre toombe in West- 
 minster." Sir Francis Vere at the time of his decease, 
 in August, 1609, was Governor of Portsmouth, but he was 
 certainly buried in Westminster Abbey. In the Abbey 
 Eegisters, edited by Colonel Chester, is this entry, which 
 settles the matter : " 1609, August 29th, Sir F. Vere in 
 St. John Evangehst's Chapel." As Sir John himself was 
 Deputy Governor of Portsmouth under Vere's succes- 
 sor, the Earl of Pembroke, only eleven years afterwards, 
 it is strange that he should not have been better in- 
 formed concerning so recent an event. In another 
 place he states: "It is an old tale continued by tradi- 
 tion that in ye arches in ye Keepe of Caresbrooke Castel, 
 one Sir Mordred, fiather of Bevis, of Sowthampton, 
 wase bwoyled to deth for a conspiracye to betraye this 
 
INTRODUCTION. XXIX. 
 
 Island." As his writings were produced at various 
 times, extending over many years, he often repeats him- 
 self, and sometimes gives two, or even three different 
 accounts of the same person or event, but these dis- 
 crepancies consist generally in more or less fulness of 
 detail, and do not greatly affect the main outline of his 
 relations. Of everything that came under his notice 
 personally, his account is thoroughly reliable, and his 
 details of contemporary matters and incidents may be 
 safely accepted as trustworthy. In the delineation of 
 traits of character or personal appearance, and in noting 
 the trivial minutite which constitute the chief charm of 
 biography, he need not fear a comparison with Aubrey. 
 Each was a lover of gossip, and recorded for the infor- 
 mation and amusement of posterity any particulars that 
 struck his fancy, whether trivial or important. In 
 writing of his contemporaries. Sir John expresses his 
 opinions very plainly, he never hesitates to express his dis- 
 likes, and as a good hater he would have won the approval 
 of Dr. Johnson. His accounts of the Gards, the Dillingtons, 
 the Worsleys, the Leighs, and others, are full of life-like 
 touches, and form a veritable portrait gallery of Island 
 worthies in the seventeenth century ; while his unique 
 notices of Lords Conway and Portland, Charles I., 
 and the Duke of Buckingham, are real contributions to 
 the History of England, Although an ardent Eoyalist^ 
 
XXX. INTEODUCTION. 
 
 Sir John was a thorough patriot, and a true lover of his 
 native isle. He was as determined an assertor and 
 supporter of the hberties of what he fondly calls " owre 
 Island," as Hampden was of the hberty of the kingdom 
 in his resistance to the levy of ship money. He spared 
 neither time nor trouble in his efforts to obtain money 
 "from the Council to put the forts of the Island in a state 
 to resist invasion, and to relieve his countrymen of the 
 incubus of the Scotch regiment billeted among them. 
 So strong was the indignation with which he regarded 
 this exercise of arbitrary power, " contrarye to ye lawe 
 and libertie of freemen," that he even advised his fellow 
 Islanders to prevent the occurrence of such another in- 
 stance of oppression by force, and at the hazard of their 
 lives, rather than to be again subjected to such " insup- 
 portable trouble and misery." 
 
 Sir John had the instincts of an antiquary, and de- 
 lighted in historical and archseological research. While 
 a very young man, at his first coming to live in the 
 Island, he visited and investigated to the best of his 
 ability the ruins of Quarr Abbey, seventy years after its 
 dissolution. He opened some of the ancient barrows 
 and examined their contents, though he seems scarcely 
 to have apprehended the importance and meaning of 
 his discoveries ; and he described the interiors and 
 existing monuments of the churches of the Island, 
 
INTRODUCTION. XXXI. 
 
 According to a memorandum in Latin among his papers, 
 he intended writing a complete history and topography 
 of his much loved isle, and biographies of all eminent 
 natives. 
 
 Such was Sir John Oglander, a man worthy of no 
 mean place in the gallery he has portrayed of his con- 
 temporaries ; if only for collecting and leaving behind 
 him such a mass of information, at once varied and 
 exact, of the state of the Isle of Wight and its inhabit- 
 ants during the reigns of the first and second Stuarts, 
 nowhere else to be found, and of authority unques- 
 tionable. 
 
The Editor thinks it advisable to state, that wherever he 
 met with more than one account of any subject or 
 event in the MS., he selected the ftdlest, and inserted 
 as far as possible in its proper place, generally 
 without the alteration or addition of a single word, 
 any additional fact or important variation that 
 he found elsewhere. From the very unmethodical 
 nature of the original entries, this gives in some 
 places an appearance of repetition and disconnec- 
 tion which is unavoidable. 
 
THE CAPTAYNES OF YE ISLAND. 
 
 October, 1626. — In Henry ye Seventh tyme ye Lorde 
 Woodvile, his wyfe's unkel, whoe went with 500 gentle- 
 men and ffermors of this He into Britanye, to assist the 
 Duke agaynst ye King of ffrance; where hee and ye 
 flowre of owre Island weare all slayne.^ In Henry VHI. 
 tyme, one Waddam,^ a Knt., whoe lyeth buryed in 
 Caresbrooke Church with his wyfe, whoe wase sistor to 
 Edward VI*"" mother. 
 
 Aftor him. Sir James Woorseley, beinge Henry VIIP^ 
 page, gott to marry Sir John Leygh his dawghtor, and 
 heyre of Apledorcombe, by whome Woorseley had all 
 or most of his landes in ye Island, and ye Captayneship 
 from his Maystor. 
 
 Aftor him, his sonn, Eychard Woorseley, whoe for 
 religion wase putt forth in Queue Marie's reygne, and 
 
 1 At the battle of St. Aubin, July SOth, 1488. 
 
 2 Sir Nicholas Wadham, who was buried at Ilminster, Somerset; his wife 
 Vaa a^nt to Jane Seymoirr, jnother of Edward VI. (see under Afington). 
 
 p2 
 
4 THE OGLANDEK MEMOIRS. 
 
 one Girlinge^ putt in his roome ; but in Queue Eliza- 
 beth's tyme he came in agayne, and for his honnor had 
 ye lettinge and gettinge of ye Queue's lands in the 
 Island (ye bane of owre countery, and ye sale in fee 
 fierme maye hereaftor remedye that mischiefe). 
 
 Sir Edward Horsey, aftor him, a brave sowldior, but 
 assuminge to mutch ; he died of ye plauge at Haseley, 
 where he soiurned with one Mistress Milles.^ 
 
 There was not a hare, or very fewe, in owre Island, 
 untill Sir Edward Horsey^ was Captayne of ye Island in 
 ye yeare 1574, at what tyme Sir Edward procured 
 manie from his fryndes to be browght in alive, and pro- 
 claymed that whoesoever woold bringe in a live hare 
 shoold haue a lamb for him. By his care the Island 
 was stored; wee had infinitie of connyes but not one 
 hare, and I wisch his successors may be as careful in 
 preservinge them as he wase in fyrst storinge. 
 
 Aftor him, Sir George Carye,* a man beyond all 
 
 1 In March, 1556, WiUiam Girlinge, Captain of the Island, and Richard 
 Uvedale, Captain of Yarmouth Castle, with others, were committed to the 
 Tower and Newgate, accused of a design to rob the Exchequer. The Dudleys, 
 the brothers Horsey (Edward and Francis), Sir P. Carew, J. Throckmorton, 
 and many others were implicated in the plot, which included a project to seize 
 upon the Isle of Wight. Some of the conspirators escaped to Prance, a few 
 were pardoned, but Throckmorton, Uvedale, and seven others were convicted 
 and executed in April, 1556. 
 
 2 See under Haseley and Arreton Church. 
 
 3 1565 to 1582. His monument, with recumbent effigy, is in Newport 
 Church. 
 
 4 1582 to 1603, In 1596 he succeeded his father as second Baron Hunsdon. 
 
THE OGL/UTOER MEMOIRS. 5 
 
 ambitions, whoe, if owre forefathors had not stoode 
 stiffly to itt, woold have browght us in subiection; hee 
 wase ye fyrst that assumed ye name of Gouenour, and 
 cawsed ye Lecturor soe to stile him; he bore himselfe 
 soe by reason his fathor wase Lorde Chamberlen; it^ 
 this mutch, he kept ye best hospitalitie at ye Castel as 
 evor wase or will be kept there, and lived there. 
 
 The Lorde of Sowthampton hexte, ye fyrste earle, 
 therefore not wilhnge to lose anie of his predecessors' 
 greatnesse, att his fyrst cominge he lived at ye Castel.^ 
 
 Next ye Lord Conway, who nevor it sawe ye Island, 
 but imployed his Liftennants, Sir Edward Dennis and 
 Sir John Oglander. 
 
 In the Lord Conway's tyme, wee fyrst cawsed ye 
 Lecturor and other preachors, in theyre prayers before 
 ye sermon, to leave off prayinge for ye Captayne of 
 owre Island by the name of Gouernour, for in my Lord 
 
 He married Elizabeth, daughter of Sir John Spencer, of Althorp, a lady as 
 high minded as her husband, for she regarded but three ladies in the Island 
 as suitable and fitting associates. These were — Sir J. Oglander's mother, 
 " Mistress Meux," wife of Sir John Meux, of Kingston, and " Mistress Hob- 
 son," a Chelsea lady, and wife of "Old Mr. Hobson," of Ningwood. The 
 Hobsons came into the Island about 1544 ; Thos. Hobson, Esq. , in that year 
 having exchanged the Manor of Marylebone, London, with the Crown, for the 
 Manors of Ningwood, Wellow, WUmingham, and Shalcombe, in the Isle of 
 Wight. Their residence was at Ningwood. 
 
 1 '"It" in Sir John's MS. always represents the adverb yet, and is still 
 used in that sense in the Island. 
 
 2 1603 to 1625. During the greater part of his Captaincy he lived at 
 Standen, near St. George's Down. 
 
b THE OGLANDER MEMOIRS. 
 
 of Hunsdon's tyme and ray Lord of Sowthampton's, ye 
 minister, to insinuate into theyre greator favor, woolde 
 stile so in theyre prayor, "Owre mooste woorthie 
 Captayne and Gouernour;' but that woorde, Gouernour, 
 wee have nowe cawsed to be cleane abohsched, if aftor 
 adges will soe keepe itt, for there is noe readier waye 
 to inthralle the Island then by makynge the Captayne 
 to greate, and above all thinges kepe Westminster and 
 Winchester Hall open for us, and lett him assume 
 nothinge to himselve but martioU disciplyne. 
 
 I can saye this mutch for ye Lord Conway, Vis- 
 count Killultagh, that there wase nevor bettor core- 
 spondence betwene this Island and the Captayne then 
 in his tyme, for as it hee nevor sawe itt or trobled 
 us ; and if there hath bene anie inthralment or infringe- 
 ment of libertie, uniust taxe, or imposition, it hath bene 
 Sir Edward Dennis' fawlte and mine, not liis, whom I 
 hope will be semper idem ; and as he hath doone us no 
 hurt, soe in owre fortifications he hath doone us little 
 good. Hee is a mere courtior, one that will promise 
 mutch and p'forme nothinge, and for that hated of all; 
 one that is ye Duke's creature, and becawse ye burges 
 townes refused to give him places An'o Dom. 1628, in 
 ye Parliament, as not letinge him have one, hee pro- 
 fessed himselve noe frynd to ye Island in generoU, or his 
 Liftennantes in p'ticular. 
 
THE OGLANDER MEMOIBS. 7 
 
 Of the gentlemen that lived An'o 1595, Mr. Eychards 
 hved and dyed a dissembler. Woorsley, of Aschey, 
 his many vayne tryckes argued an unsettled brayne. 
 
 Sir John Meux was of a homely behaviour, as nevor 
 havinge any breedinge or good naturales. Sir John 
 Leygh was an honest gentilman, active and handsome, 
 but no artist, nor overmutch beholdinge to Nature. 
 
 Dennis and Lislie, as in them art gave littel assistance 
 to Nature, so much of that they drowned by overmutch 
 drynckinge. For the reste littel can be sayde. Woors- 
 ley, of Apledorcombe, sate at helm, whose wisdome 
 wase suffitient for all ye reste. 
 
 , Unthriftes in my tyme. 
 
 Woorsley of Aschey, Cheeke of Motson, sold theyre 
 patrimonie, and left ye Island. Thomas Oheeke, a 
 lewde sonn of a discreete fatlior, sowlde Motson to Mr. 
 Dillington, 1623. The awncestor (as grandfather of 
 Fleminge, of Haseley) of Fleminge, sowlde wares by 
 retayle in Nuporte decimo Eliz., he bowght Haseley of 
 Milles. 
 
 On ye 3rd of December, 1629, Sir John Meux de- 
 parted this life ; he wase the veryest clown (of a gen- 
 tleman) that evor the Isle of Wight bredd. As he wase 
 destitute of learninge, soe of humanitie and civilhtie ; it 
 
8 THE OGLANDER MEMOIES. 
 
 although his clownisch humour, a good honest man. If 
 3'ou will see ye picture of liim, you may truly fynd it 
 in his sonn Bartholomews ;i moore of his lyfe I cannot 
 wryght, beinge of no greate woorth, only his sonn Bar- 
 tholomews woold report in ye mayneland that ther 
 wase non woorth ye havinge in ye Island for a howse- 
 keper but his father. 
 
 Sir John Meux wase the fyrst knyght of ye name 
 here in owre Island ; he had 2 sonns^ and 2 dawghtors. 
 Sir William, ye eldest sonn, marryed for his fyrst wyfe 
 ye dawghtor^ of Sir ffrancis Barrington. 
 
 Sir William Meux wase as well a quallified gentleman 
 as anie owre countery bredd; but of no spirite, for in 
 my presence, Sir Edward Dennis to mutch braved him. 
 
 The honest conceyt that I had to doo my countery 
 good browght mee most mallice and ill-will ; for Anno 
 1625 ye counsell wrought unto us to rate owre countery, 
 both how mania weare fitt to lend ye kinge mony on 
 privie scales, and how mutch ; which, if wee refused, ye 
 Shyre att lardge showld doo itt. Wee thinkynge herein 
 
 1 He married a daughter of William Gerard, Esq., of Harrow-on-the-Hill, 
 and from this maniage descended the present Sir Henry Meux, of Theobald's 
 Park, Herts. 
 
 2 William his heir, Bartholomew, Eleanor, and Mary. Sir John entered 
 his pedigree at the Visitation of Hants in 1622. 
 
 3 Winifred. The eldest son of this marriage, John, was created a Baronet, 
 December 11th, 1641. 
 
THE OGLANDER MEMOIRS. 9 
 
 to doo owre countery a pleasure, imagininge ye mayne 
 lands woold deale with us moore hardlie then wee owre- 
 selves, Sir Edward Dennies and myselve tooke upon us 
 ye busines, wherein although wee dealte fayrely and 
 honestlye it wee gayned mutch ill-will. Bee warned 
 by example not to medle with ungrateful p'sons. 
 
 The increasinge and inlardgement of owre Knyghton 
 Coorte,! ye choyse of ye Judgesand other ryghtes of that 
 Coorte, with ye pryviledge of the Island gentlemen not 
 to be mayde High Shryffe, and a supplie of £1500 for 
 owre ffortes and store for owre castells wase, by my 
 meanes and often solicitation to my Lorde Conway and 
 others, obtayned. 
 
 The manor of ye consecration of Yarmouth Church, 
 which wase p'formed by ye Bischop of Salisbury, Doctor 
 Davenett,^ on ye 11th of March, 1626, I beinge then 
 present, and a greate many gentlemen of owre Island. 
 Mr. Hyde, of Berkeshyre, beinge then Meyor, whoe 
 
 1 The Knighten Court, or Ouria Mililum, instituted in early Norman times, 
 was so called because the Judges were those who held a Knight's fee In capite 
 from the lord of the Island, and who heard causes and gave judgment without 
 a jury. The constitution of the Court was nearly the same as the " Sheriff's 
 Court " in other parts of the kingdom, but its functions are now superseded by 
 the County Court. 
 
 2 Dr. J. Davenant, Bishop of Salisbury, 1621, died in 1641, with a great 
 reputation for learning and piety. His exposition on the Epistle to the Colos- 
 sians is his best known work. At the time of his consecration of Yarmouth 
 Church, the see of Winchester was vacant, Bishop Andrewes dying in 1626, 
 and his successor, Neile, was not translated from Durham till 1627. 
 
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 kept an Inne, and there gave ye Biscliop and all us en- 
 tertaynement att a ordinarye. 
 
 The Maior of Yarmouth, together with ye gentlemen, 
 fyrst went to ye church, and stayed att ye west doore 
 untell ye Bischop came. 
 
 When ye Bischop came thethor, ye Maior made a 
 shorte speche unto him, telhnge him that upon theyre 
 petition to ye Archbischope's Grace of Oantorberry, he 
 wase pleased to graunt a commission to his Lordship in 
 ye vacancye of ye seae of Winchester, to authorise him 
 to consecrate theyre church, wliich he humbly intreated 
 liim accordingely to performe, and gave ye Bischop ye 
 petition and ye commission. Then ye Bischop, stand- 
 inge in ye midst of ye sayd west doore, redd ye towne's 
 petition and ye commission ; after puttinge all out of ye 
 church, standinge as before, he redd divors sentences owt 
 of ye Psalmes. Then he and his 2 chaplens went into 
 ye church, shutinge ye doores to them; aftor a shorte 
 tyme ye doores weare opened and wee all came in and 
 tooke owr places. Then ye Bischop, settinge in ye 
 ministor's seate under ye pulpett, reade a long sett 
 prayer for ye consecration thereof, which, being ended, 
 ye ordinarye ministor begann ye ordinarye prayer, 
 setting in ye geate oposite agaynst ye other; for his 
 lessons he wase appoynted to reade je 2nd of Cronicles, 
 cap. 6, and part of ye 10th of St. John, verse 22, and so 
 
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 forward. After ye readinge of ye lessons and letanye, 
 then ye Bischop stood up and reade a sette prayor, 
 besechinge God bothe to blesse the church and all 
 present and future service that showld be sayde there ; 
 to be alwayes present, and so effectualley to worke with 
 His Divine Grace that ye soules may also receve a 
 blessinge. Then ye minister went on with je ordinarye 
 prayor. Then one of the Bischope's chapleyns came 
 foorth and redd ye Epistoll, beinge ye Corinthions, ye 
 3rd cap., beginninge ye 1st verse. Then ye other 
 chapleyne came in his roome and redd ye Gospele, 
 beinge ye 2nd of John, beg'ng at ye 13th verse. Then 
 ye Bischop redd an other prayor for God's blessinge and 
 consecratinge ye church, and went up into ye pulpett 
 and tooke for his texte ye 1st of Kinges, cap. 9, verse 
 3rd. [Here Sir John gives a long analytical report of 
 the Bishop's sermon.^ 
 
 In ye afternoone ye churchyarde wase consecrated in 
 mannor and forme followinge : 
 
 The Bis. wente rounde about ye churchyarde, which 
 beinge ended, ye Bis. had a chayre brought unto him 
 undor ye midle colume of ye easte windowe, where he 
 settinge downe, myselve standing by his chayre, he redd 
 divors Prayors, besechinge God to sanctifie that place; 
 that as the corne, soe the bodies hereaftor to be sowen 
 in that grounde maye be ray son up at ye last daye. 
 
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 Then wee all went to church, where ye ministor sayd 
 prayors; ye fyrst lesoon wase Genesis ye 23rd, ye 
 second John ye 11th, and they sang ye 146th Psalme. 
 Then Doctor Davenett, ye Bischop's chapleyne, went into 
 ye pulpett, and tooke his text, Eomans ye 13th, verse 
 ye 14th. There wase a communion theyre, ye Bischop 
 administred itt, mj^selve and many moore remayned. 
 There wase olso a christening, the child of Petor 
 Courteneye, named William, the fyrst that evor wase 
 in that church cristened ; and Mr. Marvin Bourley, 
 eldest sonn of Captayne Bourley, was ye fyrst that wase 
 buryed there. 
 
 When I fyrst came to Portesmouth,^ I found there a 
 poore, lame, decrepite feUowe, one StocweU, a gounnor's 
 Sonne, but of a bowld spirit and an excellent witt. My 
 wife hauinge compassion on him took him into ye howse, 
 and made of him a kinde of jestor, and afterwardes he 
 woold passe jestes both on ye Kinge, my Lorde of 
 Buckinghame, and divors others. The Duke, one daye 
 ridinge his posthorses a stage to farr, and then loosinge 
 him and soe not payde, he told ye King that ye Duke 
 had cheated him, and he woold haue lawe for him. The 
 Kinge tolde him he gave his woord ye Duke shoold paye 
 him; he answered, " Paye your owne debtes fyrst, and 
 
 1 Sir Join waa Deputy Governor of Portsmouth, 1620 to 1624. 
 
THE OGLANDER MEMOIRS. 13 
 
 then I will take your woorde for others." The Duke 
 demaundynge of him what people sayde of him, he 
 answored that they prayed God to blesse Kinge Charles, 
 and ye divell to take ye Duke.i Whereupon ye Duke 
 tolde him he wase a ryght rouge; he replyed, "Noe, I 
 am a crooked rouge, but itt seemeth that vou are a 
 ryght rouge." 
 
 The Kinge comminge downe to Portesmouth before 
 ye Duke, asked him "What newes?" "What!" sayd 
 he, "They saye ye Duke is mutch bownd unto you for 
 comminge downe before to provide him lodginges. 
 (Cum m-ultis aliis.) 
 
 Abowte ye beginninge of Awgust, 1628, my Lorde 
 Mountioye,^ base sonn of ye late Lorde Mountioye, 
 
 1 March, 1627. Three fiddlers were brought before the Court of Star 
 Chamber for singing a song against the Duke of Buckingham. The burden 
 of it was — 
 
 "The clean contrary, 
 the clean contrary way, 
 Take him. Devil, take him." 
 
 They were sentenced to pay a fine of £500 each ; to be whipt and pilloried 
 in Cheapside, Ware, and Staines ; and as they sang "the clean contrary way" — 
 they were carried on horses from Westminster to Cheapside with their faces 
 towards the horses' tails. 
 
 2 Mountjoy Blount, created Baron Mountjoy, 1627, and Earl of Newport, 
 August 3rd, 1628. He took part in the expedition to the Isle of Rh6 in 1627, 
 and was there taken prisoner. The King of France generously sent all his 
 English prisoners without ransoms as a present to his sister, the Queen of Eng- 
 land, and told Mountjoy, who offered a good sum for his liberty, that he should 
 pay no money, but on his return to England he could send him two couple of 
 English hounds. The father of Blount was Sir Charles Blount, Lord Mount- 
 
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 Earl of Devonsliyre, on ye bodye of my Lorde Eyche's 
 wyfe, wase by ye Kinge created Earle of Nuporte in ye 
 Isle of Wyght. I myselve went unto liim abowt ye 17th 
 of ye same moonthe, and to be resolved asked of him 
 wheathor itt wase Nuport in owre Island, there beinge 
 moore Nuportes, and hee towld mee he wase bowlde 
 with owre favors to take that honnor upon him; he is 
 
 ye fyrst Earle that evor wee had in owre Island 
 
 What success this newe Earle may haue, who hathe ye 
 title, butt noe lande or place therein, aftor adges shall 
 see. This Earle of Nuport had bene made Earle of 
 Portesmouth if itt had not bene for a cripled foole that 
 I browght up theyre, when I lived att Portesmouth, that 
 assumed in derision that name. This cripled foole not 
 only hindored him from that honnor, but manie others 
 that woold have taken itt (all honnor in those dayes of 
 ye greate Duke being att sale). I in charitie browght 
 him up, and aftorwardes by repayre of ye Duke and 
 Lordes to Portesmouth, and theyre affectinge him, he 
 grewe to that bowldnesse as to foole them all. 
 
 joy, created Earl of Devonshire and K.G. in 1603, but better known as a suc- 
 cessful Lord Deputy of Ireland, under Queen Elizabeth; and the friend of the 
 unfortunate Earl of Essex. His mother was Penelope, sister of the Earl of 
 Essex, the " Stella " of Sir P. Sidney, who against her will became the wife of 
 Lord Rich, afterwards Earl of Warwick. Sir Charles was the father of several 
 of her children, and after her divorce from her husband, married her in De- 
 cember, 1605. At the death of the third Earl of Newport, without issue, in 
 1681, the title became extinct. 
 
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 October, 1626. Sir John Bourg/ my cosen germain, 
 and commandor in clieife in ye Eocliell voyge, before he 
 went he wase here with mee in ye Island. Sir Henry 
 Maynoweringe,2 that quondam famous pirate, my 
 wyfe's cosen germain wase then Surveyor of ye Navie, 
 and wase olso then here with ine. One for land, ye 
 other for seae, had not many equals. 
 
 1627. Sir John Eourogh's bodye, my cosen germain 
 and noble frynd, wase brought to Portesmouth for 
 funerall ryghts ye fyrst of October, 1627, to ye generoU 
 sorrowe of all trewe harted subjects, espetially of his 
 kyndred. He was slayne in ye lie of Eez. 
 
 1 Sir John Burgh, or Burroughs, cousin germau to Sir J. Oglander, was son 
 of Sir John Burgh, Co. Lincoln, who married the second daughter of Anthony 
 Dillington, of Knighton, I.W. He was born in 1571, and gained his first 
 military experience ia the Netherlands and under Count Mansfeldt. He was 
 knighted by King James I. in 1623, served as Colonel in Wimbledon's Expe- 
 dition to Cadiz, 1625, and in the following year was granted £200 per anmim 
 for life. He was second in command under Buckingham in the Isle of Rh^, 
 1627. " Sir John Burrows was slain viewing the works, and with him died 
 all our hopes of good success." (Sir Rich. Grenville's Journal of the Expe- 
 dition). He was honourably interred at the cost of Charles I. in Westminster 
 Abbey, — "near the tomb of Sir Francis Vere, whose pupU he had been in the 
 art of war"— October 26th, 1627. 
 
 2 Captain (afterwards Sir Henry) Mainwaring was the son of Sir Geo. 
 Mainwaring, Kt., of Ighfield, Shropshire, by Anne, daughter of Sir William 
 More, of Loseley, Surrey. In 1611 he was appointed Captain of St. Andrew's 
 Castle, Hants; but soon growing dissatisfied with his lot, and longing for a 
 more adventurous life, he threw up his command, and put to sea in the 
 bark Nightingale, with the license of the Lord Admiral, under the pretext of 
 making a voyage to Guiana. His first intention was to plunder the Spaniards 
 beyond the line, but he no sooner reached the Straits of Gibraltar, than he gave 
 full vent to hispredatory inclinations. Lying off Cape Spartel he captured every 
 
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 1627. My hop garden wase ye fyrst in ye Island 
 
 Spanish vessel he could master, with now and then a Frenchman orDunkirker; 
 but he always respected the flag of his country. He overhauled a bark from 
 Lubeok entering a Spanish port, and after rifling the cargo, dismissed the crew 
 in peace. A Galway merchant on board claimed the cargo as his, and in proof 
 of his assertion pointed out that the goods were consigned to an English factor 
 for sale. Mainwaring anchored off the port, sent for the factor to come on 
 board, and finding the statement of the merchant true, restored at once the 
 whole of his plunder. When unable to keep the sea, or in need of a refit, 
 he was always sure of a welcome with his prizes in the ports of the Emperor of 
 Morocco. In 1616 he was in the Channel, and at Dover agreed to purchase a 
 ship with her ordnance, belonging to Joachim Wardeman, of Lubeck, for £200; 
 but not being used to this slow way of dealing, or perhaps not having the 
 money, he seized the ship without payment. Wardeman complained to the 
 King, who ordered the ship to be restored; and Mainwaring's crew being 
 " stayed " when on shore, he found his occupation, if not gone, growing ex- 
 ceedingly perilous, so he sought for and purchased a pardon, which was granted 
 him in 1617. Mainwaring rapidly rose in favour; he was knighted in March, 
 1618, and in 1620 was appointed Lieutenant of Dover Castle by Lord Zouch, 
 Warden of the Cinque Ports; by whose order his crew had been "stayed" 
 a few years before. Some time after, on receiving the Spanish Ambassador at 
 Dover, he was pleasantly told by that dignitary ' ' that he would excuse him 
 12 crowns out of the million he owed the Spaniards, if he would pay the rest." 
 Though holding a responsible post under Government, he did not adapt his 
 manners to his station, but still acted like an improvident roystering bucca- 
 neer ; always ready for a carouse or brawl, not over scrupulous in his transac- 
 tions, and preferring to hear the chimes at midnight anywhere but within 
 the walls of Dover Castle. This could not last; complaints arose, and in 
 March, 1623, Lord Zouch wrote to him from Bramshill, that in consequence of 
 his conduct in frequent absences from the Castle, at Canterbury, and else- 
 where, sleeping in the town at night, brawling and fighting in the street, and 
 disorderly life generally, he requested him to resign his appointment. He 
 proceeded to say that he wished to part fairly and quietly with him, but if 
 he made any objection, he should be obliged to take some other course. 
 Sir Henry attempted to defend his conduct, and tried hard to keep his place, 
 the loss of which, he said, " would be ten times worse than if he had never 
 enjoyed it." Finding that the Warden was determined to be rid of him, he 
 applied to Secretary Conway for a Captain's place in a King's ship; which 
 resulted in the Secretary writing to Lord Zouch, requesting that Mainwaring 
 might go as Captain with the Earl of Rutland in the ship which was about 
 
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 that wase made accordinge to arte. I browght 2 men 
 
 sailing for Spain to bring home Prince Charles and the Infanta, with the 
 chance of resuming his office on his return. The Warden replied that he 
 would have rejoiced at the preferment of his Lieutenant, but for his dis- 
 pleasure at his cunning practices, that he had already sent him a friendly dis- 
 missal, and that he only held his place on condition of surrendering it when 
 required to do so. But rather than Mainwaring should be placed as a curb 
 upon him, he would resign his own office, and retire into private life him- 
 self. Sir Henry received his appointment as Captain under the Earl of Rut- 
 land in the Prince Royal, which ship, with others for the voyage to Spain, being 
 fitting out at Portsmouth, he proceeded thither, and in the absence of the Earl 
 acted as Superintendent of the fleet. All possible expedition was required, 
 and the Superintendent was equal to the demands of the occasion. In a 
 letter to Rutland he says he had got things in strict order, had put his cox- 
 swain in the bilboes for being drunk; and a man who stole a jerkin was, by 
 his command, ducked at the yard-arm, and then towed ashore at the stern 
 of a boat and dismissed. In August, 1623, while the ships were lying at 
 Portsmouth, James I. , who had been staying at Beaulieu in the New Forest 
 for some days, paid an unexpected visit to the fleet, and dined on board the 
 Prince Royal, where in the absence of the Earl of Rutland, Sir Henry probably 
 received the King. On the return voyage from Spain, he succeeded in gaining 
 the favourable notice of Prince Charles, who shortly after his return in No- 
 vember, 1623, wrote to Lord Zouch, requesting him to reinstate Mainwaring 
 as his Lieutenant at Dover. Zouch, in his reply to Secretary Nicholas, stated 
 that rather than restore the place to Mainwaring, he would go to execution, or 
 submit to any punishment. Mainwaring succeeded in persuading the Prince 
 that he had been hardly treated and wronged by Lord Zouch, but Lord Car- 
 lisle said it was injurious to believe the assertions of such a man against " an 
 ancient baron, grave counsellor, and religious, well-deserving gentleman." 
 By the direction of the Warden, a paper containing the reasons for the dis- 
 missal of Sir Henry was presented to the Council, with a statement signed by 
 the Clerk of Dover Castle, the Sergeant of the Admiralty Records there, and 
 others, declaring that during Mainwaring's lieutenancy, he was often absent 
 fromtheCastle, so thatwarrantscould not be signed, nor oaths administered; that 
 to remedy this he would sign blank warrants, and leave them with the Clerk to 
 fiU up as he pleased; and that by running into debt and keeping low company, 
 he degraded his office. That he had endeavoured to get possession of £8,000 
 or £9,000 which was in the charge of the Sergeant of the Admiralty, but not 
 succeeding, he vainly persuaded the Sergeant to cheat the merchants who were 
 the owners, by tearing the bags and mixing all the money together, so that 
 
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18 THE OGLANDER MEMOIRS. 
 
 from Farnam to plant myne, and I haue had in itt 
 
 none of the owners should know their own. These representations settled the 
 matter, Sir Henry was never replaced, and soon afterwards Sir John Hippisley 
 was appointed Lieutenant of Dover Castle. Exasperated by his dismissal and 
 the loss of his emoluments, Mainwaring in March, 1624, opposed the election of 
 Zouoh's nominees for Dover, Sir R.Young and Sir E. Cecil, and succeeded in de- 
 priving them of their seats, as not being elected according to law. In the same 
 year. Lord Zouch being old and infirm; on consideration of £1,000 ready money, 
 and £500 per year for life, resigned his patent as Lord Warden of the Cinque 
 Ports to the Lord Admiral, Buckingham; with a special proviso that the Clerk 
 of Dover Castle and the Sergeant of the Admiralty should retain their places ; 
 and that the Duke should not admit Sir H. Mainwaring to any office in the 
 ports, on account of his labouring for the disgrace of Lord Zouch, both in 
 Court and in Parliament, and threatening revenge on the poor men who testi- 
 fied to his misdemeanours. This arrangement does not seem to have much 
 affected his interest at Court, as in 1626 he was appointed one of the special Com- 
 missioners for inquiring into the state of the Navy; and in 16,37 he was one of 
 the Captains selected by the King for service under Sir .John Pennington. He 
 was an unsuccessful candidate for the Surveyorship of the Navy in 1639; but 
 in the same year sailed as Vice- Admiral to Sir J. Pennington in the Rainbow 
 for Scotland, and took on board at Berwick and Newcastle a number of 
 Scottish prisoners, whom he conveyed to London, but shortly after their 
 arrival they were all set at liberty. In the Civil War Sir Henry supported 
 the Royal cause, and was with Lord Hopton in Cornwall; and in 1647 he 
 with other impecunious Cavaliers was at Jersey with the young Prince Charles, 
 afterwards Charles II. When the Prince left Jersey for France, Mainwaring 
 still remained there, then being an old man between 70 and 80 years of age. 
 Here, in his leisure hours, he entertained the simple-minded chronicler of the 
 Island, Jean Chevalier, with the most astounding recitals of his adventures 
 and heroic feats in his freebooting days; how the Emperor of Morocco and him- 
 self were on such familiar terms, that they always addressed each other as 
 "brother;" that on one occasion being attacked by a superior force, after ex- 
 pending all his shot, he loaded his guns with pieces of eight, and repulsed the 
 enemy; and finally, that he rescued Charles I. when Prince of Wales in Spain 
 from the Spaniards, and at the same time beguiled several Spanish Grandees 
 aboard his ship, and brought them captives to England, to his own and the 
 King's advantage. Sir Henry in his old age must have been a garrulous and 
 agreeable companion, who knew well how to spin ' ' a sailor's yam. " After 
 this we hear no more of him, and he probably died before the Restoration in 
 1660. — (Mostly from State Papers, Domestic Series, 1610 to 1640, passim; and 
 Chevalier's Journal. ) 
 
THE OGLANDER MEMOIKS. 19 
 
 lOOOlbs. of hoppes in a yere, beinge not full an aker of 
 grownd. 
 
 1627. Owre harvest, by reason of ye coldness of ye 
 summor, and ye greate fall of rayne in August and 
 September, wase not inned till Michaelmasse, and soome 
 long aftor ; mutch barlie wase spoyled, and almost all ye 
 ffatches. 
 
 • The seae haue infinitely eaton upon owre Island, 
 witnesse Sandam Castell. I haue spoken with divors 
 that haue played att bowles on firme grownd betwene 
 ye seae and ye Castell ; manie trees weare standinge 
 there, whose rootes I myselve haue sene, and manie 
 others. As it is an honnor for owre Island to haue 
 neythor ffoxe or Papist in it,^ soe it is an imputation or 
 taxe that is layed on itt, nevor or seldome to be guilltie 
 of bredinge a hansom woman or horse. Tempora 
 mutant. I can saye tliat noe part of Englande the 
 quantitie considered hathe produced moore exquiscite in 
 eythor species then this Island. 
 
 1 "' The Isle of Wight hath no monks, lawyers, or foxes.' This speech 
 hath more mirth than truth in it. That they had monks I know, black ones 
 at Carisbrook, white ones at Quarre. That they have lawyers they know 
 when they pay them their fees. " — (Fuller's Worthies, "Hampshire.") "The 
 inhabitants of this Island be wont to boast merely, that they neyther had 
 amongst them monks, lawiers, wolfes, nor foxes; yet I find them all save one 
 in one monasterie called Quarre, valued at £134 of yearly revenue." — (Lam- 
 bard, Topographical Dicty., under " Wight.") 
 
 e2 
 
20 THE OGLANDER MEMOIRS. 
 
 I knewe when there wase not above 3 or 4 howses at 
 Cows, and I was and am p'swaded that if owre warres 
 and troobles had not unfortunately hapened, it woold 
 haue growen as famous as Nuport. For itt wase by 
 all ye Easteron partes of ye wordle mutch aproved as a 
 place fitt for them to vittel, and to make a randevouz, 
 where I haue sene 300 shipes at an ancor. And if ye 
 countery had but soe mutch discreation as to make good 
 use of that harbor, as fyrst to haue an honest man to 
 be Captayne there, to bwyld storehowses, to haue by a 
 joynte stocke a magazen of all provisions, to deale with 
 ye Dutch, and to haue that theyre randevouz, and to 
 victell there, they neede noe other markett or meanes 
 to make ye Island hapie and fortunate. 
 
 1627. The Isle of Wyglit, since my memorie, is 
 infinitely decayed, for eythor itt is by reason of soe 
 manie Attourneys that hathe of late made this theyr 
 habitation, and soe by swytes ondone ye countery, for 
 I have knowen one Attourneye bringe downe aftor 
 term« 300 wrytes ; I have olso knowen 20 nisi prius of 
 owre counterye tryed at an assise ; when as inyeQueene's 
 tyme wee had not 6 wrytes in a yeare, nor one nisi 
 prius in 6 years ; or else wantinge ye good bargaynes 
 they weare woont to bwye from men of warre, who olso 
 vented all owre commodities att verie high pryces, and 
 readie monye wase easie to be hadd for all thinges. Now 
 
THE OGLANJDEE MEMOIRS. 21 
 
 peace and lawe hath beggared us all, soe that within 
 my memorie manie of ye gentlemen and almost all ye 
 Yeomandrie ar undon. 
 
 Gosson, Ayres, and Eedman weare three Attourneys, 
 who with theyre stirringe up of swytes betwene ye 
 ffermors and Yeomandrie, they utterlye undon ye whole 
 communalitie. 
 
 1627. Owre Hygh Constables nevor apeared att ye 
 Assises, beinge exempted for theyre daylie attendance 
 at hoome ; and wee nevor payde anythinge to ye gaole 
 till 1624, and we gott a privie seale to exempte us from 
 ye Shryffealte. 
 
 I haue herd itt by tradition and partlye know itt to 
 be true, that not onlye heretofore there wase no la^wyer 
 nor attournye in owre Island ; but in Sir George Carey's 
 tyme an Attournye comminge to settle in ye Island, 
 wase by his commaunde, with a pownd of candels 
 lyghted hanginge att his breeche, with belles abowt his 
 legges, hunted owt of ye Island: insomutch as owre 
 awncestors lived here soe quietly and securehe, beinge 
 neythor troobled to London nor Winchester, soe they 
 seldome or nevor went owt of ye Island, insomutch as 
 when they went to London (thinkynge itt a East India 
 voiage) they alwaies made theyre willes; supposinge 
 
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 noe trooble lyke to travayle. How thinges are since 
 altored tymes present doe manifest e. 
 
 1627. Itt wase one of ye beste thinges for ye 
 Islanders ye sellinge of ye Kinge's landes in fee fferme 
 witliin owre Island. Itt hath mutch abated ye greatnes 
 of ye Captayne, and was hindored by ye Earle of 
 Sowthampton^ what he coold ; but he goinge a Colonell 
 in ye Lowe Countery, in his absense itt wase graunted. 
 My Lorde of Holdernesse begged Appse and Wroxall, 
 and sowlde it to Mr. Baskett; and my Lorde of 
 Anglesey^ begged Buckham, Thorley, and Ugden, and 
 sowlde one to Knowles and the other to Streapor and 
 March. I myght liaue dealte in anie of them for my 
 owne, butt I findinge ye Parliament wase mutch discon- 
 tented with ye sale of soe mutch of ye Kinge's landes, 
 or ye givinge awaie soe mutch of ye Crowne lande, 
 and tawlked of makinge an act of resumption, or revo- 
 cation, I forebore ; and owt of that meanes lost manie a 
 good bargayne. For Mr. Eedman, an Attournye, bowght 
 of ye Duke of Buckingham, Thorneys and Bordwood 
 fforest, for soe mutch as ye wood on them wase woorth. 
 
 1 Captain of the Island 1603 — 1625. He died in the Netherlands at 
 Bergen-op-Zoom. 
 
 2 Christopher ViUiers, youngest brother of George VUliers, Duke of Buck- 
 ingham, created Earl of Anglesey 1623. He died 1630, and on the decease of 
 his son without issue in 1659, the title became extinct. 
 
THE OGLANDER MEMOIRS. 23 
 
 1627. I haue knowen at oure Ordinarie at Nuport, 
 of Islanders 12 knyghtes and as many gentlemen, and 
 nowe scarce any. Tempora mutant. 
 
 When this Island wase fortunate and inioyed ye com- 
 panie of Sir Edward Horsey, my Lord Hunsdon, or my 
 Lord of Sowthampton, then it flowrished with gentlemen. 
 I have sene with my Lord of Sowthampton on St. 
 George's Downe at Bowles, from 30 to 40 knyghtes and 
 gentlemen, where owre meetinge wase then twyse every 
 weeke, Tuesdayes and Thursdayes, and wee had an 
 ordinarie theyre, and cardes, and tables. Mutamur. 
 The gentlemen which lived in ye Island in ye 7th yere 
 of Kinge James his reygne, all lived well, and weare 
 moste commonly at owre ordinarie, viz., Sir Eobert 
 Dyllington, Sir EychardWorseley, Sir Thomas Flemminge 
 (Lord Chefe Justice of England), Sir Thomas Flemminge 
 his soun (his grandfathor sowld small wares in Nuport), 
 Sir Eychard White^ (he maryed Sir Ey chard Worseley's 
 mother). Sir John Meux,^ Sir John Leygh, Sir William 
 Lisle, Sir Bowyer Worsely of Aschey, who sowld all to 
 Thos. Cotelle, Esq., Sir John Eychards, Sir J. Dingley,^ 
 Sir John Oglander, Sir Edward Dennis, owld Mr. 
 Eychards, owld Mr. Bowreman,^ Mr. Barnabye Leygh, 
 Mr. Cheeke of Motson, whose sonn sowld all ; Mr.Dylhng- 
 
 1 "A follower of the Earl of Southampton." 3 Of Wolverton. 
 
 2 Of Kingston. 4 Of Brooke. 
 
24 THE OGLANDEK MEMOIRS. 
 
 ton, who will bwye all, Mi-. Bowreman, Mr. Cheeke of 
 Merston, Mr. Lislie of Briddlesford (went to dawghtors), 
 Mr. Barnabye Colnet of Pann, his sonn sowld all ; Mr. 
 German Eychards,i Mr.Wayght,Mr.Earlsmanof Calbron, 
 Mr. William White, Mr. Eichard Baskett,^ Mr. Eyce of 
 Bangborne, Mr. Leygh of Bradinge, Mr. Hobson,^ fathor 
 and sonn, Mr. Urrye of Thorley, nowe Gatcombe, Mr. 
 Philip Flemminge of Comeley, Mr. John Worseley of 
 Gatcombe, Mr. John Harvey of Avington, Mr. Emanuel 
 Badd (Hygh ShryiFe, 1627), a brewer; Mr. John Leygh, 
 sonn of Mr. Barnabye, since knyghted. Fermors, Mr. 
 Urrey of Awghton, Mr. E. Knyght of Landguard, 
 Streapor,^Legge,^ Fitchett,Shambler,^Wavell,^ Lovinge,^ 
 Sampson, Champion. ^ 
 
 1627. May 30. On Wensday in ye aftornoone, one 
 Grangor, Captayne of a small man of warre belonginge 
 to Mr. James of Portesmouth, beinge on ye Sowthsyde 
 of ye Island, spyed a fleete of HoUandors of 22 sayle, 
 
 1 Of Yaverland. 2 Of Apse. 3 Of Ningwood. 4 Of Hale. 
 
 5 Of Stenbury; the estate belonging to the Worsley family. John Worsley 
 of Appulduroombe, who died 1580, appointed William Legge of Stenbury one 
 of his executors, and by his will left him a legacy of £4 and £3 yearly, 
 during the minority of his heir, for his good advice and aid. 6 Of Arreton. 
 
 7 In the north aisle of Arreton Church ia a brass plate in memory of David 
 Wavell, 1629. 
 
 8 Of Langbridge, in the parish of Newchurch. On a stone near the south 
 porch of Northwood Church, which has probably been removed from some other 
 place, is : " Heare lyeth the bodye of Thomas Loving, marchant, the sone of 
 Edward Loving, and was buryed the 18th of July, An'o D'ni, 1625." 
 
 9 Of Carisbrooke. 
 
THE OGLANDEB MEMOIES. 25 
 
 wherof one Sir Larrance EeuU wase Admirall ; he 
 presentlye tooke them for Spaniardes, and came into 
 ye Island and sent intelligence by letter to Sir Edward 
 Dennis that he had espyed a fleete of Spaniardes att 
 seae, (ye coppie of which lettor is in my boxe) ; wher- 
 upon Sir Edward sent ye verie lettor to Portesmouth; 
 whethor when itt came a Wensday by 4 of ye clocke, 
 ye Towne rose all in arraes, and aprehended as mutch 
 feare as if an inemy had bene att ye gates. Hygham, 
 Maystor Gunnor, hasted awaye a poste with this intel- 
 ligence to my Lorde Stuarde, which came to ye Coun- 
 sell and to my Lorde Ducke's knowledge by 2 ye 
 same nyght; hee presentlye commaunded dovpne all ye 
 CoUonels to theyre chardges; hether came Brett and 
 Sprye by Fridaye noone, ye Ducke himselve posted to 
 ye Downes, vowinge he woold not staye, butt woold 
 fyght with them with those shipes that wears then 
 readie. On Sattordaie morninge foUowinge by 7 in 
 ye morninge came ye Ducke downe with 22 sayle into 
 Stoakes Baye (on a smaler inteUgence and falce never 
 followed a busines of greator consequence), for all 
 London and most of England had a fielinge of itt, and 
 possesed with feare or armes. My Lorde of Killultagh 
 (Conway) rode downe post to us (whose letter is lykewyse 
 in my studye). Although all preceded from nothinge, it 
 ye effectes myght be made useful, bothe to use moore 
 
26 THE OGLANDEE MEMOIRS. 
 
 celeritie in owre action, and moore vigilancie and 
 bettor inteligence from fforayne states, soe that no- 
 thinge myght hapen unexpected or unknowen. Ye 
 Kinge himselve toold me that ye Maior of Portesmouth 
 certifyed him by poste of 60 sayles of Spanisch shipes 
 that weare makinge for Portesmouth, which wase ye 
 cause hee soe hasted awaie my Lorde Ducke of Buck- 
 ingame. When ye newes wase of ye comminge of ye 
 Spanische fleete, ye Ducke comminge to take his leave of 
 ye Queene, towld her nowe he wase goinge agaynst ye 
 Spauiardes he hoped shee woold wisch him good 
 fortune; — her rephe wase not onhe agaynst ye Spaui- 
 ardes, but olso agaynst all ye Kinges inemyes shee 
 woold both wische and pray for his good fortune.^ 
 
 1 A veritable scare, which thoroughly alarmed London and the Southern 
 Coast. — "On Wednesday at six in the evening, came a post to Court from 
 Portsmouth without letter for haste, but as eye-witness of a fleet discovered 
 near the Isle of Wight of about 70 sail of ships. At eight the same evening 
 came a second post thence with letters of confirmation thereof, and that there 
 were great ships double decked. And yesterday morning at six came the third 
 post, with the like news. This sight hath put the country thereabout in great 
 fear. And the Duke hereupon at n ine yesterday morning (though his Grace 
 on Monday was ill and took a vomit) took post from Lambeth towards Dover, 
 there to take order for the safety of that castle, and that the King's navy, 
 which now lies most in the Downs, may do what may be against this fleet if 
 it prove Spanish." — "An alarm from Portsmouth of a Spanish fleet made my 
 Lord Duke take post the same day towards the Downs, to embark himself the 
 next morning in the ships that were already there for the expedition of the 
 fleet to the number of 23 or 24 ; with the which, having an exceeding good 
 wind, he made after the pretended Spaniards, whom he found to be Ham- 
 burghers and Hollanders together, laden with salt; so as without any further 
 exploit His Grace took land again at Portsmouth, and came back to the Court 
 
THE OGLANDER. MEMOIRS. 27 
 
 1627. For my parte, I thinke ye chardge that by 
 Sir George Gary wase bestowed on Caresbrooke Castel 
 wase to no purpose, and I shoold be loft on any 
 occasion to mewe myselve up there. If that chardge 
 had beene bestowed upon iFreschwater Gate, itt myght 
 have made itt both invincible and a brave receptacle 
 for us, and owre cattel, if att any tyme wee should be 
 beaton at ye landinge. I am now indeavouringe in 
 these daungerous tymes to see weathor I cann willinglie 
 and voluntarilie rayse a 100 horse in owre Island, 
 beinge ye beste thinge for owre defence; they to con- 
 tinue no longer then wee have wars with ffrance, and to 
 turjie all owre fildpeces into Drakes ; what good service 
 we doe must be done at ye landinge. 
 
 The names of those that we desior may find light 
 
 horses : 
 
 St. Hellens. Jno. Fitchett 1 
 
 Mr. Badd 1 Wm. Streapor 1 
 
 Thos. Woolferey 1 John Nuland 1 
 
 — The Personage 1 
 
 ^ Bradinge Haven 1 
 
 Bradinge. ■]^2 
 
 Sir Edward Dennis 2 zt , , • — 
 
 Sir John Oglander 2 GodshiU. 
 
 The Ladie Rychardes 1 The Ladie Worseley 1 
 
 Mr. Knyght 1 Mr. Eyce 1 
 
 Thos. Knyght 1 Petor Gard 1 
 
 on Saturday night. " (Letters of Mead and Beaulieu to Sir Thos. Puckering, in 
 "Court and Times of Chas. /," Vol I.) 
 
28 
 
 mH OGLANDEK MEMOIRS. 
 
 Rychard Coleman 
 Mr. Legge 
 The Personage 
 
 Nyghton. 
 
 Nicholas Numan 
 Matthewe Arnole 
 John Horden 
 
 Nuchurch. 
 
 Mr. Dyllington 
 Mr. Baskett 
 Mr. Cuttele 
 The Personage 
 Mr. Lovinge 
 Wroxall Ferme 
 
 Wotton. 
 
 Sir Wm. Lislie 
 Mr. Thos. Lislie 
 
 Mr. Nicholas Searle 
 Mr. Kent 
 Mr. Goter 
 Widdowe Kawlins 
 
 Arreton. 
 
 Mr. Cheeke 
 Mr. Shambler 
 Arreton Ferme 
 The Personage 
 Comeley 
 Haseley 
 David Wavill 
 Rafe Reddon 
 Robert Holebrooke 
 James Mellisch 
 Edward Herbert 
 David Budden 
 Thos. Reddon 
 
 Careshrook. 
 
 Mr. Champion 
 Mr. Earlsman 
 Mr. Jene 
 
 1 
 1 
 1 
 1 
 
 12 
 
 1 
 1 
 1 
 1 
 1 
 1 
 1 
 1 
 1 
 1 
 1 
 1 
 1 
 
 13 
 
 Nuport. 
 
 Mr. Beale 
 
 Mr. March 
 
 Mr. Swalterton 
 
 Mr. Broad 
 
 Mr. Ayres 
 
 Mr. Edward Leygh 
 
 Mr. Adams 
 
 Mr. Wm. Searle 
 
 Shalfelet. 
 
 Mr. Hobson 1 
 
 The Ferme 1 
 
 The Personage 1 
 
 Hezechias Legge 1 
 
THE OGLANDER MEMOIRS. 29 
 
 Chale. Shorwell. 
 
 The Ferme 1 gir John Dinglie 1 
 
 Wm. Numan 1 Mr. Leygh 1 
 
 The Personage 1 
 
 1627. Sir Alexander Brettes^ and Sir Henry Spries^ 
 to Eegimentes came unto us abowght ye 6th of May, 
 1627, and staied with us untel ye 21st and 24th of June 
 foUowinge. Wee att fyrst thought owre Island coold not 
 have vittualed them, but wee found noe want of pro- 
 visions, and seeinge we weare well payde for theyre 
 borde coold have bene content on ye same conditions to 
 
 1 Son of James Brett, Esq. , of Hoby, Leicester, by Ann Beaumont, sister 
 of Mary, Countess of Buckingham, mother of the Duke. He was slain in the 
 Isle of Eh(5, 1627. 
 
 2 A brave soldier, who died soon after his return from the Isle of Rh^ 
 expedition. A contemporary letter says — "Sir Henry Spry, one of the com- 
 manders of the Isle of Rh^, since his return is dead. His lady being much 
 joyed at his coming home, but seeing him dejected, and not to answer her with 
 like gratulation, asked him how he did; to whom he answered — 'Though I 
 am returned safe, yet my heart is broken,'— expressing great sorrow and com- 
 passion for those commanders who were slain in his sight, and as his modesty 
 made him say, all far superior unto himself ; and thus died within a day after. " 
 (Meade to Sir S. StutevUle, Dec. 15, 1627. ) Sir H. Spry's regiment came into the 
 Island about May 27th. It was the intention of the Government to have 
 quartered about 3000 men in the Island, as its position prevented their deser- 
 tion ; but through the representations of Sir J. Oglander and Sir E. Dennis to 
 the Council, that the Island was entirely exhausted by supplying Brett's regi- 
 ment, and that if 2000 men in addition were billetted on them, all, with 
 themselves, would live in miserable scarcity, if not perish from want ; only 
 Sir H. Spry's regiment was sent over from Southampton. (S.P. Dom. , May 25, 
 1627.) From Sir John's own account, it appears that things turned out better 
 than be anticipated. 
 
30 THE OGLANDER MEMOIRS. 
 
 have kept them longer; it at ye first wee made a re- 
 straynt of all provisions to be exported owt of owre 
 Island, ye greatest want wee found wase want of con- 
 venient lodginges. 
 
 There wase bilited in ye Isle of Wyght, ye 10th of 
 May, 1627, 1000 sowldiors, beinge Sir Alex. Brettes 
 Eegiment. I wase often with Sir Edward Dennis at ye 
 Counsell boorde to procure owre libertie and fredom 
 from soe troubelsom a bourthen, but Brett being cosen 
 germain to ye Duke, wee coold not prevayle, but 
 departed with promises booth of money for them that 
 they myght be no chardge, and olso of a sudden 
 departure. Brett, ye CoUonel, and Sir Thomas Tliorne 
 the Liftenant, weare with theyr Companyes bilited in 
 Nuport, where if they had money, all ye reste showlde 
 haue been there olso. Sergeant Maior Fryor^ att Mr. 
 Kingswelles, his Companye att Casebrook and Buckam; 
 Captayne fFennelthorpe with mee, he beinge my ac- 
 quayntance, his Companye in Bradinge ; Brett^ att 
 Mr. Eyce's, his Companye at Godshill; Eychardes at 
 Knyghton, his Companye at Nuchurch; Babington att 
 Mr. Erlesman's, his Company at Caleborn; Moldes- 
 woorth at Mr. Cheke's, his companye in Arreton ; Gilpin 
 
 1 Afterwards Sir Thos. Fryer. Buckingham was speaking to him when 
 he was stabbed by Felton at Portsmouth. 
 
 2 Taken prisoner in the Isle of Eh^. He was afterwards Deputy-Gover- 
 nor of Portsmouth under Lord Wimbledon. 
 
THE OGLANDER MEMOIRS. 81 
 
 at Brook, himselve at Mr. Booreman's ; Preston^ at Mr. 
 Hobson's, his Companye att Yarmouth. 
 
 1627. The 1st of June by his Ma*'^^ Commission 
 there went owt of Stoake's Baye 2 of ye Kinge's shipes 
 and 8 other (ye 2 Captaynes of ye Kinges wase Best 
 and Weddal) to goe to Haber de Grace, and theyre to 
 take, bringe awaye, spoyl, or burne as many shipes as 
 they cowld find. This wase ye fyrst hostil breache by 
 Commisson p'formed betweens firance and us, the succes 
 of those Warres, although those shipes did nothinge, it 
 the continuance thereof will cause us Islanders to 
 mourne in sackclothe and asches, and to repente itt 
 with ye losse of owre goodes, if not lives. Deus 
 avertat. 
 
 I wase ye fyrst in ye Island that aftor ye Eochell 
 voyge provided a howse for my children in ye mayne, 
 and sent them thethor. 
 
 1627. Kinge Charles came to owre Island ye 20th 
 of June, 1627, beinge Wensday, he came ashore att 
 Eide, where onlie myselve wase to attend him. He 
 wase landed by 9 in ye morninge, sooner than ye gen- 
 tlemen expected; wee had not notice of itt butt ye 
 night before, it I took sutch order that my coatch wase 
 there, and soome 40 horses. I wayghted on him from 
 
 1 Slain in the Isle of Rh^. Mr. Hobson's house was at Ningwood. 
 
32 THE OGLANDER MEMOIRS. 
 
 Eide to Arreton Downe, and wase his gwide on ye 
 Downe. He saw Sir Alex. Brette's Eegiment trayne, 
 whych wase ye motive that browght him over. I had 
 ye honor to kiss his Mat'°^ hand, beinge presented unto 
 him by ye Lorde Chamberlen, and att his goinge awaye 
 agayne which wase abowght 3. All ye gentlemen with 
 myselve had ye lyke honor. The Companye that came 
 with him wase — The Duke,i the Earles of Mongom- 
 mery,2 Suffolke,^ Eutland, Holland,'* Northampton,^ and 
 Sowthampton ; Lordes — ye Lordes St. John,^ Compton,'' 
 Selinger,^ President of Mounster, Young Villers,^ Vi- 
 count Somersett,!" Jermain,iiTerrett,i2 Sir John Finnet,i^ 
 
 1 Buckingham. 
 
 2 Philip Herbert, Lord Chamberlain to Chas. I., who in 1630 succeeded his 
 brother as Earl of Pembroke. 
 
 3 TheophUus Howard, K. G. , Captain of the Band of Gentlemen Pensioners, 
 and subsequently Lord Warden of the Cinque Ports. 
 
 4 Henry Rich, first Earl Holland, beheaded 1649. 
 
 5 William Compton, created Earl of Northampton 1618. 
 
 6 Oliver St. John, oldest son of the first Earl of Bolingbroke, summoned 
 to Parliament by writ in the lifetime of his father. 
 
 7 Spencer Compton, son of the Earl of Northampton, summoned to Parlia- 
 in his father's lifetime by the title of Lord Compton. He was killed at the 
 battle of Hopton Heath, 1643. 
 
 8 Sir William St. Leger, Lord President of Munster, 1627. His grandson 
 was created Viscount Doneraile 1703. 9 Christopher Villiers, Earl of Anglesea. 
 
 10 Thomas Somerset, third son of the Earl of Worcester, created Viscount 
 Somerset 1627. He died unmarried in 1651, when the title became extinct. 
 
 11 Sir Thomas Jermyn, Treasurer to the Household. His son Henry was 
 created Baron Jermyn in 1643, and in 1660 Earl of St. Albans. 
 
 12 Sir Edward Tyrwhitt, of Stainfield, County Lincoln. His son and succes- 
 sor, Sir Philip, suffered much for his attachment to the royal cause in the Civil 
 Wars. 
 
 13 Sir John Finett, Master of the Ceremonies to James I. and Charles I. , and 
 author of "Finetti Philoxenis," published 1656: a work chiefly on precedence 
 and court etiquette. 
 
THE OGLANDEIi MEMOIRS. 33 
 
 Sir Henry Mayiioweringe, Sir Eobert Dennie, Sir Eobert 
 Carr. His Ma''° neytlior eate nor dranke in owre Island. 
 On owre complaynt unto him he promised wee shoould 
 haue Sandam Castell repayred (which I showed afarr 
 of unto him, together witla ye consequenses thereof), a 
 fforte at St. Hellens, munition for owre countery, and 10 
 or 20 shipes of his to be still resident in Portesmouth 
 Harbour; to mutch and to happie wee if p'formed. I 
 tawlked unto him of manie thinges between ye Downe 
 and Eide; and amongst other thinges his Ma"° sayed 
 that ye Maior of Portesmouth sent him worde (on 
 Granger's alaram) that there weare 60 Spanische shipes 
 makinge for ye Island ; when Granger's letter mentioned 
 butt 28 ; hee towld us hee wondered when wee knewe 
 ye alaram to be false that wee sent him not worde of 
 itt. I told him wee knewe not that ye Maior of Portes- 
 mouth had soe indiscreetely certifyed his M"""' or anie 
 ocasion given to minister sutch a certifycate. His M*"' 
 knyghted in ye ffylde — Sir Henry Sprie's Liftenant 
 Collonel, one Tolekerne, and Sir Alex. Brette's Serieant 
 Maior, one Thomas Fryer, a goode stout gentleman. 
 Itt wase att ye Duke's request. Owre companye met 
 not theyre by reason of ye sudden and shorte warninge. 
 My Lorde Conway himselve came not,i but sent his 
 excuse, and left ye bourthen on us. 
 
 I Conway, in a letter to Nicholas, June 19, says that the King — regard- 
 
34 THE OGLANDER MEMOIRS. 
 
 My Lorde Vicount Conway came into owre Island ye 
 14th of September, 1627, hauinge bene Captayne thereof 
 bettor than 2 yeres before, and had nevor seene itt, but 
 commaunded itt by Sir Edward Dennis and Sir John 
 Oglander; and his cominge then wase thouglit to bee 
 by ye commaund of his M**'*- He landed at Gournard, 
 where all ye gentlemen met him, and browght him 
 to ye Castell. When he came too Nuport, I cawsed 
 Elgor ye schoolemaystor to provyde an oration, which 
 wase mayde unto him att je schoolemaystor's doore 
 by Keelinge, one of ye schoUers; then ye Maior 
 mett him with his Bretheren with tender of wyne and 
 cakes. Cominge neare ye Castell, ye companye of Bwoyes 
 mett him and skirmished before him, and allyghtinge 
 ye ordnaunce saluted him. There came with him only 
 Sir Francis Onslowe, and Sir Thos. Jarvis, one of his 
 Debuties in ye mayne. On Moiidaye cominge to viewe 
 Sandham and St. Hellens, hee, with all ye gentlemen of 
 ye Island, dined att my howse. On Wensdaye morn- 
 inge wee had a generoU mowster, and he dined that 
 daye att my Ladye Woorseley's. Thursdaye hee went 
 and sawe ffreschwater and Yarmouth, hauinge sent pro- 
 visions to Thorlie hee dined there. This wase all his 
 
 ing the state of Conway's health, which " by an extraordinary motion might 
 be greatly hazarded " — had dispensed with his attending him to the Isle of 
 Wight ; and that he was advised by his physicians to yetiirn to Ijondon. 
 r-S,P., Dom.,16S7, 
 
THE OGLANDEB MEMOIRS. 35 
 
 journies, and on ye 19th from Blackedge^ he went owt 
 of owre Island. Concerninge his p'son, hee was olde, 
 unwildie, and verie sickly; neythor fitt for ye employe- 
 ment or commaund. Certaynely hee had bene a braue 
 fellowe, as nowe a courtier ; hee had excelent gwyftes of 
 nature, but noe arte ; spoke verie well, with manie good 
 woordes and complimentes ; affable and courteous to all ; 
 with manie lardge promises to divors in theyre p'ticu- 
 lars, as olso moste espetiollie for ye state and publicke 
 good of ye' Island in generoU ; of which promises wee 
 tooke holde and made use of, shewinge him, and by 
 wryghtinge, givinge him a trewe noate and viewe of all 
 owre wantes and defectes. Now wee are to expect his 
 woorth by his willingnes (if not abilitie) and forwardnes 
 bo the for his owne honor and owre safe tie. 
 
 On ye 18th of September, 1627, theye came in att 
 St. Hellens 3 Dutcli^ shipes from ye East India, ritchly 
 
 1 Blackedge, a place not far from West Cowes, near what is now called 
 Egypt. 
 
 2 "At the suit of the 'East India merchants — the King hath stayed at Ports- 
 mouth three great ships of the Dutch company, that were coming richly laden 
 out of the East, to do himself and the English company that right and satis- 
 faction which he could not get by fair means of the Hollanders' hands, for the 
 murder of Amboyna, and divers other wrongs which they have received from 
 them and by them in those parts. — The States Ambassador doth much bestir 
 himself about the business, and some think he will get the ships released." 
 (Beaulieu to Puckering, Sept. 26, 1627.) Against the wish of the English East 
 India Company, the three ships after a detention of several months were re- 
 leased, to prevent war with the Dutch, which consequence, being already 
 engaged in hostilities with France and Spain, the King was anxious to avoid. 
 
 f2 
 
36 THE OGLANDER MEMOIRS. 
 
 laden; owre State hauinge intelligence of itt cawsed 
 them to bee by some of his M^'"^ ships arested, for ye 
 losse and murther by them comitted on owre Englische 
 att Amboynain ye East India; satisfaction beinge divors 
 tymes promised. What ye event will be God knoweth, 
 but I am sure if my Lorde Conway had not bene att ye 
 same tyme in ye Island, there had beene a bloudie 
 fyght. 
 
 1627. Wee had a Scotch Eegyment under ye Earle 
 Morton that was biUetted in owre Island ; they came in 
 September. 1627; they weare goinge to ye Isle of Ehez, 
 but ye Duke's return unfortunatley hindered theyre 
 intentions ; therfore on good premeditation for ye safe 
 kepinge of them (being all volonteyers, that countery 
 allowinge no others), they weare heare bilitted.^ A 
 prowde, begerlye nation, and I hope wee shall nevor be 
 trobled with ye lyke; espetiollie ye red shankes, or 
 ye Heylandors, beinge as barbarous in nayture as theyr 
 cloathes; but in 2 respects I thinke itt bettor wee had 
 them, for by them wee had ye sooner paye ; and if wee 
 had had ye retourned Englisch, we shoold likewyse haue 
 
 1 In February, 1628, fourteen ministers of the Island, with the concur- 
 rence of Sir E. Dennis, petitioned Conway for exemption from having soldiers 
 billeted on them, except in time of actual danger ; as freedom from billeting 
 was an immunity enjoyed by all ministers in the land, except those in the Isle 
 of Wight. Conway acknowledged the reasonableness of their request, and 
 sent the petition to the Commissioners for billeting soldiers in the Island. 
 —S.P., Dom., 
 
THE OGLANDER MEMOIRS. 37 
 
 had ye infectious disease wherewith they corrupted 
 all places wheare they came. 
 
 Ye greatest error that evor owre Island comitted 
 wase ye admittinge of ye Scottish Eegyment to bee 
 bihtted amongst us ; for my owne parte I wase then att 
 London, solictynge ye Counsell to free us of them; of 
 ye inconveniences that followed — murthers, rapes, rob- 
 bereys, bourglaryes, gettinge of bastardes, and almoost 
 ye undoinge of ye whole Island.^ A people insolent by 
 reason of theyre unanimous holdings togeather, and ye 
 weaknesse of theyre commaundors, as beinge moost un- 
 experienced sowldiors; and farthoringe all thinges on a 
 
 1 This description of the disorders committed in the Island by the Scotch 
 regiment is not overdrawn. In the begining of April, 1628, Conway wrote to 
 the Earl of Morton that the grievances suffered in the Isle of Wight, through 
 the insolence of the soldiers billeted there, were " so frequent, foul, and insup- 
 portable, as redress must either be had, or the Island be utterly spoiled. " 
 A few days after, Conway sent to his deputy-lieutenants a commission of Oyer 
 and Terminer, to enable them to proceed in a legal manner against the soldiers 
 who committed offences in the Island, and to inflict due punishment. The 
 lieutenants were always to be ready with a sufficient number of soldiers to see 
 justice executed ; but if the soldiers could not be relied on in such cases, they 
 were to certify the same to him. In the month of June, 1628, the son of 
 James Hall, of Bembridge, was slain by a soldier of Sir W. Carr's company, 
 stationed at Yaverland. On the 16th of the same month, Mr. R. Dillington, 
 of Knighton, wrote to Conway, stating that this was the second murder 
 committed by the soldiers in the Island ; and that all endeavours to apprehend 
 the murderer were useless, as he was concealed by his comrades. The officers 
 also would not allow the justices to punish crimes committed by their men ; 
 and the soldiers themselves threatened to inflict more injuries and outrages on 
 the inhabitants on their departure. It shows the state of terror existing in 
 the Island, by Dillington, in the conclusion of his letter, begging Conway not 
 to disclose who sent him this information, lest it might bring upon the writer 
 some great danger. — S.P., Dom., 16ZS. 
 
38 THE OGLANDER MEMOIRS. 
 
 nationale raunkle; insomutcli as noone daringe to apre- 
 hend ye malefactors, they became fearful to owre coun- 
 terymen. Butt of themselves, I speake of ye meanor 
 sorte of them; a base, poorespirited, cowardlie people; 
 but for ye bettor sorte of them, braue gentlemen. They 
 lefte behinde them olso as I tooke notice of them att 
 leaste 70 bastardes that weare knowen, besydes others 
 not knowen. For prevention of ye lyke, or anie in this 
 kinde hereaftor, I woold wisch my counterymen evor 
 hereaftor, seeinge ye bilettinge of sowldiors is contrarye 
 to ye lawe, and hbertie of freemen, nevor to suffor 
 anye moore att anye tyme to come into ye Island ; but 
 raythor with ye dawnger of theyre lives to hinder them 
 att ye landinge. 
 
 1628. Aug. 14. Owre Island beinge miserabily 
 oppresed with ye Scotch Eeg™*' all ye gentlemen re- 
 solved to petition his M*"'' (he being then att Sowthwick). 
 They commaunded me to drawe up ye petition, and olso 
 they did me ye honor as to delivor itt to his M'*''^- 
 Wee went fyrst to my Lorde Conway, not doubtinge of 
 his beste furthorence, consideringe wee came both for 
 and in ye generalitie, and weare resolved to delivor 
 owre petition. He accordinglie used us respectfuUye, 
 browght us to ye King, of whom wee had manye 
 gratious woordes, and he gave us all his hande to kisse, 
 and tolde us when he had tawlked with ye Duke (with- 
 
THE OGLANDER MEMOIRS. 39 
 
 out whom nothinge coold be effected) wee should haue 
 what money coold be spared; and injoyned us to thanke 
 ye whoole Island in his name, bothe for theyre longe 
 pacience and theyre to well usuage of ye Scottes, 
 with manie gratious woordes. Wee still attended till 
 ye Duke's cominge, but in ye interim ye Lorde Conway 
 invited us all to dinner with him to Mr. Ployden's, 
 where he laye. Att ye Duke's cominge, whych wase 
 abowght 5 att nyght, I informed him what wee had 
 done, togeathor with his Ma"®'^ ansor, showinge him 
 owre greate necessityes, and implorynge his Grace's 
 favor; he olso gave us manye goode woords and fayre 
 promises, but what ye end will be — God knoweth. 
 
 Ye gentlemen that went to Sowthwicke: Sir William 
 Lislie, Sir Bevis Thelwel, Sir Wilham Meux, Sir Edward 
 Dennis, Sir John Oglander, Mr. Dyllington, Mr. Bowre- 
 man, Mr. Barnabas Leygh. 
 
 Nevor entertayn moor sowldiors into youre Island, 
 beinge a thinge you maye refuse, and an unsupportable 
 troble and miserye, espetiollie ye Scotchmen, for I 
 maye trulye say, since ye Danes beinge here, theyre 
 nevor wase a greator miserye hapened unto us then ye 
 bilitinge of those Lordedanes. 
 
 1628. Upon ye fyrst of Sept., 1628, his Ma*'" came 
 into owre Island, pourposely to see ye Scotch Eegyment, 
 
40 THE OGLANDBR MEMOmS. 
 
 as he had done ye summer before for Sir Alex. Brettes. 
 I had no notice of his cominge till 11 of ye clocke ye 
 nyght before he came, at what tyme my Lorde Conway 
 sent mee 2 letters, and ye gentleman of his horse and 
 one other, togeathor with ye Surveyours of ye Kinge's 
 stables ; thereupon I did ye best I cowld, and I tooke 
 orders for horses, and gott soome 100 horses bo the for 
 his servantes, lordes, and followers. He landed at 
 Eide, wheathor my wyfFe went to see him, where he 
 saluted her and her dawghtors; and from thence to 
 Arreton Down, where in truth ye Scotchmen did verye 
 well. I there mooved his Ma*''' for paye for they re 
 bilettinge, and for ye fortifyinge of owre Island; hee 
 tooke mee by the hand, and helde mee a long tyme 
 rydinge togeathor, sayinge — he wase bownd unto us all 
 for owre paticence, and well usuage of ye Scotchmen, 
 and commaunded mee to thanke ye whole Island in his 
 name; and promised he woold take spetiol care for 
 money for us, and to that ende he woold tawlke with 
 my Lorde Threasuror, and wee shoold haue moneyes ; 
 and for owre Island ; when thease his greate busyneses 
 weare a httle passed over, he woold haue an eye and 
 regard to owre Island, and he intreated my assistance 
 for boates for ye conveyance of ye Eegyment aboorde. 
 All beinge doone, I wayghted on him backe agayne to 
 Eide ; when by reason ye tyde wase owt, divors of his 
 
THE OGLANDEE MEMOIRS. 41 
 
 Lordes coold not goe with him; namely — my Lorde 
 Threasuror, Stuarde, Moorton, Somerset, and manye 
 others. I wayghted on them till ye tyde came, and ye 
 meane tyme before Wilkinson's doore I procured them 
 a table, stooles, and cardes, where my Lorde Threa- 
 suror, ^ Stuarde, and Sir Eobert Vane,^ ye Coferor, went 
 to 12d. Gleke;^ soe ended my troble with that daye. 
 Ye Kinge, on Arreton Downe, Knyghted Mr. John 
 Leygh, at ye swyte of ye Chauncellor of Scotland, att 
 whose father's house. Sir George Hayes his sonn, had 
 bene bilited, and kindly treated olso. He then Knyghted 
 Mr. Stuard, ye Serieant Maior of ye Eegyment ; olso att 
 his goinge over att Eide, att ye furthest poynt of ye 
 lande att lowe water marke, he Knyghted an olde 
 frynd of myne, Mr. Langewoorth, a Captayne and 
 younger brother, whoe has all his fortune before him. 
 
 1628. On ye 3rd of September,* wee weare freed 
 from owre Egiption thraldome, or lyke Spayne from 
 
 1 Bichard Lord Weston of Neyland, created Earl of Portland 1633. 
 
 2 Sir Henry, not Robert Vane. 
 
 3 A game somewhat resembling whist, but much more the modern Ameri- 
 can poker. Bishop Hall, in his Horse Vacivae, 1646, says — "Gleeke requires a 
 vigilant memory." 
 
 4 The regiment sailed Sept. 8, in the last and utterly fruitless expedition 
 for the relief of Bochelle, under the command of the Earl of Lindsay ; 
 Mountjoy Blount, Earl of Newport, being Bear Admiral, and second in com- 
 mand. Roohelle surrendered to the King of France, Oct. 28. The ships em- 
 ployed in the expedition on their return were scattered by a storm, and arrived 
 in England in a very distressed and demoralised condition, Nov., 1628. 
 
42 THE OGLANDBR MEMOIRS. 
 
 theyre Moores, for since ye Danische slauerie never 
 weare these Islanders see epressed. The Isle of Wyght 
 had bene forced to entertayne ye Scettes att theyre 
 cominge from Eochel, if by my payues and travel botlie 
 often att ye Cowncell table, and to ye Cownsellors in 
 p'ticular (I beinge then in London), had not prevented 
 itt. 
 
 1628. Aug. 23. The great Duke of Buckingame 
 was slayne by one John Ffelton (who sometyme before 
 had bin a Liftennant) in ye howse att Portesmouth of 
 one Captayne Mason, ^ where ye sayd Duke with his 
 Dutches and sistor Denbye laye. He wase slayne by a 
 stroake of a knyfe in ye lefte pappe, abowght 9 in ye 
 morninge, ye partie affirminge ye fact, and that he did 
 itt to rid ye commonwealthe of a mounster, and to free 
 his countery from tliat miserye that he sawe itt wase 
 like to fall into by his misgovernment. He receaved 
 his deathe woound cominge owt of ye parlor to goe into 
 ye haU, his horse beinge att ye doore readie for him to 
 goe to ye Coorte (then att Sowthwike);^ he lived not 
 above half an liower.^ I wase with him ye Wensdaye 
 
 1 Paymaster to the forces. The house has been partly pulled down, and 
 retains but little of its original features. 
 
 2 About six miles from Portsmouth, and then the seat of Sir Daniel Norton. 
 
 3 By the accounts of eye-witnesses, he fell and died almost immediately, 
 though Sir Simonds D'Ewes says he struggled for a quarter of an hour. 
 
THE OGLANDEU MEMOIES. 43 
 
 before (this fact wase done on ye Sattordaye) for 
 moneyes for owre biletors whoe had biUted ye Scotch 
 Eegyment; and he gave me fayre woordes and gratious 
 promises. He wase bownd for ye reahvinge of Eochel, 
 and had 120 shipes then readie, with 4000 land sowl- 
 diors att Portesmouth ; and had he lived he had certenely 
 gone foorth within 10 days aftor. ffelton came to 
 Portesmouth butt that morninge with a full resolution 
 to murther him, and to that pourpose he had often 
 prayed for abilitie and oportunitie to effect itt. Ye 
 Duke when he wase stabed, wase salutinge of Sir Thos. 
 Fryor; whoe stoopinge lowe to salute ye Duke, ffelton 
 gaue the blowe over Fryor 's showlder. Ye Duke 
 uttored noe moore woordes but "Zwoundes Villayne," 
 and himselve pluckinge owt je knyfe presentlj^e went 3 
 steppes, thinkynge to have killed him with that knyfe, 
 butt faynted, and dyed within halfe an hower. His 
 Ma*'^ beinge then att Sowthwike had presentlye notice 
 of itt, who took itt verie heavely; ye Kinge wase at 
 prayors when Charles Pryce came bowldly to him and 
 tolde him ye Duke wase killed ; he sayd nothinge, butt 
 went on with ye prayors, butt after prayors went into 
 his chawmber and came not owt in 2 dayes. His 
 Dutches not only swounded often, but if shee had not 
 bene prevented shee had throwen herselve over ye galery 
 at Mason's howse into ye hall That 
 
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 THE OGLANDER MEMOIRS. 
 
 morninge ye Duke^ was killed, he receaved inteligence 
 from ye ffrench that Eochel wase releaved, and he 
 leaped and daunced for joye, beinge in Mason's parlor, 
 with Mon^''- De Soubes and manie ffrench, and had a 
 resolution to haue gone to ye Kinge to haue declared 
 that newes. Presentlye aftor his deathe woonde itt 
 wase imagined that itt had bene commited by ye 
 ffrench ; whereupon if ye partie had not have bene 
 revealed, or revealed himselve, ye ffrench had all 
 sufered. 
 
 The Duke not longe before (I haue scene him) was 
 wayghted upon by Erles, Lordes, and divors other 
 gallantes, all bare unto him, more than evor I sawe to 
 a Prince; you shook! haue 6 Lordes and Erles stand 
 bare unto him in a morninge in his chawmber, while he 
 made himselve readie. I myselve sawe on ye 17th 
 of Awgust (1628), when he came from Portesmouth to 
 ye Coorte at Sowthwike; he wase not onUe braueley 
 attended when he came, butt olso long expected, and 
 ye Kinge looked owt of ye windowe towardes ye Downs 
 a whole liower expectinge his cominge before he came ; 
 and when they found him cominge they all left ye 
 
 8 This account of the assassination of Buckingham is more minute than 
 several already printed. It much resembles, and is corroborated in several 
 particulars by the letter written the day of the murder to the Queen by Sir 
 Dudley Carleton, who was present at the time, and prevented Felton being 
 slain on the spot by the Duke's followers. 
 
THE OGLANDER MEMOIRS. 45 
 
 Kinge; Lordes, and all, and downe into ye base coorte 
 to meete him, as if he had bene ye greatest Prince in ye 
 worlde ; and within sennyght aftor this man laye on ye 
 flower in Mason's parlor, gored in his owne blonde, and 
 respected of noone. Sic transit gloria mundi. 
 
 Soome sennyght before this, ye Duke goinge to take 
 coache owt of Mason's howse to goe to ye Coorte, soom 
 300 Marynors interupted him demaundinge theyre 
 paye ; one amonge ye reste offered to pull ye Duke owt 
 of his coache ; on whych leapinge foorth of his coache 
 he layed handes on and caryed him into Mason's howse 
 to be kept as a prisoner; and then went foorth to them 
 and apeased them, and soe went to ye Kinge at Sowth- 
 wike, where I then wase. Aftor his departure ye 
 Marinors demaunded restitution of theyre fellowe, and 
 if Mason had not delivered him, they woold have pulled 
 downe his howse by fforce; whereupon he delivered 
 him; but ye 22nd of ^ August a Councel of Warre wase 
 called, and they condemned the marinor, and as he 
 wase carying to prison ye marinors agayne woold haue 
 rescued him; whereupon ye Duke, and divors of his 
 folowers — -Coronels, Captaynes, and others, went on hors- 
 bake with ye Duke, havinge theyre swordes drawne; 
 rode doune ye streete, and drove all ye marinors before 
 
 1 The Duke in passing through the streets, recognised the sailor who had 
 insulted him some days previously, and had him again arrested, 
 
46 THE OGLANDER MEMOIRS. 
 
 tliem to ye Poynt Gate, in a moste furious maner; 
 killinge some to of tliem, and wooundinge divors; aftor 
 they were aboorde — ye Duke, ye condemned marinor, 
 with ye Martiol, and divors others rode with him to ye 
 execution, which presentlye wase p'formed on ye gibett, 
 betweene Portesmouth and Sowthseae Castel.^ 
 
 1 A vivid narrative of this aflfray, and of the assassination of the Duke the 
 day following, is given in a letter of one Highani, an eyewitness and actor in 
 the tumult. He was probably a member of the family of Sir John Higham, 
 of Barrow Hall, Suffolk, and his account corroborates that of Sir J. Oglander 
 in every particular. " . . . The 22nd of August, a sayler that had 
 affronted the Duke a seventhnight before was, by a martiall courte, con- 
 demned to die ; after which (he being caried to our prison by myselfe with our 
 whole guard) the saylers in greate multitudes drewe together with cudgels and 
 stones, and assayed with greate fury to take him from us ; insomuch that there 
 fell out a great mufceny amongst us, that I was enforced to let fly my muskets, 
 though not with intente to kill, because I had no order ; but we received blowes 
 with stones and cudgels, and had much to doe to keepe the prisoner. But the 
 captaines of the fleete came up to us, and drewe upon the saylers with greate 
 fury, and banged and slashed them dangerously ; by which time the Duke 
 himself e, with a greate company on horsebacke, came fresh upon them too ; 
 where there was 200 swordes drawen, and where the Duke behaved himselfe 
 very nobly and bravely, and drave all the saylers on the porte pointe, and 
 made them all fly on shipborde, wherein many were dangerously hurte, and 
 two killed outright. He retired within the towne againe, and himselfe in 
 person sawe the first mutinere caried with a guarde to the gibbet, where he 
 was hanged by the handes of anuther mutinous sayler, who himselfe was saved 
 for that good office. The other had not died if they had not then mutined, 
 for the Duches had begged his life. Now the next morne, which was Satur- 
 day the 23, there came one Jo. Felton (a gentleman borne neere Sudbury in 
 Suffolk) to towne, who laye but three miles from towne the night before, on 
 his journey from London. So soone as he came he repayred to the Duke's 
 lodging, where I had a stronge guarde ; he went unknowne amongst many, and 
 yet well knowne amongst many (as having beene a liefetenant in the army), into 
 the hall. The Duke having received that morning certain newes that Rochell 
 was relieved, was very jocant and well pleased, and addressed himselfe with 
 all speed to carry newes thereof to the King. Many of his company being 
 
THE OGLANDER MEMODJS. 47 
 
 Stamford^ — ^ye Duke's minyon, that drewe his sworde 
 on ffelton, wase hanged att Tyburne, ye 25th of Julye, 
 1629, for an uproar in London, and not departynge 
 aftor proclamation. He wase an active, brave, vaUant 
 gentlemen, whose p'ts deserved a better ende. 
 
 ready on horsebaoke, and himaelfe coming out of the parlor, Colonel Fryer 
 mette him and saluted him ; the Duke also according to his courteous manner 
 saluted him, and lifting himselfe up while Colonel Fryer still stouped ; this 
 Felton with a knife reached over the Colonel's shoulder, and stabbed the Duke 
 above the left pappe, clean through a ribbe. The Duke, pulling the knife him- 
 selfe out, cryed with a great oathe, "Traytor, thou hast killed me," and drewe 
 his sworde half out, and so fell downe and never spake worde more. When 
 with a showting shrike everybody withdrewe, and none knewe who killed him ; 
 Felton who might have escaped, offered himselfe, saying, ' ' I am the man, 
 
 why do you not kill me?" — who then had much to do to be saved 
 
 The viUaine, in respect of my office, was presently committed to me, and I 
 caryed him with my guard to God's House, where three of the Privy Councell 
 came to take his examination ; which done, I brought him to our prison, where 
 he remains with a guard upon him." — (From "TM diary of John Rouh, of 
 Santan Downham, Suffolk." Edited for the Camden Society by Mrs. M. A. E. 
 Green, 1856.) 
 
 1 Stamford, with others, among them being many students of the Temple, 
 attempted to rescue a prisoner by force from a guard of constables ; and in the 
 riot which followed one officer was killed and several of the gentlemen 
 wounded. A proclamation was issued for the apprehension of the ringleaders 
 — "and on Thursday, at ye Guildhall, was Captain Aahenham (or Ashenhurst) 
 arraigned of murder, and John Stamford (the late Duke's man) as accessary 
 thereunto ; as also divers householders in Fleet street for refusing to aid the 
 constables, and abetting the gentlemen. The two first were found guilty, and 
 had judgment of death, and were yesterday in the forenoon executed at 
 Tyburn. Stamford's wife and father made means to the Duchess of Bucking- 
 ham to move for his life ; who answered, she would never open her mouth for 
 murder, for her lord's sake. Then they went to the Queen, who presented 
 their petition to his Majesty ; who before he would receive it said — "If it were 
 for Stamford, he would not grant it, because having before tasted of his grace 
 (when he murdered by night a watchman) he had now made so ill use of itt as 
 to be the very motor and first occaaioner of all this mischief. ' " — (Postscript of a 
 letter from M?ad tp Stutfville, July 25, 1629. Court & Times of Chas. I., Vol. 2.) 
 
48 THE OGLANDEK MEMOIRS. 
 
 The Duke when he went to releave Eochel, not 
 havinge mony; bothe to encourage ye comandors, and 
 to furnisch them with necesarys for that expedicion, 
 gaue to ye inferior sorte ye makinge of 40 Baronetts, 
 which they owt of theyre wante so wide for £150 or 
 £200 apeece ; which is ye reason soe manye of inferior 
 ranke bothe in owre countery and elsewhere have pre- 
 cedence in honor. Butt a tyme may come, which may 
 be eythor by Parliament, or by his Ma*'°, that they not 
 p'forminge ye growndes of ye fyrst institution; as not 
 payinge £1000 for itt, nor hauinge £1000 land yerely 
 rent to mayntayne itt; theyre honor may be buryed in 
 ye dust, as ye Duke's wase, verie shortlye aftor ye 
 makinge of those upstarte Baronettes. Nevor wase anie 
 man bettor beloved of 2 Princes then he wase, nor nevor 
 did anie man love a man more than they him ; he had 
 (for worldlie happinesse) a fortunate lyfe and an unfor- 
 tunate deathe. He wase one of ye handsomest menn in 
 ye whole worldle, and wanted not vallor or resolution ; 
 of a kinde, liberoU, and free nature and dispocition 
 where he affected, and to those that apUed themselves 
 to him, aplawded his actions and wase wholie his 
 creatures; but above all he wase wonderfulUe lovinge 
 to all his kindred, advancinge them all to place and 
 dignitie; hauinge ye Kinges affection soe tied unto him 
 as to denie him nothinge; — he wase ye greatest subiect 
 
THE OGLANDEE MEMOIRS. 49 
 
 yt Englande evor hadd. Of his contrarie virtues I will 
 say notliinge. De mortuis nil nisi bonum. 
 
 A POETESMOUTH PoET ON YE DuKE.' 
 
 Charon — Att Portesmouth Duke I will noe longer staye, 
 
 My boate's att hand, and therefore come awaye. 
 Duke — Who calls great George ? 
 Charon— 'Tis Charon that commaundes 
 
 Thie gwiltie goste to go ; Him noone withstandes. 
 Duke — But wheathor must I goe? 
 Charon — To land at Styx, 
 
 From whence thou haste thie stratagems and trickes. 
 Duke — Nay — prithee staye, sweete Charon, thou shalt see 
 
 If George still liveth all shall come to thee. 
 Charon — Pisoh — come, I say, my boate shall stiye for noone, 
 
 Thie sweete perfumed sinnes will fill't aloane, 
 
 If not, thie titles. 
 Duke — Nay — prithee staye awhile 
 
 That I may Charles a littel moore begwile. 
 Charon — Pisch — noe I cannot — ifelton — make noe delaye 
 
 If thou lov'st Charles, then send prowde George awaye. 
 Duke — Am I of seae and land the great commaunder 
 
 When this poore boate dothe scorne I shoold withstand her? 
 
 Sweete pleasures, honors, titles, fortunes brittel, 
 
 Adiew — I haue noe title to a tittel. 
 
 1 This and the accompanying poems show how strong and bitter was the 
 popular feeling against the Duke of Buckingham at the time of his death, and 
 that these sentiments were far from being confined to the lower orders of 
 society. The first poem without the heading ascribing it to a Portsmouth 
 Poet, has been reprinted from the Sloane MSS. by Mr. P. W. Fairholt, for the 
 Percy Society, in his "Poems and Songs relating to Geo. Villiers, Duke of 
 Buckingham, and his Assassination by John Felton." The next on "Eex and 
 Grex and Dux and Crux" has also been reprinted in the same work, with a few 
 variations from the version here given. The two couplets under the heading 
 
 G 
 
50 THE OGLANDER MEMOIRS. 
 
 In Dtjcon Buckingame. 
 Dux and Crux are of one sownd, 
 Dux doth Rex and Grex confound, 
 If Crux of Dux myght haue his fill, 
 Then Rex with Grex myght woorke theyre will. 
 Five subsedies to ten woold turne, 
 And Grex would laugh that nowe does moorne. 
 O Rex thie Grex doth greivouslie complayne 
 That Dux beares Crux, and Crux not Dux agayne. 
 
 My Ladye Ffalkland on ye Ditke. 
 
 Reader stande still, and looke — loe here I am. 
 That wase of late ye myghtie Buckingame. 
 God gaue to me my beinge and my breathe; 
 Two Kinges theyre favors — but a slaue my deathe. 
 And for my fame — I clayme — and do not craue 
 That thou wilt beleeve to Kinges before a Knaue. 
 
 Vox POPULI. 
 
 Let Charles and George doe what they cann. 
 Yet George shall die ye deathe of Lamme.' 
 
 of "Vox Populi " are each derived from different sources. Many of the 
 Satires and Songs against Villiers and his family were never printed, for 
 obvious reasons, but were circulated in MS. from hand to hand, and the more 
 caustic lines often from mouth to mouth in conversation. A variation of the 
 first runs thus : — 
 
 " Let Charles and George do what they can, 
 The Duke shall die like Doctor Lambe." 
 
 1 Lambe was the Duke's physician, probably a quack, and a dabbler in 
 astrology, magic, and the black art. He was supposed to furnish the Duke 
 with love charms, and he had practised on the credulity of the Duke's mother 
 by revelations of the future in a looking glass. By the populace he was 
 detested, and styled "the Duke's devU." His ill reputation affected all con- 
 nected with him, and many years after his death, Ann Bodenham, who hacl 
 
THE OGLANDER MEMOIRS. 51 
 
 ffeltoni live evor, for thou hast browght to dust, 
 Treason, murther, pryde, and luste. 
 
 In Januarie, 1629, the gentelmen of owre Island con- 
 cluded to goe to London, to petition his Ma*'^ for 
 moneyes to haiie owre castells and fortes some amended, 
 others where most nede requyred, newe erected; and 
 olso for to haue 2 places of retrayte, if so wee showld 
 be beaten; Videlicet — Freschwater for owre cattel, and 
 
 been his maidservant, and suspected of learning her diabolical art from him, 
 was convicted and executed as a witch at Salisbury. One evening in June, 
 1628, as he was returning home from the Fortune Theatre, he was discovered 
 and set upon by a mob, who so ill-treated him that he died the next day of 
 the injuries he received. The rabble, while mangling Lambe, expressed their 
 wishes that the Duke his master had been there with him, to be served worse. 
 The perpetrators of the deed escaped, and the authorities failing to discover them, 
 the corporation was threatened with the loss of its charter, and the city eventu- 
 ally fined 1500 marks. A few days after, a bill was taken down from a post in 
 Coleman Street by a constable, and carried to the Lord Mayor, who sent it by 
 the sheriffs to the King. Its contents were ominous — "Who rules the King- 
 dom? The King. Who rules the King ? The Duke. Who rules the Duke ? 
 The Devil. Let the Duke look to it, for they intend shortly to use him worse 
 than they did his doctor, and if things be not shortly reformed, they will work 
 a reformation themselves." — "At the sight whereof — his Majesty (he had 
 reason) was much displeased. " — (Mead to Stuieville, June 21 and 29, 1628. 
 Court and Times, Vol. I.) 
 
 1 The couplet beginning "Felton live ever," Ac, is the conclusion of a 
 poem of eight lines, thus printed by Mr. Fairholt in his work before quoted. 
 "On the Duke and Felton. 
 Awake, sad Brittaine, and advance at last 
 Thy drooping head ; let all thy sorrowes past 
 Bee drowned, and sunk with their owne teares ; and now 
 O'er-looke thy foes with a triumphant brow. 
 Thy foe, Spaine's agent, Holland's bane, Rome's friend, 
 By one victorious hand received his end. 
 Live ever, Felton ; thou hast turned to dust. 
 Treason, ambition, murther, pride, and lust." 
 
 g2 
 
52 THE OGLANDER MEMOIRS. 
 
 ye mayne bodie of owre companies ; and Yarmouth for 
 ye bettor sorte of people, where they myght by bote 
 haue intercorse one with ye other; the fortifiinge of 
 which places of retrayt myght be doone by cuttinge of 
 Ereschwater Gate ; and Yarmouth by ye cuttinge of ye 
 nicke of land betweene ye 2 seaes, with drawe brydges 
 and half moones to secure ye passages. We delivered 
 owre petition to his M"''"' which wase well aproved of in 
 all thinges sauinge in owre needles feares of ye flfrench; 
 his Ma*'" assuringe us wee neede not haue any doubt of 
 them, as beinge on very good tearmes with his brother 
 of Ffrance ; but he refered us and ye p'ticulors in owre 
 petition to ye Councell of Warre, before whom wee 
 weare. The Councell liked owre carrydge very well 
 and gaiae us many good wordes, and told us wee weare 
 to fearful. I reply'd — wee weare far from feare, but on 
 ye reporte of so greate preparations in ffrance, wee 
 could doo no lesse than make owre owne weaknes 
 knowne unto them; how owre castells and fortes weare 
 eythor all demolisched or else so uncerviseable as not 
 able to defende us, but rathor to invite an enemye ; and 
 of what consequense the losse of that Island may be to 
 ye whole kingdome; and as it is nowe, it is open to all 
 invasion. They tolde us they hearde wee had remooved 
 owre wyfes, children, and goodes. I answored — on my 
 life and reputation, when I came owt of ye Island there 
 
THE OGLANDEK MEMOIRS. 53 
 
 wase not as mutch as a silver spoone remooved; but 
 withall of that theyre Lordeshipes did not assist us in 
 owre just swyte, then certaynely owre wyfes and child- 
 ren woold not staye. They weare glad to heare that 
 theyre information wase not trewe ; then they dismissed 
 us till an other time, and what time wee brought ye 
 mapp before ye Lordes ; beinge ye Lord Threasuror,i my 
 Lord Stuarde,^ Conway, and Dorchester ;3 where wee 
 shewed them owre desiors to have 2 block-howses bwylt 
 att Sandham, 2 att S' Hellens; Cows, Yarmouth, and 
 Worseley's tower repayred, and Freschwater and Yar- 
 mouth to be fortifyed; they approoved it, and demaunded 
 the estimate of ye chardge, which wee told them woold 
 come to 3000£; they desyred the p'ticulors to be 
 brought to my Lord Threasuror, which ye nexte day I 
 delivered unto him. Vid. for blockhowses at Sandham 
 1000£, with a runninge trench to goe betweene them; 
 1000£ for 2 like blockhowses to be erected at St. 
 Hellens ; 100£ for repayring of Cows, 100£ for Yarmouth 
 Castell, 300£ for Worseley's Tower and Carey's Sconce ; 
 for ye fortifiinge of Yarmouth to make it a place of 
 
 1 Richard, Lord Weston, appointed, 1631, Governor of the Isle of Wight ; 
 and 1633 created Earl of Portland. 
 
 2 William Herbert, Earl of Pembroke, appointed Governor of Portsmouth 
 1609; died 1630. 
 
 3 Sir Dudley Carlton, Secretary of State, created Viscount Dorchester 
 July, 1628. 
 
54 THE OGLANDER MEMOIRS. 
 
 retrayte with cuttinge ye seae, makinge a drawebridge 
 and lialfe moone, 250£; ye lyke for Freschwater, 250£. 
 My Lord Threasuror tolde me — -that on his honnor wee 
 shoold haue monyes very shortly, it wase his Ma*'^'° 
 pleasure, and he woold take all care sudenly to give us 
 content and to have some monyes forthwith, and a good 
 Ingineer to be sent down accordinge to owre desior, 
 and to haue his allowance owt of the exchecor. The 
 gentlemen that went to London for tliej^r countery's 
 servise weare — Sir Edward Dennis, Sir William Meux, 
 Captayne Cheke, Mr. Barnabie Leygh, Captayne Hobson, 
 and myselve, Sir John Oglander. We had a promise 
 for payment of owre billet monyes, beinge 8130£ when 
 his Ma"° cowld posibly paye us; and that we shoold 
 haue soom shipes to attend abowt owre Island untill we 
 weare fortified, and that soom of owre owne countery 
 shoold haue commaund of them, who we sayd woold be 
 moore useful for us then strangors. We left Sir Bevis 
 Thelwell owre agent for us in owre abscence, to whom 
 for his greate paynes and love to owre Island wee are 
 all mutch bownd. 
 
 1629. April. There wase scarce one fameley in ye 
 whole Island that missed havinge of ye smalle poxe,^ 
 whereof manye dyed. 
 
 1 In another notice of this visitation of small pox, Sir John states that it 
 was brought down from London by young Thomas Urry, of Gatcombe. 
 
THE OGLANDER MEMOIRS. 55 
 
 Mars and Mors are of a sownd, 
 And Mors neare Mars is fownd. 
 
 Itt grieved my harte to see ye pouertie^ and complaynte 
 of owre poore Hand, April, 1629; noe monyes stur- 
 ringe, littel markett, a small assemblye of ye gentlemen, 
 less of ye fermors and yeomandrie. Owre ordinarie 
 downe for wante of companie, littel resort to owre 
 lecture, and ye coomley visage and wonted carridge of 
 itt cleane altored ; for in Quene Elizabeth's tyme it wase 
 otherwyse, — money wase as plentiful in yeomens purses 
 as nowe in ye beste of ye genterye, and all ye genterye 
 full of monyes and owt of debt; ye markett full, com- 
 modityes ventinge themselves att moste hygh rate 
 pryces, and menn of warr att ye Cows whych gaue 
 greate rates for owre commodityes, and exchanged 
 other goode ones with us. If you had anythinge to sell 
 you shoold not haue needed to haue looked for a 
 chapman, for you coold not almoste aske butt haue; 
 all thinges weare exported and imported att your 
 harte's desior; youre tenantes rych, and a bargayne 
 
 1 From a MS. quoted by Tooke (History of Prices), it seems that poverty 
 and the decay of trade at this time were not confined to the Island, but gave 
 rise to complaints in all parts of the kingdom. "England never was generally 
 so poor since I was bom as it is at this present ; inasmuch that all complain 
 they cannot receive their rents, yet there is plenty of all things but money, 
 which is so scant that country people offer com, or cattle, or whatsoever else 
 they have in lieu of rent ; and com is at so easy rates as I never knew it, at 
 20 pence a bushel, barley at 9 pence, and yet no quantity wiU be taken at that 
 price." 
 
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 coold not stand att anye rate; ye State wase well 
 ordered; wee had in a good mannor warres with 
 Spayne, and peeace with ffrance ; and ye Lowe Countery- 
 men weare owre servantes, not owre maystors; then itt 
 wase Insula fortunata, nowe — Infortunata. 
 
 1631. Jany. 3. Thos. Urry wase buryed att Thor- 
 leye in ye midle of ye church.^ There wase a greate 
 funerol ; Sir William Lyslye, Sir Eobert Dyllington, Sir 
 John Leygh — the sonn of Mr. Barnabye Leygh, weare 
 there; manye gentlemen, moost of ye clergye, and all 
 ye fermors weare there. Mr. Pryce^ of Calberon (ye 
 honest) preached ; his texte wase, "All men must dye, 
 and aftor deth cometh judgement." Hee wase aged 84 
 yeres ; his last wyfe my neare kynswoman. 
 
 1631. Aug. 2. Kinge Charles came to Portesmouth 
 to see his shipes in ye harbor. And my Lord Threas- 
 
 1 In the old church at Thorley is a monumental tablet with this inscrip- 
 tion: 
 
 "Thomas Urry, gent, obit December 25, 1631. 
 The poore man's comfort, and ye stranger's friend, 
 A man of godlie life — then judge his end. 
 This stone can tell what care he had to goe 
 Unto his mother earth, and father too. 
 His aged years almost were twelve times seven, 
 He's called to keep his Christmas nowe in heaven. " 
 
 2 On a brass in three pieces, now fixed to the south wall of the chancel of 
 Calbourne Church, is the following inscription — ' 'Abiit non obiit, Prseiit non 
 Periit. Here lyeth buryed the body of Mr. Arthur Price who was rector of 
 this parish 22 years, and died 26th October, 1638, being aged 59 yeares. 
 For whose pious memorie Jane, his deare wife, caused this memoriall." Arms 
 — quarterly, first and fourth, a chevron embattled between 3 spear heads ; 
 second and third, 3 cocks proper, 2 and 1. 
 
THE OGLANDER MEMOIRS. 57 
 
 uror/ Captayne of owre Island, sent for mee to meete 
 him on y' daye olso att Portesmouth. Ye Kinge laye 
 att Gode's howse one nyght, and ye next daye beinge 
 ye 3rd of Awgust, when ye Kinge wase sett to dinner, 
 my Lord Threasuror tooke his leave of his Ma*'°' and 
 came for ye Isle of Wyght. He had in his companie, 
 Vicount Conway,^ My Lord Cottington,^ Chauncelour 
 
 1 Sir Richard Weston, Lord Weaton of Neyland. He was the son and 
 heir of Sir Jerome Weston, Kt., of Roxwell, Essex. After some years spent 
 in the study of the law and in foreign travel, he attached himself to the Court, 
 and in 1621 was sent, with Sir E. Conway, to Brussels, to treat with the Spanish 
 and Imperial Ministers for the restitution of the Palatinate. On his return 
 he was made a Privy Councillor, and Under Treasurer of the Exchequer ; and 
 in 1624 was appointed Treasurer during the King's pleasure. In April, 1628, 
 he was created Baron Weston, of Neyland ; and in July following, on the com- 
 pulsory retirement of the Earl of Marlborough, he was advanced to the dignity 
 of Lord High Treasurer. Three years after, he was made Knight of the Garter, 
 and Governor of the Isle of Wight. In the early part of his career he was very 
 popular ; but after his elevation to the peerage his haughtiness and ostentation 
 grew so unbearable, that, with the exception of Laud, he was more hated by 
 all classes than any man in the kingdom. To quote Clarendon, ' ' He had so 
 vehement a desire to be the sole favourite, that he had no relish of the power 
 he had, and every day discovered some infirmities in him, which being before 
 known to few, and not taken notice of, did now expose him both to public 
 reproach and to private animosities. His wife and all his daughters were 
 declared of the Romish religion ; and though himself and his son sometimes went 
 to church, he was never thought to have zeal for it. All the honours the King 
 conferred upon him could not make him think himself great enough, nor could 
 all the King's bounties nor his own accessions raise a fortune to his heir ; but 
 after six or eight years spent in outward opulency, and inward murmur and 
 trouble that it was not greater ; after vast sums of money and great wealth 
 gotten, and rather consumed than enjoyed ; without any sense of delight in so 
 great prosperity, but with the agony that it was no greater, he died unlameuted 
 by any." The Earl died in March, 1634, and was buried in Winchester Cathe- 
 dral, where a fine recumbent statue in bronze still remains to his memory. 
 
 2 Edward, second Viscount Conway. 
 
 3 Francis Cottington, created Lord Cottington of Hanworth, Middlesex, 
 
58 THE OGLANDER MEMOIRS. 
 
 of ye Excheccor, and ye Lord of Mount Norris/ Sir 
 Kelloum Digby, Sir Walter Stuarde, ye Kinge's kinsman, 
 Sir Nicholas Foskewe, Sir William Uvedale, Threasuror 
 above ye stayres to liis Ma""' Sir Eycliard Titchbourne, 
 Mr. Gage of Sussex, Coronels Fryor, Hacklet, and 
 Farrer, Captayne Kercke, Sir Bevis Thelwel, Sir Henry 
 Maynowringe, Captaynes Mason,^ and Brette,^ Mr. May- 
 nowringe ; besydes manie other knyghtes and gentelmen 
 of quallitie, ye totoU amountinge to 300 horse. He 
 had ye Kinge's pinnice to bringe liim over, and one of 
 ye Whelpes* to wayglit on him. I browght him aboord 
 ye pinnice, and then I left him and tooke a small boate 
 becawse I woold be over before him, to haue all 
 
 July, 1631 ; Chancellor and Under Treasurer of the Exchequer. He had been 
 Clerk of the Council in the reign of James I. , and Secretary to Charles I. when 
 Prince of Wales. He was made a Baronet in 1623, and was afterwards sent as 
 Ambassador to Spain, where he resided for some years. He supported the 
 King's party during the Civil Wars, but after the ruin of the royal cause he 
 went into exile, and died at Valladolid in 1653. 
 
 1 Sir Francis Annesley, created Baron Mount Norris, Co. Armagh, Feb. , 
 1628, and afterwards Viscount Valentia. He was Vice-Treasurer and Secre- 
 tary of State in Ireland. 
 
 2 Paymaster to the Forces. It was in his house that the Duke of Bucking- 
 ham was assassinated. 
 
 3 See note page 30. 
 
 4 The "Whelps," or fully, ''the Lion's Whelpes," were a kind of sloop, 
 then recently added to the navy, being built in 1627 for the expedition to 
 Eochelle. There were ten of them altogether, each armed with 14 or 16 guns 
 of light calibre, and manned with about 70 men. In the return from Eochelle, 
 two of them were lost at sea, and they were never afterwards aU in commission 
 at the same time. The "Lion " herself was a 40-gun ship with a crew of 200 
 men. 
 
THE OGLANDER MEMOEBS. 59 
 
 thinges in readinesse before his comminge. Sir Bevis 
 Thelwel wase in ye small boate with me, and my Lord 
 of Mount Norris wase a comminge, but there we 
 escaped a greate dawnger ; for wee beinge before, they 
 salutinge liis Honnor contrarie to theyre promise (as 
 not to shoote until ye Kinge went) ye shott fell thicke 
 abowte owre boate, and manie escaped tearinge her in 
 pieces verie narrowlie. His Honnor came ashore att 
 Eide, and from thence I led him through Whitfield and 
 Bradinge to Sandham Castell; where he stayed an 
 hower, and sawe ye Ingineers stake owt ye forme of a 
 sconce there to be erected. And from thence I led 
 him to ye topp of Bradinge Downe, and soe to Nuport, 
 where ye Maior and Aldermen mett him at Coppyns 
 Bridge, and ye towne made a gard of musketteers and 
 corselettes, and soe conveyed him up to Mr. James his 
 howse, where he layde. Att ye entrance of ye doore, 
 ye schoolemaystor of ye Free Schoole mett him with all 
 his schoUars, and presented him with a speach by one of 
 his schoUars (Mr. Bacon's sonn), att whych speach his 
 Lordship wase well pleased, and gave ye bwoye £5; 
 and received a petition from ye schoolemaystor (before- 
 hand by me prepayred) for his Ma*'^'° grawnt of 200 
 acors to be enclosed owt of ye fforrest to be to ye 
 schoole, for her bettor mayntenance, whych his Lord- 
 ship promised to effect. AU ye gentlemen sent him in 
 
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 provisions, soe that he kept a most bowntifuU howse; 
 and every meale he woold drinke his Ma*'°'° and ye 
 Queene's helth, and I woold begin his helth to my Lord 
 Cottington ; and one meale my Lord Cottington pleadg- 
 inge mee, retourned ye helth to Sir Edward Dennis; 
 and tolde him itt wase a helth to owre Governour; 
 whereupon my Lord Threasuror replyed — that he wase 
 like his dogge Captayne, barkinge for his maystor; 
 (whych wase a spanioll y* my Lord Cottington had loste 
 at Sandam runninge awaye on ye reporte of ye ordi- 
 naunce), whych dogge my Lord mutch affected, as 
 havinge beene twyce in Spayne with him. On ye 4th 
 of Awgust he went to Caresbrooke Castell, and from 
 thence to ye topp of ye hill next to Freschwater, and 
 there saw all ye countery, and Yarmouth, wheathor he 
 determined to goe ; but beinge ill of ye stone, shortened 
 his journey and went noe furthor, but retourned agayne ; 
 and every P'risch as he came through rang theyre 
 belles, and ye people gaue acclamations of welcome, 
 whych he tooke very well. The 5th of Awgust 
 he dined betymes, and went aftor dinner to Cows 
 Castell, and theyre had ye pinnice to carry him, 
 and one of ye Whelpes to attend him. He had ye 
 ordinaunce of ye Castell 3 tymes shott of, and all ye 
 shipes saluted him. He landed att Tychfield, and this 
 I maye truly saye — ^both in comminge, goinge, and 
 
THE OGLANDER MEMOIRS. 61 
 
 stayinge, he receaved all ye honnor and contentment 
 that this Island coold possibly give him. The littel 
 bwoyes skirmisched before him, to whom he gave £5, 
 and soe mutch olso to ye poore, besydes mutch of ye 
 remaynes of his provisions. He wase entertayned att 
 his landinge by ye whole gentry of ye countery, who 
 wayghted upon him duringe his staye, and till he went 
 aboorde agayne. Att his goinge he commaunded mee 
 in his name to thanke all those that sent him in pro- 
 visions, not knowinge them himselve ; and tolde us he 
 woold leave nowe in my handes £1000 towardes ye 
 payment of ye billett money due to us, and paye us all 
 ye remaynes by Christmas nexte ; and that he woold do 
 any good he coold for ye publicke good of ye Island, 
 and olso to every man in p'ticular. He went awaye 
 well pleased, and while he wase at Cows, a packett 
 came to him from his Ma*'*' commaundinge him to 
 Coourt; whereupon he tolde mee that wee shoold not 
 come to Winchester to meete him, till he sent us woord, 
 becawse his retourne wase uncertayne. I nevor sawe a 
 bravor companie, nor a greator entertaynement in my 
 lyfe. He had sent him in by ye countery — a hogshed 
 of sacke, claret, and whitewyne; a fat ox, fisch of all 
 sortes, pewettes, guiles, rabbitts, pigions, fleasantes, par- 
 trydges, chicken, &c. Nevor wase anye Captayne of ye 
 Island bravor entertayned, or nobler used and respected 
 
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 by ye countery; and wee live in expectation of ye lyke 
 from him. 
 
 My Lord Thresuror Weston at his beinge in ye Island 
 ye 4th of August, 1631; I puttinge of him in mynd of 
 the decaye of ye Kinge's woodes, as nowe beinge sowlde 
 in fee ferme, they myght lawfully cutt it, as olso ye 
 parke; and further informed him how necessarie ye 
 parke and forrest has beene to continue still unto ye 
 command; he made me no greate overtures of his 
 intentions, but on ye 1 6th of August foUowinge he sent 
 me a lettor post, that I shoold command ye bwyors of 
 wood in ye parke to forbear to fell any; untill his Ma"° 
 weare provided from thence of wood and tymber for ye 
 newe fortes intended to be bwylt and for repayre of ye 
 owld. I obeyed his commaunds, but it seemeth to me y* 
 he hath an intent to haue ye parke bowght in agayne, 
 otherwayes to hindor ye fellinge of all ; for 100 tonnes 
 beinge ye moost they can use abowt ye fortes, and it 
 woold olso at bettor rates be browght owt of the Newe 
 Forrest : time will discover his furthor intentions. 
 
 Sandam Forte. The fourth of July, 1632, my Lord 
 Threasuror (Weston) sent downe to mee 2 Ingineers, one 
 Mr. Eudd and Mr. Heath for ye bwyldinge of a fforte at 
 Sandam. God send itt good success, whych I doubt. 
 Mr, Thomas Budd to be ye Ingineer, and Mr, Thomas 
 
THE OGLANDER MEMOIRS. 63 
 
 Heath to be ye maystor woorkeman. The 5 th of July, 
 
 1632, my Lord Threasuror sent down 500£ to myselve 
 
 and Sir Edward Dennys, to sett forward ye fforte, which 
 
 Eudd placed in that place where nowe itt is. My Lord 
 
 Wimbledon came downe to see itt on ye 8th of Awgust, 
 
 1632, and liked itt well. This Eudd and Heath weare 
 
 men who had bene longe emploied by ye States of 
 
 Holland in makinge of fibrtes, and other fortifications. 
 
 Heath had made that fforte 3 yeres before at Ha witch 
 
 in Suffolk ; Eudd wase chefe Ingineer att ye Isle of Eez ; 
 
 both very able men ; but I am afrayed with all theyre 
 
 skill they will be deceaved in this fforte, in which I 
 
 conceive they have comitted 2 errors ; ye one in pla- 
 
 cinge of itt so nere the seae; ye other in not carringe 
 
 theyre foundation deapor, which in time may be ye 
 
 ruine of ye woorke. 
 
 When I bwylt this — I lost my sonn,'^ 
 And raysinge this, myselve undone. 
 
 Mr. Eychard Cooke, a brave Commander, wase ye 
 
 fyrst Captayne of Sandham Castell; and Brutus Bucke, 
 
 ye sonn of Francis, wase ye last; for I tooke it downe 
 
 November, 1631, when it had stoode 112 yeres. 
 
 1627. July 16. I gave Tobye^ ye commaund of 
 
 1 His eldest son, George, who died at Caen, July 11, 16.S2, aged 23 years. 
 
 2 On the south side of Brading Church, adjoining the Oglander Chapel, on 
 
64 THE OGLANDER MEMOIRS. 
 
 Sandam Caslell in Bucke's abscens ; and he is to have 
 2s. a daye for his entertaynment and paynes. 
 
 1632. When ye forte at Sandam wase bwylt, I putt 
 in my owld clerke, Tobye Kempe, to be clerke of ye 
 checke, and allowed him 2s. per diem for to keepe ye 
 bookes of accomptes. 
 
 1647. Certayne passages acted by Coronel Hammon, 
 owre Captayne, ye gentlemen of ye Island, and myselve ; 
 since ye Kinge's cominge into ye Island; wrytten by 
 mee on Tuesdaye morninge ye 16th of JSTovember, 1647. 
 J.O. 
 
 Sondaye morninge, att churche I heard a rumour 
 that ye Kinge wase that nyght,^ beinge ye 14th of 
 
 a raised or altar tomb, is this inscription, in large capital letters — "Here lyeth 
 the bodye of Peter Bryers Butler, and of Mr. Tobye Kemp, clarke to S. John 
 Oglander, of Nunwell, Knight, 1637." 
 
 1 " We all went over that night to the Cows. In the morning his Majesty 
 went with the Govemour to Carisbroke, and was met in the way by divers gen- 
 tlemen of the Island ; from whom we learnt that we were more fortunate than 
 we were aware of ; for the whole Island was unanimously for the King, except 
 the govemours of the castles, and Hammond's captains ; that there were but 
 twelve old men in the castle, and that they had served under the Earl of 
 Portland, and were all well affected ; that Hammond might be easily gained, 
 if not more easily forced, the castle being day and night full of loyal 
 subjects, and servants of his Majesty ; and his Majesty having daily liberty 
 to ride abroad, might ohuse his own time of quitting the Island. " — (Memoirs 
 of Sir John Berheley). The King, with Hammond, Capt. Baskett, Captain 
 of Cowes Castle, Mr. Legge, J. Ashburnham, and Sir J. Berkeley, landed at 
 Cowes from Tichfield House on Saturday afternoon, November 13; and after 
 passing the night at an alehouse in the town ; Cowes Castle then being used as 
 a prison, arrived the next morning at Carisbrooke Castle. 
 
THE OGLANDER MEMOIES. 65 
 
 Nouember, landed at Cows. I confesse I coold not 
 beleeve itt, but att evening prayor ye same daye Sir 
 Eobert Dyllington sent his servant to mee to informe 
 mee of his Ma''^^ cominge into ye Island, and that owre 
 Gouernor Coronel Hammon^ commaunded mee and my 
 sonn (as he had done to all ye gentlemen of ye Island) 
 to meete him att Nuport ye nexte daye, beinge Mon- 
 daye, by nine in ye morninge. Trewly this newes 
 trobled mee very mutch ; but on Mondaye morninge I 
 went to Nuport, where I found most of ye gentlemen of 
 
 1 Col. Robert Hammond, Governor of the Isle of Wight, 1647-1649, was 
 the sou of Eobert Hammond, of Chertsey, Surrey, and nephew of the learned 
 Dr. Henry Hammond, Chaplain to the King. His father's sister, Jane, was 
 the wife of Sir John Dingley, of Wolverton, lale of Wight. He served on the 
 side of the Parliament as captain and major, under Col. Massey, at the siege of 
 Gloucester, where he killed a Major Gray in a duel, for giving him the lie ; 
 took part in the two battles of Newbury, in the first of which he was wounded ; 
 was wounded again at Bristol, 1645, where he greatly distinguished himself ; 
 and was taken prisoner at Basing House, a day or two previous to its capture 
 by Cromwell, in October, 1645. Some time before this he had risen to the rank 
 of Colonel ; and on hearing of his capture, Cromwell wrote to the Marquis of 
 Winchester, stating that "if any wrong or violence were offered to these men 
 [Colonel Hammond and Major King, who was taken prisoner with him], the 
 best in the house should not obtain quarter." At the downfall of Basing, he 
 was sent by Cromwell to give an account of his success to the House of Com- 
 mons, in company with Hugh Peters ; and the House, as a compensation for 
 his losses by being taken prisoner, awarded him £200. In September, 1647, 
 by an ordinance of both Houses, he was appointed Captain and Governor of 
 the Isle of Wight, and all forts and places of strength therein. He married a 
 daughter of John Hampden; and another of his uncles, Thomas Hammond, 
 was lieut. -General of the Ordnance for the Parliament, and afterwards one of 
 the regicides. Hammond's tenure of oflSoe as Governor of the Island was 
 brief, lasting scarcely two years. He eventually was appointed a Commis- 
 sioner in Ireland, and died there in October, 1654, 
 
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66 THE OGLANDER MEMOIRS. 
 
 ye Island; and not longe aftor Hammon came, when 
 hee made a shorte speach to us, whycla, as well as my 
 olde memorie will give me leafe, wase thus, or to this 
 pourpose — "Gentlemen, I beleeve itt wase as straunge 
 to you as to mee, to heare of his Ma*'"'^ cominge into 
 this Island. Hee informs mee necessitie browght him 
 hithor, and theyre weare a sorte of people neare Hamp- 
 ton Coorte (from whence hee came) that had voted, and 
 weare resolved to murther him (or woordes to that 
 effect) ; and therefore soe privately, he wase forced to 
 come awaye ; and soe to thruste himselve on this Island, 
 hopinge to bee here secure. And nowe gentlemen, 
 seeinge hee is come amongst us, itt is all owre dewties 
 to preserve his persone, and to prevente all cominges 
 over into owre Island. I haue alreadie stoped all pas- 
 sages in owre Island except three (Eide, Cows, and 
 Yarmouthe), and att them haue appoynted gardes. 
 Nowe I must desior all you to preserue peace and 
 unitie in this Island as mutch as you can ; I heare there 
 are soome sutch persones as his Ma*'^ feared, but I 
 hope bettor ; but to prevent itt, I woold give you these 
 cautiones. If you see or heare of anye people in anye 
 greate number gathored togeathor, whatsoeuor bee 
 thejTe pretence; I woold haue you dissipate them, or 
 timely notice given to mee of itt; alsoe if there bee 
 anye of those formerlye spoken of, sutch as his Ma"* 
 
THE OGLANDER MEMOIKS. 67 
 
 fears, that shall offor to come into this Island, you must 
 doe your endeavors to suppres them; and all thinges 
 for ye preservacion of his Ma*'°'^ persone. And to this 
 ende I shaU desior all ye Captaynes to come and renewe 
 theyr Commisions, that they may bee ye bettor autho- 
 rised thereunto : and lastly I muste tell you I haue sent 
 an Expres^ to P'rliament to signify e his Ma*'^'° being 
 heere, and as soone as I receave anye awnsor I shall 
 acquaynt you with itt." Aftor this speach Sir Eobert 
 Dylhngton mooved ye Coronel to knowe weathor ye 
 gentlemen myght not aftor dynner goe up to his Ma*'® 
 to expres theyre dewties to him. The Coronel awnsored 
 — "Yes by all meanes, itt would be a fit tyme when ye 
 King had dined; and truely I woold invite you all to 
 dinner, had I anie entortaynment ; but truely I want 
 extreamly fowle for his Ma*'^;" intimatinge thereby that 
 he wanted ye gentlemen theyre assistance; whereupon 
 I and others promised him to send in to him what wee 
 
 1 In answer to this "Express," Hammond received the thanks of the Par- 
 liament, and a reward of £1000 ; besides the grant of an annuity of £500 for 
 himself and his heirs. He was also instructed to appoint a sufficient guard 
 for the security of the King's person, and to prevent his departure from the 
 Island, except by the orders of both Houses ; to see that no persons who had 
 been in arms against the Parliament came into or remained in the Island 
 during the King's residence there, unless they were inhabitants of the Isle, and 
 had compounded with the Parliament ; and that no person who had served in 
 the war against the Parliament came into the King's presence, or into any fort 
 or castle in the Island, although he was an inhabitant, and had compounded 
 with the Parliament. The House also voted £5000 "for his Majesty's present 
 necessities and accommodation," and £10 daily for his table. 
 
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68 THE OGLANDER MEMOIRS. 
 
 had; soe he thanked us, and retourned to ye Castle to 
 his Ma*'^- Nowe, when wee had dined, wee all wente 
 up to Caresbrooke Castell, where wee had not staied 
 above halfe an hower but his Ma*'^ came to us; and 
 aftor he had given everye man his hande to kisse, he 
 made this speach, but not in these woordes, but as well 
 as my memorie will give mee leafe, to this effect — 
 "Gentlemen, I muste informe you that for ye preser- 
 vacion of my life, I wase forced from Hampton Coorte ; 
 for theyre weare a people called Levelors, that had 
 bothe voted and resolved of my dethe ; soe that I coold 
 noe longer dwel there in safetie; and desioringe to bee 
 somewhat secure, till soom happye accommodacion 
 maye be mayde betweene mee and my P'rliament, I 
 haue putt myselve in this place ; for I desior not a drop 
 moore of Christian bloude showlde bee spilt, neythor 
 doo I desior to bee chargeable to anye of you; I shall 
 not desior soe mutch as a capon from anye of you, my 
 resolution in cominge heare beinge but to bee secured 
 tin there maye bee soom happye accomodacion mayde." 
 Aftor this, he cawsed Mr. Legge,^ one of his servants, 
 
 1 "Honest Will Legge, the faithfuUest servant that any prince ever had," 
 was son of Edward Legge, Vice-President of Munster. In his youth he served 
 as a volunteer under Gustavus Adolphus, and Prince Maurice of Orange ; and 
 on his return to England, was appointed Keeper of the King's Wardrobe, and 
 soon after. Groom of the Bedchamber. His stay in the Isle of Wight with 
 the King was brief. In a week or two after his arrival, the Parliamentary 
 troops in the Isl^ii4 were strongly reinforced, and orders were sent to Ham< 
 
THE OGLANDER MEMOIRS. 69 
 
 to reade a kinde of remonstrance, whych itt seemeth he 
 left at Hampton Coorte when he wente thence; but I 
 shall forbeare wryghtinge of that, itt beinge in printe. 
 Mr. Legge demaunded of mee — "What if a greator 
 number of these Levelors shoold come into owre Island 
 then wee weare able to resist? What coorse coold then 
 be taken for his Ma"^ his preservacion ? " I awnsored — 
 Noone that I knewe, but to haue a boate readie to 
 convey him unto ye maynlande. These weare all ye 
 passages on that daye ; and on ye Thursdaye followinge 
 itt pleased his Ma**® to come to my howse att Nunwell ; 
 as mutch unexpected by mee, as his cominge into ye 
 Island. 
 
 When wee came ye Mondaye to Caresbrooke CasteU, 
 his Ma''® was then busye in wryghting those proposi- 
 tiones nowe in printe, whych ye nexte daye he sent to 
 ye P'rliament, and I hope will be acepted. 
 
 mond to dismiss all the King's servants who had been in attendance on him at 
 Oxford. Legge, with Ashbumham and Berkeley, retired to Newport ; and after 
 narrowly escaping being implicated in the "mutiny" raised there by Captain 
 Burley, was, by the Governor's command, conveyed on shipboard and sent out 
 of the Island. After the death of the King, Legge was accused of high 
 treason, and imprisoned at Bristol, and subsequently in Arundel Castle, but was 
 released through the influence of the speaker Lenthall. This service he repaid 
 by procuring a pardon for Lenthall at the Restoration, who as an acknowledg- 
 ment left Legge a legacy. He fought in the battle of Worcester, in which he 
 was wounded and taken prisoner ; and only saved his life by escaping from 
 Coventry gaol in his wife's clothes. He was burgess for Southampton in the 
 " Pension Parliament" of Chas. II., and died in 1672. His eldest son, George, 
 was appointed Governor of Portsmouth in 1673, and in 1682 was elevated 
 to the peerage with the title of Lord Dartmouth. 
 
70 THE OGLANDBE MEMOIRS. 
 
 His Ma**®'^ farewell speach unto ye Lordes Com- 
 misioners att Nuport, November ye 27th, 1648.^ 
 
 The Commisioners cominge to take theyre leafe of his 
 Ma*'"' hee spoke as foUowes: — "My Lordes, you are 
 come to take your leafe of me, and I beleeve wee shall 
 scarcely evor see one another agayne ; but God's will be 
 done; I thank God I haue made my peace with him, 
 and shal not feare whatsoever hee shal bee pleased to 
 suffer men to do unto mee. You cannot but knowe 
 that in my fall and ruine you see your owne, and that 
 olso neer unto you; I praye God send you bettor 
 fryndes then I haue found. 
 
 I am fully informed of ye whoole carridge of ye plot 
 agaynst mee and mine ; and nothinge soe mutch afEictes 
 mee as ye feelinge I haue of ye suferinges of my sub- 
 iectes, and ye miseries y* hang over my three king- 
 domes, drawn upon them by those whoe, upon pretenses 
 of goode, violentUe poursue theyre owne interestes and 
 endes." 
 
 His Ma"" delivered these wordes with mutch 
 
 1 This speech was spoken at the conclusion of the so-called Treaty of 
 Newport ; the uegociations of which lasted from October 2 to November 27, 
 1648. Two days after the latter date, the King was seized by the army and 
 conveyed to Hurst Castle. The Commissioners were fifteen in number, the 
 Earls of Northumberland, Pembroke, Middlesex, Salisbury, and Lord Viscount 
 Say and Sele, representing the Lords; and Lord Wenman, Sir Harbottle 
 Grimston, Sir J. Potts, Sir Harry Vane, junior, Denzil HoUis, Wm. Pierre- 
 point, John Crewe, Saml. Browne, J. Glynn, Recorder of London, and John 
 Bulkeley, Esqs., members of the House of Commons. 
 
THE OGLANDER MEMOIES. 71 
 
 chearfulnesse and with a serene cowntenance, and 
 carridge free from anie disturbance; and thus hee 
 p'rted with ye Lordes and Oommisioners, leavinge 
 manie tender impressiones, if not in them, it in ye 
 other hearors. 
 
 A NOATE OF YE GENTLEMEN AND KnIGHTES THAT HAUE 
 BEENE OF LATE DATES InHABITANTES OF YE IlE OF 
 
 Wyght. 
 [Among the MSS. of Sir J. Oglander are many notices of 
 manors and families of older date than those classed 
 under this heading, and the most important of them 
 are here inserted as their most fitting place.'\ 
 
 YAVERLAND. 
 
 German Eychardes wase ye fyrst of yt famely that 
 came into owre Island in Queene Marie's reynge; he 
 wase a Welschman and servant to ye Earl of Lincolne, 
 Lord AdmiroU, whoe gave him ye Vice-Admiroltie of 
 ye Island. He maryed a widdowe of ye Eyces ; lived 
 att Bradinge. in ye howse on ye sowth side of ye 
 church; kept a brewhowse theyre, and by ventynge of 
 ye beare to shipes at St. Hellens (which wase then 
 as Cows is nowe) grewe rych, and pourchased Yaverland 
 of one Hyde Cotsale and others, on whom ye ryght 
 
72 THE OGLANDEE MEMOIES. 
 
 then wase; lived honestlye, and dyed well; leavinge 
 three sonnes and four dawghtors; one dawghtor mar- 
 yed to Mr. Dennis, another to Mr.Wryght^ of East Meane 
 (Hanberry of Berryton beinge a coheir of Wryght) ; an 
 other to Sturgis, and ye other to Mr. Brenne, ye maddest 
 best companion, but somewhat deboyst, that evor I 
 knewe. 
 
 MEKSTON. 
 
 These Chekes (or in awntient tymes Cheekehills) came 
 owt of ye howse of Motston : this Edward Cheke now 
 hvinge, maryed 3 wyfes, one — the dawghtor of Mr. 
 Thomas Dennys; Ehnor (by whom he had all his 
 children) wase ye daughtor of Sir William Oglander; 
 Ann, ye last, wase a Percivall of Somersetshyre, and ye 
 widdowe of one Parsons, a common attowrneye. He 
 wase a braue, noble gentleman, a good seaman and 
 fellowe ; he had a fayre estate, but an ill howsband and 
 sowlde mutch ; he bwylt ye newe howse in his seconde 
 wyfe's time ; Sir John Oglander gave him moste of ye 
 timbor yt bwylt itt. He had by his seconde wyfe five 
 sonnes — John yt dyed in ye warres in ye Low Coun- 
 tereyes ; Henry that dyed in ye Isle of Eez ; Edward, ye 
 seconde sonn, maryed Grace, ye dawghtor of WiUiam 
 
 1 The last descendant of the Richards family bequeathed Yaverland to a 
 Kev. Mr. Wright, and the estate continued with his successors till the death 
 of J. A. Wright, Esq., of Orowsley Park, Oxford, in 1822. 
 
THE OGLANDEE MEMOIRS. 73 
 
 Broade, a shopkeper of Newport ; Francis, his dawghtor, 
 dyed at schoole at Salisburye. 
 
 APSE. 
 
 Mr. Baskett came into owre Island in Henry ye 8th 
 reygne, beinge a younger brother of an awntient famely 
 in Dorsetshyre. They bowght Bangborne and there 
 fyrst seated themselves, and exchanged it with Eyce for 
 his lease of Apse. Eychard, ye fathor of this Eychard 
 nowe livinge, was a proper, honest, active gentleman; 
 he bought Apse and Wroxall in fee fferme of my Lord 
 of Holdernesse,^ to whom ye King had geven it; which 
 wase his undoinge, he beinge in debt before, and I 
 wisch his sonn may recover it. His first wyfe wase ye 
 dawghtor of Mr. Thos. Dennys, by whom he had one 
 dawghtor, fyrst maryed to Eychard, the sonn of William 
 Broad of Nuport ; her seconde howsband wase Barnabye, 
 ye 3rd sonn of Mr. Barnabye Leygh of Northcoourt; 
 his seconde wyfe wase a Cotton, by whome he had 2 
 sonnes and 4 dawghtors. 
 
 BANGBORNE. 
 
 The fyrst of ye Eyces came as a servingman with Sir 
 James Worseleye into owre Island, and by his meanes 
 procured him a lease of ye fferme of Apse, whych did 
 belong to ye Abbeye of Christchurch, which they aftor- 
 
 1 John Ramsay, Viscount Haddington, and Earl of Holdemess, the first 
 and last holder of these titles, died without issue, 1625. 
 
74 THE OGLANDER MEMOIRS. 
 
 wardes exchanged with ye Basketts, of Bangborne ; they 
 haue alwayes beene good honest men, and in ye faschion 
 betweene a ffermor and a gentelman. 
 
 STENBURYE. 
 
 The de Haynoes weare Lords of Stenbury, anno 1488, 
 when ye ffrench had taken ye Island and beseyghed 
 Caresbroke Castle.^ One Petrus de Heynoe came to 
 Sir Hugh Tyrell, then Captayne of ye Island, and tolde 
 him he woold undertake with his sillver bowe to kill ye 
 Commaunder of ye Ffrench takinge his time, for he had 
 observed him how nyghtes and morninges he came 
 neare ye Castle; which on leave he kiUed owt of a 
 loopehole on ye west syde of ye Castle, and by that 
 meanes browght ye ffrench to a composition to take 
 1000 markes to be begone, and to doe no further 
 harme ; on which embassage one of ye Oglanders wase 
 imployed and effected it. How this famely came to be 
 extinct I knowe not, but it came to Eatcliffe, Earl of 
 Sussex, whoe sowlde it to Mr. Thomas "Worseleye, and 
 Eatcliffe marryed ye dawghtor and heyre of Anthony 
 Powndes. 
 
 1 In 1377, when the towns of Newport, FrancheviUe, and Yarmouth were 
 sacked and burnt, and an unsuccessful attack made upon Southampton, Caris- 
 brooke Castle alone held out, and repulsed the invaders, who lost many men 
 in an ambuscade. 
 
 2 Henry Ratcliffe, Earl of Sussex, married Honora, daughter and heiress 
 of Anthony Pounds. He died 1593. 
 
THE OGLANDER MEMOIRS. 75 
 
 WOLVERTON, ICNYGHTON, APLEDERCOMBE, ETC. 
 
 Hackett hath bene a awntient and woorshipful famely 
 in owre Island ; they lived at Wolverton in Bynbridge, 
 and sometimes at Knyghton. They had (aftor it wase 
 taken from ye Abbottes of Montes Burgii) Apleder- 
 combe and Weeke, which Leygh had by matchinge with 
 his dawghtor and heyre, and Woorseleye by matchinge 
 with ye dawghtor and heyre of Leygh. 
 
 CLATTEKFORDE. 
 
 At Olatterforde hveth one James Eookley, a member 
 of that awntient howse ; this man hath lived theyre, and 
 his awncestors inoyed that smal thinge he is nowe 
 theyre possessed of evor since Edward ye fyrst's reygne ; 
 as may appeare by a dede from Isabella de Fortibus to 
 his awncestor. 
 
 OSBERON. 
 
 Lyvibon hath bene an awntient name in owre Island. 
 Thos. bwylt ye newe house at Osberon, which his sonn 
 solde to Captayne Mann, and hath bene ye ruine of that 
 howse; soome bwyldeth and soome destroyeth. The 
 owld man Thomas Livibone (or as soom imagine, de la 
 bone Isle) wase an honest able gentleman. 
 
 WHIPINGAME. 
 
 The Cheke-hills, or Cheke-huUs, from ye place of 
 theyre aboade, as beinge on a hill, as one woold say 
 Oheke of ye Hill. This wase a verie awntient famelye. 
 
76 THE OGLANDER MEMOIES. 
 
 Theyre habitation in Henrye ye 3rd reygne wase at 
 Whipingame, but there weare manie famelyes of ye 
 name/ and I verilye conceve these Chekes nowe 
 hvinge amongst us are hnioU descended from these 
 Chekehills, and eythor by marridge or pourchase came 
 by Motston, where theyre awntient seat as Chekes is. 
 For aftor Glamorgan left Motston, whoe wase ye 
 awntient honnor of it, I finde ye Chekes immediately 
 to succeed them; as Cheke of Merstone, and Sir 
 Thomas Cheke of Motston, in Henry ye 8th reygne; 
 and as for Boutteville in Northamptonshyre, he came 
 owt of this Island as one of ye awntient Chekehills, and 
 matched with ye dawghtor and heyre of Boutteville and 
 tooke that name, but continueth his own coate ; which 
 coate Cheke givinge induceth mee to beleeve they come 
 from these Chekehills. But Thomas Cheke, a lewde 
 sonn of a discrete father, so wide Motston to Mr. Dyl- 
 lington, 1623, and soe mutch for both these famelyes, 
 both of ye Chekehills, and Cheke^ of Motston, and 
 Cheke of Merstone; and Sir Thomas Cheke^ of Essex. 
 
 1 In the Inquisitiones post mortem, 5th Edward II., appears — "Juliana, the 
 wife of Hugh de Chigehull, Wacklonde, one messuage, and sixty acres of land 
 and pasture. " 
 
 2 Sir John Cheke, the reviver and Professor of Greek at Cambridge, and 
 tutor to King Edward VI. , was a member of this family. He was bom at 
 Cambridge in 1514; his sister, Mary, was the first wife of his pupil, CeoU, 
 Lord Burghley. 
 
 3 Grandson of Sir John Cheke ; Knighted by James I. He purchased the 
 estate of Pyrgo, near Romford, in Essex, and died 1659. His eldest son. Col. 
 Cheke, was Lieutenant of the Tower in the reigns of Charles II. and James II. 
 
THE OGLANDER MEMOIRS. 77 
 
 WOTTON. 
 
 Sir John Lislie^ of Woditon in the Isle of Wyght, 
 nowe caled Wotton, wase ye last of ye linioU stem of that 
 honorable famely of the de Lislies or de Insula, takeing 
 theyre name from ye place of theyre aboad (aftor the 
 Conquest) in this Island. This Sir John de Insula lived 
 and dyed in Henry ye 8th rayne; he had only one 
 dawghtor, which he maryed to Sir Roger Kingston a 
 courtior, and had a good place about ye Kinge. Sir 
 Eoger Kingston and his wyfe both died before Sir John 
 Lislie, levinge but one dawghtor named Marie; this 
 Marie beinge one of ye greatest matches then in 
 England greate swyte wase made for her, as beinge 
 heyre to Lisle and Kingston bothe. Whereupon Sir 
 John Lislie desiringe ye continuance of his name and 
 famely, and hauinge at that time one Thomas Lislie 
 wayghtinge on him, beinge 3rd sonn of Lislie of Keinton, 
 a place neare Thruxon, where in ye winter time, Sir 
 
 1 Sir John Lisle was Sheriff of Hampshire in 1506. In an inquisition 
 taken in the latter part of the XV. century, the possessions of Sir John Lisle 
 in Hampshire and Wiltshire were — the bailiwick of Chute Forest ; the Manors 
 of Chute, Holt, Wodyton, Shenkeling, Shorewell, Rewe, Bonchurche, Appul- 
 dinford, Blaokpan, Briddelsford, Mottestone, Underolyife, Bathingboume, 
 Hartingshott, Chalcroft, Eowde, and Mannesbridge ; Messuages at Bradford, 
 Wodehouse, Charleton, IKinge's Enham, and Knight's Enham; the Manor and 
 Advowson of Throkeston, and the Advowson of Chumyton. Mansbridge is in 
 the parish of South Stoneham, Hants ; and though somewhat disguised by the 
 quaint orthography, the names of the manors in the Isle of Wight may readily 
 ^e recognised, 
 
78 THE OGLANDEB MEMOIRS. 
 
 John Lislie commonly lived (this Lislie of Keinton wase 
 sertaynely of ye same howse and famely, but descended 
 owt of the same longe before, and ye name of cosons 
 only remayned), Sir John Lislie to avoyd sutors and for 
 ye reasons abovesayd maried this Marie Kingston to 
 Mr. Thomas Lislie, a young gentleman, 3rd brother and 
 of the same famely of the de Insulas, then wayghtinge 
 on him. The eldor brother of this Thomas had butt 
 one dawghtor, who one Eogiors of Cannington in Somer- 
 setshyre maried, and had by her Keinton Parke and 
 Nettlestone, and divors other landes in ye Isle of 
 Wyght; which Eogiors the sonn sowld as he did Parke 
 and Nettlestone to my fathor. Lancelott, the second 
 brother, hved as an officer att ye Abbie of Quarr. 
 Thomas Lislie wase nowe Knighted, but hauinge no 
 child by his wyfe, she beinge fayre, butt weake and 
 sillie. Sir John LisUe still livinge and doubtinge least 
 ye famely woold be extinct, dyed, and gave in his will, 
 Woditon and those landes nowe in the occupation of 
 Sir WiUiam Lislie, nowe honnor of Woditon, to Lancelott 
 Lislie, ye second brother of Sir Thomas Lislie, and to 
 issue, if Sir Thomas and Marie his wyfe showld die 
 without issue. Sir John wase very tendor of conscience, 
 for as on ye one syde he desiored to rayse his name, 
 so he wase loft to doe an unjust act, to take from ye 
 heyres generoll; for Philpott maried one of ye awntes 
 
THE OGLANDEE MEMOIRS. 79 
 
 of Sir John Lislie, and another, theye beinge the 
 
 2 coheyres. Philpott had children, ye other Mr. 
 
 had only 2 dawghtors, which one Mr. Samberon 
 maried one, and Mr. Dennis maried the other; and 
 they 2 had butt as mutch as Philpott, by which you 
 may see the greatnes of Sir John Lislie's estate. For 
 Sir Edward Dennis at this time hath no landes but 
 sutch as by that match he had of Sir John Lislie's, 
 besydes mutch that they have since sowld. Sir John 
 Lishe died, and wase buryed at Thruxon.^ Marie 
 Kingston, or Kingson, dyed, by whose death all King- 
 son's estate" descended to ye Kinge James. Aftor the 
 dethe of Sir Thomas, who lived not long aftor. Sir John 
 Lislie's estate wase rent in divors peeces. Lancelott 
 Lislie had Woditon by will of Sir John Lislie, and that 
 land they nowe holde. Philpott had ye moyitie of ye 
 remaynder, with ye awntient howse Thruxon. Dennis 
 and Samberon had ye other moyitie betwene them, as 
 comminge from 2 sistors. Lancelott Lislie had butt 
 one dawghtor, maried to Eogiers of Cannington, ye 
 3rd sonn wase Sir Thomas. Lancelott had for his eldest 
 sonn, Thomas ; Thomas had for his eldest sonn, Anthonie ; 
 Anthonie had Sir William, now livinge ; Sir William hath 
 John. Sic transit gloria mundi. 
 
 1 Thruxton, a parish in Hampshire, near Andover. In the church is a 
 fine brass with canopy of John, Lord Lisle, 1407. 
 
80 THE OGLANDER MEMOIRS. 
 
 BRIDLESFORD. 
 
 Thomas Lislie, brother to Anthony, and unkill to Sir 
 William, lived well, and bwylt that howse ; maryed 
 ye sistor of Barnebye Colenett, by whome he had 2 
 dawghtors, his heyres; one marryed to Mr. Muschampe 
 of Eowbarnes in Surry, and ye other to Mr. Chafin in 
 Dorsetshyre. 
 
 HAZELY, COMELY, NUNAM, AND QUARR. 
 
 Eychard Milles bowght it on ye disolution (belong- 
 inge to Quarr as ye Graunge) with Comely, Nunam and 
 Quarr itselve. Eychard dyed, and left it to his sonn 
 George, who maryed an heyre in ye north, and lived 
 woorshippfuUy ; wase a Justice of Peace, and kept a 
 braue howse. He dyed without issue, and left itt to his 
 brother's sonn. Sir Eychard Milles, who sowld it (for 
 nothinge) to Sir Thomas Fleminge, Lord Chyfe Justice 
 of ye Kinge's Bench, whose fathor wase a merchaunt in 
 Nuport; he dyed, and left it to his sonn, Sir Thomas, 
 who maryed a Crumwell;^ and had issue, olso Thomas, 
 whoe is ownor of it. So nowe you may see yt greate 
 Abby of Quarr, founded by Baldwin Eyvors, nowe come 
 to ye posteritie of a merchaunt of Nuport. tempora, 
 mores. 
 
 ]y/[strs ]\/[ines, wyfe of George, lived longe a widdowe, 
 
 1 Sir Thos. Fleming, son and successor to the Lord Chief Justice, who died 
 1613, married Dorothy, daughter of Sir Henry Cromwell, aunt to the Protector, 
 
THE OGLANDER MEMOIRS. 81 
 
 kept a braue howse, soiurned Sir Edward Horsey, 
 browght up moste of ye yonge gentlewomen in ye 
 Island, and had ye swaye of ye Island for many yeres. 
 She and Sir Edward lived together at Hazely ; not with- 
 out soome taxe of incontinency ; for nothinge stoped 
 theyre maryadge but that he had a wyfe aUve in 
 ffrance. She dyed ano dom. 1603.1 
 
 ASCHYE. 
 
 Gyles Woorsley wase ye fyrst that came into ye Island 
 of that fiameley; he maryed a Tannor's widdowe that 
 dwelt at Eide Howse, by whome he had no chyld ; then 
 he maryed Mr. Geo. Oglander's sistor, on whom he 
 gott James ; then he maryed a Tychbourne, by whom 
 he had two sonnes, Thomas and John. James, his eldest 
 sonn, dyed at Nunwell at ye twenty-second yere of his 
 age. and gave his land att Aschye, that his fathor pour- 
 chased on ye disolution, to his brother Thomas; but 
 beinge butt of ye halfe blood, there came one Sir Eobert 
 Woorselye owt of Lancashire, and recovered ye third 
 parte, which he sowld to Mr. Anthonye Dyllington, and 
 remaynes as part of ye Manor of Knyghton. Thomas 
 maryed a Bowyer,^ an inherytrixe, by whom he had one 
 sonn named Bowyer, and two dawghtors ; one dawghtor 
 
 1 In his notice of her tomb in Arreton Church, Sir John states that she 
 died in 1624. 1603 is more likely to be the true date, as Sir Edward Horsey 
 died of the plague, at Hazeley, in March, 1582. 
 
 2 Daughter of William Bowyer, of Hoo, Hants. 
 
 I 
 
82 THE OGLANDER MEMOIRS. 
 
 named Dorothye maryed to one Wooden; Alee mar- 
 yed Persone Moore, ^ of Motstone. Bowyer had £200 a 
 yere in Sussex by his mother, and maryed Annys, the 
 dawghtor of one Mr. Snell, of Glostershyre, by whome he 
 had one sonn, John, that dyed 20 yeres of age (at whose 
 christninge wase ye greatest drinckinge and uncivil 
 mirth that evor I knewe; ye Earle of Holdernesse^ wase 
 one of his godfathors ; aftor dinner they were to drincke 
 healthes, and he had provided a 100 musketiors, 50 in 
 ye garden, and 50 in ye coourt, and at every healthe 
 these must come and discharge into ye parlour doors, 
 where they dranke as mutch smoake as wine) ; and two 
 dawghtors, Francis and Barbarye. Francis maryed 
 one Hobson, of Essex, and Barbarye one Thornton,^ of 
 
 1 The Rev. W. More, presented to the living of Mottistone by T. Cooke, 
 Esq., 1619. 
 
 2 John Ramsay, who was page to King James, and attended him on hia visit 
 to the Earl of Gowrie, in 1600. For his services there in rescuing the King from 
 the attack of the conspirators he was rewarded with the title of Viscount 
 Haddington. He accompanied the King into England, and in 1620 was created 
 Baron Kingston, and Earl of Holdemess. Of the King's lands in the Island, 
 he obtained a grant of Apse and Wroxall, which he sold to Mr. Baskett. His 
 titles became extinct at his death in 1625. The Earl, though a Scotchman, was 
 witty ; and, being a favourite, would sometimes raise a laugh at the expense of 
 hia royal master. According to L'Estrange, the King one day going hunting, 
 with his person and clothes begrimed with dirt and filth. Lord Holdemess ex- 
 claimed to the surrounding attendants, in the King's presence, — "My Lords, 
 see our Solomon ! la thia the Solomon you talk of ? If ever old Solomon in all 
 his royalty was arrayed like ours, I'll be hanged." 
 
 3 "Old Thornton" and his son "came into the Island," and were there 
 entertained by Sir Bowyer Worsley. The younger Thornton and Sir Bowyer's 
 daughter, Barbara, appear to have contracted a clandestine marriage ; as Sir 
 
THE OGLANDER MEMOIRS. 83 
 
 Sussex. This Bowyer was knyghted, and sowlde all in 
 Sussex that he had by his mother, to a Londinor, and 
 Aschey to Mr. Cottele,i a Dutchman's sonn. The father 
 of Bowyer wase ye maddest fellowe that evor ye Island 
 bredd; it woold aske a volume to tell all his madd 
 pranckes — as maryinge his mayde, his former wyfe 
 alive ; Sir Bowyer did not mutch degenerate, it a good 
 neyghbour to them he did affect. He wase improvident, 
 which cawsed him to spend and to be the overthrowe of 
 that howse, and I feare misery wiU, be his end. 
 
 KNYGHTON. 
 
 Sir Theobalde de Georges, Knyght, lived at Knyghton 
 - (alias Knyghtown), they weare a verie awntient famelye, 
 
 Bowyer was not informed of it till too late, nor was, possibly, "Old Thornton," 
 wlio on hearing of the matter, "went away in a rage." Sir Bowyer sent his 
 son after him, and kept his daughter at home. Several meetings then followed, 
 and efforts were made to come to an agreement satisfactory to both parties. 
 Thornton and his son demanded £1000 as a portion with Sir Bowyer's daughter ; 
 Sir Bowyer strove hard to make it £500, but finally agreed to pay £500 down, 
 and to sign a bond for another £500, with the understanding that the bond 
 would be considered fictitious, and only to show ostensibly that the portion of 
 his daughter was £1000. This passed for the time, but there are two parties to 
 a bargain ; and shortly after Sir Bowyer was arrested on his bond. On appli- 
 cation to Lord Conway he procured his liberty, and in June, 1629, he again 
 petitioned the same nobleman for a place in a royal ship or castle, or at least a 
 protection from arrest. — S.P., Dom., Vol. 144- iSS9. 
 
 1 Thomas Coteile, the younger. Sheriff for Hants, 1631, who settled the 
 lands he purchased on the issue of his sister Mary, wife of Sir Richard 
 Edgcumbe, Kt., of Mount Edgcumbe, Devon. Her son, Piers Edgoumbe, 
 succeeded to the property in 1640. In 1646, he was treated as a delinquent 
 by the Parliamentary Commissioners; his estates were sequestered, and he 
 was fined £2500. £50 per an. was ordered to be paid out of the profits of 
 the impropriated Rectory of Newchurch, part of the delinquent's estate. 
 
 i2 
 
84 THE OGLAUDER MEMOIRS. 
 
 and lived there verie well; they had theyre chappell, 
 and there, weare manie of them buryed, and had fayre 
 monumentes ; ye chappeU is nowe tourned to a brew- 
 howse, and ye churchyarde to an orchard. They had a 
 parke there on ye west syde of ye howse, and ye village 
 wase called Knyghtes Towne, or Knyghton nowe, and 
 ye howse, Knyghton Georges. The Lady EUenor de 
 Georges wase possessor of itt in Edward ye Fyrst's 
 reygne, and helde Knyghton by three Knyghtes' fees; 
 My Lord Georges,^ of Wiltshyre, commeth of a yonger 
 howse of these Georges. Itt aftorwardes by matches 
 came to ye Hacketts,^ and from them to ye Gilbertes, 
 of whom Mr. Anthonye Dylhngton^ bowght itt in ye 
 lattor ende of Henry 8th reygne. 
 
 ROWRIDGE. 
 
 The Gilbertes weare an awntient name in owre 
 Island, they weare awntiently possessors of Eowridge 
 and Haddele. They became aftorwardes by marridge, 
 to be honnors of Knyghton, whiche they sowlde to Mr. 
 Anthonye DyUington, and then seated themselves in 
 Somersetshyre. 
 
 1 Sir Edward Gorges, of Langford, Wilts, created Baron Gorges, of Dun- 
 dalk, 1620. Extinct 1712. 
 
 2 Haokett married one of the co-heiresses of Sir Maurice Russell. The 
 last of this name left two daughters, one of whom, Joan, married Gilbert, of 
 Whitcombe, Somerset. 
 
 3 Anthony Dillin|ton bought Knyghton in 1563. 
 
THE OGLANDEK MEMOIRS. 85 
 
 EAST STANNUM (sTANDBn). 
 
 I fynd by awntient evidences that William Urrey,^ 
 Esq., in Edward ye 4tli reynge, had but 2 dawghtors, 
 which HoUis and Bremshotte maryed, and had Urreye's 
 estate betwixt them. I olso fynd that ye awntient Urrey 
 lived at East Stannum, but wheathor he had it from 
 Everci, eythor by match or pourchase, itt is uncertayne. 
 With this awntient Urrey, the Oglanders hath matched 
 in theyre howse, and theye in the Oglanders. Butt 
 although by awthoritie they nowe giveth ye 3 faulcons,^ 
 ye awntient coate of ye Urryes, it there may be a 
 quere how they deriveth themselves from those Urryes. 
 
 EAST NIINWELL. 
 
 The Keenes weare an awntient name, they weare 
 ownors of East Nunwell by a match from whome Eopely 
 of Ohiddingefold in Sussex hadd it, whoe sowlde itt in 
 fee fferme to OHver Oglander, Esqr., and aftorwardes ye 
 
 1 In a Chantry Certificate EoU of Edward VI. is found: — "The chaple of 
 Standeu, founded by thanncestors of William Urrey, to thentente to haue a 
 prest to singe for ever for thease of them and theyre famylye, and also to 
 mynister all sacramentes to them and theyre famylye. The same chaple is 
 scituate and edyfyed w'thin the p'risch of Arreton in the Isle of Wyghte, half 
 a myle dyataunt from ye p'risch church. The value of the lande and tythes to 
 the same chaple belongynge by yeare, £iiij vjs., viijd.," of which sum, after 
 deducting a tenth, rent to the King, and 3s.4d. to the Vicar of Arreton, there 
 remained £3 13s. 4d., "which one John Reeve, clerk, dothe reeeyve to his 
 owne use, not servinge or mynystrynge there aocordinge to thentente of the 
 founders." 
 
 2 The arms of the Urreys were gules, a chevron between three falcons 
 argent. 
 
86 THE OGLANDER MEMOIRS. 
 
 fee to Sir John Oglander. Eychard Keene^. of this 
 famely lived in Henry ye Seventh's reygne, and wase 
 wryghten Esqr.; he marry ed Cicely,^ one of ye 
 dawghtors of Edward ye 4th, King of England, being 
 her last howsband ; he wase a verie p'sonable man, and 
 lived here in ye Island with his wyfe at East Stannum ; 
 where he buryed her, and had her enterred in ye 
 greate church in ye Abbye of Quarre accordinge to 
 her dignitye. 
 
 WEST NUNWELL. 
 
 Nowe altogeathor delapidated, before itt wase con- 
 sumed with fyre in Henry VI. tyme, itt wase a goodlie 
 howse, and a greate vilage of 50 howses belonginge to 
 itt, wherein there wase neare 100 inhabitantes or moore. 
 The de Oglanders is as awntient as anj^ famelye in ye 
 Island. They came in with Conquest owt of Normandie, 
 and receaveth name from ye appelation of ye place in 
 Normandie from whence they came. And they haue 
 not wanted Knyghtes olso to this fyrst hundred yeres 
 aftor ye Conquest than they haue since; yett this is 
 theyre comforte, that they haue not only bene matched 
 
 1 By some writers called Kyme, and stated be of a Lincolnshire family. 
 
 2 She was the third daughter of Edward IV. by his wife Elizabeth, and 
 was betrothed when very young to the Prince Royal of Scotland, son of 
 James III. Her first husband was John Lord Welles, a cousin of Henry VII., 
 by whom she had two daughters. He died in 1498, and his widow married 
 Keene, or Kyme, about the beginning of 1504. She died August 24, 1507. 
 
THE OGLANDEE MEMOIES. 87 
 
 and given wyfes to moste of ye awntient famelyes of ye 
 Island, but that ye name is still extant in a linioU 
 descent from fathor to sonn, which I wisch maye longe 
 continue. The awntient howse of theyre habitation 
 wase at West Nunwell, where wase awntiently a greate 
 village, where they had 40 tennantes under them, and 
 a fayre howse, till it wase twyce burned — once by ye 
 enemye when that sepulture wase on topp of ye hiU, 
 and once by casualtie. 
 
 THE PRIOEY OF ST. HELLENS. 
 
 Mr. EmanueU Badd wase a verie poor man's sonn, 
 and bownd aprentice to one Bernard, a shoomaker in 
 Nuport ; but by God's blessinge and ye losse of 5 wyfes, 
 he grewe very ritch,^ pourchased ye priory, and mutch 
 other landes in ye Island ; at last he pourchased Chumsly 
 fferme, which he had by his last wyfe, being a rehct of 
 
 1 Mr. E. Badd was High Sheriff of Hampshire 1627. Towards the end of 
 his life he left the Island, and dying, was buried in the old church at Fareham, 
 Hants, where, before its restoration in 1887, his epitaph could be read as fol- 
 lows on a slab in the chancel : — 
 
 "On the truly worthy Emanuel Bad, Esquire. 
 Reader knowst thou who loges here 
 He tell thee : — when I have I feare 
 Thoult scarce beleeve mee, — tis good Bad ; 
 Noe contradiction neither I have had 
 The triall of this truth, and on this stone 
 Engrave this wish now hee is gone. 
 Soe good a Bad doth this same grave contain 
 Would all like Bad were that with us remaine. 
 Hee deceased August the 18th 1632. " 
 In 1637 Thos. Badd, of Fareham, son of Emanuel, was summoned before the 
 Court of Star Chamber for refusing to pay the amount of ship money at which 
 he had been assessed. 
 
88 THE OGLANDER MEMOIRS. 
 
 Ludloe; he wase a verie honest man, and a verie good 
 frynd of mine. 
 
 BUDBRIDGE. 
 
 Eychard Cooke, of Budbridge, wase Captayne of 
 Sandam Castell, a braue fellowe, came alwayes to 
 Arreton Church in his wrought velvet gowne, and 12 
 of his sowldiors with haUbardes wayghted upon him. 
 His estate fell to 2 dawghtors, Captayne Bourly marryed 
 one, and Hambrydge ye other. 
 
 LANGUARD. 
 
 The Knyghtes^ weare nevor accompted any gentle- 
 men. I knewe weU Michael Knyght, the fathor of this 
 Thos. now Uvinge, who woold nevor be called other 
 than Goodman Knyght. He marryed with ye sistor of 
 olde Thomas Urrye, by whom he had this Thomas, now 
 livinge, who marryed with one of ye dawghtors of 
 Page, of Sevington, a rytch ffermor, and in tyme (he 
 gettinge wealth) may tourne gentleman. 
 
 GROVE. 
 
 Fitchett hath bene an awntient name, and many gen- 
 tlemen of that famely, this is of ye younger howse, the 
 elder extinct in heyres females, the confusion of many 
 good famelys ; and with God's blessinge he may growe 
 up agayne as ye Urryes hath. 
 
 1 The nave of Brading Church is partly paved with the tombstones of this 
 family, many having their armorial bearings. 
 
THE OGLANDER MEMOIRS. 89 
 
 HALE. 
 
 Awntiently Hawle, where ye awntient famely of De 
 Aula lived; they weare Knyghtes of good accoumpt, 
 and lived in S' Laurance p'rish, or neare theyre aboutes. 
 Undor Wade alias Wathe, or Ware, theyre howses name 
 "wase called Hawle. William Eussell,i of Yaverland, 
 Knyght, marryed ye dawghtor and heyre of Sir Thomas 
 Hawle. And soe ye eldor howse of these Hawles weare 
 extinct, but theyre weare manie younger brothers' 
 children. Insomutch as theyre be many of ye name 
 still left ahve in ye Island, butt of no greate fortunes, 
 wherefore they ar not nowe in the esteeme of gentle- 
 men. A Knyght of this famely wase witness to ye 
 charter grawnted by Isabella, Ladye of ye Islande, to 
 ye towne of Nuport. 
 
 Shambler^ is butt a yeoman, his predecessors beinge 
 only ffermors of Binbridge Ferme. This William nowe 
 living, is a gentill fellowe, and a pretty schoUer; he 
 maryed ye dawghtor of one Mr. Smith in Sussex. 
 
 PANN. 
 
 Barnabye Colenet^ and his father, who wase a greate 
 
 1 By his second wife, Jane, daughter of Rob. Peverell, ancestor of the Dukes 
 of Bedford. 
 
 2 At the time this was written, the Manor of Hale was in the possession of 
 Sir John Oglander, and Shambler was his tenant. He was one of the select 
 farmers who took part in the diversions of the governor and gentry of the 
 Island at their meetings on St. George's Down. 
 
 3 Colnett purchased the Manor of Pan from the trustees of Thomas Carew, 
 Esq., about the beginning of the reign of Queen Mary. 
 
90 THE OGLANDER MEMOIES. 
 
 mann with Sir Edward Horsey, weare possessors of 
 Pann; but Edward,^ his unthriftie sonn, so wide it to Mr. 
 Thomas Kemp. 
 
 WAYGHTES COORTE. 
 
 Wayght, of Wayghtes Coorte, hath beene a very 
 awntient gentleman in owre Island ; I bowght itt of him 
 for my nephewe, Kempe,^ for 2500£, so Wayght is 
 nowe extinct. 
 
 KINGESTON. 
 
 The Kingestones line, masculine, ended in Eychard ye 
 2nd reygne, and one Drewe, of Sussex, maryed ye 
 heyre female; who had but one dawghtor, which ye 
 sonn of one Mewse that dwelt at Lymingeton, maryed ; 
 and 80 came to be honnor of Kingeston. Mewse, of 
 Lymingeton, theyre lyeth buryed with an inscription on 
 a marble stone. There hath beene 3 Knyghtes of ye 
 Mewses since they came to itt : Sir WiUiam that wase a 
 sowldier in Spayne, and Sir John and Wilham in Eange 
 James' reygne. 
 
 Sir John, the fathor of Sir William Mewx, or Mewse, 
 they came into ye Island about Eychard ye Second's 
 reyne, and matched with Ann, ye dawghtor and heyre 
 
 1 Edward Colnett sold all hia lands in tlie Island, among them Combley 
 and Pan, and emigrated to Virginia. 
 
 2 Son of Thomas Kemp, Esq., of the New Forest, who married Mary, sister 
 of Sir J. Oglander. 
 
THE OGLANDEE MBMOmS. 91 
 
 of Eychard Drew, who maryed ye dawghtor and heyre 
 of that awntient famely of ye De Kingestones, and so 
 came to be possessed of Kingeston, and that landes 
 they nowe hathe. Sir John Mewx wase ye fyrst knyght 
 of ye name here in owre Island, who maryed Cycely, 
 ye dawghtor of one Button, and had issue, 2 sonnes and 
 2 dawghtors. Sir WilUam, ye eldest sonn, maryed for 
 his fyrst wyfe ye dawghtor of Sir Francis Barrington ; 
 his seconde wyfe, ye widdowe of one Eamon, and sistor 
 to Sir Gilbert^ Gerrard, of Harrow on ye Hill, neare 
 London, by whom he had one dawghtor. Bartholomew 
 maryed olso another sistor of ye sayd Sir Gilbert 
 Gerrard, by whome he had issue. Elinor, ye eldest 
 dawghtor, maryed one Compton,^ of Gloucestershyre ; 
 ye younger dawghtor maryed one Mr. WiUiam Hick- 
 ford,^ of ye same shyre. I beleeve ye Mewxesor Mewys 
 not to be very greate^ gentlemen, for ye fyrst y' maryed 
 Drew's dawghtor, of Kingston, had bene constable of 
 Lymingeton. I haue seene a record of itt, notwith- 
 standinge they may be goode gentlemen.^ 
 
 1 William. 2 W. Compton, Esq., of Hertbury. 
 
 3 W. Higford, Esq., of Dixon. 
 
 4 The Meauxs were really greater gentlemen than Sir John imagined ; as Sir 
 John Meaux, his contemporary, by the marriage of his father, WiUiam Meaux, 
 with Eleanor, daughter of Sir Henry Strangways, could claim descent in the 
 female line from the Nevilles, Earls of Westmoreland, and Edward III. 
 
 5 Iiodovick Meux married Alice, daughter and heir of William Drew, Esq., 
 of Kingston, whose ancestor, William Drew, had married Eleanor, the heiress 
 
92 THE OGLANDER MEMOIRS. 
 
 WOOLVERTON. 
 
 Dinglye came olso into owre Island in Eychard ye 
 Seconde's reygne, beinge of an awntient famely in Kent. 
 John Dinglye, ye grandfather of Sir John nowe livinge, 
 wase long Liftennant of this Island under Sir George 
 Carye, whose sistor/ a handsome woman, Sir William 
 Moore, of Losely, maryed, but dyed without issue. Mr. 
 Eychard Woorseley and he weare both in love with her 
 at one time, but Mr. Woorseley sourrendered to his 
 good frynd Mr. William More, afterwardes knyghted. 
 The fyrst of this famely that came into owre Island 
 matched with ye daughtor and heyre of that awntient 
 famelye Ealfe De Woolverton, by whome they now 
 inioye Woolverton. John Dinglye had one sonn and 
 three dawghtors. Eychard, his sonn, wase ye fathor of 
 this Sir John now Hvinge, and 2 dawghtors. Elizabeth, 
 ye eldest dawghtor of Mr. John Dinglye, maryed Sir 
 
 of the De Kingstons. The grandson of Lodovick Meux, Sir William, was the 
 first knight of this family, and he, after two descents, was succeeded by Sir 
 John Meux, Kt. , of Kingston, who married Cecily, daughter of Sir William 
 Button, Kt. , of Wilts. His son, Sir William Meux, Kt. , married first, Wini- 
 fred, daughter of Sir Francis Harrington, of Barrington Hall, Essex, and had 
 issue, John, his heir, who married Elizabeth, daughter of Sir Richard Worsley, 
 Bt., of Appuldurcombe. This John Meux was created a baronet Dec. 11, 
 1641. The title became extinct in 1706. 
 
 1 Mabel, daughter of Marchion Dingley. Richard Worsley, Captain of the 
 Island, died 1564, and left his former rival, W. More, Esq., of Loseley, Surrey, 
 £20 and one of his geldings, and appointed him one of the trustees of his will. 
 He also left his son George (afterwards Sir George More) his case of silver 
 tools. 
 
THE OGLANDEE MEMOIRS. 93 
 
 John Leygh (they beinge first Lord and Ladye at a 
 Maypole togeathor, by whych you may see ye coustom 
 of those times), whoe succeeded him in his Liftennant's 
 place. He (Mr. J. Dingley) bwylt the newe howse att 
 Woolverton, by whych you may judge of his wisdome. 
 Sir John, ye fyrst Knight of that famely, maryed Jane, 
 ye dawghtor of Doctor Hammon,i sometime schole- 
 mastor of Eaton, and phisition to Kinge James. This 
 Sir John lived altogeathor neare London, and not in 
 owre Island, as beinge drawen thethor by ye instigation 
 of his wyfe and her ffryndes. He wase longe a Justice 
 of ye Peace ; I gave him his oath at Nunwell Anno Dom 
 1614, but he nevor executed his office, beinge made by 
 his fathor-in-lawe's procurement pourposely to take ye 
 place of Mr. Barnabye Leygh,^ his cosen german. Be- 
 tweene these wase nevor good quarter. ^ Mabell, ye 
 
 1 Dr. John Hammond, of Chertsey, physician to Prince Henry, and 
 formerly Professor of Greek in the University of Cambridge, father of the 
 learned Dr. Henry Hammond. 
 
 2 Son of Sir John Leigh, of Northcourt. 
 
 3 Sir John Dingley, probably on account of his father having been Deputy- 
 Lieutenant of the Island under Sir G. Carey, at the command of the Earl of 
 Pembroke, Governor of the Island, drew up and presented to that nobleman 
 a not very favourable report of the state of the Island and its inhabitants in 
 1642. Eobert, son of Sir J. Dingley, was a Puritan divine and Eector of 
 Brighstone, at the time his cousin. Col. Hammond, was Governor of the Island. 
 He was the author of several theological works, and died 1659. On a stone 
 in the chancel of Brighstone Church is this inscription — "Heare lyeth ye 
 body of Mr. Robert Dingley, minister of this place, 2nd son of Sir John 
 Dingley, Kt., who dyed in the 40th year of his age, on ye 12th of January, 
 1659," 
 
94 THE OGLANDER MEMOIRS. 
 
 other dawghtor of John Dinglye, maryed Mr. Barnabye 
 Leygh, ye brother of Sir John Leygh, whoe dwelt at 
 Wellowe neare Thorley, and commaunded that companye 
 duringe his life; ye 3rd dawghtor maryed John Earls- 
 man, of Calberon. 
 
 SHORWELL. 
 
 William, of Sorewell, wase honnor of North SoreweU, 
 nowe called Shorwell, where Mr. Leygh dweUeth. 
 These Sorwelles weare verie awntient, and gaue soom 
 landes and tythes owt of this mannor of Sorewell in 
 Henry ye 2nd reygne. There weare divors of this 
 name, butt wheathor theye tooke name from ye place 
 or ye place from them is uncertayne, only thus mutch, 
 the famelye endinge in an heyre female, she went and 
 wase a nunn in ye Abbeye of Laycocke, to which 
 Nunnerye in Wiltshyre she gave her Mannor of North 
 Shorwell. 1 On ye disolution one Mr. Temms bowght 
 that and other landes in ye Islande beinge apurtenances 
 to itt, and sowlde moste of it againe to Mr. Leygh, or 
 rathor to his fathor, Sir John Leygh. 
 
 1 North Shorwell, or Northcourt, was part of the lands of the De Redvers, 
 Earls of Devon, and Lords of the Isle of Wight, and remained in the possession 
 of that family till the latter part of the reign of Henry III., when Amicia, 
 Countess of Devon, and widow of Baldwin de Redvers, gave it to the Nunnery 
 of Layoook, Wilts. Margaret, daughter of the Countess, was a nun at Lay- 
 oook ; and her sister, Isabella de Fortibus, Countess of Albemarle and Devon, 
 and Lady of the Isle of Wight, confirmed the grant to the abbey in the reign 
 of Edward I. 
 
THE OGLANDER MEMOIRS. 95 
 
 MOTSTON, BARTON, BROOKE, WOOLVERTON, HARDLEY, 
 AND LANDGARDE. 
 
 Sir Eoberte de Glamorgan lived in Edward ye fyrste's 
 reynge, he was Honnor of Motstone and Barton in 
 Whippinghame P'rsch, which nowe belongeth to Win- 
 chestor CoUedge; but wheathor he or anye of his 
 awncestors turned into an oratorye to praye for theyre 
 
 sowles, itt is uncertayne There 
 
 weare divors knyghtes of this famelye — in all theyre 
 wryghtinges styled Lordes of Glamorgan, and they sate 
 in ye Upper Howse of Parliament. They maryed ye 
 dawghtor and heyre of William Mascorell, Lorde of 
 Brooke, by whom they had ye Mannor of Brooke and 
 Uggeton,^ exceptinge that parte that wase formerlye 
 given by the Mascorelles to ye Knyghtes Templars by 
 one Knyghtes fee, to be helde of ye Castle of Cares- 
 brooke. This sayde Eoberte Glamorgan^ wase a greate 
 Lorde in ye east p't of owre Island, for he wase honnor 
 of yeMannorof Woolverton and Hardlye, both in Bynd- 
 bridge. This Woolverton hath beene formerlye a good 
 Gentleman's estate, nowe one Thomas Knyght hath it 
 on lease. Theyre they had theyre chappell, p't whereof 
 
 1 On the suppression of the Knights Templars, Uggeton was given to the 
 Domus Dei at Portsmouth, and on the dissolution of religious houses it 
 escheated to the Crown. 
 
 2 The only vestige now remaining of this knightly family in the Island is 
 in the name " Clamerkins, " a farm near Newtown. 
 
96 THE OGLANDER MEMOIRS. 
 
 I have sene standinge, called Centurions'^ Chappell. 
 This Glamorgan sometimes lived there; he had olso in 
 ye P'risch of Bradinge, Landgarde, Scotesfield, and 
 soom land in Sandam. The Oglanders matched into 
 this famelye. The howse ended in a idiott, and so ye 
 landes came to 2 dawghtors, of which Eooklye, of 
 Eooklye, maryed one, and by her he had Brooke and 
 divors landes in Bradinge p'risch. The Eooklyes olso 
 fallinge into heyres females, the Mannor of Brooke 
 came to Bowreman,^ who maryed one of Eookleye's 
 dawghtors, beinge then his servant and wayghtinge 
 upon him. Hackett maryed ye other, by whom he 
 had Glamorgan's land in Byndbridge, and lived at 
 Woolverton; but how Merston went awaye I cannot 
 conceve, except to Cheke, ahas Chekehill, because they 
 lived at Whippingame, on ye Hill. 
 
 ALFINGTON. 
 
 One of ye most awntientest famelyes of owre Island 
 wase ye St. Martins, of Alfington, or Avington. Sir 
 William de Sancto Martino lived in Edward ye Fyrstes 
 reynge, and held ye Mannor of Alfington (awntiently 
 so written), Shyde, and Fayrlee. Manie greate fameleys 
 came owte of this howse — as ye Earles Warren, and 
 
 1 St. Urian's. 
 
 2 Thomas Bowreman, who married Joanna, daughter and heir of John 
 Rookley. She died 1501, 
 
THE OGLANDER MEMOIRS. 97 
 
 Mortimer, beinge both ye sonns of Walter de Martin, 
 and most of ye Martins in England. Alfington wase 
 then a greate mannor, untill it wase dismembered ; butt 
 howe that greate famelye came to be extinct, and of 
 whom Sir Nicholas Waddam bought part of ye mannor 
 in Henry ye 7th reygne, I cannot tell, hauinge not seene 
 ye evidences. But this I am sure that Sir Nicholas 
 Waddam on ye death of his wyfe, that dyed and was 
 buryed in Caresbrook Church, grewe owt of love with 
 ye Island, and sowlde Alfington to one Harvie that wase 
 his servant, and came into ye Island with him. This 
 Waddam wase Captayne of owre Island. I find one Sir 
 Stephen Popham, Knt., wase Honnor of this Mannor 
 in Henry ye 6th reynge, of whom I think Waddam 
 bowght it.^ 
 
 1 The direct line of the St. Martins, of Avington, ended with Sir Lawrence 
 St. Martin, who dying without issue, his sister Sibyl became heiress of his 
 estates. She married Sir John Popham, whose successor, Stephen Popham, 
 left no male issue, and bequeathed Avington, Shide, and other lands in the 
 Island to his daughter, Elizabeth, one of his co-heiresses. Her husband was 
 John Wadham, from whom Avington descended to his grandson. Sir Nicholas 
 Wadham, who in 1509 was appointed by Henry VIII. Captain of the Island 
 and Steward of the Crown Lands therein. His second wife was Margaret, 
 daughter of Sir John Seymour, of Wolf Hall, WUts, aunt to Jane Seymour, 
 third wife of Henry VIII. In the north aisle of Carisbrooke Church is a 
 monument with effigy of this Lady Wadham, who is often wrongly stated to 
 have been the sister of Queen Jane Seymour. Sir Nicholas Wadham's tenure 
 of office as Captain of the Island was brief, as he was superseded by J. 
 Worseley, Groom of the Robes to the King, in 1513. If his wife died before 
 he left the Island, he must have survived her some years, for in 1523 license 
 was granted to him and his heirs to empark 200 acres of pasture, and 40 
 acres of wood on the Manor of Merisfteld, Somerset, and to make enclosures 
 
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98 THE OGLANDEE MEMOIRS. 
 
 SHAM-LETE. 
 
 The Trenchardes hath, bene a verie awntient famelye, 
 they haue continued longe in owre Island, and there 
 haue bene 8 knyghtes successively, one aftor ye other. 
 Sir Henry lived in Edward ye Fyrst's reynge, and wase 
 possessor of ye Mannor of Shalflete and Chessell, and 
 divors other landes in Shalflete p'rische. One peece 
 named Walderon^ Trenchardes he had olso in St. 
 Hellens p'rische neare Troublefyld. They sowlde in ye 
 Island by degrees, and have now sowlde all and seated 
 themselves in Dorsetshire.^ 
 
 SWAYNSON. 
 
 Thomas Mountacute or Mountague, aftorwardes Earle 
 of Salisburye, had given unto him by Edward the 
 in. in ye 9th yere of his reygne, 1000 marks in land 
 p' annum for his good service in aprehending of Eogior 
 Mortimer, Earle of Marche. This Mountague had, as 
 
 round the same. Sir Nicholas seems always to have enjoyed the favor of his 
 sovereign, being often appointed with his superiors in rank to survey and 
 report upon the musters and array of different counties ; he was frequently in 
 commission for Hants and Somerset, and in 1514 was sheriff of Devon. In 
 1530 he was appointed one of the commissioners to report on the effects of 
 Cardinal Wolsey ; and dying soon after, was buried at Ilminster, Somerset. 
 
 1 The only vestige of this family now remaining in the parish of Shalileet 
 is in the name of the farm " Warlands," situated near the village. 
 
 2 Henry Trenchard recovered lands in the Isle of Wight at an Assize held 
 at Winchester, 3rd of Henry VI. , but the family finally left the Island in the 
 reign of Edward IV. Sir Thomas Trenchard, of Wolyerton, was Shwff of 
 Dorset in 1635. 
 
THE OGLANDER MEMOIRS. 99 
 
 itt is reputed, the Manner of Swaynson and Whitwell of 
 ye sayd Kinge Edward, as part of his 1000 markes p' 
 annum. In Shalflete Church one of them lyeth buryed, 
 under a fayre stone next to ye walle of ye nor the isle. 
 But how this Mannor of Swaynson came from ye 
 Bischopricke of Winton^ (quere?), for that itt did be- 
 longe to ye Bischopes of Winchestor appeareth by ye 
 severoU chartors graunted by them to Newtowne, awn- 
 
 tiently parte of ye sayd mannor From 
 
 these Mountagues ye Mannor of Swaynson and Whit- 
 well descended by ye line female to greate Neville, ye 
 make King, Earle of Warwick and Salisburie, and by 
 his dawghtor to George, Duke of Clarence, whose 
 dawghtor and heyre, named Margarett, wase maryed 
 obscurely by Henry ye 7th (hauinge a vast estate as 
 heyre to 3 Earles) to one Eychard Pole,^ Knyght, 
 
 1 Swainston was taken from John de Pontissera, Bishop of Winchester, by 
 Edward I. The Pope having appointed the Bishop to the See of Winchester 
 contrary to the wish of the King, the Bishop found himself so harassed and 
 distressed by the effects of the royal displeasure, that to make his peace, he 
 surrendered to the King his Manor of Swainston, and also paid him a large sum 
 of money to secure the peaceable enjoyment of the other temporalities of his 
 Bishopric. John de Pontissera, or rather John Sawbridge, was an English- 
 man, and had been Chancellor of Oxford and Archdeacon of Exeter. At the 
 time of his appointment to the See of Winchester, he was Professor of Civil 
 Law at Modena. 
 
 2 Sir Richard Pole was descended from an ancient Welsh family, and was 
 son of Sir Geoffrey Polfe, Kt. He was much esteemed by Henry VII., and 
 by him made Chief Gentleman of the Bedchamber to his son, Prince Arthur, 
 and Knight of the Garter. 
 
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100 THE OGLANDER MEMOIRS. 
 
 Comptroller of ye sayd Kinge's Howsehold, a Welch- 
 man neythor of any estate or byrth. They lived at 
 Warblington, neare Havant in Hampshyre, which howse 
 she bwylt, and ye makinge ye mountes in ye garden cost 
 her her lyfe. For King Henry ye 8th sayd it wase for 
 fortifycations, and so tooke a small occasion to take off 
 her head, both to secure his crowne and to gayne 
 crownes into his purse by escheate of her lardge estate. 
 By Pole she had 3 sonns and one dawghtor, Ursula, 
 maryed to Henry Lord Staflford, and by matches from 
 ye Poles came ye greatest part of ye estate to be 
 divided betweene Stafford and Barrington.^ Barrington 
 by this meanes came to be Honnor of ye Mannor of 
 Swaynson, and Sir Jeffery Pole sowld ye Mannor of 
 WhitweU, in ye lyfetime of his mother to severoll 
 p'sons. Ford, that Nicholas Numam hath, wase part 
 of ye sayd mannor. Sir Eychard Pole wase very old 
 when Henry ye 7th maryed him to ye Countes of 
 Sahsburie, she beinge a braue-spirited younge woman, 
 
 1 After the execution of tlie Countess Margaret, Swainaton again reverted 
 to the Crown, and was granted by Queen Mary to Winifred, second daughter 
 of Henry Lord Montague, son of the Countess of Salisbury, who was executed 
 for treason about a year before his mother. Winifred married first Sir Thomas 
 Hastings (whose brother Francis, Earl of Huntingdon, had maTied her elder 
 sister, Catherine), by whom she had no issue ; and secondly, Sir Thomas Bar- 
 rington, Kt., of Barrington Hall, Essex, by whom she had two sons and a 
 daughter. Sir John Barrington, the seventh baronet (1700 — 1776) was the first 
 pf the family who fixed his permanent residence at S^vainston, 
 
THE OGLANDER MEMOIES. 101 
 
 hopinge she showld haue no children by him ; but she 
 hauinge children, browght them to ye Coorte in white 
 coates, pourposely that Henry ye 7th might see them. 
 Sir Jeffery Pole dwelt at Lordington, in Sussex, and 
 had issue which lived to see wantes, so this greate 
 estate came to nothinge. 
 
 AEFETON. 
 
 The Affetones, of Affeton (nowe Awghtons), gave 
 place to none for noblenes or antiquitie of birth. There 
 weare fower knyghtes of this famely successively, and 
 they weare in greate accoumpte with ye Earl Eyvors, 
 Lordes of owre Island; but howe that famely wase 
 extinct and itt came to Eingbone, and from them to 
 the Bruines,^ of Eowner, in Alverstoke p'risch by 
 Portesmouth, whoe sowlde it, parte to David Urrye and 
 the rest to others, itt doth not it to mee apeare. 
 
 NEWPORT. 
 
 Till anno dom. 1532 there wase no markett for 
 beastes in owre towne of Nuport; Mr. Nicholas Searle 
 when he was maior wase ye fyrst that paved both ye 
 corne and beast markett. In those tymes the stretes 
 weare not paved, but lay most wet and beastlye, with 
 greate stoppeles to stepp over ye kennell from ye one 
 syde to ye other. 
 
 1 The Bruins or Brewin family were Lords of the Manor of Pordingbridge, 
 Hants, in the beginning of the reign of Elizabeth. 
 
102 THE OGLANDEE MEMOIKS. 
 
 Mr. March, of Nuport, hath a very fayre dede sealed 
 by Isabella de Eortibus in her widdowehoode, whereby 
 she giveth the tythe of all ye coneyes on her Mannor 
 of Thorley to ye Abby of Twinam (nowe Christchurch, 
 since her grandfather bwyldinge of that church and 
 monasterye so dedicated) to pray for her sowle and ye 
 sowle of William her husband, with these witnesses and 
 date to it — Gilbertus de Honnoyle, Johannes de Sancta 
 EUena, Eychardus de Afton, Knyghtes, Geffery of the 
 Isle, Henricus de Vernaye, Eogerus de Gardino, and 
 many others; dated 1292: The seale a fayre cross with 
 an inscription abowte it. 
 
 There weare 3 Nuport men, servants to Queene Eliza- 
 beth, att one and ye same time, and attendinge her in 
 good repute and ffaschion, and to use ye Queen's owne 
 woordes to Ladye Walsinghame — one wase for her 
 sowle — viz. Dr. Eades,i ye sonn of a clothier who dwelt 
 att ye corner howse in ye Beastemarket ; he was Eector 
 of Freschwater, and Deane of Woorcester, and Chap- 
 layne in Ordinarye; the other for her bodye — viz. Dr. 
 
 1 Dr. Richard Edes, student o£ Christohurch, Oxford, 1571, Chaplain to the 
 Queen 1586, and Dean of Worcester 1596. By King James he was appointed 
 one of the translators of the Bible, but died before the work was begun in 
 1604. Some Latin and English poems by him are existent in MS., and he was 
 the author of a volume of sermons. His mother was Alice, daughter of Thos. 
 James. 
 
THE OGLANDER MEMOIRS. 103 
 
 James, ^ her Phisition in Ordinarye, and one that day lie 
 redd to her; his fathor Hved att ye corner howse to ye 
 west of ye Fischmarket ; ye third — Mr. Thos. ffleminge^ 
 — for her goodes ; his fathor wase a mercier in Nuport, 
 and hved att ye corner howse tourninge into ye Corn- 
 market; ye 3 weare cosens germain. Woold that 
 Nuport or ye countery everye adge coold putt foorth 
 three sutch as these, but in troth theyre advauncement 
 wase owinge to Sir ffrancis Walsinghame havinge mar- 
 ried theyre counterywoman,^ ye widowe of Sir Eychard 
 Woorseley, and ye Earle of Essex theyre dawghtor.* 
 
 The schoolemaystor of Nuport is to be chosen by and 
 with ye consent of ye Maior and Justices of ye Towne 
 of Nuporte, and by and with ye consent of ye chefest 
 of ye knyghtes and gentlemen of ye Island, whoe have 
 as free a choyce in his ellection as ye maior; this wase 
 
 1 Son of Mark James, a merchant of Newport. 
 
 2 Thomas Fleming, afterwards Serjeant-at-Law, Recorder of London, 
 Solicitor General 1595 (for which post Bacon was a rival candidate), and at 
 the death of Popham, 1607, Lord Chief Justice of England ; married his 
 cousin, Mary James, at St. Thomas's Church, Newport, Feb. 13, 1570. He 
 purchased the lease of Carisbrooke Priory from Sir F. Walsingham, and the 
 lands of Quarr Abbey from the representatives of the Mills family, and died 
 in 1613. 
 
 3 Ursula, daughter of Henry St. Barbe, of Ashington, Somerset. 
 
 4 Frances, daughter of Sir F. Walsingham and Ursula his wife, who mar- 
 ried first Sir Philip Sidney, next Robert, Earl of Essex, who was beheaded in 
 1600, and thirdly Richard de Burgh, Earl of Clanrioarde and St. Albans. 
 
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 concluded before mee at ye Towne Halle, when Mr. 
 Elgor ye fyrst schoolemaystor wase then in ye lyke 
 manuor chosen after ye ellection of ye Maior, whoe 
 confirmeth under his towne seale, becawse ye schoole 
 cowld not be made over to anye other but by way of 
 mortmajaie to ye towne. The landes that weare given 
 to ye schoole, and rent charge, totoll £20, besides ye 
 howse. HonyhiUi beinge formerly pt of ye fforrest, 
 wase by my Lord of Sowthamptones aprobation en- 
 cloased for a mayntenance to ye schoole. Itt is nowe 
 stated for £8 per ann.; when it is owt of lease it will 
 be woorth £20. Sir Thomas Ffleminge £5, ye schoole 
 howse and gardens £10, Sir Eychard Woorsleye 16s.4d., 
 Sir John Oglander £1, which I will not continue, beinge 
 geven conditionallie that they showld use Mr. Elgor 
 well, whoe I browght thethor, and I found nothinge 
 less. Mr. Searle, in a howse, £1 . 10 . 0; Mr. Cheeke 
 10s.; Mr. Pettice, in a howse, £1.9.0; Eychard 
 Garde in land £2. 
 
 There is an awntient custome in Nuport, time owt of 
 
 1 The Grammar School at Newport was founded in 1614, by Sir Thos. 
 Fleming, with the aid of Sir J. Oglander and other gentlemen of the Island. 
 In the reign of Henry V. Agnes Attelqde and John Earlsman made a grant of 
 about 34 acres of land, situated on HunnyhiU, to the bailiflfs and burgesses of 
 Newport ; and in 1619 the mayor and burgesses of the town, with the advice 
 and assistance of Sir T. Fleming and the Earl of Southampton, appropriated 
 this estate to the sole benefit of the newly established school. 
 
THE OGLANDER MEMOIRS. 105 
 
 mynd, that ye Viccor of Caresbrook did alwayes come 
 to his Ohappell of JSTuport on Eastor Daye^ and admin- 
 istor the sacrament, and he wase to dine with ye Bayhe 
 nowe maior of Nuport, and at suppor the Viccor invited 
 ye burgesses to supper to an inne, where he wase to 
 provyde gammons of bacon at his owne chardge, and 
 to giye 5s. towardes ye wyne ; and every burges wase 
 to paye his shilling, and every newe burges that had 
 bene made since ye last meetinge wase to give his 
 pottell of wyne to ye maior ; and then aftor supper the 
 maior and burgesses weare to bringe ye Viccor on his 
 waye to Caresbrooke as far as ye chappell fylde, and 
 then to take theyre leaves. This wase called ye love 
 ffeast betweene ye towne and theyre Viccor. 
 
 The Maior's ffeast of Nuporte is alwayes kept ye 
 fyrst Sonday2 aftor Maye Daye, and it wase an awntient 
 
 1 "Upon Ester Daye the baillivea with theyre bretheren, after ye olde 
 usage, reoeaveth ye sacrament of ye bodie and bludd of Christe at morninge 
 prayer. The same daye, after dyuner, the burgesses attendeth the baillives to 
 walke abroade into ye fheldes for their solace necessary, and pleasure; and 
 soe -with commendable talke passinge awaie the afternoone, returneth in 
 dewe season to evening prayer. The w'ch prayer ended, ye Vicar of ye saide 
 towne, or his deputie, inviteth ye saide baillives and other bretheren to drinoke 
 with him his wyne, comonlie called ye Vicar's wyne, with whome they goeth 
 all to drinckynge; towardes ye which everie burges absent paieth iiiid., everie 
 burges present vid., everie baillive xiid., and ye Vicar yereste; for ythit lieth 
 in him to moderate ye diett thereof accordinge to ye scott of his gests afore- 
 sayd." — (Newport Becords.) 
 
 2 "The Sat'y after Maye Daie, the custom is and hathe ben, tyme owt of 
 mynde, yt ye baillives for ye tyjne beinge sholde yerely appoynte a Lorde to 
 ride w'th a mynestrelle and a Vice abowte ye towne, a pretie companie of 
 
106 THE OGLANDBR MEMOIRS. 
 
 custome for the baylie and all his bretheren to meete 
 at ye Wood Ovis in ye forrest (a place now not 
 knowen), but it wase ye edge of ye wood where ye 
 hill beginneth to rayse as soone as you are up Hunnye 
 Hill; and itt wase so thicke a wood that a man myght 
 get from tree to tree almost 2 miles in length; and 
 whosoever missed to be theyre before ye sonne rysinge, 
 he wase to forfeyte a pottell of ffrench wyne and a 
 
 yowthe followinge them, wh'ch steinge at everie burges dore, wameth everie 
 of them to attend upon ye saide baillives att ye Wood Ovis of Parokhurst ye 
 nexte morninge to ffetche home maie, and to observe ye olde custome and 
 usadge of ye to wne ; upon payne of everie one makinge defanlte and not they 
 there present before ye aoime rysinge to loose a greene goose and a gallon of 
 wyne. When ye sayd baUlives with ther oo'panie coburgess be come to ye 
 Wood Ovis, yere oometh forthe ye keapers of ye fforest meetinge and salutinge 
 them, and offeringe smawle greene bowes to everie of them ; signifienge thereby 
 yt ye saide baillives and coburgess hathe free common and pasture for all 
 maner there livinge thingea in all ye landes of P'khurste unto ye saide Wood 
 Ovis for ever. After ye bowea soe delivered to ye burgess, presentlie (acoord- 
 inge to awncieut custome) ye common people of ye towne entereth into 
 P'khurst woode with their hatchetts, sarpes, and other edge tooles, outtinge 
 greene bowes to refresh ye streetes and placinge them att the'r dores to give 
 a comodius and pleasainte umbrage to ther howses, and comforte to ye people 
 passinge bie. And asoone as ye saide commen people are spedd competentlie 
 with greene bowes, they retorne home in marching arraye, ye commoners 
 before, ye keapers followinge them, next ye mynstrell. Vice, and morria daun- 
 cera ; after ye sergeaunta with their maces, then ye baUlives and coburgs, 
 cooplea in their degree ; ye gunns and chambers goinge off after a triumphant 
 maner, untUl they come to ye Come Markett, where they sheweth suche pas- 
 tyme as ye leeke to make ; and after casting themaelffa in a ringe, all departeth, 
 excepte onlie ye burgess, w'hch with ye keapers, bringethe ye baillives home, 
 where of customs ye keapers breaketh ther faate prepared for them ; cche of ye 
 baOlives and burges with speede preparinge themaelffes to morninge prayer, 
 and fro thence with ther wifes to ye olde baillives dynner."^ — (Newport 
 Records.) 
 
THE OGLANDBR MEMOIRS. 107 
 
 greene goose to ye baylie. Theyre ye kepors mett 
 them, and presented them with greene boughes ; and so 
 they came all home and dined with ye baylie, nowe 
 maior ; for itt wase a baylie towne till ye seconde yere 
 of Kinge James, when fflemminge beinge Lord Chefe 
 Baron, and in credite, procured them a chartor for a 
 maior and one justice, and a nonintromittas for ye 
 justices at lardge, who before had all ye power in ye 
 towne, and licenced all theyre alehowses, &c. 
 
 1631. Before ye maioraltie wase (by ye grace of my 
 Lord of Sowthampton and favour of fflemminge, Lord 
 Cheefe Justice, in ye third yeare of Kinge James) 
 obtayned, they had as Bradinge hath, 2 baylies, and 
 ye justices at lardge did all thinges, license theyre 
 alehowses, &c. Itt had bene happye for them and 
 ye counterye to if itt had soe continued. 
 
 Nuport stiU with Nordwood belongeth to Cares- 
 broke, which wase ye greatest p'risch in owre Island, 
 and in greatest reputation, when ye Pryor wase in his 
 ecclesiastical awthoritie. The towne of Caresbroke wase 
 far greator and bettor bwylt than nowe itt is, at what 
 time Nuport wase butt a poore fischinge towne, ye 
 markett with all priviledges and jurisdictions belonged 
 to Caresbroke, then ye metropohs of owre Island. 
 
108 THE OGLANDBR MEMOIRS. 
 
 Aftorwardes, when through ye benefits of ye haven, 
 Nuport grewe greate, and Caresbroke through that 
 and sale of ye Island to ye Crown, whereby ye Castell 
 wase uninhabited (Caresbroke diminisched), they sowlde 
 theyre ryght both to ye markett and other priviledges 
 to Nuport, for which the towne wase to paye to ye 
 Pryor of Caresbroke £1.6.8 annually, which he still 
 payes to his M*"^- The decaye of Caresbroke wase ye 
 sale of ye Island, and ye puttinge downe of ye Priorye 
 in Henry ye 6th time, as belonginge to Lyra in Nor- 
 mandy, to ye greate abby theyre; moost of ye mounks 
 were ffrenchmen, and there were many monumentes of 
 them in ye chawncel, which wase taken down anno 
 domi 1590. Sir Prancis Walsinghame, which had ye 
 lease of ye pryorye by maryadge of Eychard Woorse- 
 ley's wyfe, rathor than he woold be at ye chardge of 
 repayre of ye chawncel, agreed with ye p'risch to take 
 itt down, and for theyr approbation and good wiU gave 
 them 100 markes. 
 
 Shorwell did once belonge to Caresbroke, and wase part 
 of that p'risch in Edward ye 3rd his time, and then by 
 mediation of ye inhabytantes and through the power of 
 ye Pryor of Lacoke, it wase reduced from Caresbroke 
 and made a p'risch. One reason amongst others that 
 they urged wase ye greate inconvenience they suffered 
 
THE OGLANDEE MEMOIRS. 109 
 
 in carryinge of corses to buriol to Caresbroke through 
 ye waltorish lane at winter, whereby many caught theyre 
 deaths. So that ye death in winter tyme of one cawsed 
 many moore. 
 
 You may see in ye keepe on one of ye buttresses of 
 Caresbrook Castell these figures 1562, beinge not ye 
 yere when ye keepe or buttresse wase bwylt, but it 
 signifyeth ye yere when ye castell walles weare rough 
 cast ; beinge finished in that yere, in Captayne Eychard 
 Worseley's time, and ended in that place where ye 
 figures standeth. Theyre wcare 30 masons at work 
 about it. The maystor workman one Maystors of Gat- 
 combe. And nowe it wants a newe cote againe. 
 
 Bradinge Towne, alias Brerdinge, is without exception 
 ye awntientest towne in owre Island, and althoughe 
 now poore, it wase formerley ye rychest and of best 
 repute. It wase ye only towne for receypt of strangers 
 that came by shippinge, St. Hellens then beinge ye sole 
 and only harbor; and betwixt St. Hellens and Eide; 
 Cows, Stocke Bay, and Meadhole wase not then 
 knowen. There belonged in those dayes to St. Hellens 
 and Barneslye 50 sayle of shipes, of Netlestone Pointe, 
 by act, a myle into ye seae, they had made a good 
 harbor by castinge up of ye beache on both sydes, to 
 
110 THE OGLANDER MEMOIRS. 
 
 be sene at this daye ; and by tradition and soom recordes 
 haue I olso sene that you myght have had at Barneslye, 
 inhabitantes theyre, your choyce of 20 good shipmays- 
 tors that woold undertake to carry you to any parte 
 you desired: theyre howses stood on ye westsyde next 
 Coathye bottonie; the foundations of theyre howses I 
 have often sene. 
 
 Bradinge in Queen Elizabeth's tyme wase a hand- 
 some towne, there weare in itt many good liviers that 
 myght dispend £40 a yeare a peece, now not one; 
 former lye 12 in my memory. 
 
 BRADING HAUEN. 
 
 The fyrst part of Bradinge Hauen wase inned by one 
 Sir William EusseU, owner of Overland, at ye tyme 
 when Yarbridge wase made, so ye seae wase stoped 
 from runninge beyond ye bridge to Sandam. The 
 second inninge wase p'formed by Mr. George Oglander 
 and German Eychardes, ano dom 1562, when my marish 
 and north marish wase made by ye walle feedinge 
 grownd. The third inninge wase made by Mr. Edward 
 Eychardes, ano 1594, when that wase made feedinge 
 grownd from his since to Yarbridge, beinge mill marish, 
 and ye other meades. 
 
 The last wase made by Sir Hugh Myddleton, and Sir 
 
THE OGLANDER MEMOIRS. Ill 
 
 Bevis Thelwell (fyrst a broken cytison, then Page of ye 
 Kinge's Bedchamber). It wase fyrst begged by one 
 John Gibb, of ye Bedchamber to Kinge James, beinge 
 an olde servant of his father's; he sowlde his gyfte to 
 Sir H. Myddelton and Sir Bevis Thelwell; they gave 
 him £1000 for itt. They imployed Dutchmen to winn 
 it, who putt them to an extraordinarie chardge, at least 
 £2000 besydes ye pourchase. In 1622 they made ye 
 banckes at St. Hellens, and so stoped owt ye seae; and 
 I confesse I wase no bakfrynde to the woorke, for it 
 made this part of ye countery both full healthfuUor, 
 eased us in our marish walles, and in ye improvement 
 of it olso browght more lande to ye p'risch. It wase 
 p'formed by ignorant Dutchmen that they browght owt 
 of ye Lowe Countery. Although it is now growen a 
 greate haven, insomutch that now a boat of 20 tunnes 
 myght come to ye ende of Wadefylde, where now ye 
 key is, but formerley ye boates came up to ye midle of 
 Bradinge strete; it I am fully p'swaded itt wase in 
 Edwarfl" ye 3rd tyme only an owtlett for ye fresch, and 
 no salt came in, but then ye ffrench warres beginninge, 
 men neglected wholly this Island, and then ye seae 
 wase upon itt; for we found aftor ye inninge of ye 
 haven almost in ye midle therof, a well steined with 
 stones, which argueth it had binn firme lande and in- 
 habited, 
 
112 THE OGLANDEE MEMOIRS. 
 
 Bradinge Hauen wase begged fyrst of all of Kinge 
 James by one Mr. John Gibb,^ beinge a groome of his 
 bedchamber, and the man that Kinge James trusted 
 to Carrie ye reprieve to Winchester for my Lorde 
 Chobham and Sir Walter Eawley when they weare on 
 the skaffold to bee executed. This Gibb wase putt on 
 to beg itt of Kinge James by Sir Bevis Thelwell, who 
 wase then one of ye pages of ye bedchawmber. Sir 
 Bevis wase a gentleman's sonn in Wales, bownd appren- 
 tis to a mercier in Cheapsyde, and aftorwardes executed 
 that trade till Kinge James came into Englande; then 
 he gaue up, and pourchased to be one of ye pages of 
 ye bedchawmber, where beinge an understandinge man, 
 and knowinge how to handle ye Scottes, did in jt 
 infancy gain a fair estate by gettinge ye Scottes to beg 
 for themselves that which he fyrst fownd owt for 
 them; and then himselve bwying of them with readie 
 money under halfe ye value. He wase a verie bowlde 
 fellowe, and one that Kinge James verie well affected. 
 Aftor he hadd begged it. Sir Bevis woold give him 
 nothinge for itt untill ye hauen wase cleared; for ye 
 gentlemen of ye Island whose landes joyned to ye 
 haven, challenged itt as belonginge to them. Kinge 
 James wase woonderful earnest in ye bwysnes, bothe 
 
 1 The grant of Braxling Haven to John Gibb was made in 1616, a rental of 
 £20 per annum being payable to the King. 
 
THE OGLANDER MEMOIRS. 113 
 
 vse itt concerned his olde servant, and olso becawse 
 old be a leadinge case for ye fens in Lincolnshyre. 
 ye verdict went in ye chequor agaynst the gentle- 
 then Sir Bevis woold give nothinge for itt till he 
 1 see that itt wase made feasable to be inned from 
 iae, whereupon Sir Hugh Myddelton^ (whoe wase 
 • oldsmyth in London) wase called in to assist and 
 dertake ye woorke, and Dutchmen weare browght 
 7t of ye Lowe Counteries, and they began to inn the 
 ,uen abowght ye 20th of December, 1620. Then, 
 "hen it wase inned, Kinge James compelled Thelwell 
 xnd Myddelton to give Gibb (whom ye Kinge called 
 Fathor) £2000. Aftorwardes Sir Hugh Myddelton, 
 iyke a craftie ffox and subtel cytison, putt itt oiF wholely 
 to Sir Bevis Thelwell, betwixte whome aftorwardes 
 there wase a greate swyte in ye Chauncery; but Sir 
 Bevis did injoy itt soome 8 yeares, and bestowed mutch 
 money in bwyldinge of a barn, mill, fencinge of itt, and 
 manie other necessarie woorkes. The nature of the 
 grownd aftor itt wase inned wase not answerable to 
 what wase expected, for olmost ye moietie of itt next 
 to ye seae wase a lyght runninge sande and of little 
 woorth. The bests of it wase down at ye furthor ende 
 next to Bradinge, my marish, and Knyghte's tenement 
 in Byndbridge. I counte that there weare 200 akers 
 
 1 The celebrated engineer of the New River, London, and other works. 
 
114 THE OGLANDER MEMOIRS. 
 
 that might be woorth 6s. 8d. ye aker, and all ye reste 
 2s. 6d. ye aker; the totall of ye hauen wase 706 akers. 
 Sir Hugh Myddelton before he sowlde tryed all kindes of 
 experiments in itt ; he sowed wheate, barley, oates, cab- 
 badge seed, and last of all, rape seed, which proved ye 
 beste, but all ye others came to nowghte. The greate 
 inconvenionce wase, in itt ye seae browght so mutch 
 sand and ooaze and seaeweed that choaked up the pas- 
 sage of ye fresch to go owt; insomutch that I am of 
 opynion that if ye seae had not broake in, Sir Bevis 
 coold hardhe haue kept itt; for ther woold haue been 
 no current for the fresch to go owt; for ye easterne 
 tydes browght so mutch sand that ye fresch wase not 
 of fibrce to drive itt awaie, so that in tyme itt woold 
 have lain to ye seae, or else ye fresch woold haue 
 drowned ye whoole countery. In my opynion itt is 
 not good medhng with a hauen soe neare ye mayne 
 ocean. The countery (I meane ye comon people) wase 
 verie mutch agaynst the inninge of itt, as owte of theyr 
 slender capacitie thinkynge by a little fyshinge and 
 fowlinge there woold accrue moore benefit then by pas- 
 turage; but this I am sure of, it caused aftor the fyrst 
 three yeres, a greate deale moore healthe in these partes 
 then wase evor before ; and another thing is remarkable 
 — that wheras wee thowght itt woold have improved 
 owre marishes, certainlye they weare the woorse for itt, 
 
THE OGLANDER MEMOIES. 115 
 
 and rotted sheep whych before had fatted theyre. The 
 cawse of ye laste breache wase by reason of a wet tyme 
 when the hauen was ful of fresch, and then a high 
 springe tyde, when boath the waters met underneathe 
 in the loose sand. On ye 8th of March, 1630, one 
 Andrewe Eipley, that wase putt in to looke to Bradinge 
 Haven by Sir Bevis Thelwell, came in poste to my 
 howse in Nuport, to informe mee that ye seae had made 
 a breache in ye sayde hauen neare to ye easternmoste 
 ende. I demaunded of him what ye chardge myght be 
 to stop it owte, he told mee he thowght abowght 40 
 shiUinges, wherupon I bid him goe thither and get 
 woorkmen agaynst ye nexte daye morninge and some 
 cartes, and I woold paye them theyr wages; but ye 
 seae ye nexte daye came soe forciblie in that there wase 
 noe medUng with it, and Eipley went up presentlie to 
 London to Sir Bevis Thelwell himselfe, to have him 
 come downe and take soome furthor cowrse ; but within 
 four dayes aftor the seae had wone soe mutch on ye 
 hauen, and made ye breache soe wide and deepe, that 
 on ye 15th of March when I came thither to see itt, I 
 knewe not well what to judge of itt, for wheras at ye 
 fyrst £5 woold have stoped it owt, nowe I thinke £200 
 will not doe itt, and what will be ye evente of itt tyme 
 will tell. Sir Bevis on ye newes of this breache came 
 
 into owre Island on ye 17th of March, 1630, and 
 
 l2 
 
116 THE OGLANDER MEMOIRS. 
 
 browght with Mm a letter from my Lorde Conwaye to 
 mee and Sir Edward Dennys, desieringe us to cawse my 
 Ladie Woorseley^ on behalfe of her sonn, to make up 
 ye breache whych had hapened in her grownd throwgh 
 theyr neglecte. Shee retourned us an awnsor that shee 
 thowght that ye lawe woold not compell her unto itt, 
 and therfore desiered to bee excused, whych awnsor 
 wee retourned to my Lorde. What ye evente will bee 
 I knowe not,^ but itt seemeth to mee not reasonable that 
 shee shoold sufier for not complyinge with his requeste. 
 If hee had not inned ye hauen this accident coolde 
 
 1 Frances, widow of Sir Eicliard Worsley, the first Baronet, who died 1621. 
 She was the daughter of Sir Henry Neville. 
 
 2 The matter was speedily in the hands of the lawyers, and reports and 
 appeals followed in quick succession. In June, 1632, Chief Justices Richard- 
 son and Heath made a report to the Council on a case between Frances Lady 
 Worsley, plaintiff, and Sir Bevis Thelwall, defendant, in which a decree of 
 certain commissioners had been referred to their decision. The decree had 
 been against Lady Worsley, but the justices considered that she ought not to 
 be compelled by it, until the facts relating to a breach in a sea bank whereby 
 certain lands were flooded, were cleared by a trial at law. Five years after- 
 wards the matter was still undecided. In 1637 Sir Bevis Thelwall, Clerk of 
 the Wardrobe to Charles I. , was plaintiflf in a cause in the Exchequer against 
 Jeremy Brett, Dame Frances Worsley, his wife, and her son, Sir Henry Worsley, 
 and obtained a decree ordering the defendants to stop a breach in the sea 
 wall of Brading Haven. The defendants petitioned the King to revise the 
 decree, as being too severe against them ; and the King after some considera- 
 tion referred the examination of two points in the case to four members of his 
 council. Upon this Sir Bevis presented a counter petition, praying that the 
 other points of the decree might also be submitted to the judgment of the same 
 councillors. However the matter was finally concluded by the oonmiissiouers, 
 no practical result followed ; and Brading Haven remained submerged till re- 
 claimed 240 years afterwards in the reign of Victoria.— fS.i'., Dom., Vol. 210, 
 163^, and Vol. 377, 1637. J 
 
THE OGLANDER MEMOIKS. 117 
 
 nevor haue hapened, therfore hee givinge ye cawse, that 
 shee shoolde applie ye cure I understande not. Butt 
 this I am sure, that Sir Bevis thinketh to recover of 
 her and her sonn, all his chardges, whych hee nowe 
 sweareth everie waye to bee £2000. For my parte I 
 woold wisch noe ffrynd of mine to have anie hande in 
 ye seconde inninge of itt. Trulye all ye bettor sorte of 
 ye Island weare verie sorrye for Sir Bevis ThelweU,'^ 
 and the commoner sorte weare as glad ; as to say trulye 
 of Sir Bevis hee did ye countery manie goode ofEces, 
 and wase readie at all tymes to doe his beste for the 
 pubhc and everyone. It coste at ye fyrst takinge of itt 
 in £4000, then they gaue £2000 to Mr. John Gibb for 
 itt, whoe had begged itt of Kinge James; afterwardes 
 in bwyldinge ye barne and dweUinge howse, and water 
 miU, with ye ditchinge and quickesettinge, and makinge 
 all ye partitions itt coolde not have coste lesse then 
 £200 moore; soe in the total itt stoode them from the 
 tyme they began to take itt in, until ye 8th of Marche, 
 a losse of £7000. 
 
 You may see divors buries on ye topp of owre Island 
 hills, whose name in ye Danische tounge signifieth theyr 
 
 1 The whole loss fell upon Thelwall, as Sir H. Myddleton had made over 
 aJl his rights in the reclaimed land to him in Sept., 1624, nearly six years 
 before. 
 
118 THE OGLANDER MEMOIRS. 
 
 nature, as beinge places onlie weare men were buryed, 
 and soome haue particulor names from ye p'rsons — as 
 Galliburie, where ye ffrench weare buryed, beinge over- 
 come theyre in a battayle; Burye de Mountrell from 
 a Captayne of ye ffrench, and manie ye lyke. I haue 
 digged for my experience in soome of ye moore awn- 
 tientest, and haue found manie bones of men formerlye 
 consumed by fyor, accordinge to ye Eomane custome, 
 and manie peeces of Eomish quyne; for in awntient 
 tymes they did desior to be buryed in summitatem 
 montis, in ye moste eminentest places, and as neare 
 heven as they coold. Wheresover you see a burie 
 in any eminent place, moste commonlye on ye topp 
 of hilles, you may presume that there hath beene 
 soome buryed; accordinge to ye etimoligie of ye 
 woord, — digge, and you shall find theyre bones. If 
 thou wilt knowe mutch of ye antiquitie of ye Island, 
 gayne ye owld bookes called ye Ligior Bookes of ye 
 Abbeye of Quarre, and Priorie of Caresbrook, and St. 
 Hellens. In ye Woorseleyes Study of Apledorcombe 
 beinge once that manner belonginge to ye Abbeye of 
 Lyra, thou mayst find manie good antiquities. The 
 Ligior Booke of Caresbrook, Mr. Fleminge, Mr. Kings- 
 weU, and Mr. Clover, all hath him — in Mr. Eoffe's hand, 
 sometimes Minister of Caresbrook, nowe in Covent 
 Garden, London. 
 
THE OGLANDER MEMOIES. 119 
 
 Henry ye VII. tooke a p'rticular viewe of this Island^ 
 in his reygne, he spent a weeke here ; he laye 3 nyghtes 
 at his Castell of Caresbrooke with his unkell, ye Lorde 
 Woodville; he laye at Nunwell, Wootton, Brooke, and 
 Nuporte, in ye howse by ye buUringe. Wee shall nevor 
 haue Kinges doe the lyke. 
 
 Queene Elisabeth wase one of ye noblest, generous, 
 brauest princes that evor England hadd, she had learn- 
 inge and wisedome ; witnes her extempore speach to ye 
 Polisch Embasador,2 and divors to others in ye lyke 
 kinde ; shee wase valorous aboue woman, and composed 
 of statley grauetye, farre from pride. Witnesse her 
 affabilitie even to ye meanest of her subiectes, a greate 
 favourer of learning and virtue ; theyre wase nothinge 
 wantinge that cowlde be desiored in a Prince butt that 
 shee wase a woman. Englande was rychor, in bettor 
 
 1 In 1499. The King was — Aug. 3 at Beaulieu ; Aug. 9 to Aug. 23 in the 
 Isle of Wight, where at Brooke he was so well entertained by Dame Joanna 
 Bowerman that he presented his hostess with his drinking horn, and granted 
 her a fat buck yearly from Parkhurst Forest during her life. Aug. 24 the King 
 was at Poroheater, Sept. 2 at Bishop's Waltham, Sept. 3 at Winchester. — (MS. 
 Houseliold Booh of Henry VII. in British Museum, ) 
 
 2 Delivered at Greenwich in 1597 to Paulus Jaline, Ambassador from 
 Sigismund, King of Poland, who had insulted her dignity by the boldness of 
 his remonstrance against her assumption of maritime superiority over other 
 nations of Europe. The Queen started from her seat, and answered the sur- 
 prised orator in a spirited Latin speech, and at its conclusion, turning to her 
 courtiers, exclaimed, " God's death my lords ! I have been enforced this day 
 to scour up my old Latin that hath lain long rusting." 
 
120 THE OGLANDER MEMOIRS. 
 
 repute and esteem amonge forenors, and everie waye 
 ye subiectes moore happie in her reygne then evor itt 
 wase before, or to be doubted evor will be agayne. 
 
 Wee haue made since the death of Queen Elisabeth, 
 4 braue voyges which coste ye state 400,000£. 
 
 The fyrst, p'formed by Sir Eobert Maunsell to Argier,i 
 in hope to take that cittie, or otherwyse to be fooled by 
 ye Spaniords, Anno 1621. 
 
 The second, by Wimbleton^ to Cales,^ where wee 
 myght haue taken 8 of ye Kinge's menn of warr, but in 
 policie woold not. Anno 1625. 
 
 The third, to ye Isle of Eez, by owre greate Duke, 
 whoe in poynt of honnor scorned to take thence theyre 
 wines and salte. Anno 1627. 
 
 The last (I hope), by that noble Earle of Linsye^ to 
 Eochell, the succes whereof is itt in deposito, pray God 
 it proove not woorse then ye others. I myght haue 
 added another by GeneroU Fyldinge, Earle of Denbye,^ 
 to as littel purpose as all ye otheres. 
 
 1 This fruitless expedition to Algiers was composed of six ships of the Royal 
 Navy and twelve hired from the merchants. The fleet set sail from Plymouth 
 October 12, 1620. 
 
 2 Sir Edward Cecil, grandson of Lord Burghley, created Viscount Wimble- 
 don 1626. 
 
 3 Cadiz. 
 
 4 The fleet sailed September 8, 1628, and effected nothing. 
 
 5 In October, 1626. 
 
THE OGLANDBR MEMOIRS. 121 
 
 JAMES I. 
 
 In ye fyrst yere of Kinge James (1603) when he came 
 to Bewley,^ all owre company es for a grace and honor 
 to my Lorde of Sowthehampton, came owt of ye Island 
 thethor; and theyre trayned before him. When Kinge 
 James fyrst came into ye Island, hee wase mutch taken 
 with seeing ye littel bwoyes^ skirmishe, whoe he loved to 
 see betor and willyngUor then menn. 
 
 Kinge James came twyce into ye Island,^ and hunted 
 in ye parke, where ownce he dined ; ye other tyme in 
 ye castel; all owre sowldiors trayned before him; wee 
 met him at ye water syde, where we kissed his hand. 
 Prince Henrye (a hopeful gentleman) and Kinge Charles 
 
 1 On a visit to the Earl of Southampton, who had been granted the office 
 of Captain of the Island for life, in July, 1603. 
 
 2 Boys were drilled in martial exercises in other places as well as in the 
 Island, and their performances pleased Charles I. as much as they did his 
 father. In the summer of 1627 the King visited Chichester, and was there 
 gratified by witnessing the proficiency of "certain boys" in the use of arms. 
 On his Majesty expressing his approbation he was requested to give them 
 some barrels of gunpowder ; which request, for their encouragement, and in 
 the hope that the youths of other places would be stirred up to do the same, 
 the King granted, but left the quantity and manner to his- council. — fS.P., 
 Dom., Vol. 77, 1627.) 
 
 3 The first visit of the King to the Island was in August, 1607, and the 
 second in the same month two years later. An entry in the registers of Caris- 
 brooke Church by the vicar — John Baker— states : "King James laoaded . . . 
 and sawe a muster, . . . dined at the Castle, and sawe in the aftemoone 
 most of the Hand with Prince Charles, his sonne, . . . . and hunted in 
 the parke, killed a bocke, and so departed againe to Bewley, the 2 of August, 
 A.D. 1609, being Wednesday." 
 
122 THE OGLANDEE MEMOIRS. 
 
 haue olso bene in this Island. Kinge Charles when he 
 wase Prince, wase in owre Island;^ he dined at Cares- 
 brook Castel, where he made divors shottes with ye 
 ordnaunce. Aftor dynner he went to Cows, and there 
 tooke a small shipe, and went that nyght to Portes- 
 mouth. I wayghted upon him to ye Castel, cominge 
 throwgh ye Castelhold beinge passed by ye signe of ye 
 Lion clawinge ye ffryor, he tourned abowght his horse 
 to beholde itt, and demaunded ye meaninge thereof. 
 Answer wase made that wee served all papistes and 
 prestes in that maner. 
 
 Kinge James absolutely wase ye beste schoUer and 
 wisest Prince for generol knowledge that evor England 
 had; he wase betweene parties wonderous juste, and 
 had a verie tendor consciense ; witnes ye difficultie to 
 drawe him to pardon murther or anye notorious cryme ; 
 he wase exceedinglie mercifull, espetiollie in offenses 
 agaynst himselve; witnes his pardonynge of Eawley, 
 Cobham, and Gray ; and woold saye that he coold bothe 
 safely pardon and forget treason comited agaynst him. 
 But withal he was woonderous pasionate; a greate 
 
 1 In 1618. Another entry in the Oariabrooke registers says : " Prince 
 Charles landed at the Cows, and came into the forest, and saw a skirmish 
 there, and went from thence to Abbington down, and looked over the Hand, 
 and came to the Castle, and so thence to Newport, where he dined at Mr. 
 James' house ; and his Grace departed to the Cows, and took ship and went 
 to Portesmouth, in the year 1618, the 27th of August, being Thursday. — Jo. 
 Baker." 
 
THE OGLANDER MEMOIRS. 123 
 
 swearor;! a lover of his favorytes beyond ye love of 
 menn to women ; verye liberoU ; witnes his extraordin- 
 aire greate gwyftes, not only to his favorytes, but 
 almoste to all abowght him; he wase ye chastest Prince 
 for women that ever wase, for he woold often sweare 
 that he nevor knewe anye other woman then his owne 
 Queene. A virtuous modest woman he woold bothe 
 hyghly grace and commend. He loved to be accoumpt- 
 ed goode ; for a poore woman seeinge him come from 
 his howse in Skotland downe a way that led from ye 
 same, espiinge ye Kinge, tolde her neybours soe that 
 ye Kinge herd her— "Here cometh ye good man of 
 Bahnger"2 — beinge ye name of that place he soe often 
 came through. Ye Kinge mutch rejoyced at that name, 
 and held itt moore honorable then to bee stiled Empe- 
 rour of ye Wordle. He wase not popular nor plawsible 
 to his subiectes that desiored to see him, infinitelie 
 
 1 The King's habit of swearing was notorious. "He was a man wonder- 
 fully passionate, much given to swearing, and in his words he sometimes 
 gave great offence both in respect of God and man." — (Goodman's Court of 
 King James, edited by J. S. Brewer, Vol. I.) "He would make a great deal 
 too bold with God in his passion, both with cursing and swearing, and one 
 strain higher verging on blasphemy ; but would in his better temper say ' he 
 hoped God would not impute them as sins and lay them to hia charge, seeing 
 they proceeded from passion.'" — (Sir A. Weldon's Court of King James.) 
 
 2 In a letter written by Prince Charles and Buckingham to the King from 
 " Madrill the 21 of March, 1623," after the subscription "your Majesty's hum- 
 ble slaue and doge steenie," is a a postscript beginning "Be chearful, good 
 man of Balangith, for wee warrant you all shall goe well." — (Goodman's 
 Court of King Ja/mes, Vol. I.) 
 
124 THE OGLANDER MEMOmS. 
 
 given to huntinge ; although in his latter tyme by reason 
 hee coold not ryde faste, he had Uttel pleasure in ye 
 chase: his delyght wase to come in at ye dethe of ye 
 deare,^ and to heare ye comendationes of his howndes. 
 An infinite lover of fruite,^ as grapes, melones, and ye 
 lyke, and as free a drynker of sweete wynes and Schotch 
 ale ; a louer of peace, and noe man of warre. Eor ye 
 present deliverie of his mynde he wase ye beste of that 
 adge, hatinge all men that spoke ill of others, sayinge 
 noe man need feare damnation if Sir Eichard Weston^ 
 went to heauen, as hauinge a tounge that spoke iU of 
 all men. He had manie wittie jestes, and olso in his 
 passion manie prophane ; he woold haue a reason giuen 
 him for aU thinges ; witnes John Gib, and his white and 
 black horses that eate up one another's tayle. This 
 John Gib wase he that when ye Kinge wase angry 
 becawse noe man coold giue him a reason for somewhat 
 
 1 "His lega and feet come pretty well to him, having found out a very 
 good expedient of late, to bathe them in every buck and stag's belly in the 
 place where he kills them, which is counted an excellent remedy to strengthen 
 and restore the sinews. Au reste, he is fallen to his old diet, and will not be 
 persuaded to forbear fruit nor sweet wines." — (Chamberlain to Carleton, June 
 18, 1619. Court and Times, Vol. II.) 
 
 2 "Truly I think that King James every autumn did feed a little more 
 than moderately upon fruits. I remember that Mr. French, of the spicery, who 
 sometimes did present him with the first strawberries, cherries, and other 
 fruits, and kneeling to the JCing had some speech to use to him — that he did 
 desire his Majesty to accept them, and that he was sorry they were no better, 
 with such like complimental words ; but the King never had the patience to 
 hear him one word but his hand was in the basket." — (Goodman, Vol. I.J 
 
 3 In the reign of Charles I. Lord Treasurer, and Earl of Portland 1633. 
 
THE OGLANDER MEMOIRS. 125 
 
 that noe good reason coold be giuen; tolde ye Kinge 
 that if he woold giue him a reason whie his blacke 
 horse in ye stable (hauinge sufficient haye and proven- 
 dor) shoold ye laste nyght eate up his whyte horse's 
 tayle, he woold give him a reason for ye other. As he 
 woold sweare mutch soe his ordinarie oathe wase "God's 
 woaundes." Beinge crossed in his huntynge by rayne, 
 he swore itt wase not rayne, but ye windoes of heaven 
 weare opened ; and he coold not be drawen owt of itt ; 
 but woold sit in itt to se wheathor God woold kepe his 
 promise in not drowninge of ye wordle a seconde tyme. 
 It manye tymes he wase put foorth of humor by soome 
 that woold desparately owtdoe him. He spoke mutch, 
 and as well as any man, or rathor bettor ; but for bodilye 
 actions put rydinge asyde, he did nor coold use liteU, 
 his bodye for want of use growinge that way defective. 
 If he had had but ye poore spirit and resolution butt to 
 haue acted that which he spoke, or doon as well as he 
 knewe how to do well, Saloman had ben shorte of him. 
 A greate pohtisian, and verie sownd in ye reformed 
 religion; witnes his confession on his dethe^ bed. 
 His laste sicknes wase at Theobaldes of an ordinarye 
 
 1 "Our blessed master went out of this world like a Christian that had a 
 strong heart and an humble mind. Two days before God's act of receiving him 
 to His mercy, he took God to him by receiving of the communion ; and at that 
 did express a lively faith and the definition of a pure Christian, as he oon- 
 clvided the verbal greed with these words, ' There is no other belief, neither 
 
126 THE OGLANDER MEMOIRS. 
 
 ague; by reason of his impatience to endure payne, 
 and his wilfulnes in hauinge of those thinges that weare 
 oposite to his disease; as in his heate by puttinge his 
 handes in colde water, and by imoderate drynkinge of 
 smalebeare, and other disorders, itt grewe to a feavor, 
 and soe he dyed. Hee woold knowe of his phisitions 
 where on his well daye his ague wase. 
 
 Sir Heney Nevill* on Kinge James. 
 
 Nevor man wrought moore and did les; 
 Nevor man spoke bettor and did woorse. 
 
 There wase a stagge hunted owt of ye Newe fforest 
 into ye Iland in Ano Dom. 1609, and lived manye 
 yeres in ye Iland ; he laye mutch in Eowberoe and in 
 my groundes at Artingeshoote and Whitefield. Ye 
 Kinge had a greate desyor to hunt him, but wase 
 diswaded from itt; for that itt wase almoste imposible 
 to kill him, becawse on all ocasiones he woold take 
 ye seae. Itt wase thought he went into ye Newe 
 fforest to rutt, and retourned agayne ; at laste he wase 
 killed when he wase owt of season by one Caue, a 
 countery fellowe with a muskett. 
 
 hope,' and when the Lord Keeper asked him whether he would have the 
 absolution, he answered, 'As it is practised in the English Church, I ever 
 approved it ; but in the dark way of the Church of Rome, I do defy it.' And 
 this I tell you not by report, for I had the honour and comfort to receive it 
 with him." — (Conway to Garleton, March SI, 1625. Court and Times, Vol. I.) 
 1 Of BUlingham, Berks. His daughter, Frances, was the wife of Sir 
 Richard Worsley, of Appulduroombe, the first baronet. 
 
THE OGLANDER MEMOIRS. 127 
 
 THE DILLINGTON FAMILY. 
 
 Anthony Dyllington wase ye fyrst of that famelye, 
 he came owt of Somersetshyre from a place called 
 Dyllington, he bowght Knighton of one Gylbert; he 
 dyed Anno Dom. 1584. He hadd 2 wyffes, ye fyrst 
 (by whome he had all his chiP") 2 sonns and 4 
 dawghtors, wase Ann Eeade, of Wales. Aftorwardes 
 he maryed one Goddardes widdowe, of Hampton, a 
 meccannicke or merchaunt; his eldest sonn wase Sir 
 Eobert, whoe maryed an owlde widdowe in Devon, 
 and dyed without issue in London 1608, and lyeth 
 buryed in ye chawncell in St. Clement's church ; I 
 beinge then a student in ye Midle Temple wase at his 
 burioll, and manie Isle of Wyght men more. He wase 
 ye merryest and most complete gentleman that ever this 
 Island bredd. Trystram, ye seconde brother, maryed 
 Cicely Goddarde, his mother-in-lawe's dawghtor, a base 
 woman, by whom he had Eobert now livinge. His 
 (Ant. DiUington) eldest dawghtor, Ann, wase maryed 
 to Sir William Oglander ; ye seconde to Mr. Bourgh, of 
 Lincolnshyre (whose sonn wase Sir John Bourgh, that 
 woorthie sowldier killed in ye Isle of Eez) named 
 Amey. Francis ye 3rd wase maryed to Mr. Scott, a 
 woorthie gentleman, and a singular good schoUar, he 
 had an estate in Shalflete fferme, and wase buryed 
 there; she had a seconde howsband, Mr. Nicholas 
 
128 THE OGLANDER MEMOIRS. 
 
 Browne. Jane, ye 4th dawghtor, maryed to one Mr. 
 Truscott, of Deuonshyre. 
 
 Sir Eobert Dyllington^ (next to Mr. Thomas Woor- 
 seley) wase one of ye compleatest gentlemen in owre 
 Island, and it wase pittie he had no issue that his good 
 parts might haue descended. 
 
 If I may speake without partiallitie I verylie bleeve 
 that ye Isle of Wyght nevor bredd so fine a gentleman 
 as Sir Eobert Dylhngton (the sonn of Anthonie) wase ; 
 he wase as hansome well complexioned as you coold 
 wisch ; he wase a good, not greate travilor and schoUar ; 
 he had his Latine, ffrench, Spanisch, and Itahon tounge 
 he hadd ; he wase very honest, stout, and vahant ; but 
 above all his sweete, noble, merry carridge; as full of 
 conceypts without offense ; verie liberoU to his ffryndes. 
 All men loved his companie, greate Lordes and others ; 
 he dyed in London, and is buryed goinge up to the 
 
 1 A coat of arms was granted to Robert Dillington, of Knighton Georges, 
 I.W., by William Camden, Olareneeux, Jany. 11, 1599, — gules, a lion salient, 
 or. He opposed the high handed proceedings of Sir George Carey about the 
 time of the sailing of the Armada 1588, and in consequence of his complaint, 
 was summoned before the Council, and committed to the Fleet Prison, on a 
 charge of allying with papists against the govenmient, shouting "Liberty," 
 and declaring that if he could not get redress in any other way, he would seek 
 it at the point of his poniard. After a spirited remonstrance in his favour, 
 signed by most of the gentlemen of the Island, he was released. 
 
THE OGLANDER MEMOIRS. 129 
 
 chawncel in St. Clement's Church. He left his estate, 
 altho' not greate, it out of debt, to one Eobert Dylling- 
 ton, his brother Tristrame's sonn, whoe inheryted with 
 his landes not one of his unkell's conditions. 
 
 Eobert Dyllington, my kinsman, a yonger brother's 
 sonn, wase bredd a servingman with Sir Thomas Lake,i 
 both by reason of his little chardge, and extraordinarie 
 close liuinge and thriftiness, is from a small estate lyke 
 to be one of ye richest men if he live. 1615. 
 
 Mr. Eobert Dyllington wase the sonn of one God- 
 darde's dawghtor, a merchaunt in Hampton, aftor 
 whose base and miserable conditions he mutch tooke, 
 insomutch as his unkell, Sir Eobert, cowld hardlie 
 endure him. His fathor, a braue gentleman, dyed when 
 he wase younge, aftor his unkell had left him ye land 
 (for before he wayghted on Sir Thomas Lake). Marry- 
 inge with a woman^ lyke himselfe, they grewe soe 
 miserabley base, as in one instance for all, when anie 
 came to his howse with horses, he hath bene often 
 found in ye rack and maunger takinge awaie the haye ; 
 but by these thriftie coorses, from one of ye meanest 
 
 1 Secretary of State, and a native of Southampton. Through the miscon- 
 duct and intrigues of his wife, and daughter, who had married Lord Roos, he 
 was disgraced, fined, and mined, 1618-19. 
 
 2 He married first, Mabel, daughter of Sir Humphrey Foster, Kt., of 
 Berkshire, and secondly, Catherine, sister of Lord Georges. 
 
 M 
 
130 THE OGLANDER MEMOIRS. 
 
 in ye Island he grewe soe rytch as he pourchased^ 
 Motson of Mr. Cheeke, and divors other thinges, which 
 he kept all m his handes, as fearfuU that anie shoold 
 gayne by him ; and as his livinge wase contemptible till 
 he attayned 44 yeres of adge, wherein he gott mutch 
 wealth, I sent then one unto him that had a Baronnet- 
 ship to sell 2 (1628); the chepenes of ye pryce drewe 
 him on to deale, soe that nowe he that wase of late 
 inferior to all, is nowe inferior to none, and there is 
 good hopes that with ye newe honnor he will become 
 moore gentill; but howsoever it cannot be sayd of him 
 as it wase sayd by Aristotle to a poore olde man, 
 that he found makinge his supper on a roote, ffrynde, 
 sayd Aristotle, if thou hadst not broke thie fast soe, 
 thou myghtest nowe have supped mutch bettor. 
 
 His Carractor. 
 
 Base, prowde, and miserable, not caringe for anie 
 
 but those by whome he may gayne ; in all his actions 
 
 he hath relation to his own endes; doinge a courtesey 
 
 no furthor then may stand with his owne profite; one 
 
 1 Sir John in another place in his MSS. styles him "Mr. Dyllington, whoe 
 will buy all. " Besides Mottistone, he purchased Westover of Mr. Erlesman, 
 and the Manor of Butbridge from the Urryg. 
 
 2 One of the forty Baronetships that Buckingham, before embarking for 
 Rochelle, distributed among his chief followers in lieu of money, and which 
 titles they sold to the best bidder. The average price was £150 or £200. — 
 (See under "Buckingham," page 48 ■) 
 
THE OGLANDER MEMOIRS. 131 
 
 that woold seeme wise, it a foole in all thinges, gayne 
 excepted. 
 
 Anthonye Dillington ye sonn of Eobert of ye adge 
 of 17 yeres dyed at Oxforde in Maye, 1627, my sonn 
 then beinge verie sick olso at Oxforde, and in ye 
 opinion of ye phisitions as dawngerous, butt God re- 
 served him to see moore miserie. 
 
 THE GAED FAMILY. 
 
 Becawse ye Gardes nowe begin to growe rich in 
 owre Island, I thought itt fit to sett here downe theyre 
 pedigree, that aftor adges maye know ye bettor. 
 
 Pierre Garde wase borne in Normandie in ffrance, of 
 what howse or famelye I knowe not, but itt is moste 
 likelye he tooke his name from his office. Butt this is 
 moste certayne, he comitted there hygh treason, and 
 wase hanged, drawne, and quortered, or otherwyse as 
 ye coustome in firance is, torne with wilde horses, his 
 howse pulled downe, his trees rooted up, and all his 
 estate confiscated to ye Kinge. He hadd 3 sonnes whych 
 were presentlye banisched; one of ye eldest, named 
 Eychard, came into ye Isle of Wyght abowght ye 
 beginninge of Quene Eli2;abeth's reygne; ye other 2 
 brothers, one came to London, and wase there a coche- 
 maker in Smithfylde, ye other settled in Cornewale. 
 Eychard that came into ye Island, settled in Godshill 
 
 m2 
 
132 THE OGLANDER MEMOIRS. 
 
 p'risch, maryed there, and had too sonnes, Eychard 
 and Petor, and a dawghtor. His dawghtor maryed 
 one Hobbs, of Eide, nowe livinge. Eycharde, ye fathor, 
 was a notable she fellowe, dishoneste, and giuen to 
 filchinge; he browght soome trickes owt of ifrance 
 with him. Vide — he woold steale a cowe, and put- 
 tinge a loafe of breade hott owt of ye ouen on her 
 homes, make her homes soe supple that they woold 
 tourne anie waye he pleased, soe as to disfigure ye 
 beaste that ye owner myght not knowe him agayne. 
 Manye other shiftes he hadd, beinge a man of noe 
 greate conscience, by whych meanes he recovered soome 
 wealth, and dyed. His sonnes, Eychard and Petor, 
 did not degenerate; Eychard wase as craftie a knaue 
 as anye (excepte his brother) in a whole counterye ; he 
 wase goode att readinge and understandinge of owld 
 euidences, whereby he gott manye into his handes, and 
 soe forced ye owners to a composition. He wase in- 
 diferently skilled in lawe, a moste penurious base fel- 
 lowe, and of littel rehgion; he dyed^ abowght 1616, 
 
 1 Richard Gard died Feby., 1617, and on the wall of the porch of Godshill 
 Church ia a tablet with a Latin inscription to his memory, now almost illegible : 
 ' ' Bcoe oumbat Gardi corpus mortale Richardi, 
 Hoc tumulo ; verum spiritus astra tenet. 
 Cujus dona soholis largita et munera egenis 
 Annua, perpetuo non peritura manent. 
 Inclyta si pareret multos hsec insula tales, 
 Qualem jam tandem protulit uuncce virum ; 
 Tunc bene pauperibus, meliusq, soholaribus esset, 
 
THE oglander memoirs. 133 
 
 and in his wilP gaue Eychard, ye eldest sonn of Petor, 
 ye bettor parte of his estate, hauinge noe cliildern of 
 his owne. He willed his bodye to be coffined in ledd, 
 and to be layde butt 2 foote deepe in ye erth, in ye 
 portch of Godshill Church, as unwillinge that to mutch 
 erth showld hindor him from rysinge att ye resurrec- 
 tion; where wee will leaue him, to speake of Petor, 
 ye seconde brother, and sonn of Eychard ye Bandit. 
 
 Sub pede quos pres8oa quisq, jaeere sinit. 
 Dictus Richardus Gard, sepultus fuit 5 die Februarii 1617." 
 On the opposite wall ia another tablet, with a translation, or rather paraphrase, 
 of the lines in Latin : 
 
 "Here lies the mortal part of Richard Gard, 
 While his freed spirit meets with heaven's reward ; 
 His gifts endowed the schools, the needy raised, 
 And by the latest memory will be praised. 
 And may our isle be filled with such a name. 
 And be like him whom virtue clothed with fame ; 
 Blest with the poor, the scholars too were blest 
 Through such a donor that is gone to rest." 
 1 Richard Gard probably was not quite so black as painted by his bio- 
 grapher, and he certainly never deserved all the praises bestowed upon him in 
 his epitaph ; but in his childless old age, under the influence of superstitious, 
 or possibly better motives, he bequeathed a considerable portion of his ques- 
 tionable gains for charitable purposes. By his will, dated 1617, he gave 20s. 
 yearly to the poor of the parish of Newchurch, and 10s. yearly to the poor of 
 the parish of Godshill, for ever, to be paid at Christmas. Also 10s. to the poor 
 of the town of Newport, 10s. to the poor of Brading, and 10s. to the poor of 
 St. Helens, to be paid yearly on All Saints' Day. Also 10s. to the poor of the 
 Cathedral Church of Winchester, and the same sum to the poor of the parish 
 of Arreton, yearly, for ever. He also gave £5 yearly, for ever, for the main- 
 tenance of an usher in the school at Godshill (founded by Sir R. Worsley in 
 1614), and £200 for a stock, to remain for ever in the custody of his heirs and 
 executors, for the benefit of the poor impotent people of the parishes of Gods- 
 hill, Newchurch, Brading, and St. Helens, the poor of the City of Winchester, 
 and for the support of an usher in the Free School of Newport. 
 
134 THE OGLANDER MEMOIRS. 
 
 This Petor had lefte him by his fathor, a litt6l lande 
 att St. Hellens (whych how itt myght be pourchased in 
 his owne name, beinge an ahen, I leaue), woorth per 
 annum £5. Ey chard, ye eldor brother, beinge wilUnge 
 to cheate his brother Petor of ye lande, wase an im- 
 portunate sutor to bwye itt of him ; ye other, as craftie, 
 permitted him to feede him with mony, and hauinge 
 had halfe or bettor of ye woorth of it, wase drawne 
 (as he made himselve verie unwilhnge) to signe a deede 
 of sale thereof to his brother; but he beinge att that 
 tyme under adge ; ye fyrst act he did when he came of 
 adge wase to cheate ye cheator, and nuUifie that deede 
 by nonage. The enmitie then betweene ye 2 brothers 
 wase greate, they vilified one another, and discouered 
 each others knauerie to ye viewe of ye whoole Island. 
 I cannot omitt one in silence, beinge soe notorious. 
 Bychard Garde had goode store of monyes, and durst 
 not trust anye man with itt, noe not his owne howse, 
 but hid itt in a pott undergrownd in ye fild, where one 
 Smyth, his neybour, mistrustinge soome sutch matter, 
 observed him moore narrowlye, and by watchinge him, 
 found an opportunitie to gayne ye hidden pott. Ye 
 other when he missed itt, esteeminge itt littel lesse then 
 his God, had welneare hanged himselve, but that he 
 had soome confidence by ye diuel's meanes to recover 
 itt; whereupon ye brothers nowe fryndes, consult of ye 
 
THE OGLANDEE MEMOIRS. 135 
 
 meanes. Petor as ye moore active man undertakes itt, 
 goeth to a witch neare Eingwoode, or soomwhere, and 
 browght home certayne hope of ye shorte retourne of 
 ye monyes; whereupon this Smyth ye Sattordaye fol- 
 io win ge was taken on Hazely Hill on his retourne from 
 Nuport, and there in a greate storme wase beaten, 
 haled, whipped, misused, and almoste killed (had not 
 soome ye nexte morninge found him by chance), not 
 knowinge or seeinge whoe did act itt, butt affirmed itt 
 wase ye diuel; and beinge longe ill aftor, coold not be 
 quiet in conscience till he hadd browght home ye pott 
 of silver agayne to Eychard Garde's howse to Binstede, 
 accordinge to ye true relation formerlye made to Petor 
 by ye witch. Petor, he gott still landes and liuinges, 
 wheathor by ryght or wronge I suppose he httel re- 
 spected; he wase, and is, one of ye slyest, craftyest 
 knaues that I khowe; witt and judgement in matters 
 of lawe he hath enough both to serue his owne 
 tourne and to cos en his neyghbours; a man woorse 
 spoken of I nevor knewe. He maryed his eldest 
 sonn, Eychard, to Wolferye's only dawghtor, with 
 fayre and spetious promises and soome performances, 
 but priuately beforehand made, his sonn to entor into 
 bond to doo certayne futor actes to his predjudice ; soe 
 aftor maryadge he neglected his sonn, and p'formed 
 less his promises to Wolfery, whereupon I haue had ye 
 
136 THE OGLANDER MEMOIRS. 
 
 hearinge of ye differences betweene them. Nevor did 
 I heare ye lyke woordes betweene father and sonn, — 
 ye fathor wishinge he had p — d him owt agaynst a 
 wall, and that he had nevor beene borne; ye sonn 
 answored — it greeved him to come from soe base and 
 unwoorthie a fellowe, whose knauerie in cheatinge, 
 lyinge, dissemblynge, and base dealinge with all men, 
 as well as with his owne childern, had made him soe 
 notorious that he was aschamed to be acompted ye 
 sonn of sutch a fathor; but when ye tree is bad ye 
 fruite seldome prooves bettor. For this Eychard, ye 
 sonn, proves one of ye basest fellowes in ye Island, and 
 I verylie thinke itt is doubled in him. His brother 
 Petor he threateneth to kill for gayninge moore cun- 
 ninglie, with moore refined knaverie, his birthryght 
 from him, whom Petor ye fathor determyned to make 
 heyre of his fortunes, as well as he wase alreadie of his 
 sleyghtes and cunninge, and there is soome apearence 
 alreadie that in tyme he may proove as good as anye 
 of his famelye. Sed meliori opto. 
 
 On ye 28th of Maye, 1631, a mason, one Thos. Davis, 
 and his sonn, digginge for erth in a barne of Nicholas 
 Gardes att Princelade in Nuchurch p'risch, found a 
 pewtor platter, and underneath a brasse pott, and in 
 ye brasse pott an erthen pott full of EUzabeth's shil- 
 
THE OGLANDER MEMOIKS. 137 
 
 linges ; he att nyght putt itt awaye, but itt came at last 
 to be knowen by his over hastie spendinge ; whereupon 
 on ye fayre woordes myxt with threates that ye sayd 
 Nicholas Garde and his fathor used, he gaue them £98, 
 but itt is thought that there wase moore. I hearinge of 
 itt, sent my warrant for them a,ll, tooke theyre severol 
 examinations, retourned them to my Lord Threasuror, 
 and tyme will produce who shall haue itt. But I am 
 confident that it wase hidden there by one Eychard 
 Garde, unkel to Nicholas, and owner of ye sayd lande, 
 an envious, miserable feUowe, who dyed soome 14 
 yeares before itt wase found. 
 
 THE LIFE OF SIR GEORGE MORE, KNT.^ 
 
 When he wase younge he wase putt to schoole by his 
 
 1 Sir George More was bom Nov., 1553, and succeeded his father, Sir 
 William, in 1600. Sir William married, as his second wife, Mabel, daughter 
 of Marchion Dingley, Esq. , of Wolverton, in the Isle of Wight, but by her 
 had no surviving issue. In 1598 Sir George was Sheriff of Surrey and Sussex, 
 and procured a grant from the Crown of the Lordship of Godalming. In the 
 reign of James I. he was appointed Treasurer to Henry Prince of Wales, and 
 received at Loseley in 1606 the honour of a visit from the King. In 1610 he 
 was appointed Chancellor of the Order of the Garter, and in 1615 (by special 
 command of the King) Lieutenant of the Tower of London, in the place of Sir 
 Gervase Elwes, who was condemned and executed for his share in the murder 
 of Sir Thos. Overbury. — ( Vide Loseley MS. ) Sir George represented Guildford 
 and the County of Surrey in several parliaments. He married Ann, daughter 
 and co-heir of Sir Adrian Poynings, Kt. , Governor of Portsmouth, in the early 
 part of the reign of Queen Elizabeth. In the Loseley Chapel in the Church of 
 St. Nicholas, GuUdford, is a monument to the memory of Sir George and his 
 wife. 
 
138 THE OGLANDER MEMOIRS. 
 
 father, Sir William More,^ to ye fre sclioole at Gwilford ; 
 from thence at 15 yeres of adge he went to Oxforde 
 to Martin CoUedge, where he proceded Batchelor and 
 Maystor of Artes. From thence he wayghted on ye 
 greate Earle of Leystor, who wase soe gratious both 
 with soverayge and coort ; and wase in very greate 
 favour with him, insomutch as he often wase imployed 
 in messages and letters betweene his maystor and ye 
 Queene. Once among ye reste^Leystor hauinge beene 
 longe absent, and sendinge Sir George with a lettor to 
 her Grace, he had present awdience and dispatch, bid- 
 inge him make all haste back agayne with this message 
 — "That she showld do as ye weathor, nothinge but 
 weepe (for it then rayned), untill she sawe him," and 
 gave him a dimond ringe of her fingor to carrye unto 
 him as a pledge of her love. The Queene loved Sir 
 George very well, for she wase wont to come to Losely 
 to his father's, Sir Wilham More's, very often, whom she 
 called her black howseband. Aftorwardes he traveled 
 with Sir Philip Sydney as his kinsman and companyon 
 all over Ffrance, Itally, and Germanie ; at his retourne 
 he wase mutch honoured and imployed in many ser- 
 uices by ye Queene. He maryed one of ye dawghtors 
 and co-heyres of Sir Adrian Poyninges, Knight, some- 
 
 1 Knighted by the Earl of Leicester, in the garden of the Earl of Lincoln, 
 at Pirford, the Queen being present. 
 
THE OGLANDER MEMOIRS. 139 
 
 time Governor of Portesmouth ; where one of his sonnes 
 lieth buryed in ye entoringe into ye chawncel, with an 
 inscription of brass ; he wase hnioUy descended from ye 
 howse of ye Lord Poyninges, of Shropshire ; he had 2 
 sistors onlye, one^ maryed to my Lord Chancelor 
 Egerton, and the other^ to Sir Francis Mannering, of 
 Shropshire. Sir George More beinge a Parhament man, 
 wase by the Queene, not beinge in ye Bill, chosen by 
 her shryfe for spetioU seruice. A President not to be 
 paralled, he wase ye awntientest Knight in Surry, and 
 Justice and Debutie-Liftennant ; he wase one of the 
 Hygh Commission chosen by Prince Henry when he went 
 fyrst to keep howse, his Thresuror, who he infinitely 
 loued and certaynely woold nevor haue changed had he 
 lived to haue been Kinge. He was Chawncelor of ye 
 Gartor, and p'formed that seruice so well as that Kinge 
 James^ woold often say he coold nevor find any crack 
 in him; when Somerset the Kinge's greate favorite had 
 
 1 Elizabeth: Sir Thos. Egerton, afterwardes Lord Ellesmere, was her 
 third husband. 
 
 2 Anne: married Sir F. Mainwaring, Kt., of Ightfield, Shropshire. 
 
 3 Whatever King James's opinion of Sir George may have been, he in 1601 
 formed a very unfavourable estimate of the character of his future Royal master. 
 In May of that year he was at Brussels, and a letter from thence, preserved in 
 the State Paper Office, says: "George More, who came here about the Spanish 
 title, and left in discontent for Scotland, has returned thence still more dis- 
 gusted; and proclaims the King a dissembler, promise breaker, inconstant, 
 and given privately to drunkenness ; that he quarrels with his wife, and had 
 thought of putting her in prison, but was dissuaded by his Council." 
 
140 THE OGLANDER MEMOIRS. 
 
 offended, Sir George wase by ye Kinge himselve chosen 
 Liftennant of ye Tower, as one of the trustiest and 
 ablest he cowld find owt for that seruice. The Kinge 
 and olso Queene Elizabeth often imployed him in com- 
 missions, and for to woorke ye Parliament House to 
 sutch thinges as they desyred to haue effected. He 
 wase only unfortunate in that the favorites nevor af- 
 fected him ; for Somerset woold often tell him, beinge his 
 prisoner in ye tower, that he often heard Kinge James 
 nominate him for greate places when they fell, and that 
 he had still crossed him, and mooved ye Kinge for 
 others, and that he had had divors of ye beste places if 
 he had not hindored him. The like did Buckingame 
 doo when the Kinge had sworn to him that he showld 
 be Maystor of the Wardes before he went owte of towne, 
 it the Duke of Buckingame woold haue it for another 
 of his creatures. He wase but littell of stature, but of 
 greate abilities, by nature very passionate, it in his wis- 
 dome he conquered that passion, insomutch as you 
 woold think him to be of mild disposition; his only 
 errour amonge his many admirable vertues wase, that 
 he to mutch neglected his owne affayres, and followed 
 ye Coourt, and other men. He thought his merites 
 woold have aduaunced him to soome hygh place, as no 
 man bettor deserued it; but he lined in a time that 
 mony bore downe all merite, and a dounce with mony 
 
THE OGLANDER MEMOIRS. 141 
 
 wase bettor esteemed then ye beste, ablest, and deser- 
 uinge man liuinge. Then he wase of a woonderful free 
 disposition, many makinge use of his goode nature; a 
 greate howsekeper, for when I fyrst maryed his dawgh- 
 tor he gaue 50 liueryes, spente every weeke an ox 
 and 12 shepe, kept his stuarde's table, and had all 
 thinges proportionable to it. Butt when Prince Henry 
 dyed, then fell aU his fortunes. He' wase of his diott 
 ye temperatest, and ye greatest paynetaker that evor I 
 knewe, and a honestor man nevor liued. He hadd 3 
 sonnes and 5 dawghtors, ye eldest maryed to Sir 
 Nicholas Cary,^ the second to Sir Thomas Grymes, ye 
 third to ye Deane of St. Pawles, Doctor Donne,^ the 
 fourth to Baronett Milles,^ who dyed in childbed; ye 
 youngest to Sir John Oglander. I maye trulye saye of 
 this man, I nevor knewe any more payneful of bodye, or 
 more industrious of minde ; he wase quallified with rare 
 gwyftes, as with judgement, learninge, memorie, under- 
 standinge, knowUedge, ellocution, honestie, loue, and 
 liberallitie. He wase httel and good. "Morus tarde 
 moriens ; Morum cito moriturum."^ Sir George More, 
 
 1 Sir Nicholas Thockmorton Carew, Kt., of Bedington, Surrey, 1598. 
 
 2 Married in 1602 : see Life by Walton. 
 
 3 Sir John Mills, Bt., of Camoys Court. 
 
 4 This punning motto, or rebus on the name of More, Sir John probably 
 copied on one of his visits to Loseley, as on the ceiling of the parlour of that 
 house there still remains a representation of a mulberry tree, with the above 
 inscription hy the sides of it. 
 
142 THE OGLANDBR MEMOIRS. 
 
 ye best of men, departed this wordle (wherein he took 
 more paynes for ye seruice of his countery then any 
 man liuinge) ye 5*''of October, 1632, and left his grand- 
 child, Poynings More, ye sonn of Sir Eobert, to succeed 
 him as his heyre in Loseley; which Poynings^ More 
 kept his Christmas with me 1632. 
 
 THE LIEE OF SHI JOHN LEYGH, OP NORTH COORT, 
 IN SHORWELL, MY GOOD FRYND. 
 
 He wase a younger brother's sonn of kin to that Sir 
 John Leygh, of Apeldorcoombe, whose dawghtor and 
 heyre Sir James Woorseleye, of Lancashyre, maryed; 
 he was born but to small fortune, only a handsome, 
 active, younge gentleman; his father^ left him soome 
 yeres in Arreton fiarme, and he had an unkelP that wase 
 Stuard to ye Abbot of Quarr that dyed and left him ye 
 remaynes of his fortunes; all that he had wase not 
 woorth above £2000. He maryed one of Mr. John 
 Dinglie's dawghtors^ of Woolverton, they beinge fyrst 
 
 1 Eldest son of Sir Robert, by Frances, daughter of Sampson Lennard, Esq. 
 In 1632 he was granted licence and passport by the Lords of the Council "to 
 travell into forraine partes and therein to remain for the space of three yeres, 
 provided that he repairs not to the C'ittie of Rome without licence first 
 obtained from his Majestie." He was created a Baronet in 1642. 
 
 2 Barnaby Leigh, who married Grace, daughter of Henry Lyte, Esq., of 
 Lyte's Gary, Somerset. 
 
 3 Edward Leigh, of Shorwell, 
 
 4 Elwabeth, 
 
THE OGLANDER MEMOIRS. 143 
 
 (so chosen) Lord and Ladie of a Sommerpole at a Whit- 
 sontide in ye P'risch of Sliorwell; in those dayes that 
 honest recreation wase very common, and not dishonor- 
 able, but as a meanes to make many matches, and to 
 drawe mutch good companie togeathor, ye gayne where- 
 of went to ye mayntenance of ye church. Mr. Dinglie, 
 his fathor-in-lawe, wase imployed by Sir George Carey 
 as his Debutie-liftennant, Sir John Leygh Huinge with 
 him and beinge more active than his fathor-in-lawe, dis- 
 patched most of ye busines, and beinge soe browght up 
 (at ye feete of GameheU) inabled him soe well, that 
 aftor Mr. Dinghe's death Sir George Carye made choyce 
 of him for his Debutie Liftennant, and aftor him my 
 Lord of Sowthampton.^ He continued longe in that 
 place and aloone, becawse Mr. Woorsley whose awnces- 
 tors had ye full commaund heretofore woold not accept 
 of it, and there wase few others that lined in ye 
 cowntery capabell of itt. He had olso ye nomination 
 in my Lord Conway's time, although then soe owld as 
 not compos mentis. He had 2 brothers,^ and a sistor 
 maryed to Sir George Guntor; he lined to see them 
 
 1 Dec. 31, 1603, the Earl of Southampton nominated Thoa. Worsley, of 
 Appuldurcombe, and John Leygh, of Shorwell, Deputy-Captains of the Island, 
 and of the castles and forts therein, with proviso of their granting no licences 
 for the export of grain. 
 
 2 Anthony Leigh, of London, and Bamaby Leigh, of Thorley, who married 
 Mabel, daughter of John Dingley, of Wolvertoo. 
 
144 THE OGLANDER MEMOIRS. 
 
 all buryed, as olso many of his own children, namely, 
 Mrs. Grace Leygh, a handsom gentlewoman and a 
 good, maryed to Sir John Eychardes, of Yaverland. 
 He wase a gentleman of ye most temperatest diott that 
 evor I knewe, contented and satisfyed with a small 
 mattor eythor of meate or drinke. At ye ordinarye 
 with us, he woold not eate above 3 or 4 bittes of meate, 
 and proportionablelie of drinke. I wase with him in 
 ye peace 20 yeres, and most of that tyme noe other butt 
 ourselves in ye Island ; he woold nevor differ in opinion, 
 butt of a mild and good nature ; no schoUar, nor mutch 
 redd, but verie paynful, and willinge to doo what good 
 he coold, verie pittiful and merciful ; in his lattor tyme 
 weepinge at every disastor. He hadd manye children,^ 
 butt only 2 dawghtors. He Uved to see 4 Captaynes^ 
 of ye Island buryed ; to see all those that weare howse- 
 kepers when he wase a younge mann buryed ; to see aU 
 ye gentlemen of his own adge (I meane in this Island) 
 buryed, only Sir John Meux excepted ; to see all gentle- 
 men that weare borne and Uuinge, younge or owlde, 
 when he wase first maryed, buryed ; to see all ye Jus- 
 tices of Peace that weare in commission when he 
 wase fyrst putt in, buryed; he lined to be ye oldest 
 
 1 His second son, Thos. Leigh, was Mayor of Newport, and married Jane, 
 daughter of Emanuel Bad, Esq. 
 
 2 Sir Richard Worsley 1565, Sir Edward Horsey 1582, Sir George Carey 
 1603, and Earl of Southampton 1625. 
 
THE OGLANDER MEMOIRS. 145 
 
 Justice of ye Peace and gentleman in ye Island and 
 shyre at lardge; and is nowe still liuinge, September, 
 1629. 
 
 He wase a very good howsband, and by his frugallitie 
 and by laying owt his mony on reversions (namely 
 Northcoort) he gott a good estate, which his sonn, Mr. 
 Barnabas Leygh, by his good howsbandrie, and by his 
 3 wyfFes,^ hath mutch augmented. Sir John wase taken 
 with a ded palsy going into his garden to untruss, his 
 horses beinge at ye door sadled for to ryde to Winches- 
 tor to ye Assises, when he wase abowt 30 yeres of adge, 
 soe that all his ryght syde wase ded, and he lived soe 
 with that palsy (as I think no sutch president before) 50 
 yeres. He wase Knyghted at Bewlie by Kinge James in 
 ye 3rd yere of his reygn (Aug. 30, 1606,) at ye request 
 of my Lord of Sowthampton, all owre companies then 
 trayning at Bewlie before his Ma*'°' He woold often 
 
 1 In the north aisle of Shorwell Church is a large and singular brass to the 
 memory of the first and second wives of Mr. Bamaby Leigh, with this inscrip- 
 tion: "To ye remembrance of ye two most worthie and religious gentlewomen, 
 his late deare and loyall wives, Mrs. Elizabeth Bampfield, whoe died ye 7th 
 of March, 1615, having bin ye mother of 15 hopeful children; and Mrs. 
 Gartrude Parsevall, who died chUdles, ye '22nd of December, 1619, was this 
 monument consecrated by their living and sorrowful husband, Barnabas Leigh, 
 Esq. " — Twelve lines of verse here follow. His third wife was the vridow of 
 — Bulkeley, of Burgate, Hants, by whom he had one son, Francis Leigh, of 
 Alvington, I.W, 
 
 N 
 
146 THE OGLANDER MEMOIRS. 
 
 take up liis grandchild in his armes (now Sir John 
 Leygh the younger) and say, "Thou wilt one daye 
 revenge my quarrell, and wisch thie fathor ded as hee 
 now wischeth mee;" this hee woold merylie say to 
 young Sir John Leygh, his grandchild; for Mr. Barn- 
 abie Leygh wase nonne of the most duetifuU sonns, for 
 he woold often say, "Woold I coold say ye beginninge 
 of ye Lorde's Prayer." Sir John Leygh bwylt and 
 bowght^ Northcoort, which formerlye wase a priorie; 
 he surveyed all ye workes at Caresbroke,^ Sandham, 
 and Cowse Castelles, and kept ye accomptes; he did 
 very mutch good in his countery; lived to be a very 
 childe of 80 and odd yeres, to see his grandchildren 
 haue children ; and when he dieth he will leaue many 
 wryghtinges behind him, which to haue coppies of them 
 woold be mutch for ye good of ye countery ; ye lyke is 
 there in ye studdie of Apledorcombe, many notable 
 antiquities, presidents, orders and constitutions, for ye 
 good of this Island. Hee dyed in January, 1629,^ ye 
 
 1 Of Mr. Temea. 
 
 2 In a roU of the accounts of the works and repairs carried out at Oaris- 
 brooke Castle, 1587-88, occurs this item: "John Leigh, gent., for the expenses 
 and chardges of himselfe, fyve men, and sixe horses, for 12 dayes travellinge 
 from the Isle of Wyghte to London, stayinge there, and bringing downe the 
 thousand markes appoynted for the fortifications, £4 . . 0. " 
 
 3 New style, 1630. 
 
THE OGLANDER MEMOIRS. 147 
 
 19th, and was buryed^ with, greate solemnity 8th of 
 March by Mr. Jones,^ of Arreton. 
 
 THE LIFE OF SIR RYCHARD WOORSELEY, 
 KNYGHT AND BARRONET. 
 
 When he wase younge he wase taught and educated by 
 his father, Mr. Thomas Woorseley,^ a man well learned 
 and of very good partes; when he accomplishched ye 
 
 1 The north aisle of ShorweU Church was the burying place of the Leigh 
 family, where there is a monument with kneeling efiigies to the memory of Sir 
 John Leigh and his grandson, with the following inscription: "Memoria 
 Sacrum, Clarissimo Amantissimo Patri Johanni Leigh de Northcourt in 
 Insula Vectis Equiti Aurat. qui obiit 18 die Janivari, Ano. Dni. 1629, setatis 
 suae 83, et sepultus fuit sub hoc tumulo, hoc Honoris Amoris Doloris Testi- 
 monium posuit moestissimus Filiua natu maximus, Barnabas* Leigh, Armig. 
 Vixit post Funera Virtus." — Ten lines of verse here follow. In another com- 
 partment is this: "Mors .^temitatis Nativitas. Barnabas Leigh, son and 
 heire of Sir John Leigh and Elizabeth Bulckly, his wife, nine moneths old, 
 died Janivary 25th, 1629, and was laide in the toombe of his great grandfather 
 who saw his heir of ye fourth generation. 
 
 "Inmate in graue he tooke his grandchilde heire. 
 Whose soule did haste to make to him repaire, 
 And soe to heaven along as little page 
 With him did poast to wait upon his age. " 
 On another monument is an inscription to the memory of "The Religious and 
 vertuous Ladie, Elizabeth Leigh, dawgt. of John Dingley, Esq. , late wife of 
 Sir John Leigh, Kt. Died ye 27th day of Octbr., Ano. Dni. 1619. And lieth 
 here interred. " An inscription in verse follows, beginning : — 
 "Sixteene a maid, and iiftie yeares a wyfe, 
 Make ye sum totall of my passed life. 
 Long thred so finely spunn, so fairlie ended. 
 That few shall match this patterne, fewer mend it." 
 * This must have been written after Mr. Barnabas had iuXtl the begining of the Lord's 
 Prayer. 
 
 2 The Rev. W. Jones, presented to the living of Arreton by Sir Thos. 
 Fleming, 1615. 
 
 3 Married Barbara, daughter of William St. .John, Esq., of Farley, Hants. 
 
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148 THE OGLANDER MEMOIRS. 
 
 adge of 12 yeres his father putt him to Winchester 
 Colledge where he profited very well in his learninge. 
 Abote 15 yeres of adge his fathor dyed/ then he wase 
 putt to Oxforde, to Magdeline Colledge, where with the 
 helpe and laboure of his tutor, one Oastilion, he grewe 
 to be a very pregnant schoUer, and verie expert in ye 
 Greeke tounge; well seene in all learninge. When he 
 wase scholler in Winton Colledge, at a huntinge daye 
 with a strype of a hasell twigge he lost one of his eyes, 
 it so ordered as hardlie to be descerned. Aboute 20 
 yeres of adge, his tutor carringe of him into Berkeshyre 
 to his brother's. Sir Francis Castilion, he owt of his 
 respect to them both, Sir Eychard Woorseley and Sir 
 Henry Neville, for Sir Francis had maryed Mr. St. 
 John's dawghtor, sistor to Sir Eycharde's mother, so he 
 carryed him to Billingbeare to Sir Henry Neville's 
 howse, where he fell in loue with M^*™- Francis Neville, 
 one of ye handsomest littel women that wase in this 
 kingdome, or that ever at least I sawe ; I think fancie 
 prevayled over portion. Then Sir Henry gott him to 
 be Knyghted, and aftorwardes to be a Barronet;^ then 
 he came into ye Island to be a howsekeeper and to be 
 putt into ye Commission of ye Peace, whose oathe I 
 gaue him ; he kept a verie bountifuU howse, and gaue 
 greate entertaynement ; lived in greate repute in his 
 
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THE OGLANDER MEMOIRS. 149 
 
 counterye and verie hapilie. He had singular good 
 gwyftes both of art and nature, a verie honest man 
 where he did affect, butt withall verie nice and scrupu- 
 lous in doinge of coortises, as to lend moneyes, or be 
 bound for anye; for he desired to be bound with Sir 
 John Dinglie to ye Ordinarye on his maryadge, that 
 there wase no precontract betweene him and anie other. ^ 
 Verie coUerick, butt his judgment woold well moderate 
 itt, wonderful studious, insomutch as he affected no 
 counterye spoortes, eythor hawkinge or huntinge, but 
 whollie spent his tyme when he wase alone att his 
 booke; verie merry, and a notable good fellowe in 
 companie that he knewe. He delyghted much in fling- 
 inge of cuschions at one another's heddes only in sporte, 
 and for exersise; untill that with a cuschion at Gat- 
 combe I wase lyke to putt foorth his other eye. He 
 loued to keep a good table, otherwyse he woold haue 
 nothinge more than necessarie nor hardly that, not 
 
 1 This he did probably because an arrangement had been made, and speci- 
 fied in his father's will, between his father, Thomas Worsley, and John White, 
 of Southwick, CO. Hants, that his son, Kichard Worsley, should marry Honora, 
 the eldest daughter of the said John White, if they, Richard and Honora, so 
 agreed ; his father having lent John White £1500, taking as security the 
 Manor of Marwell, the Rectory of Wymering, and all the tithes, &c., after 
 the death of the said John White, and Frances, his wife. If the said marriage 
 did not take place, and John White wished to redeem, he was to pay down 
 £2000, which was to be laid out in the purchase of other lands for Richard 
 Worsley. Honora White eventually became the wife of Sir Daniel Norton. 
 
150 THE OGLANDER MEMOIRS. 
 
 respectinge good clothes. Beinge in a parliament/ ye 
 last of Kinge James, soom of his howsehold gott ye 
 small poxe, and comminge hoome soom of his children 
 had it, and afterwardes himselve, who beinge not so 
 careful as he showld, and remouinge into his wyfe's 
 chawmber aftor they weare owt on him, certaynely tooke 
 cold and dyed^ in ye flower of his adge, to ye greate 
 gryfe of his fryndes and generoU loss to ye whole 
 counterye; he is buryed in ye sowth chawncell in 
 Godshill Church. 
 
 Sir Kychard Woorseley, my good frynd, who both 
 for naturoU and artificiall gwyftes had not his fellowe 
 in owre cowntrie, and his fayre ladye, who for bewtie 
 and virtue is woorthie of ye lyke commendations, often 
 laye att my howse with mee 3 or 4 dayes togeathor; he 
 dyed unfortunately of ye small poxe, and his ladye 
 wase lyke to runn ye same fortune. 
 
 ]y[trs. ^jjj^ Worseley, dawghtor to Sir Eychard Worse- 
 ley, Knyght and Barronet, whoe soom 6 j-eares aftor 
 her fathor's death, wase by her mother maryed at 17 
 yeres of adge to one Sir John Leygh,^ a Londinor's sonn ; 
 she wase maryed unto him in London at the howse 
 oposite to ye 3 Crownes next to ye Savoye Gate, about 
 ye 9th of November, Ano. Dom. 1629; and she wase 
 
 1 He was M.P. for Newport, 1620-21. 
 
 2 June 27, 1621. 3 Of Bury, Suffolk. 
 
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 brought abed of a sonn at Apeldorcombe on ye 1 2tli of 
 August, Alio. 1630; and she herselve dyed ye 16th of 
 August foUowinge, weathor by takinge colde (which 
 coold hardhe bee) or with an imposthume in her hed, 
 or of a disease that then commonly raygned in owre 
 Island (a kind of burninge feavor) I knowe not. But 
 this I cann confidently averr, that this Island nevor 
 bredd a bettor or a handsomer gentlewoman, or a 
 woman everie way bettor qualified; she wase buryed 
 by her fathor in ye chawncell in Godshill Church, 
 where sutch a fathor, sutch a dawghtor lyeth; both 
 sutch as I must confess I nevor knewe any that ex- 
 ceeded them. They 2 beinge gone, the glory of that 
 howse is passed away, and although there be more 
 branches of . ye sayde stocke it left, it they will 
 proove Crabbs in respect of that fayre fruit. So wee 
 will leve them in Godshill, theyre Mount Syon, weathor 
 praye God to bringe us all. 
 
 To wryght an epitaph on ye fathor and ye dawghtor 
 I showld extenuate ratlior than demonstrate theyre 
 woorth. Only frame an idea of a most p'fect man and 
 woman, and then beleve yt sutch they weare. 
 
 Sir'Eychard Woorseley, ye mann of learning, patron 
 of virtue, frynd of good fellowes, and credite both of 
 his howse and ye Islande, lyeth buryed in ye upper 
 ende of ye sowthe chawncell in Godshill Church, with- 
 
152 ' THE OGLANDER MEMOIRS. 
 
 out anie monument; whoe wase woorthie to haue his 
 statue made in goold, but his good fame and virtue shall 
 outHve all toombes. 
 
 Eichor than thieselve, covering there is none, 
 Thou to thieselve suppliest the want of stone. 
 
 In Godshill church woorse lie 
 
 Than ye name of Woorseley ; 
 
 Earth nevor bettor hadd, 
 
 Few men soe far from badd. 
 
 Happie men, happie soile, 
 
 Whoe aftor lyfe and toile. 
 
 With prayse in peace doo rest 
 
 In Godshill, which is best. 
 
 His ladye, though my good frynd, and for virtue, 
 noblenes, and bewtie, woorthie sutch a howsband, it 
 herein wase wantinge. 
 
 [_Sir John probably alludes to the passion of " his good 
 frynd " for Sir Chas. Bartlett, which seems to have been 
 unrequited, as in another place of his MSS. Sir John has 
 inserted some very vigorous lines, which were written by 
 Lady Frances Worsley on the marriage of Sir Charles. 
 Resentment and disappointed affection may have shar- 
 pened her pen, but the incisive couplets following were the 
 production of no ordinary woman.'\ 
 
 " Bee what thou wilt, be counterfeyt or ryght. 
 Bee constant, serious, or be vayne or lyght ; 
 My love remaynes inviolate ye same, 
 Thou canst be nothinge that can quench ye flame, 
 
THE OGLAIJDER MEMOIRS. 153 
 
 Butt it will burne as long as thou hast breth 
 To keepe itt kindled, if not after deth. 
 Nere wase there one more trewe than I to thee ; 
 And though my fayth must nowe despised bee, 
 Unprised, unvalued, att ye lowest rate, 
 Yet this rie tell thee— 'tis not all thie state. 
 Nor all that bettor seeminge woorth of thine, 
 Can buye thee sutch another love as myne ; 
 Likinge it may — but oh — there's as mutch odds 
 Twixt love and likinge, as 'tweene men and gods."' 
 
 Ye Pedigree of ye Woorseleys of Apledor combe. 
 
 Apelder Combe wase originoUie one Apelder's; 
 
 Combe in ye Saxon tongue signifieth a valley or a 
 
 bottom betweene hilles. Eychard Eivors, Lord of this 
 
 Isle, gaue it to a religious howse att Lyra^ in Nornian- 
 
 1 The passion of a widow of mature age, with several children, though 
 violent, is apt to be transient, and time brought about a change in the lady's 
 feelings. At all events, about 1636-7, Lady Frances Worsley became the wife 
 of Col. Jeremy Brett, Captain of Southsea Castle. Col. Brett, a kinsman to the 
 Duke of Buckingham, commanded a regiment in the fruitless Northern expe- 
 dition of 1639 ; and on his return his men mutinied at Durham, and threatened 
 his life. In 1642, after the removal of the Earl of Portland from the Island, he 
 was appointed by the King Captain of Carisbrooke Castle. There, with the 
 Countess of Portland and her family, twenty men and three days' provisions, 
 he was besieged by Moses Read, Mayor of Newport, assisted by four hundred 
 seamen landed from the fleet, and Harby, the Minister of the Town. Resistance 
 being out of the question, he surrendered on honourable terms. His wife died 
 m 1659. 
 
 2 The Manor of Appuldurcombe was granted by Isabella de Fortibus to the 
 Benedictine Abbey of Monteburg in the Diocese of Coutances, France, which 
 abbey was founded by her ancestor, Richard de Redvera, in 1090. The alien 
 priories being dissolved and their lands seized by the Crown, Appuldurcombe 
 
154 THE OGLANDER MEMOIRS. 
 
 die, in Edward ye 1st or 2iid, therfore ye ffrenchmen 
 possessed it, husbanded it, and retourned ye commody- 
 ties thereof to Lyra. In Edward ye 3rd tyme in his 
 warres he took itt awaie and annexed itt to his Crowne ; 
 there is a mill carieth ye name of JlTrench mill still. 
 Aftor ye warres with Ffrance, itt wase grawnted 
 by ye Kinge to ye Minorys without Aldgate, London. 
 Sir John Leygh, originoUie a Dorsetshyre man, by 
 marying Fry's widdowe, came to haue the lease, whoe 
 hauinge but one dawghtor and heyre, named Ann, one 
 Mr. James Woorseley, a courtior of Lancashyre, ma- 
 ryed her, by his ffryndes at Coorte gott to be Knighted, 
 and aftor ye Lord Woodvill to be mayde Captayne of 
 this Island. He hadd 2 sonnes, Eychard and John. 
 Eychard^ maryed a Sinbarbe,^ of Hampshyre; had 2 
 
 was granted in the 30th year of Henry VI. to the Minoresses without Aldgate, 
 London, and by them was leased to the Frys. The last of this family dying 
 without issue, left the lease to his widow, Mary, the daughter of John Hackett, 
 Esq., of Woolverton. She married for her second husband Sir John Leigh, of 
 More, Dorsetshire, and left by him an only daughter, Ann, who became the 
 wife of Sir James Worsley. The church at Godshill was one of those given to 
 the Abbey of Lire, soon after the Conquest, by William Fitz Osborne. 
 
 1 "Kyohard wase Captayne of ye Island, and bwylte Woorseley 's tower, 
 lie wase a brave, stout, and woorthie gentleman, but he dyed younge. " — (From 
 another place in the MSS. ) 
 
 2 Ursula, second daughter of Henry St. Barbe, of Ashington, S omerset, 
 who married secondly the famous Sir Francis Walsingham, Secretary of State ; 
 who in spite of the efforts of John Worsley, brother and heir to Richard, en- 
 joyed in right of his wife the leases of Bowcombe and the Manors of Godshill 
 and Freshwater. The lease of the Priory of Carisbrooke also belonged to his 
 wife from her first husband, but Walsingham procured of the Queen a grant of 
 
THE OGLANDER MEMOIRS. 155 
 
 sonnes, John and George; wase olso Captayne of this 
 Island; lined in good repute, and dyed Ano. Dom. 1565 ; 
 his widdowe (Ursula) maryed Sir Francis Walsingham, 
 by whom she had only one dawghtor, fyrst maryed to 
 that woorthie Sir Philip Sidneye, then to ye Earl of 
 Essex, aftorwardes behedded ; lastly .to the Earl of 
 Clenricott.i John and George, ye sonnes of Ey chard, 
 beinge in ye lodge or gatehowse of Apledorcombe, 
 where they went to scoole, the servantes weare dryinge 
 of powder there, agaynst ye generall mowstor (in 1567), 
 a sparkle flewe into ye dische that sett fyre of a barreU 
 that stood bye, blewe up a side of ye gatehowse, killed 
 ye two children (one beinge 8 and ye other 9 yeres of 
 adge), and some others; hurte one James Woorsley, a 
 youth, theyre kinsman and mine, that went to scoole 
 theyre with them, whoe hath often tolde me this storye. 
 
 the Priory in reversion for 31 years, for a fine of £200, and a rent of £105. 
 Walsingham died deeply in debt, incurred in the public service, in 1590 ; the 
 Crown being one of his principal creditors. In a memorial to the Queen in 
 1602, "the poor old widow of Her Majestie's ancient own servant" begs for 
 the reversion of the Priory of Carisbrooke, which she had had in lease 12 years, 
 and which was all the living left her by the death of her first husband, Mr. 
 Worsley. She had paid Her Majesty since the death of her late husband, by 
 the sale of a good lease, &c., £16,000; but had been obliged to take up money 
 on interest, for the repayment of which she had been forced to sell Walsing- 
 ham House, in London, and Fulham Parsonage. She scarcely lived long enough 
 to know the result of her touching appeal, for in little more than a month after 
 its delivery the aged lady died, and was buried by the side of her second hus- 
 band in St. Paul's Cathedral. — (State Papers, Domestic.) 
 1 Richard de Burgh, Earl of Clanricarde and St. Albans. 
 
156 THE OGLANDER MEMOIRS. 
 
 (He escaped, but wase miserably burned.) Then John 
 Woorsley, ye brother to Eychard, entored into Aple- 
 dorcombe, maryed a Mewx/ had butt one chi,ld named 
 Thomas. John dyinge, Thomas entored, and maryed 
 a Sinjohn;2 had 2 sonnes, Eychard and John; Eychard 
 aftor Thomas's death entored, maryed Sir Henry 
 Neville's dawghtor, dyed of ye smale pox, left sonnes, 
 Henry,^ Eychard, Thomas (my godson), John, Ann, 
 Elizabeth, and Dorothee. 
 
 Thomas Woorseley,* of Chale, wase a bastard begot- 
 ten by Mr. Eychard Woorsely, of Apledorcombe, on ye 
 bodie of one Urie Targett's dawghtor, who dwelt at 
 Whatchingwell, and this mayd wase his dearymayde, 
 and a good handsom wench. This Mr. Thomas Woorse- 
 ley wase a braue, wyse, and stout gentleman, Uued well 
 and gott a good estate owt of Chale ferme, beinge all 
 that wase by his fathor left unto him. He pourchased 
 
 1 Jane, daughter of Richard Meux, Esq. , of Kingston. 
 
 2 Barbara, daughter of William St. John, Esq., of Farley, Hants. 
 
 3 Henry, his successor; Richard, John, and Dorothy died unmarried. Ann 
 married Sir .John Leigh, of Bury, and Elizabeth, Sir John Meux, of Kingston. 
 The descendants of Thomas succeeded to the Baronetcy on the failure of the 
 elder branch by the death of Sir Richard Worsley in 1805. 
 
 4 Son of Richard Worsley, who died 1565, and who left by will to this 
 Thos. Worsley, or Medmore, then at Winchester School, £20 yearly for his 
 maintenance, also 100 marks on his attaining the age of 21. John Worsley, 
 the brother of Richard, also left in his will £200 to Thos. Worsley, alias 
 Medmore, to be paid out of the profits of a farm at Swainston, besides an an- 
 nuity of £20 for four or five years. 
 
THE OGLANDEE MEMOIRS. 157 
 
 £200 a yere land, and dyed and left it to his eldest 
 sonn; for he had as I remember but one sonn and a 
 dawghtor,^ which wase maryed to Mr. William Bowre- 
 man, of Brooke; his sonn olso maryed ye sayd Mr. 
 Bowreman's sistor,^ aftorwardes ye wyfe of Mr. Edward 
 Leygh, second sonn to Sir John Leygh, and dyed. He 
 degenerated mutch from his fathor, for he was a folisch, 
 cokhedded, druncken beast, and his sonn proveth lyke 
 ye fathor, a most deboysed, druncken, folisch younge 
 man; whoe I thinke will be the last of that famelye; 
 whether it be ye corruptions of owre owne nature, 
 or a curse of God for owre offenses that famely's soe 
 degenerated, I leave to others' judgements. 
 
 THE LYFE OF YE LOEDE CONWAY, CAPTAYNE OE YE 
 ISLE OE WYGHT. 
 
 [Sir Edward Conway was the son of Sir John Conway, 
 Kt., of Ragley, Warwick, who was appointed Governor of 
 Ostend by the Earl of Leicester in 1586. His mother 
 was Elene, daughter of Sir Fulke Greville. Sir Edward 
 served in the expedition to Cadiz, 1596, where he com- 
 manded a regiment, and was Knighted by the Earl of 
 Essex. He was afterwards Governor of Brill, till it was 
 delivered up to the Dutch in 1616. In 1620-1 he was 
 
 \ B?trbara Worsley. 2 Emma Bowrejnan. 
 
158 THE OGLANDER MEMOIRS. 
 
 sent with Sir R. Weston as Ambassador to Prague, on 
 a fruitless mission, to endeavour to effect a reconciliation 
 between the Elector Frederick and the Emperor. By the 
 influence of Buckingham he ivas appointed Secretary of 
 State, 1623, and the King himself recommended him to the 
 Lords, for his birth, his soldierly qualities, his language, 
 his honesty, and his courtesy. In March, 1624, he was 
 created Lord Conway of Ragley, and was appointed 
 Captain of the Isle of Wight in December of the same 
 year. He was further advanced to the dignity of Viscount 
 Killultagh, co. Antrim, and Viscount Conway of Conway 
 Castle, Carnarvon, in 1626. In 1629 he became Lord 
 President of the Council, which post he filled till his 
 decease in January, 1631.] 
 
 He wase a younger brother of a worshipful howse of 
 ye Conwayes at Eagland in Warwickshyre, of whence 
 he wase made Baron of Eagland, and Viscount Con- 
 waye. In his youth, as I haue heard him often saye, 
 he wase wilde, and nevor coold endure his booke, butt 
 rann awaye from schoole, and went into ye Lowe 
 Counteries to ye warres, and lived long as a common 
 sowldior; after wardes by his owne endeavours (as cer- 
 taynely in his youth he wase verye valiant) he obtayned 
 a captayne's place, and after that he wase made Liften- 
 nant Governor of ye Brill, under Sir Ffrancis Veare. I 
 
THE OGLANDER MEMOIRS. 159 
 
 haue heard him often saye that he nevor had anything 
 of his father, but by ye deth of his eldest brother/ he 
 had that Estate of Eagland, beinge woorth £800 per 
 annum. When ye Brill (on payment of ye moneyesby 
 ye Dutch that Queene Elizabeth lente on those caution- 
 arye^ townes wase payde to Kinge James) wase surren- 
 dered to ye Dutch, Sir Edward Conway hauinge a 
 companie and that commaund of ye Brill, beinge forced 
 to leave ye one, willinglie surrendered up ye other to 
 one Sir Alexander Brette, ye Duke of Buckingame's 
 cosen germain; and came for England, and putt him- 
 selve whoUey to please and flattor je Duke,^ who tooke 
 
 1 " Sir Fulke Conway, brother to Mr. Secretary, having his house in • 
 Ireland burnt about his ears by negligence in taking tobacco, and escaping 
 the first fury of the fire, would needs venture in again to save certain writings or 
 papers; but came so singed, and stifled with the smoke, that he died presently, 
 leaving better than £2000 land a year in the country to descend to Mr. 
 Secretary. " — ( Cliamberlain to Carleton, Dec. IS, 1624- O. and T. ) 
 
 2 The cautionary towns were Brill, Flushing, and Rammekins, which the 
 States had put into the possession of Queen Elizabeth, as security for the 
 money she had lent them while engaged in their struggle for independence 
 with Spain. The garrisons of the towns were Englishmen, who were paid by 
 the Dutch ; but the States being anxious to regain possession of their towns, 
 and apprehensive that James might sell them to the Spaniards, to induce the 
 King the more readily to lis ben to their proposals, ceased to pay the soldiers, 
 and excused themselves by the plea of poverty. The garrisons were soon in a 
 state of starvation, and after long deliberations, the towns, in April, 1616, 
 were finally given up to the Dutch, who agreed to pay in settlement of all 
 claims £215,000. Out of this sum the principal officers who had held com- 
 mands in the towns received pensions. Sir E. Conway amongst them, who was 
 granted an annuity of £500 in compensation for the loss of his post at Brill. 
 
 3 "Mr. Secretary Conway is yours, bodie and soul. I never heard of the 
 like of him, for he flies at all men that be not yours." — (Sir J. Hippisley to 
 Bv,ekingha/m. ) 
 
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 ye givinge of his companye to his cosen Brette soe 
 kindlye that he had him in goode estimation; but his 
 grosse flatterie he used to ye Duke did him beste ser- 
 vice, for he woold speake verye well, and had excellent 
 naturol gwyftes,i and a woonderful complimentor, and 
 to grosse a flatteror; with whych he had soe bewitched 
 ye Duke, that one daye speakinge of ye Lord Conway, 
 he openlye sayd that he knewe noe honnor that Conway 
 wase not woorthie of, nor noe place in ye common- 
 wealthe to good for him; whereupon ye Duke procured 
 him to be principal Secretary of State, (a place that he 
 wase noe waye capable of), and made him a Vicount, 
 Liftennant of Hampshyre, and Captayne of ye Isle of 
 Wyght. Kinge James one daye hauinge a lettor sent 
 him from Venise, wrytten in ye Latine tounge, tooke 
 him to my Lord Conway to reade, but he beinge noe 
 scholar coold not; then aftor his M**'® had reade him, 
 he bid him take his pen and wryght as he woould 
 dictate unto him, but he coold not wryght that anye 
 coold reade,^ (as you maye see his wryghtinge in soome 
 postscript of lettors sent to mee); whereupon Kinge 
 
 1 "The Lord of Buckingham says that he (Conway) is the best company 
 that may be, either for jest or earnest." — (Chamberlain to Oarleton, Oct. IH, 
 
 len.) 
 
 2 The handwriting of Conway was so bad that hia own clerks were often 
 unable to read his unintelligible scrawls. Papers still exist in the State Paper 
 Office endorsed "In my Lord's own hand," the clerks being unable to decipher, 
 or to specify more fully their contents. 
 
THE OGLANDER MEMOIRS. 161 
 
 James begann to sweare that ye Duke had preferred a 
 secretary to him that coould neythor wryghte nor 
 reade;! this tale he hath often tolde to mee. He de- 
 livered his minde in verye good woordes, and woold 
 indite very well, only itt wase to flatteringe and com- 
 phmentol; and that whych made him soe iU-beloved 
 wase that he woold tendor his service to all, and denie 
 noe man a courtisie or favor in woordes ; but in deedes 
 he nevor woould nor coold p'forme itt. Therein wase 
 his greatest imp'fection, as beinge willinge to denie 
 noone, or able to pleasure all. You shall moore lively 
 see his nature by this. One daye, he and myselve 
 beinge walkinge aloane in St. James' Parke, in ye Long 
 Walke, there came by a page, and my Lord asked him 
 whose servant he wase ; he awnsored, ye Ladye Wim- 
 bolton's.2 "Pray tell your Ladye that your fellowe 
 servant remembreth his duty unto her." Ye page 
 beinge amazed, my Lord replyed: "I beinge youre 
 Ladye's servant, must be your feUowe." Sutch froth 
 
 1 "Sir Edward Conway, bred a soldier, after made a Viscount, and Secretary 
 of State ; a rude impollished piece for such an imployment. But the King that 
 wanted not his abilities, would often make himself merry with his imperfect 
 scrouls in writing, and hacking expressions in reading, so that he would break 
 into laughter, and say in a facetious way : ' Had ever man such a Secretary, 
 that can neither write nor read.'" — ( Wilson's Life and Reign of King James I., 
 1653.) 
 
 2 Either the second or thirA wife of Sir Edward CecU, third son of the first 
 Earl of Exeter, created in July, 1626, Viscount Wimbledon. He died in 1638 
 without issue male, and all his titles became extinct. 
 
 
 
162 THE OGLANDER MEMOIRS. 
 
 and complimentes he woold use to all, but most espetiol- 
 ly to ye feminine sexe, as may appears. When I invited 
 him to my howse, att his comings into ye Island, he 
 astonished my wyfe and dawghtors with his compli- 
 ments, yea, my servants olso; for my wyfe's gentle- 
 woman lost not her share. Although he wase a meere 
 verbal man, it he had soome qualities that weare good; 
 he woold use all men with respect, and he wase an 
 excellent howsekeper, nevor thinkynge that he had 
 meate enough att his table ;^ for hee woold haue 3 
 feasantes in a disch, and 6 partridges ; and indeede he 
 wase a verye epicure, and free att his table both in 
 meate and wynes ; and itt is that way hee spente mutch, 
 soe he woold gayne itt any waye; I thiuke he nevor 
 refused anythinge that wase browght unto him. He 
 wase a verye good father and howsband, makynge 
 verye mutch of his wyfe and children; hee did manye 
 good thinges for this Island — vide — he procured under 
 ye Privie Scale that noe gentleman of ye Island showld 
 be made Shryfe. He tooke a mapp of ye whoole 
 Island, informinge his Ma''^ how, and in what manner 
 he woould haue ye Island fortifyed; and wase a sutor 
 to his Ma*'® for monyes, and in that needie tyme he 
 
 1 In 1610 a dispensation -was granted by the Archbishop of Canterbury to 
 Sir E. Conway, his wife, and two others, whom he might choose, to eat flesh 
 at prohibited times, as fish did not agree with him ; provided that he did so 
 privately, to avoid scandal, and paid 138.4d. per year to the poor of his parish, 
 
THE OGLANDER MEMOIRS. 163 
 
 procured a Privie Seale for £1500, whereof we had 
 £300; and if ye tymes had bene fittinge for itt he 
 woold haue done moore good, but that whych made 
 Mm respectles of this Island wase, that he wryghtinge 
 to us, and to Yarmouth, Nutowne, and Nuport, for ye 
 Kinge's place att ye Parliament (whych evor they did 
 gratifie former Captaynes with 2 or 3 places), they 
 denyed him, and woold not give him one,^ whych 
 thinge he tooke very ill, and aftorwardes wase not soe 
 wiUinge to doo good to ye Island. On ye other syde, ye 
 Islanders tooke offense agaynst him, fyrst that neythor 
 woold he live here, nor procure monyes for ye repayres 
 of ye casteUs, espetioUie Sandam, whych fell down in 
 his tyme; and olso they thought he wase a meanes, or 
 att least myght haue hindored itt, to bringe and bilett 
 ye Scotch Eegyment in owre Island; but I for my part, 
 doo thinke him gwiltlesse of bothe, for in that tyme 
 monyes wase not to be had, and ye Scotch Eegyment 
 wase putt into this Island becawse they shoold not runn 
 awaye ; beinge constrayned for ye moste part to serve 
 contrarye to theyre willes. I am sure he did us good 
 and noe hurte, and therefore not soe mutch to be con- 
 demned ; as every man almost in ye Island beinge glad 
 
 1 In the election of 1628, the burgesses of Yarmouth refused the request of 
 Conway to nominate one of their members, and the burgesses of Newport re- 
 fused to elect his eldest son, Edward, who the previous year had taken part in 
 Buckingham's French expedition, and was wounded in the Isle of Rh^. 
 
 o2 
 
164 THE OGLANDER MEMOIRS. 
 
 of his deth, as itt wase a common by-woorde amongst 
 manye, as hauinge soom losse or crosse, they woould 
 sweten itt with sayinge, "But my Lord Conway is ded." 
 He had a long tyme an infirme bodye, and evor since 
 that att ye Brill he wase by a madman runn throwgh 
 ye bodye with a sworde ; for he beinge sicke of an ague 
 att ye Brill, in his chawmber, and hearinge a greate 
 noyse in ye hall, he went downe to see what itt wase ; 
 and cominge downe he found a madman that had taken 
 awaye a sworde from one of his menn, that had drawen 
 him in his owne defense ; wherewith ye madman pre- 
 sentlye rann my Lord Conway throwgh ye bodye, 
 whych putt awaye his ague, but ye remedie wase 
 woorse than ye desease. He dyed ye 3rd of Januarie, 
 1630,^ of a sudden deth, cawsed by an apoplexie; and 
 when divors of ye Island woold complayne of him with 
 ill speaches, I woold tell them Issope's fabel of ye 
 ffrogges, wyschinge that they with them myght not 
 wysch agayne for theyre Logge; for as he did us littel 
 good in theyre opinion, soe did he us noe hurte ; nevor 
 but once came amongst us, but left all to his Liften- 
 nantes.2 He was good enough, if wee had bene soe 
 happie as to haue knowen how to haue made use of 
 him. 
 
 1 New style, 1631. 
 
 2 Sir Edwal'd Dennis and Sir J. Oglander, 
 
THE OGLANBEE MEMOIRS. 165 
 
 THE LIEE OF GEORGE OGLANDER, ESQ. 
 
 In his youth, beinge born at Nunwell, wase brought 
 up at scoole there till 15 yeres of adge; then he went to 
 ye Ins of Ohancerye, from thence to ye Innor Temple, 
 where he affectinge ye studie of ye lawe wase called to 
 ye barr. He nevor practised, but did mutch good 
 amonge his neyghbours ; for his fryndes he woold some 
 times keepe theyr Courtes, and drawe conveyances; he 
 lived to be 68 y'rs old. He wase of midle stature, very 
 slendor, wyth littell hayre on his face ; he wase longe of 
 ye Commission of ye Peace, and very punctioU in ye 
 execution of justice, and otherwyse one of ye meriest 
 conceyptest men that evor wase. He wase a greate 
 enemie to idlenes, and to good clothes, hatinge all 
 superfluitie, or needles dresinge on aparrol, as lace, or 
 gardes of velvet, which wase then mutch in request. 
 He maryed 2 wyfes, ye one a mayden, ye dawghtor of 
 one Mr. White in Sussex;^ ye other a widdowe, then 
 dwellinge at Alford, beinge ye dawghtor of one Mr. 
 Hammon, of Gwilforde, and ye relict of one Mr. Woodi- 
 son; she lived many yeres aftor him, till anno 1597. 
 He had butt one dawghter by his fyrst wyfe, called 
 Dowsabell,^ by whom Mr. Harvie, of Avington, now 
 
 1 Elizabeth, daughter of William White. 
 
 2 Dowsabell married John Harvey, of Avington. 
 
166 THE OGLANDER MEMOIRS. 
 
 Cometh. He died here at Nunwell/ soom yere aftor his 
 mother; for his mother wase so careful! over him, 
 beinge a kinde of physition, and he beinge of a weak 
 constitution, shee made him many goode brothes and 
 cuUises to strengthen nature ; so that when his mother 
 wase ded, all men sayd that he woold not live 12 
 monthes aftor, which proued true, for itt wase thought, 
 he beinge on a Sattordaye at Nuporte about justice's 
 bwisnes, he theyre tooke a surfeite of meate, and in 
 
 1 George Oglander, Gounsellor-at-Law, and a Bencher of Lincoln's Inn, 
 was the son o£ Oliver Oglander, who married Ann, daughter of Gilbert Bullock, 
 Esc[. , of Arborfield, Berks. The second wife of George Oglander was Alice, 
 sister and heir of William Hammond, Esq. , of Guildford, by whom he had two 
 sons, Oliver, and William, his successor. In December, 1559, he, as "Oentoner 
 of St. Elyns" I.W., made a presentment of the state of several parishes in the 
 Island, by the order and for the information of the Council. This report 
 gives a melancholy picture of the general condition of the Island, and of St. 
 Helens in particular. The church there was in such a ruinous state, " that one 
 might look in at one end and out at the other," it having "been evil served 
 and worse repaired ever since Dr. Cole hath been Provost of Eton"; there had 
 been no curate, and but little service for many years; "so that the parishio- 
 ners had been fain to bury their corpses themselves ; and yet they pay never- 
 theless their tithes. Foreign sailors seeing the shameful using of the same, 
 think that all other churches within the realm be like used, and so have 
 both spoken and done shameful acts in our derision; and what they have said 
 and made report of in their own country, God knoweth. It is a gazing stock to 
 all foreign nations." At that time St. Helens was a great rendezvous for 
 foreign ships, which lay there waiting for favourable winds, or to take on board 
 supplies of fresh water and provisions ; and the crews in most cases being Roman 
 Catholics, the dilapidated condition of the church excited their astonishment 
 and derisive contempt. Sir James Worsley, the first of the Worsleys of Appul- 
 durcombe, and Captain of the Isle of Wight, who died 1538, left by will ' ' to 
 Master George Oglander, a silver cup, or £10." 
 
THE OGLANDER MEMOIRS. 167 
 
 cominge home of oolde, which made an ende of him in 
 one weeks. 1 He had a blacke nagge that he dearley 
 loved, and one daye rydinge through London streetes 
 with him cominge home, one offered him £10 for his 
 horse, whych he at fyrst did wonder att, butt his answor 
 wase, if ye horse wase woorth £10 to him, he wase 
 woorth as mutch to himselve; and cominge home he 
 told what a greate pryce he wase offered for his horse, 
 and none or fewe woold beleeve itt. Tempora mutantur. 
 He had a Lanorett that wase bredd in ye White Chff on 
 Bimbrydge, which wase ye best hawke with ye woorst 
 lookinge to, that wase in England ; for they nevor tooke 
 care of her, but gaue her meate in ye foote, scarce evor 
 tyed her, butt lett her scratch for bones with ye dogges ; 
 and when they came afeyld they cast her of, and shee woold 
 followe ye dogges and kill whatsover did rise, partriche, 
 phesant, bitteron, hearon, hare, or conie. 
 
 'Tis true my grandfather, George Oglander, wase a 
 Cownsellor at Lawe, butt nevor tooke anie fee, but im- 
 ploied his skill and labour in makings peace and unitie 
 amongst his countreymen, he beinge olso a Justice of 
 Peace. 
 
 1 A brass plate fixed on the east wall of the Oglander Chapel in Brading 
 Church has the following inscription : ' ' Heere lyeth interred the body of 
 George Oglander, Esq., (and Alice Hamond his wife), who dyed May 26th, 
 1567." 
 
168 THE OGLANDER MEMOIRS. 
 
 THE LIFE AND DEATH OF sm WILLIAM OGLANDER. 
 
 He wase borne at Nunwell abowght ye yeare of owre 
 Lorde 1558;^ he wase brought up att schole at Winton 
 CoUedge; his fathor dyed abowt ye 15th yeare of his 
 adge, and he wase warde to his brother, Mr. Hervie, 
 that maryed his halfe sistor, whoe delt verie hardly with 
 him ; from Winton he went to BahoU Colledge, Oxforde. 
 He wase ye first that had a birdinge and fowhnge peece 
 in Oxforde, which exercise of all other he most affected, 
 for divors nyghtes when itt wase froste and snowe he 
 woolde goe downe to Bradinge Hauen a shootinge, 
 where he woolde kill 20 coupell of fowel at a time, and 
 wase often in perill of drowninge in gettinge his ded 
 fowle. From Oxforde he came into ye Island where 
 Mr. Anthonie Dilhngton, of Knyghton, invitinge him 
 often thithor and usinge of him kindely, he fell in love 
 with his eldest dawghtor, Ann Dillington, as handsome a 
 mayden as any wase in Hamshyre. His unkell, Mr. 
 John Hamond, of Gwilforde, his mother's brother, woold 
 haue matched him to his wyfe's dawghtor, which wase 
 aftorwardes maryed to Sir Larrance Stoughton, of 
 Stoke, near Gwilforde; butt he beinge before in league 
 with Mrs. Ann Dilhngton woold not hearken unto itt; 
 
 1 If Sir W. Oglander was about 65 years old when he died, as stated by Sir 
 John towards the conclusion of his memoir of his father, he must have been 
 bom many years prior to 1558, probably in 1543-44. He was knighted at 
 Hampton Court, 1606. 
 
THE OGLANDEE MEMOIRS. 169 
 
 whereupon Mr. Hammonde's wyfe takinge itt ill that 
 her dawghtor wase soe slyghted nevor left ye olde man 
 her howsband till he disinheryted Mr. Oglander his 
 ryght heyre; for he had no children of his owne, and 
 by that misfortune Mr. Oglander lost £600 land a yere. 
 Most of itt wase geven to Sir Larrance Stoughton, and 
 the rest to Lord Mountague, and soome given to BalioU 
 CoUedge in Oxforde, and soome spent as a benefactor 
 to Gwilforde Schoole, or rathor a principal founder 
 thereof ; soome 3 or 4 howses in Gwilforde he gave to- 
 wardes ye mayntenance of his toombe,^ and ye towne 
 seriant, which grawnte beinge voide in lawe, I myght 
 haue recovered, butt beinge defeated of ye rest, I woold 
 not medle with that. Butt Mr. Oglander as soone as 
 he wase owt of his wardship maryed M"'*'- DiUington, 
 and had not with her aboue £50, for in those tymes 
 men maryed moore for loue than money; he lived very 
 hapily and contentedly with her at Nunwell, where he 
 alwayes kept a hawke ye summor, and used his peece 
 ye wintor, that browght him in mutch provisions, those 
 commodyties beinge then farr more plentiful! then 
 
 1 In Trinity Church, Guildford, before the fall of the tower in 1740, was 
 an effigy and monument bearing the following inscription: "Heare lyeth the 
 body of William Hammond, Esquier, sometime Maior of the Towne of Guilde- 
 forde, one of the chief founders of the Free Schoole of the same towne, and a 
 liberaU benefactor to BaUioU CoUedge in Oxforde. The memorie of whose 
 good deeds, God graunt may move others to doe the like. He departed out of 
 this worlde the 10th of AprU, 1575." 
 
170 THE OGLANDER MEMOIES. 
 
 nowe. Hee infynitely loued fowlinge with his gunn at 
 ye seae syde, and often killed 40 coupell of fowle in 
 a nyght, hee and his man ; he loued hawkynge and 
 coursinge, and hadd of both kindes good ; hee wase of 
 an extraordinarie spare diott, and in his youth mutch 
 given to feavors ; hee wase an excellent provident 
 howsband. Butt by reason of ye often trobles be- 
 tweene us and Spayne, and shee beinge desiorous to be 
 freed from those weekly affryghtes cawsed by often 
 allarms, cawsed her howsband to take a howse at 
 Hampton, but not likinge longe that, they tooke ye 
 Abbye of Bewlie and there lived soome sixe yeres, 
 where his wyfe dyed to his intoUerable sorrowe and 
 gryfe; aftor whose death he left Bewlie and went to 
 London, and lived there soom to yeres. From thence 
 he bowght Barton ferme by Winchester and lived there 
 soom sixe yeres, and then he maryed one M"^- Lewk- 
 nor,i of Westdean in Sussex, and lived there soom sixe 
 yeres moore, in which tyme he wase made Hygh Shryfe 
 of Hampshyre. The Undershryfe of that countie wase 
 one Prichard, liis servant, at his wyfe's persuasion as 
 beinge one of her former servantes ; this villayne deceved 
 him, and rann awaye as soone as his yere wase owt, and 
 
 1 Eleanor, daughter of Christopher Browne, of Oxfordshire, and widow of 
 Sir Richard Lewknor, Serjeant-at-Law and Recorder of Chichester. He pur- 
 chased the Manor of West Dean from Lord Lumley in 1589. 
 
THE OGLAJSIDER MEMOIRS. 171 
 
 his sonn, John, wase fayne to undortake ye bwsines and 
 to pass ye accompt; this with a longe swyte he had 
 with one Sir Owin Oglethorpe, together with some 
 other crosses shortened his lyfe ; which with a bledinge 
 at nose that followed him, and by no advise coold be 
 stoped, ordeverted,hefellinto akinde ofdropseyand dyed 
 at Westdeane, over ye greate parlor, ye 27th of March, 
 1609.^ He wase a verie good, honest, upryght man, a 
 good howsband to his wyfes and children, as provy- 
 dinge verie well for them all, he wase a wise man, and 
 good scoUer. He was buryed in ye sowth chawncell in 
 Bradinge Church. His exercises that he loued wase 
 shootinge at wildefowle, coursinge, and shootinge at 
 deare, and hawkinge with a short winge hawke att par- 
 trydge and pheasante; he wase abowt ye adge of 65 
 when he dyed; a bettor upryghtor or tendorer con- 
 science nevor any Isle of Wyght man hadd; a good 
 howsekeper, and charitable to ye poore; a man well 
 skilled in howsbandry and hauinge a generoU know- 
 ledge in all thinges ; very industrious and hatinge lase- 
 ness. He wase a spare lene timbored man, soome 5 
 foote and a halfe hygh; he wase a goode scoUer, and a 
 wyse gentleman; he wase longe in ye Commission of 
 
 1 The inacription on his tomb iix Bradiug Church is : "Heere lyeth the body 
 of William Oglander, Knight, and Ann DUlington, his wife, who dyed the 27th 
 of March, 1608." 
 
172 THE OGLANDER MEMOIRS. 
 
 ye Peace, both for Hampshyre and Sussex, and Hygh 
 Shryfe of ye former Ano. Dom. 1607. He hadd not 
 mutch hair on his face, he wore his herd spade^ 
 faschion. 
 
 THE LITE OF SIR JOHN OGLANDER, KT., 
 
 WHO CAME TO KEEPE HOWSE ATT NIMWELL ANNO DOM. 
 
 1607, MARCH YE 7th. 
 
 He wase borne att Eastnunwell, in ye chawmber over 
 ye parlour. May ye 12th Ano. Dom. 1585, and wase 
 nursed att Bordewood by one Cooke's wyfe in a httel 
 tennement of Baronett Worseleyes; he wase browght 
 up in his infancie att BewUe, and aftorwardes putt to 
 schoole at Schalflett, in ye Island; from thence to 
 Eyngewood in ye Newe fForest, Andover, and Winches- 
 ter; from whence he went to BaylioU CoUedge in Oxon, 
 and had a grownde chawmber in ye Bach'lor Courte, 
 next to a Inne called ye Cateronwheele ; ye chawmber 
 
 1 In the time of Elizabeth and James I. the fashions of wearing the beard 
 were extraordinary. The soldier affected one out, the citizen another, and the 
 lawyer and ecclesiastic another, different from both. Taylor, the water poet, 
 thus describes the fashions of beards prevalent in his day : — 
 
 "Some are cut and pruned like to a thickset hedge j 
 Some like a spade, some like a fork, some square, 
 Some round, some mow'd like stubble, some stark bare ; 
 Some sharp, stiletto fashion, dagger like. 
 That may with whispering, a man's eyes outpike ; 
 Some with the hammer cut, or Roman T, 
 Their beards extravagant reformed must be. " 
 
 — Whip of Pride, leZl. 
 
THE OGLANDER MEMOIRS. 173 
 
 had then a littel garden pulled in before itt ; he stayed 
 there 3 yeres, and from thence he went to ye Midle 
 Temple, and wase chawmber-fellowe to Mr. Whitlocke, 
 aftorwardes Judge Whitlock;i there he olso stayed 3 
 yeres ; wase Stuard att ye Header's Feaste, and wase one 
 of ye Eevelors. Then, by his kinsman's. Sir Thomas 
 Vincente's, meanes, he maryed one (the youngest) of 
 Sir George Moore's dawghtors,^ of Loosely in Surrey; 
 and came he and his wyfe, and hved with his father at 
 Westdeane in Sussex, (in ryght of Lewkenor's widowe), 
 whych Sir WiUiam Oglander, his fathor, had mar- 
 yed); and Sir Wilham Oglander beinge made Hygh 
 Shryfe of Hampshyre, they went to Winchester, and 
 lived there that yere ; and from thence ye nexte yere 
 aftorwardes they retourned into Sussex, and lived at 
 Westdeane, and Chicester soom 2 yeres, in whych space 
 of tyme his fathor. Sir William, dyed; and then Sir 
 John, his sonn, came to Nunwell, and browght his wyfe 
 
 1 James 'Wliitelock, son of a London merchant, Scholar and Fellow of St. 
 John's College, Oxford, was called to the Bar in 1600. He was returned as 
 Member for Woodstock in 1609, and again in 1614 and 1621. In 1620 he was 
 knighted, and made Chief Justice of Chester ; and was appointed a Judge of 
 the King's Bench in 1624, which post he held till his death in 1632. His only 
 son and successor was the notable Sir Bulstrode Whitelocke, Cromwell's 
 Ambassador to Christina, Queen of Sweden, and author of the well known 
 "Memorials." 
 
 2 Frances ; her mother was Ann, daughter and co-heir of Sir Adrian Poyn- 
 ings, Kt., Governor of Portsmouth in the reign of Queen Elizabeth. 
 
174 THE OGLANDER MEMOIRS. 
 
 and 2 sistors unmaryed, Mary and Jane,^ and his 
 brother, and came and hved there, and bwylt ye howse. 
 This wase ye 7th of March, 1607; ye Midsomer foUow- 
 ynge his wyfe wase browght abed of theyre eldest sonn, 
 George.^ There beinge then but one Justice in ye 
 Island, he wase putt into ye Commission of ye Peace 
 without his knowledge att 23 yeres of adge. After^ 
 my fathor's deth, who dyed att Westdeane in Sussex, as 
 hauinge there maryed Lewkenor's widowe, I came to 
 live in ye Island, and bwylt moost part of ye howse. I 
 wase putt into ye Commission of ye Peace att ye adge 
 of 22 yeres, when I not well understoode myselve, or 
 place, and wase aschamed to sitt on ye Bench, as not 
 hauinge then any hayre on my face, and less wit. Att 
 theyre fyrst cominge to Nunwell, both he and his wyfe 
 weare infinitelie trobled with sicknes. He wase to haue 
 been Knyghted when his father was, but missinge of itt 
 becawse his Ma*'" refused to Knyght father and sonn 
 togeather: he refused itt untill manie of his inferiors 
 weare Knyghted before him. (Sir* John Oglander 
 myght haue bene Knyghted before all the gentlemen of 
 
 1 Mary, afterwards the wife of Thomas Kemp, of Beaulieu, Hants. Jane 
 afterwards married to Germain Richards, of Portsmouth, son of Edward 
 Richards, Esq., of Yaverland, High Sheriff of Hants 1616. 
 
 2 Died at Caen in July, 1632, aged 23 years. 
 
 3 From another place in the MSS. 
 
 4 From another place in the MSS. 
 
THE OGLANDER MEMOIRS. 175 
 
 ye Island; and owt of to mutch, nicenes as his father 
 beinge then livinge refused itt ; and aftorwardes when 
 Sir Bowyer Woorseley and soom others weare Knyghted 
 he woold not bee; but by perswation of his fathor-in- 
 lawe, whoe wase then Liftennant of ye Tower, att last^ 
 took itt; whych is ye true reason that soe mauie steped 
 before him.) He wase Liftennant Governor of Portes- 
 mouth,2 under Will™- Earl of Pembrooke, where he 
 lived ye winter tymes for soom 4 yeres space ; then not 
 hauinge his helth theyre, hee sowld itt to Sir Eychard 
 Morrison, and came and lived att Nunwell agayne; and 
 wase Liftennant of ye Island, and lived soom tymes att 
 Chicester, and soomtymes att Nuport. He' wase verye 
 sickly untill he grewe in yeres towardes 40; in his 
 youth mutch trobled with fleame, and infinitelie with 
 winde and coler. Winde soe possessed him that hee 
 wase seldome well ; olso mutch trobled with a payne 
 in his hedd, which woold laste him 2 or 3 dayes; itt 
 began in ye forehed, and by degrees woold fall downe 
 into ye pole, and soe went awaye ; but when he came 
 to 40 yeres that miserable payne left him, and he be- 
 gann to be mutch moore healthier in his bodye then 
 before. But then another infirmitie came unto him, 
 whych wase greate paynes in ye sowles of his feete, 
 
 1 Sir John was knighted at Royaton in 1615. 
 a 1620 to 1624. 
 
176 THE OGLANDEE MEMOIRS. 
 
 whych hindored him from trauellinge afoote ; but this 
 wase only in ye sommer tyme, in wynter mutch bettor. 
 He lived att Nunwell in as goode repute and faschion 
 as anie man in his tyme ; Sir Eychard Woorseley and 
 he weare trewe fryndes, in whose deth he infinitelie 
 suffered. He coold endure anythinge save where his 
 reputation and credite weare toutched, and nothinge 
 moore trobled him then ye unkindenes of his fryndes; 
 although he coold master all other passions, this woold 
 infinitelie woorke upon him. He wase of a midling 
 stature, bigge, but not very fatt ; of a moderate dyott, 
 not caringe how littel or coorse, if cleane and hand- 
 some ; for his intellectual partes, let his actions judge 
 of him. God send ye Island nevor a woorse for his 
 paynestakinge to administer justice upryghtly to every 
 one ; and for ye apeasinge and endinge of differences 
 and debates betweene neyghbor and neyghbor. He 
 hved att a greate rate of expense in his howsekepinge. 
 for he alwaies kept 3 servinge men and a footbwoye, 
 besydes retainers ; alwaies his coache well horsed, (his 
 coache wase ye second that evor wase in ye Island) ; he 
 spent usuoUy £800 everye year, soe that he coold not 
 lay up mutch. Of all vices he hated drunkenes ; it he 
 woold play ye good fellowe, and woold not mutch re- 
 frayne from drinkinge 2 or 3 healthes. 
 
 I doe asure myselve that my wyfe and I lived att 
 
THE OGLANDER MEMOIRS. 177 
 
 Nunwell for ye space of 15 yeres (had itt not bene 
 intorlaced with sicknes) ; as hapilye, for owre estate as 
 well and plentifulie, and in as good repute and faschion 
 as anie coold or woold deserue ; but true contente thou 
 must not expect in this woordle. 
 
 In the Introduction Sir John Oglander is stated to 
 have fiUed the ofHce of Sheriff for Hants in the year 
 1637, but it was mainly during the following year that 
 he occupied that unenviable position. His duties were 
 onerous and disagreeable, his countrymen poor, and 
 reluctant to pay their assessment of ship money; and 
 the Sheriff was placed at a further disadvantage by his 
 residence being in the Island. In the State Paper Office 
 are several of his letters written during this period, in 
 which he excuses himself to the Council for his inabi- 
 lity to fully execute their commands, though doing his 
 utmost in the King's service. Writing to Secretary 
 Nicholas in March, 1637-8, he says his cares and 
 pains have been equal, and more (by reason of his 
 dwelling being in the Island) than any Sheriff's; and 
 that he had so ventured his person because he would 
 not disappoint the country about the service, that be- 
 yond expectation he had twice narrowly escaped ship- 
 
178 THE OGLANDER MEMOIES. 
 
 wreck. "Moneys" in his district rose "far more 
 heavier," and were "more hardlier to be gathered than 
 that of Sussex." All along the sea coast, from Emsworth 
 to Chichester, the inhabitants, mostly fishermen, were 
 so poor that they were unable to pay the tax, and most 
 of them had nothing whereon to distrain. Yet he would 
 endeavour to overcome these difficulties. In April of 
 the same year he was directed by the Council to free 
 Winchester of £20 of the £170 ship money at which 
 the city had been rated. In his answer to this, Sir John 
 states that after the general assessments for the county 
 had been made, and above £5000 collected and paid 
 in to Sir William Eussell, of which Winchester and 
 some other corporations had not paid a penny, but 
 pleaded poverty; it would be most difficult and almost 
 impossible for him, living in an island, to manage the 
 business, so he begged the matter might be allowed to 
 stand over for that year. He hoped the Council would 
 not think it fit for him to pay any part of it out of his 
 own purse; and if the city was poor, the Mayor was 
 better able to bear the loss than the Sheriff. In a sub- 
 sequent letter he informs Nicholas that he had paid in 
 £5600 as ship money from the county, but could not 
 procure one penny from Winchester, although he had 
 appointed them three several days. Though he had 
 paid in more money than any of his predecessors, yet 
 
THE OGLAJSTDER MEMOIRS. 179 
 
 the total loss would be much; for many of the tax- 
 payers had run away, others grown poor, and others 
 rated for coppices, on all of whom no distress could be 
 levied ; and if the sum due from Winchester should be 
 abated, it would be impossible to make up the £6000 
 at which the county had been assessed. Winchester 
 had been originally rated at £190, which had been 
 reduced to £170, and the citizens evidently held out 
 and deferred payment as long as possible, in hope of 
 obtaining a further reduction. Towards the close of 
 the year, Winchester was returned as still owing £20, 
 Andover £8, and Southampton £40. Vide Introduc- 
 tion, xxii. 
 
 p2 
 
[ 180] 
 
 A SORVEY TAKEN BY SlE JoHN OgLANDER, KnYGHT, OF 
 
 ALL YE Churches and Ohappells withln ye Isle of 
 
 WyGHT ; TOGETHOR WITH ALL YE AwNTIENT MONU- 
 MENTS THEREDSr; AND BY CeRTAINE TRADITIONS AND 
 
 Wills of ye deceased, and ye like Evidences, 
 
 WHAT KnYGHTES AND GeNTLEMEN HATH BENE BuRYED 
 
 therein, whose monuments are now demolisched. 
 April, 1632. 
 
 brerdnstge alias bradinge. 
 This church is ye awntientest in owre Island, when 
 and by whom it wase fownded it doth not apeare,i or 
 any certayne recordes y* evor I cowld see. 
 
 The chawncell wase bwylded in Edward ye 1st time, 
 ye sowth isle was bwylded by ye Oglanders. The 
 
 1 On the first leaf of the oldest volume of the Parish Registers of Brading 
 is an entry made by Sir J. Oglander, stating that the church was built by 
 Wilfrid, Bishop of Chichester, in the year A. D. 704. As there were no Bishops 
 of Chichester tiU the removal of the See of Selsey to Chichester in 1075, and 
 Wilfrid's connection with Sussex ended about 686, on his restoration to his See 
 at York, this statement is of no value nor authority. 
 
THE OGLANDER MEMOIRS. 181 
 
 chawncell by ye Abbott of Bremor, whoe wase parsone 
 of ye p'risch, or ye middle isle. The north isle by ye 
 P'risch and ye HoUises, who gave ye moyety with ye 
 P'risch towardes ye bwyldinge of it. 
 
 Toombes in this church or other markes of antiquitie 
 there are not manye. There be two of ye Oglanders, 
 John and Oliver ; butt there lyeth in ye church and 
 sowth chawncell many score of ye Oglanders, men, 
 women, and children, for that famely hath continued 
 in Bradinge p'risch from this yere of owre Lord 1633, 
 566 yeares; and I wish they may continue theyre as 
 longe as ther shall be a p'rische. There is a fayre^ 
 stone in ye chawncell with ye portraiture of a sowldior 
 on it, with this inscription abowt it: "Hie jacet nobilis 
 vir, Johannes Cherowin Armiger, dum vivebat Con- 
 stabularius Castri de Porchester; qui obiit Anno 
 Domini, Milesimo quadringesimo quadrigesimo primo, 
 die ultima Mensis Octobris; Anima ejus requiescat in 
 pace — Amen." 
 
 Then in ye north isle there are too toombes, one of 
 ye Hollis and his wyfe, with this inscription. The 
 toombe next to ye midle chawncell hath as foUoweth: 
 
 1 A fine specimen of one of the few incised slabs to be found in England. 
 The effigy is surrounded by figures of the Apostles in canopied niches, but the 
 matrices only of the head and hands remain. According to local tradition the 
 missing parts were made of silver, which may account for their disappearance. 
 This slab has been described in Boutell's "Monumental Brasses." 
 
182 THE OGLANDEE MEMOIRS. 
 
 "Jesus~haue mercie on William Hawly's sowle, Anno. 
 1500," and on ye toombe on ye north walle is written 
 "Helizabeth his wyfe." These be all ye monumentes 
 in Bradinge Church yt are now extant. There haue 
 bene manye woorthye noble gentlemen buryed in this 
 church that have not any monument now left — -videlicet 
 — The Eussells, of Yaverland — The Glamorgans, of 
 Woolverton in Binbridge — The Hackettes — The Fit- 
 chetts, a very awntient famely — The Landgardes, of 
 Langarde — The Alverstones, of Alverstone. 
 
 Of Late Dayes. 
 The Squires, manye of them. Many of ye Denys's, 
 Sir Edward Dennys, his lady, a very handsom younge 
 woman, she lyeth in ye lower parte of ye midle chawn- 
 cell. Mr. German Eychardes; Mrs. Mary Eychardes' 
 dawghtor, a handsom younge virgin. Sir John Eych- 
 ardes, and his fyrst wyfe, Grace, ye dawghtor of Sir 
 John Leygh. The Knyghtes of Landgarde, and many 
 others, where one daye I hope I myselve shall be nom- 
 bred amongst them, my bodye beinge partenors with 
 them in ye church, and my sowle in heaven. 
 
 YAVERLAND. 
 
 They buryed theyre (Brading), it beinge butt a 
 chapell errected in Edward ye 1st his reygne, by con- 
 
THE OGLANDEB MEMOIES. 183 
 
 sent of ye Bischop the Abbott of Bremore, and Sir 
 John Eussell, Honnor ofYaverland; for his ease, his ser- 
 vantes and tennantes. One of ye objections wase that 
 all ye wintor they cowld not come to Bradinge Church, 
 except they went abowt by Sandam, 2 myles, for then 
 ye cawseway at Yarbridge wase not made ; they alwayes 
 buryed at Bradinge, and received ye communion there. 
 At Christmass and Eastor ye P'son of Yaverland wase 
 inioyned to come with his whole p'risch, and to adminis- 
 ter ye cupp ; he wase to reade ye fyrst lesson, to fynde 
 2 loade of strawe yerely to laye in ye seates, 61b. of 
 candels, and 10s. yerely in moneyes, and to acknow- 
 ledge Bradinge for theyre mother church. 
 
 SHANKELYNGE. 
 
 Shankelynge hath olso no buryinge place, but only 
 at Bradinge, beinge as Yaverland is, a member of 
 Bradinge, whoe is mother church to them both. 
 
 [Here Sir John gives a translation of the agreement m 
 Latin, made under the authority of Cardinal Beaufort, 
 Bishop of Winchester, between Simon of Beverley, Parson 
 of Bradinge, and Geoffrey of the Isle (de Insula), and 
 William Stower, concerning the establishment and endow- 
 ment of a Chapel at Shanklin, acknowledging and owning 
 fealty to Brading as the Mother Church. The agreement 
 is signed by Ralph, Archdeacon of Winton ; Roger, 
 
184 THE OGLANDER MEMOIRS. 
 
 Archeacon of Surrey ; Robert de Lyra ; William Russell ; 
 and Ralph Bearne.] 
 
 GODSHILL. 
 
 The church wase bwylt in ye rayiie of King Edward 
 the Confessor, and aftor ye Conquest wase giuen by 
 William Fitz Osberon to ye Abbie of Lyra. 
 
 In the sowth isle next belowe the chawncell are two 
 fayre stones under whom are buryed the bodies of the 
 Fryes, in ye stones are pictores of brasse, but the in- 
 scriptions are stolen awaie. In the sowth chawncell, 
 on a fayre stone, is this inscription: "Hie jacet Joh'es 
 Frye, fihus Eic. Frye et Margarite uxoris suse, qui obiit 
 11 die Januar. Anno Dom. 1512. Cujus animse pro- 
 pitietur Deus. Amen." 
 
 These Fryes weare an awntient famely, and ffermers 
 of Apledorcombe aftor itt wase taken awaie from the 
 Abbey of Montes Burgy in ffrance. 
 
 In the sowth crosse is buryed one of the Hacketts, 
 with this inscription: "Pray for the Soule of William 
 Hackett, Esq., on whose Soule Jhesus haue mercie. 
 Amen." 
 
 In this ile the owners of Apledorcombe weare 
 buryed, as being partlie fownded by the Priors therof. 
 Where one Prior is buryed his portraicture on brasse is 
 
THE OGLANDER MEMOIRS. 185 
 
 on a stone. ■ Betweene the two chawncells there is a 
 very fayre toombe, in which is buryed Sir John Leygh 
 and Mary, his wyfe, the dawghtor and heyre of John 
 Hackett, Esq. Itt is the fayrest toombe in owre Island, 
 on which toombe the sayde Mary, wyfe of Sir John 
 Leygh, lyeth in her coate armoure, embellished with 
 Hackett's armes, her fathor, and Leygh's, her hows- 
 bande. In the north chawncell in ye north syde of the 
 wall is the toombe of Sir James Woorseley without 
 anie inscription, onlie he is theyre pictured kneelinge, 
 erected by his wyfe. Under a fayre stone a littel 
 belowe in the same ile lyeth buryed the Ladie Woorse- 
 ley,^ the widdowe of Sir James, who dyed a verie olde 
 woman. There weare her armes and an inscription on 
 brasse on her toombe, but nowe defaced. In ye sowth 
 wall of the sowth chawncell is the toombe of Eychard 
 Woorsley,^ sonn and heyre of Sir James. 
 
 In the north chawncell are manie fayre stones that 
 heretofore haue hadd portraictures and inscriptions on 
 them in brasse, under whom are interred the bodies of 
 the De Heynoes,^ who weare Lords of Stenburie and 
 
 1 She died in 1557, having survived her husband nearly twenty years. 
 
 2 Died 1565, and among other bequests, left to the Vicar of Godshill £10, 
 to the schoolmaster of the same place £5, and to Mr. Travass, for a sermon at 
 his funeral, £10. 
 
 3 Thomas de Haynoe, of Stenbury, the last of that family, died in the latter 
 part of the XV. century, leaving a daughter, Mary, who married WiUiam 
 Pounde. 
 
186 THE OGLANDER MEMOIRS. 
 
 Whitwell, an awntient famelye, manie of them weare 
 Knyghtes of good accompte, for all Whitwell buryed 
 in Godshill Church till Queene Elizabeth's reygne, at 
 what tyme they had libertye to burye theare. 
 
 Alsoe in this church lyeth buryed manye of the De 
 Awlas, or Halles, menn of good ranke and quallitie, 
 manie of them Knyghtes; but of them, and manie 
 moore that haue bene buryed, there nowe appeareth 
 noe marke of antiquitie. In the sowth chawncell, 
 abowte the middest, lyeth the bodie of John Woorseley^ 
 coffined in leade, who dyed in London ; next to him 
 lyeth the bodie of his sonn, Mr. Thomas Woorseley,^ a 
 braue schoUar, and a plaine but woorthie gentleman, 
 and a most plentiful! howsekeper. Next to him, in the 
 same chawncell, lyeth the bodie of his sonn and heyre, 
 Sir Eychard Woorsley, Knyght and Baronnett, a man 
 of woorth, learninge, and judgement. He dyed of ye 
 smale poxe in ye 32nd yere of his adge, 1620 or there- 
 abowghts. Next to him, just by the syde of Sir John 
 Leygh's toombe, lyeth the bodie of Ann Woorsley, 
 
 1 Died 1580, leaving, among other bequests, 40s. to Anthonye Byrteswell, 
 schoolmaster of Godshill, and his plain gold chain to his sister-in-law, Ursula 
 Walbingham. 
 
 2 Died 1604, leaving by will 12d. to the Mother Church of Winchester, 
 and £100 to the poor of GodshUl. He also bequeathed to his cousins, Bowyer 
 Worsley, of Ashey, Jane Baskett, Bartholomew Meux, and William White, 
 403. each to buy a ring ; to Mr. John Lorde, Parson of Niton, £3 for a ring, 
 and a rent charge of £5 to found a lecture at Newport, 
 
THE OGLANDER MEMOIRS. 187 
 
 dawghtor of Sir 'Eychard Woorsley, and wyfe to one 
 Sir John Leygh. Shee wase one of the handsomest 
 women that euer the Island bredd. Nearer to Mr. 
 Eychard Woorsley's toomb lyeth the bodie of Mr. 
 Thomas Woorsley's wyfe, whoe was maryed to one 
 Sir Eychard White, a sowldior, and follower of Henry 
 Earle of Sowthampton. Shee wase Mr. Sinjohn's 
 dawghtor, of ffarley, in Hampshyre. 
 
 ST. HELLENS. 
 
 This church wase fyrst bwylt by Hildila, yt wase Chap- 
 leyne to Sanctus Wilfrydus, then Bischop of Chitches- 
 tor; he placed it next to ye open seae at ye east poynt 
 that he might ye oftenor behold Chitchestor, ye place 
 of his birth, and goe with more ease by boate thethor ; 
 he was buryed in his owne church. . . . Wilfryde 
 wase ye fyrst in these parts that taught men to catch 
 fish, both with hookes and nettes. In Henry ye Fyrst's 
 time we finde ye church wase mutch augmented, and a 
 Priorye there errected next to ye church dedicated to 
 St. HeUen. . . . On ye dissolution it wase given to 
 Eaton CoUedge, neare Windsore, whoe stiU enioyeth itt ; 
 and accordinge to ye dedication, ye place hath altered 
 his name. Monumentes in this church there none nowe 
 extant ; in Edward ye Sixth his reygne ye north isle of 
 the church wase taken downe ; what monumentes there 
 
188 THE OGLANDER MEMOIRS. 
 
 weare, or what demolisched at ye suppression, is now 
 uncertayne; owt of question there weare monumentes 
 of divors Pryors and Mounkes; and of ye Sancta 
 Hellena, a worshipful famely in that p'risch, and olso 
 of ye Lords of JSTettlestone and Troublefyld. Nowe 
 only Mr. John Hopkins that I knowe lyeth there, a fine 
 scoUard, and a fine gentleman ; brother to Sir William. 
 
 BINSTEEDE. 
 
 This church wase founded in the reygne of Henry ye 
 Seconde by ye Abbott of Quarr, becawse he woold not 
 haue aU his tennantes and ye inhabitantes of Binsteede 
 come to trouble ye Abbeye church. By reason of ye 
 propinquitie of ye Abbeye, Binsteede wase then very 
 populous, and a great many servantes of all kindes then 
 dwellinge at Nunam. They tooke order that a mounke 
 of theyre owne showld every Sondaye discharge ye 
 cure ; butt since ye disolution of ye sayd Abbeye, itt is 
 made a smaUe parsonage, presentation beinge in ye 
 Bischopes gwyft. Monumentes there are noone, nor 
 evor I suppose weare, no man of quallitie evor livinge 
 there. I wase once there at ye burioll of one Captayne 
 John Gibbons (my goode frynde), whoe comminge from 
 ye north-west passage, beinge imployed thethor for ye 
 discoverie of that passage by Prince Henry, sonn of 
 Kinge James, whoe comminge home dyed at Eide, and 
 
THE OGLANDER MEMOIRS. 189 
 
 gaue me his journal for a legacy. He was a very scilful 
 navigator, and one of ye sixte maystors of England ; he 
 wase buryed in ye midle of ye chawncell. This p'risch 
 assumed aftor ye disolution of ye Abbeye, all ye 
 priviledges thereunto belonginge ; as maryinge without 
 lycense, provinge of willes, and all thinges that ye 
 Abbott in former times cowld doo; whereupon ye 
 parsons for longe time aftorwardes weare called 
 Bischoppes of Binsteede. But that power as it wase 
 butt usurped, so it wase taken from them when Bilson 
 and Ahdrewes^ weare Bischoppes of Winchester. 
 
 WHTPPINGAME. 
 
 In this church there is no monument, nor any man 
 of quaUitie buryed there, in remembrance of any man ; 
 only excepted ye parsons, and one Mr. Sommers, some- 
 tyme Captayne of Cows Castell; he lived to be a 
 hundred yeares owlde. 
 
 ST. lawraTstce. 
 
 This is a verye smale church, under ye clififes, at ye 
 
 sowth-east parte of owre Island, commonly called Undor 
 
 Wathe. In which ar no monumentes, neythor of late 
 
 any man of quaUitie there buryed. Not farr from 
 
 I Bilson 1597— I6I7. Andrewea 1618—1628. 
 
190 THE OGLANDER MEMOIRS. 
 
 thence to ye sowthward, on a peece of land nowe Sir 
 John Dinglie's, there appeareth ye ruynes of an other 
 chappell^, but what itt wase is nowe utterlye unknowne. 
 Only ye tennant to ye land informed me that soometimes 
 they tyed beast there, and ye beastes so tyed woulde 
 swet and eate no meate as longe as they wears soe 
 tyed ; which is strange if true, and must proceed from 
 some naturoU cawse as it undiscovered. 
 
 NYTON. 
 
 This church hath no monument now extant in itt, 
 only in ye waynscote in ye sowth chawncell there are 
 3 coates, which I conceive to be eythor of ye Bew- 
 chawmpes, Cawnes, or Halles, for these weare the awn- 
 tientest famelys that lived there; and divors of them 
 there buryed. Too places it retaynes ye names of those 
 awntient famelyes — Videl. — Cawnes Court and Bew- 
 champes. In ye church yarde there is a crosse with 
 steps to ascende to it ; ye base and toppe thereof beinge 
 of stone, very awntient. There wase a fisch markett 
 there, kept every Wendesday and Frydaye. There is 
 
 1 This building, of which an ivy-covered gable ia now the principal re- 
 mains, was never intended for a chapel. It was probably built by John de 
 Wolverton in the reign of Edward I. for his manor house, and its ruins are an 
 interesting specimen of the domestic architecture of the XIII. century. It 
 was only two stories in height, and the lower was probably used as store 
 rooms. In the remaining gable is a good example of an Early English window, 
 which lighted the upper story. 
 
THE OGLANDER MEMOIRS. 191 
 
 olso in ye sayd churchyarde a toombe, whereon there 
 wase, owt of question, a statua placed; ye effigies of 
 his swerd playnely it thereon to be sene. This person- 
 age wase in ye gwyfte of ye Crown, but in ye 2nd of 
 Kinge Charles's reygne it wase with others altored and 
 impropriated to Queene's CoUedge^ in Oxforde; at ye 
 swyte of ye Queene, sohcited thereunto by one Potter, 
 her Confessor, a Jesuite, drawen to make ye swyte by 
 his mistress ye Queene, by ye instigation of Doctor 
 Potter, hedd of ye sayd Queene's CoUedge. 
 
 ARRETON. 
 
 This church did belonge to ye Abbeye of Quarr, but 
 since ye disolution one John Milles bowght of Henry ye 
 8th both Quarr, Comley, ye awntient seate, and Hazeley 
 ye Graunge. Aftor ye death of George, ye sonn of 
 Eychard, one Sir Eychard Milles, nephewe to ye sayd 
 George, and his heyre, sowld it to Mr. Flemminge, whoe 
 
 1 According to a MS. in the Ashmolean Museum, the advowsons of the 
 Churches of Niton, Whitwell, Carisbrooke, and Godshill, with three others on 
 the mainland, were granted by Charles I., November 12, 1626, to Queen's 
 College, Oxford, through the intercession of his Queen, Henrietta, and the 
 Help of the Lord Keeper Coventry, Hay, Earl of Carlisle, and Sir George 
 Goring, Vice-Ohamberlain to the Queen ; not in exchange for the College plate, 
 as stated by Sir Richard Worsley, but as a gift from the Queen to the College 
 as its royal patroness. Sixteen years afterwards, in January, 1642, the plate 
 of the College was lent to the King, after the rate of 5s. per ounce for white 
 and 58.6d. for gilt, the total amounting to £591 Is. 9d. ; but the loan was 
 never repaid by the borrower. 
 
192 THE OGLANDER MEMOIRS. 
 
 now holds it. Awntient monuments in this church 
 there are verie fewe ; there is a fayre toombe at ye upor 
 ende of ye north walle of ye sowth chawncell, wherein 
 there hath bene ye portraiture of a man and woman 
 cutt in brasse, with divors scutcheons, but soom sacre- 
 hgious hand hath taken them awaye, and bereft us of 
 ye knowledge thereof. But I conceve it wase ye monu- 
 ment of one of ye Urryes that dwelt at Stanum — for 
 under or neyre ye toombe there wase a vault for theyre 
 buryinge, which wase filled up with earth not longe 
 since. 
 
 At ye upor ende of ye midle ile there is a fayre 
 stone in which is wryghten : "Anno Domini August ye 
 30th, 1623. Here wase buryed ye body of Margaret 
 Mather, wife of Henry Mather, whoe wase buryed at ye 
 west end of this stone, April ye 4th, 1628." 
 
 He wase Stuarde or servant to Mr. Thos. Worsleye, 
 and to his sonn. Sir Eychard. Under a blew marble 
 stone in ye chawncell as you goe up to ye communion 
 table lyeth, without any inscription, ye bodye of that 
 famous woman, Mrs. — Milles, wyfe to Mr. George 
 MiUes, Honnor of Quarr, Comely, and Hazeley. Shee 
 wase a "Ward, born in Cumberlandshyre, and bowght 
 by Eychard Milles, fathor of George; shee wase hand- 
 some and p'sonable, and ye best howsekeper in ye 
 Island. Shee lived longe in yeres and in widowehood; 
 
THE OGLANDER JIEMOIES. 193 
 
 shee dyed Anno Dom. 1624. If Sir Edward Horsey's 
 wyfe had dyed before him, he had maryed Mrs. Milles; 
 his wyfe wase a flfrench woman and lived there. 
 
 As you come to goe up to ye communion table, in a 
 peece of stone is wryghten: "Mr. Edward ffayrebrace, 
 Vicor, 1615. Dec. 17th." On a stone in ye sowth side of 
 ye niidle chawncell is wryghten: "Here lyeth ye body 
 of Thomas^ Lishe, of Bridlesford, Esq., whoe departed 
 December ye 17th, Anno Domini 1621,^tatis suse 70." 
 
 A stoute gentleman, my good frynd, unkell to Sir 
 William. 
 
 On a stone in ye sowth chawncell there is ye picture 
 of a man in brasse,^ with a sworde by his syde, and 3 
 woolfes' hedes in a coate, with this inscription: — 
 
 "Here is y-buried under this graue 
 Harry Hawles his sowle God saue ; 
 Longe tyme Stuard of this Yle of Wyght, 
 Haue m'cy on hym God ful of myght." 
 
 The Earles of Clare descended owt of this famely. 
 On ye sowth walle of ye sowthe chawncell there is a 
 monument without any inscription ; but not soe owld 
 
 1 Second son of Thomas Lisle, Esq. , of Wootton. He married Elizabeth, 
 daughter of William Colnett, of Combley, and left two daughters his heirs. 
 
 2 This brass is still in existence, but the head of the e£Sgy and the shield 
 of arms hare long since disappeared. The old sexton, whose family from father 
 to son has filled that office for the last 300 years, always informs his visitors 
 that the missing portions of the brass were taken away by Oliver Cromwell. 
 
 Q 
 
194 THE OGLANDER MEMOIRS. 
 
 but yt soom of tlieyre sonnes are livinge, whose fathors 
 knewe of his burioU. Itt wase one Mr. Eychard Cooke, 
 his awntient howse wase in Sussex, a place called Kus- 
 sington, but when he dyed he dwelt at Budbrydge, his 
 owne inherytance. He wase olso ye fyrst Captayne of 
 Sandam Castle, and there had undor his commande 20 
 gunnors and sowldiors, and in those dayes the Castles 
 had not crept in undor ye commande of ye Captayne 
 of ye Island. He wase a braue gentleman, and rode 
 alwayes to the church in his foote cloth, 12 sowldiors 
 wayghting on him with partisans; he dyed ye 2nd of 
 Queene Elizabeth. 
 
 In a brasse table^ in ye north walle of ye sowth ile 
 is wryghten as folio weth: — 
 
 "Loe here under this toombe incoucht 
 
 Is William Searle by name, 
 
 Who for his deedes of charetie 
 
 Deserveth woorthie fame. 
 
 A man within this parisch borne, 
 
 And in ye howse called Stone ; 
 
 A glass for to beholde a worke 
 
 Hath left to every one. 
 
 For that unto ye people poore 
 
 Of Arreton, he gaue 
 
 An hundred powndes in readie coyne' 
 
 1 This plate has been removed from its original position, and is now fixed 
 to one of the pillars of the aisle. 
 
 2 With the proceeds of this bequest, a farm called Garretta, on St. George's 
 Down, was purchased, supplying a fund by which the poor of the parisb are 
 relieved in wiuter 
 
THE OGLANDBR MEMOIRS. 195 
 
 He willed yt they should haue. 
 To be ymployed in fittest sorte 
 As man coulde best invent, 
 For yearely releife to ye poore, 
 That was his good intent. 
 Thus did this man a batchelor 
 Of yeares full fif tie nyne ; 
 And doinge good to manie a one 
 Soe did he spend his tyme. 
 Untill ye day he did decease, 
 The fyrst of Februarie, 
 And in the yeare of One thousand 
 Five hundred nynetie five.' 
 
 On a stone underneath is wrighten: "William Serle, 
 1595." 
 
 In ye sowth wall in ye sowth ile is a wryghting of 
 Mr. George Serle's, of Stone, who dyed Anno Dom. 
 1609: "The rewarde of sinne is death. Everlasting life 
 is ye gifte of God through owre Lord and Saviour Jesus 
 Christe. Wherefor all ye that loue the Lord doe this; 
 hate all things that are evell, for he dothe kepe the 
 soules of his from such as woold them spill. — George 
 Serle." 
 
 In ye wall olso of ye sowth chawncell is wryghten : 
 
 "November 10, 1628. Here wase buryed the bodye of 
 
 Edward Herbert, of Birchmore, whoe dyed in ye Lord, 
 
 Nov. 9th." 
 
 In ye north syde of ye chawncell, in ye Litton syde, 
 
 q2 
 
196 THE OGLANDER MEMOIRS. 
 
 is wryghten in brasse: "Here in this toombe lyeth 
 buryed ye bodye of William Colnett, of Comely, Gent., 
 wlioe departed this lyfe ye fyrst of July, in ye yeare of 
 our Lorde God 1594, Etatis suae 69." 
 
 Here lyeth divors that haue dyed within ye memory 
 of man without any monument. 
 
 BONCHURCH. 
 
 This church wase erected in ye reygne of William ye 
 Conqueror by one Johannes de Argentine, a ffrench- 
 man, to whom William Titzosberon, aftor ye conquest 
 of this Island, by permission of his kinsman, William ye 
 Fyrst, gaue to ye sayd Argentine all those landes in 
 ye sayd p'risch, whoe for ye ease both of himselve and 
 tennantes, Bradinge then beinge too farr, and olso 
 Nuchurch, and Shanklinge then not bwylt, got itt to be 
 made a p'risch by meanes of his brother's sonn, Walke- 
 lyn,^ then Bischop of Winton. 
 
 Saynt Uries at Bindbridge (a chappell now decayed) 
 wase founded by ye Lordes of Woolverton and Milton, 
 for theyre ease and theyre tennantes, for in those tymes 
 ye Cawsey at Yarbridge wase not errected; so they 
 weare fayne to goe abowt by Sandam to come to 
 Bradinge. The ruines still remayneth, but I conceive 
 they buryed at Bradinge. 
 
 1 Bishop of Winchester, 1070—1098. 
 
THE OGLANDEU MEMOIRS. 197 
 
 WODDITON (wOOTTOn). 
 
 This church was bwylt by Waltor de Insula in ye 
 fyrst yere of "William ye 2nd, Anno Dom. 1087, accord- 
 inge to an owld recorde that I haue sene. When he or 
 his fathor had seated themselves at "Wodditon they 
 bwylte this church for ease of themselves, fameley and 
 tennantes, and endowed itt ; for before itt belonged to ye 
 p'risch of Whippinghame. But that church which wase 
 fyrst bwylt wase by casualtie of fyor, togeathor with ye 
 dwellingehowse, burned in Henry ye 4th his reygne, 
 abowt ye yeare of owre Lord 1410. Since ye bwyld- 
 inge of ye newe church I fynd no monumentes there, 
 although I haue knowen manye buryed there, but ye 
 awntient Lyslyes buryed at theyre church at Thruxton, 
 in Hampshyre, where be manye of theyre monumentes. 
 
 QUAEE ABET, ALIAS QUAREAEA. 
 
 Baldwine, ye sonn of Eychard Eivors, whoe wase 
 Earle of Devonshyre and Lord of the Isle of Wyght, 
 fownded this Abbeye, and had fully finisched it, and 
 had ye greate church consecrated by Henry de Bloys, 
 Bischop of Winton; and made a greate and solemn 
 feast theyre for ye whole Island, for ye finischinge of so 
 good a woorke, wherein every inhabitant in this Island 
 wase in somethinge or other a helper and furtheror of 
 ye sayde woorke, on ye fyrst day of June, 1150. The 
 
198 THE OGLANDER MEMOIKS. 
 
 sayde Baldwyne de Eivors, beinge banisched England 
 by Kinge Stephen for fortifiinge ye Cytye of Exetor 
 agaynst him, and for takinge part with Maude, ye 
 Empresse, in his banischment made a vowe that if he 
 retourned with health and restored to his former for- 
 tunes, he woold bwjdd a religious howse for God's 
 service, and the health of his owne sowle, Adeliza, his 
 wyfe's, and Eychard, his father. He browght owt of 
 ye Lowe Counterye one John le ffleminge, a good Free 
 Mason, whome he imployed abowt ye mason woorke 
 for ye bwyldinge of Quarr. Evor since as poore men 
 ye name hath continued le ffleminge, and now one 
 derived from him hath honnor of his awncestor's bwyld- 
 ings ; but httle did Eivors imagine this when he brought 
 him owt of Germanie. This Baldwyne dyed in ye Isle 
 of Wyght in ye yere of our Lord 1155, and wase ye 
 fyrst that wase buryed in his greate church at Quarr, 
 where his funerol wase solemnized by procession of ye 
 Abbot and Monkes; all ye gentlemen of ye Island 
 attendinge on ye corpes. Eychard, his sonn, erected 
 a stateley toombe for him in ye church next to ye 
 hygh altor, and gaue olso land to ye sayd church 
 to praye for his sowle, his fathor's, mother's, and 
 grandfathor's. But sutch are ye ruins of time, that 
 there now liveth not anye yt can tell where ye Church 
 of Quarr stood. At my fyrst cominge to inhabit in 
 
THE OGLANDER MEMOIRS. 199 
 
 this Island Anno 1607, I went to Quarr, and inquyred 
 of divors owld men where ye greate church stood. 
 Theyre wase but one, Fathor Pennie, a verye owld man, 
 coold give me anye satisfaction ; he told me he had bene 
 often in ye church when itt wase standinge, and told me 
 what a goodly church itt wase ; and furthor sayd that 
 itt stoode to ye sowthward of all ye ruins, corne then 
 growinge where it stoode. I hired soome to digge to 
 see whethor I myght finde ye fowndation butt cowld 
 not. He told me that itt had a fayre churchyarde, and 
 that ye walle to ye northward of ye owtmost sowth 
 walle wase but ye owtmost bound of ye churchyarde. 
 He then showed me Owre Lady's Chappel to ye east- 
 ward, next ye brooke, olso ye Lorde Abbott's howse; 
 his kytchen and offices, beinge ye northermost place 
 where no we ye tennant doth live. The common Sellor 
 and Buttery wase then livinge, altho' mutch demo- 
 lisched, and divors other offices. He cowld not satisfye 
 me whoe pulled downe ye sayd church, but I am of 
 opinion it wase Mr. Milles, ye fyrst purchasor. This 
 wase a verye greate Abbeye both in bwyldinge and 
 revenues. Itt had mutch landes belongings unto itt 
 neare Lymington, in ye Newe Forrest, and divors other 
 places. Land in ye Island itt had — Hazely, Nunam, 
 Arreton, Stapellors, Comely, and I thinke Apse; the 
 P'sonage of Arreton, Newchurche, and Godshill ; and 
 
200 THE OGLANDEB MBMOIES. 
 
 all ye land betweene Binsteed and Wootton Hauen. 
 The Abbott sate in ye Upper Howse of Parliament, and 
 wase honored here in ye Island like a pettie prince;^ 
 hapye wase that gentleman that cowld gett his sonn to 
 attend upon him. Theyre wase a greate markett kept 
 3 dayes in every weeke at ye Crosse Waye, soom 12 
 schore yardes from ye howse to ye sowth west ; and most 
 of ye gentlemen's yoounger sonnes weare officers to 
 ye howse — Treasuror, Stuarde, Chefe Butler, Solicitor, 
 Eent Gatherer, Courte Keepor, or Baylie GeneroU. 
 Those places maye nowe be accoumpted meane ; but 
 then itt wase accoumpted a greate honor to haue any 
 place or awthoritie abowt that howse, and ye best gen- 
 tlemen's sonnes in owre Island thought it no disgrace, 
 but an honnor to them to serue in those places ; and 
 they weare not obtayned withoute greate swyte or long 
 attendance on ye Lord Abbott. Now there is nothinge 
 left but mines, except ye sellor and butterye, by which 
 (as by Hercules foote) a man may judge of ye former 
 greatnes. The Abbott's priuate chapel is olso now 
 
 1 The Abbots of Quarr were often joined in commission ■witli the Captains 
 of the Island, to order its defences, and to repel invasion. In 1340 the Abbot 
 was Warden of the Island, and obtained a licence from Edward III. to fortify 
 the Abbey. The ruins of the wall which surrounded the conventual buildings, 
 enclosing an area of about forty acres, may still be traced. This wall was loop- 
 holed, and the gate facing the sea was guarded with a portcullis. The last 
 Abbot was William Ripon, and at the dissolution by Henry VIII. the yearly 
 revenue of the Abbey, according to Speed, was £184 Is. lOd. 
 
THE OGLANDER MEMOIRS. 201 
 
 standings. Goodly monuments in ye greate church 
 certenly there weare, but those of chyfe note wase 
 Baldwyne Eivors, ye fyrst funder; Oicelye,^ ye second 
 dawghtor of Edward ye fourth, whoe maryed for her 
 second howsband one Kyme, an Isle of Wyght gentle- 
 man, a very proper man. She lived and dyed at East 
 Stannum, under St. George's Down, and ye Lord Abbott 
 desired that they myght haue ye honnor to haue her 
 interred in theyre church, which was p'formed with all 
 honnor and state by ye convent and gentery of ye 
 whole Island, who attended ye corps from Stannum to 
 Quarr, where ye Lord Abbott preached at her funeroU. 
 The other of note wase a greate Mownsyor of ffrance, 
 slayne in owre Island in Eychard ye Secondes reygne. 
 Besydes divors Abbotts and of ye gentery not a fewe, 
 there lyeth amongst ye reste one of my awncestors, who 
 wase theyre Stuard, and there dyed ; but of all this 
 there is nothinge nowe to be seene. On ye disolution 
 one Mr. Eychard Milles, a merchant of Hampton, 
 bought Quarr, Nunam, Hazely, and Comely of Kinge 
 Henry ye 8th; and he and his sonn, George MiUes, 
 sowld ye stones of ye church, and all monumentes to 
 anye that woold bwye itt; for ye fyrst thinge they did 
 aftor ye pourchase of sutch religious howses wase to 
 pull downe ye church and most parte of ye dwelhnge 
 
 1 See page 86. 
 
202 THE OGLANDER MEMOIRS. 
 
 howses. But God giveth not alwayes a blessinge to 
 theyre labours. For George Milles dyed without issue, 
 and left it to his brother's sonn, one Mr. Eychard Milles, 
 whoe sowld itt for a tryfle to Mr. Flemminge, who wase 
 aftorwardes Lord Chiefs Justice of ye Kinge's Bench. 
 He gaue not for ye whole mannor above 3000£, ye 
 wood beinge woorth as mutch. Sutch is ye unconstan- 
 cye of Fortune, which with ye ayde of her servant 
 Tyme, pulleth downe greate thinges, and setteth up 
 poore thinges. 
 
 That which once ye Abbottes fatte 
 
 And sluggische Mounckes did fade, 
 
 The druncken Flemminges now doth scrape 
 
 With gayne thereof to rayse theyr seed. 
 
[ 203 ] 
 
 ADDITIONAL NOTES. 
 
 Stenbuey — page 74. 
 
 Mary, daughter and heir of Thos. Heynoe, of Stenbury, married William 
 Pound, and had issae a son, Anthony Pound, and a daughter, Catherine. 
 Anthony had a son, Richard, who left no issue, and two daughters, who were 
 co-heirs of their brother. The eldest, Honora, married the Earl of Sussex, and 
 the other, Mary, married her cousin, Edward White, of Southwick, Hants. 
 The father of Edward White was John White, Esquire of the Body to Henry 
 VIII. , who at the dissolution of the monasteries obtained a grant of Southwiok 
 Priory. His second wife was Catherine, daughter of WilUam Pound. 
 
 WoorroN— page 77. 
 
 Sir John Lisle, of Wootton, married Anne, daughter and heir of John 
 Botreux, brother of Lord Botreux, and had issue a son, Sir Nicholas, and two 
 daughters — Alice, who married John Rogers; and Agnes, who married John 
 Philpott, of Compton. Sir Nicholas Lisle had a son. Sir John, who was the 
 last of the direct line of the family. His wife was Joan, daughter of Courtney 
 Earl of Exeter, but he left no surviving issue. His sister, Eleanor Lisle, was 
 his heir; she married John Kingston, Esq., of Berks, and had two sons who 
 died childless, and an only daughter, Mary, who became the wife of her kins- 
 man, Thomas Lisle, afterwards knighted. Mary Lisle died without issue iu 
 1529, and her two great aunts, Alice Rogers and Agnes Philpott, succeeded as 
 heirs general to the entailed estates of the last Sir John Lisle. The lands at 
 Wootton were left by the will of Sir John Lisle to Lancelot, brother of Sir 
 Thomas Lisle. Lancelot left a son, Thomas, whose son was Anthony, who 
 was the father of Sir William Lisle, knighted in 1606, the contemporary of Sir 
 John Oglauder. One of the sons of Sir William Lisle was John Lisle, the 
 regicide, one of Cromwell's peers, who fled from England at the restoration, 
 and was assassinated at Lausanne in 1664. Many years afterwards his wife, 
 Alice, was convicted at Winchester, by the brutal Judge Jeffreys, of treason, 
 for sheltering two fugitives from Sedgemoor, and executed. 
 
204 additional notes. 
 
 Lisle. 
 
 In a note at the foot of page 79 it is stated that in the parish church of 
 Thruxton, Hants, is a brass of John, Lord Lisle, who died 1407. Instead of 
 this read — brass of Sir John Lisle, Lord of Wodditon, I. W. 
 
 AsHEY — page 83. 
 
 Thomas Coteile, Esq., High SheriflF for the County of Hants, 1630 — 31, was 
 the son of Sir Thomas Coteile, Kt., of London. The family was of Flemish 
 extraction, the father of Sir Thomas, Stephen Coteile, being a merchant of 
 Antwerp, who settled in London in the reign of Queen Elizabeth. 
 
 Sir George More — page 139. 
 
 In the Loseley Chapel ia the Church of St. Nicholas, Guildford, the burial 
 place of the More family, is a monument in two compartments, with two 
 kneeling figures, under which are these inscriptions: 1st — "This figure was 
 erected in memory of Elizabeth More, Dar. of Sir WiUiam More, maried first 
 to Richard Foisted, of Albury, Esq., by whom shee had noe issue ; secondly to 
 Sir John Wolleye, Kt. , one of the Secretaries of the Latin tongue to Qn. Eliza- 
 beth, and by him had Sir Francis Wolley, Kt. ; and thirdly to Thomas Ld. 
 Elsmere, Lord Ohauucellor of England, but by him had noe issue." 2nd — 
 "This figure was erected in memory of Ann, second Dar. of Sir William 
 More, who was maried to Sir George Manwaring, of Ightfeild in Shropshire, 
 Kt. , and by him had Sir Arthur, Sir Henry, Sir Thomas Manwaring, Kts. , 
 and George Manwaring ; and two Dars. , the eldest maried Sir Richard Baker, 
 Kt. , and the youngest mar. Sir John Cobet, Kt. " 
 
 Page 142. — Sir Poynings More represented Haslemere in three parliaments 
 of James I. and Charles I. , and was returned for Guildford in 1627. He mar- 
 ried Elizabeth, daughter of Sir W. Fytche, Kt., and died April, 1649, leaving 
 issue two sons. 
 
[ 205 ] 
 
 EEEATUM. 
 
 Page 118. — Three lines from foot of the page, for Mr. Roffe read Mr. Rosae, 
 and sometime for sometimes. This "Mr. Roase" was the "AlexanderEoss" im- 
 mortalized by Butler in his Hudibras. He was a native of Aberdeen, who left 
 Scotland for England, and waa for many years master of the Free School at 
 Southampton. In 1634 he was presented to the Vicarage of Carisbrooke, 
 I.W., by Queen's College, Oxford. Probably during his residence at Caris- 
 brooke he married, for his wife waa Barbara, daughter of William Bowerman, 
 Bsq. , of Brook, by Barbara, daughter of Thomas Worsley, of Chale. He waa 
 a voluminous author, and published upwards of thirty volumes, ranging from 
 12mo. to folio ; nearly all of which are now fallen into oblivion. He wrote a 
 continuation to Sir W. Raleigh's History of the World, but his best known 
 works are "A View of all Religions" and "The Muse's Interpreter." During 
 the Civil Wars he was ejected from his living, but he eventually found an 
 asylum in the house of his friend Anthony Henley, Esq. , of Bramshill, Hants. 
 He died at Bramshill in the year 1654, and waa buried in the parish church of 
 Eversley. 
 
[206 ] 
 
 INDEX. 
 
 Afton 101 
 
 , Eichard de 102 
 
 Alfington 96 and note 
 Apse 73 
 
 Arreton Church 191 and note 
 Ashey 81 
 
 Attorney, hunted out of the Island 21 
 Attorneys, Gosson, Ayres, and Eed- 
 man 21, 22 
 
 Bad, Emanuel, High Sheriff 24 
 , purchased the Priory, St. 
 
 Helens 87 
 
 , epitaph 87, note 
 
 Bands of the Island xvii. 
 Bangbome 73 
 Barrington, Sir F. 91 
 
 , Sir T. 100, note 
 
 Baskett, Richard 24 
 
 , purchased Apse 73 
 
 Beards, fashions of 172, note 
 Binstead Church 188 
 
 , bishops of 189 
 
 Bonchurch, church of 196 
 Bourley, Marvin 12 
 Bowreman, old Mr. 23 
 
 , of Brooke 96 
 
 , Dame Joanna 119 and note 
 
 , W. 157 
 
 Brading Church and its monuments 
 
 180, &c. 
 
 , town of 109 
 
 Haven 112 
 
 i inning of 113, &o., 116, note 
 
 Brett, Sir Alexander 29 
 
 , his regiment in the Island 30 
 
 Bridlesford 80 
 Buckingham, Duke of 22 
 
 at Stoke's Bay 25 
 
 on Arreton Down 32 
 
 , assassination of 42 ""• 
 
 insulted by sailors 45 ~ 
 
 — — , gifts of Baronetships 48 
 
 , verses on 49, 50 
 
 , expedition to Rh^ 120 ^' 
 
 Budbridge 88 
 
 Bulkeley, John xvi. 
 
 Bull baitingJxi. 
 
 Burroughs, Sir John, slain in the Isle 
 
 of Rh6 15 and note 
 , body brought to Portsmouth 15 
 
 Carey's, Sir George, letter to the 
 
 Burgesses of Newtown xiii. 
 Carey, Sir George 4 
 
 , his wife 5 
 
 , treatment of an Attorney 26, 27, 
 
 143 
 Carisbrooke Castle, Charles I. at 68, 
 
 122 
 
 , repaired 102 
 
 , Henry VII. at 119 
 
 Carisbrooke, Vicar of 105 
 
 , town of 107 
 
 , Prior of 108 
 
 , ligior book of 118 
 
 Game's, Col. Thos., letter to Sir J. 
 
 Barrington xxv. 
 
INDEX. 
 
 207 
 
 Cicely, daughter of Edward IV. 86 and 
 
 note, 201 
 Centonera and Hobblers xvi. 
 
 Charles I. in the Island 31 
 
 reviews Brette's regiment 32 
 
 reviews the Scotch regiment 40 
 
 at Southwick 43 
 
 , petition to 52 
 
 at Portsmouth 56 
 
 at Cowea 65 
 
 , his speech at Carisbrooke Castle 
 
 68 
 
 at Newport 70 
 
 at Carisbrooke Castle 122 and 
 
 note 
 
 Cheke, Edward 72 
 
 , Thomas 7 
 
 , sold Mottestone 76 
 
 Clatterford 75 
 
 Colenett, Barnaby 24, 89 and note 
 
 , Edward 90 and note 
 
 Cohiett, W. 196 
 
 Conway, Sir E. xiv. 
 
 , Lord, Governor of Island xv. 
 
 , letter of 33, note 
 
 , visits the Island 34 
 
 at Southwick 39 
 
 , life of 157, 160 and notes 
 
 , Governor of Brill 159 and note 
 
 , his reading and handwritiag 
 
 160, 161 and note 
 
 , his courtesies 161-2 
 
 run through the body by a mad- 
 man 164 
 
 Cooke, B. , Captain of Sandham Castle 
 63, 88, 194 
 
 Cottele, Thos. 83 and note, 204, note 
 
 Cottington, Lord 57, note, 58 
 
 60 
 
 J his dog "Captain 
 Cowes, growth of, 20 
 
 , men of war at 55 
 
 , Charles I. at 65 
 
 Cromwell, Oliver 65, note 
 
 Davenant, Bishop of Salisbury 9 
 
 , his consecration of Yarmouth 
 
 Church 10, 11 
 De Aulas or Hawles 89 
 De Blois, Bishop of Winchester 127 
 De Georges, Sir Thos. 83 
 
 De Haynoe, Peter 74 
 
 De Redvers, Baldwin 198 
 
 Dennis, Sir Edward 8, 9, 23, 25, 34, 
 
 39, 54, 79 
 DUlington family, the 127 
 
 , arms of 12J8, note 
 
 Dylliagton, Anthony 81 
 
 , purchased Knyghton 84 
 
 , Sir E., his letter to Conway 37, 
 
 note, 65, 67 
 
 , death of 128 
 
 , E. 129 
 
 purchased a baronetship 130 
 
 Dingley, Sir J., his report on the 
 
 Island xii. , 23 
 , Justice of the Peace 93 and 
 
 note, 94 
 Donne, Dr. 141 and note 
 
 Earlsman, Mr. 24, 94 
 
 , John 104 
 
 East Nunwell 85 
 East Standen 85 
 Elizabeth, Queen 119 and note 
 
 Felton, John 42, 46, 47 
 
 Fleming, John le 198 
 
 Fleming, Sir Thos. 23, 80 and note, 
 
 103 and note 
 Fryer, Col. Thos. , knighted 33,43, 47,58 
 
 Gard family, origin of 131 
 
 , quarrels of 134, 136 
 
 , Eichard, his tricks, and epitaph 
 
 132 
 
 , his bequests 133 
 
 , loses his money 134 
 
 , recovers it by help of a witch 135 
 
 , pot of money found 136 
 
 George, Duke of Clarence 99 
 Gibb, John 112 
 
 , his white and black horses 124 
 
 Gibbons, Capt. J. 188 
 
 GirKng, William 4 
 
 Glamorgan, Sir Eobert de 95 and note 
 
 Gleek, game of 41 
 
 Godahill Church and its monuments 
 
 184-7 
 Granger, Captain, alarm of 24, 33 
 Grove 88 
 
208 
 
 INDEX. 
 
 Hale 89 and note 
 
 Hammond, Col, 64 and note, 65 
 
 , his speech at Newport 66 
 
 , J., of Guildford 165-6, note 
 
 , hia epitaph 167 
 
 Harvey, Mr. John, of Avington 24, 
 168 
 
 Hawles, H., brass of 193 
 
 Hazeley and Quarr 80 
 
 Henry VII. 3, 101 
 
 , visit to the Island 119 and note 
 
 Henry VIII. 100 
 
 Henry, Lord Stafford 100 
 
 Higham's narrative of the assassina- 
 tion of Buckingham 46, 47, note , 
 
 Hobson, old Mr. 5, note 
 
 , father and son 24 
 
 Holderness, Earl of 73, 82, and note 
 
 Horsey, Sir Edward, care for hares 4 
 
 with Mrs. Milles 81, 193 
 
 Hygham, Master Gunner at Ports- 
 mouth 25 
 
 Isabella de Fortibus, deed of 102 
 
 James I. at Portsmouth 17, note, 112 
 
 at Beaulieu 121 
 
 in the Isle of Wight 121 and note 
 
 , his habit of swearing 123 and 
 
 note 
 styled the good man of Balinger 
 
 123 
 , his liking for fruit and sweet 
 
 wines 124 and note 
 , his sickness and death 126 and 
 
 note 
 
 , story of him and Conway 160 
 
 Justices of the Peace vi., ix. 
 
 Keene, Richard, married Cicely, 
 daughter of Edward IV. 86 and 
 note, 201 
 
 Kempe, Toby, clerk to Sir J. Oglan- 
 der 64 
 
 Kingston 90, 91 
 
 Knighten Court 9 
 
 Knighton, Manor of 81, 83 
 
 Lake, Sir Thos. 129 
 Lambe, Dr. 50, note, 112 
 
 Landguard 88 and note, 95 
 Laycock Abbey 94 
 Legge, Mr. 69 and note 
 Leicester, Earl of 138 
 Leigh, Bamaby 23, 73, 93 
 
 , John, knighted 4 1, 56, 93 
 
 , Sir J., life of 142 
 
 , Deputy- Lieutenant of the Island 
 
 143 
 
 , his temperance 144 
 
 , taken with a palsy 145 
 
 , built Northcourt 146 
 
 , his epitaph 147, note 
 
 Light Horsemen, list of 27, 28 
 Lindsay's, Earl of, voyage to Kochelle 
 
 120 
 Lion clawing the friar, sign of 122 
 Lisle or Lislie, Sir John 77, 78, 79, and 
 
 notes, 204, note 
 Lisle, Thomas 78, 80 
 , John 203, note 
 
 Maiuwaring, Sir Henry, famous pirate 
 
 15 
 
 , account of 16, 17, 18, note, 33, 58 
 
 Margaret, Countess of Salisbury 99, 
 
 100 
 Maseorell, WiUiam 95 
 Mather, Margaret 192 
 MaunseU's, Sir R., voyage to Algiers 
 
 120 and note 
 Merston 72 
 
 , Cheke of 76 
 
 Meux, Bartholomew 8 
 
 , Sir John, death of 7, 23, 90, 91 
 
 , Sir William 8, 39, 54, 90, 91 and 
 
 note 
 Milles, Mrs. D. 80 
 
 , sojourned Sir E. Horsey 81, 192 
 
 , J. and George 191-2 
 
 , Richard 192, 201-2 
 
 , Richard 80 
 
 Montague, Earl of Salisbury 98 
 More, Sir George, life of 137 and note 
 
 , his opinion of James I. 139, note 
 
 , his housekeeping 141 
 
 , Poynings 142 and note, 204, note 
 
 , Sir W. 92, 138, 204, note 
 
 Morton's, Earl of, regiment in the 
 
 Island 36 
 
INDJBX. 
 
 20^ 
 
 Mottestone 95 
 
 Mountjoy, Lord, Earl of Newport 13,14 
 
 Myddelton, Sir Hugh 113 
 
 Uewport, charter of xii. 
 
 , Ordinary at 23 
 
 '— — , Lord Conway at 34 
 
 , Lord Weaton at 59 
 
 , Charles I. , speech of, there 70 
 
 , Commissioners there 70 
 
 Market paved 101 
 
 , men of, servants to Queen Bliza- 
 
 beth 102 and notes 
 
 -^ , schoolmaster of 103 
 
 , Grammar School of 104 and note 
 
 , old customs of 104, &c. 
 
 , records of 105-6, notes 
 
 , Mayor's feast 105 
 
 Niton Church 190 
 
 , monuments there 191 
 
 Oglander family, birthplace of xix. 
 
 , Peter de xix. 
 
 , Oliver xx. , 85 
 
 , George, xxi., 81 
 
 , life of 165, 166, note 
 
 , his horse and hawke 167 
 
 , Sir J., Sheriff of Hants xxi. 
 
 , letter to John Worsley, of 
 
 Gatcombe ; attention called to his 
 conduct in the House of Commons 
 xxiv. 
 
 , sent to London by Col. Came 
 
 XXV. 
 
 , account of, in " Mercurius 
 
 Aulious" xxvi. 
 
 , epitaph of xxvii. 
 
 , his hop garden 16 
 
 , attends Charles I. to Arreton 
 
 Down 32 
 
 , meets Lord Weston at Ports- 
 mouth 57 
 
 , at Carisbrooke Castle 69, 72, 86 
 
 , life of 172 
 
 , his marriage 173 
 
 , coming to Nunwell 174 
 
 — -, knighted 175 
 
 — —, Lieut.-Govemor of Portsmouth 
 175 
 
 , his house-keeping and coach 176 
 
 Oglander, Sir J. , letters of, relating to 
 
 ship-money 177-8 
 — -, his survey of the churches and 
 
 cUapela in the Island 180, &c. 
 
 , visit to Quarr Abbey 199 
 
 , verses by 152, 202 
 
 -—-, Sir W., life of 168 
 
 , his shooting 168-70 
 
 , his marriage 169 
 
 , his death and character 171 
 
 , W., M.P. for Yarmouth xv. 
 
 Orglandes, Marquis d' xix. 
 Osberon 75 
 
 Pann 89 and note 
 
 Parkhurst Forest v., xi. 
 
 Parliamentary Commissioners at New- 
 port 70 
 
 Pennie, Father, of Quarr 199 
 
 Pole, Sir Geoffrey 101 
 
 , Sir Richard 99, 100 and note 
 
 Popham, Sir Stephen and Sir John 
 97 and not"j 
 
 Portland, Jerome, Earl of xxiii. 
 
 — ^, drunken freak of, with Col. 
 Goring xxiv. 
 
 Portsmouth, James I. at 17 
 
 , Mayor of 26, 33 
 
 , alarm at 26 
 
 , Charles I. at 13, 56 
 
 Potatoes in 1613 v. 
 
 Poynings, Sir A. 137, note, 138 
 
 Prices of com, &c. vii., viii., ix. 
 
 Pryce, Mr. A., of Calboume, 56 and 
 note 
 
 Quarr Abbey, 19, note, 197 
 
 , lands of 199 
 
 — -, Abbots of 200 and note 
 ■ , monuments there 201 
 
 Katcliff, Earl of Sussex 74 
 Koads and highways ix., x. 
 Kookley, James 75 
 
 , of Rookley 96 and note 
 
 Koss, Alex. 118, 205, note 
 
 Eowridge 84 
 
 Russell, Sir W., of Yaverland 89 and 
 
 note 
 Eychardes, German 24, 71 
 
210 
 
 INDEX. 
 
 Shorwell 94 aud note 
 
 , parish of 108 
 
 Salute, a dangerous 59 
 
 Sandham Castle, sea gained on 19 
 
 , Lord Weston at 59 
 
 rebuilt 62 
 
 , Richard Cooke, first captain of 
 
 63, 88 
 
 Scotch regiment, disorders of 37 
 
 Searle, W., verses on 194 
 
 , G. 195 
 
 Shalfleet 98 
 
 Shanklin Church 183 
 
 Sidney, Sir P. 138 
 
 Sommers, Captain 189 
 
 Somerset, Carr, Earl of 140 
 
 Southampton, Earl of xiv., 22 
 
 , on St. George's Down 23, 104 
 
 Southwick, Isle of Wight gentlemen 
 at 38 
 
 , Charles I. at 43, 44 
 
 Spry's, Sir Henry, regiment in the 
 Ibland 29 
 
 , death Of 29, note 
 
 St. George's Down, company at 23 
 
 St. Helena, Dutch ships at 35, 71 
 
 , priory of 87 
 
 , harbour of 109 
 
 , church of 187 
 
 St. Lawrance, church of 189 
 
 Stag hunted from the New Forest to 
 the Island 126 
 
 Stamford hanged 47 
 
 Stockweli, gunner's son at Ports- 
 mouth, his sayings to Buckingham 
 and Cliarles I. 12, 13 
 
 , self-styled Earl of Portsmouth 14 
 
 Stenbury 24, 74, 203, note 
 
 Stokes Bay, ships sailing from 31 
 
 Swainston, manor of 98 and note 
 
 Thelwell, Sir Bevis 54, 58, 112, 115, 
 
 116, note 
 Trenchard family 98 and note 
 
 Uggeton 95 and note 
 TJnderciiflF, the x. 
 Urry, Thos., buried 56 
 
 , David 101 
 
 Urrey, William 85 and note 
 
 Vane, Sir H. 41 
 
 Vere, Sir Francis xxviii. 
 
 Villiers, Earl of Anglesey 22 and note 
 
 Wadham, Sir Nicholas 3 
 
 , sold Alfington 97 and note 
 
 Walsingham, Sir F. 103 and note, 108, 
 
 155 
 
 , Ursula 155 and note 
 
 Wayghtacourt 90 
 Warren and Mortimer, Earl of 97 
 West Nunwell burnt 86, 87 
 Weston, Lord Treasurer 53 and note 
 
 , his visit to the Island 57 et seq. 
 
 , character of by Clarendon 57, 
 
 note 
 Whelps, the 58 and note, 60 
 White, Sir Richard, 23, 187 
 Whipingame 75 
 Whippingham Church 189 
 W^hitelook, Judge 1 73 and note 
 Wight, Isle of, population of in the 
 
 XVII. century iv. 
 , wages of artizans and labourers 
 
 vi. 
 
 , roads of x. 
 
 , watches and wards kept xvii. 
 
 , late harvest in 19 
 
 , no foxes nor papists in 19 
 
 , decay of 20 
 
 , selling the King's lands in 22 
 
 , Charles I. there 32, 40, 122 
 
 , visit of Lord Conway to 34 
 
 , gentlemen of, petition the King 
 
 38 
 
 , Scotch Regiment quartered in 36 
 
 , gentlemen of, before the Council 
 
 52-3 
 
 , poverty in 55 
 
 , smallpox in 54 
 
 , visit of Lord Weston to 58 
 
 , barrows in 118 
 
 , visit of Henry VII. to 119 
 
 , James I. at 121 
 
 Wimbledon's, Lord, expedition to 
 
 Cadiz 120 
 Winchester 178-9 
 Woolverton 75, 92, 95 
 Wootton or Woditon 77, 203, note 
 Wootton Church 197 
 
INDEX. 
 
 211 
 
 Worsley, of Ashey 7 
 
 , Sir Bowyer 23 
 
 •——, chriBtenJng of his son 82 and note 
 
 , Giles 81 
 
 , Sir J. 3, 185 
 
 , Ann, death of 151, 186 
 
 , Lady F. 116 
 
 — — , her lines on the marriage of Sir 
 
 Chas. Bartlett 153 
 , her marriage to Col. Brett 153, 
 
 note 
 Worsleys, pedigree of the 153 
 Worsley, Sir Kichard, life of 147 
 
 , his marriage 145 and note 
 
 , flinging cushions at Gatcombe 
 
 149 
 
 , died of the smallpox 150 
 
 , character of 161, 152, 156, 186 
 
 , Thos., of Chale 156 and note 
 
 , his son, character of 157 
 
 , Ursula, married Sir F. Walsing- 
 
 ham 155 
 , her petition to Queen Elizabeth 
 
 164, 155, note 
 Worsiey's Tower 53 
 
 Yarmouth, church of, consecrated 9 
 Yaverland 71 
 Yaverland Church 182-3 
 Yonge's Diary, quotation from viii. 
 
 Zouch, Lord 16, 17, note 
 
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