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THE 

OGLANDER  MEMOIRS: 


EXTEACTS 

FROM  THE 

MSS.   OF   SIR   J.   OGLANDER,   KT., 

OK    NUNWELL,    ISLE    OF    WIGHT, 

DEPUTY-GOVERNOR   OF   PORTSMOUTH,   AND 
DBPUTY-LIEUTENANT     OF     THE    ISLE    OF    WIGHT,     15»5-)648. 

EDITED, 

WITH  AN  INTRODUCTION  AND  NOTES, 

BY 

W.   H.   LONG, 

Author  oj  "A  Dictionary  of  the  Isle  of  Wight  Dialect"  «fe. 


LONDON  :  REEVES  AND  TURNER,  19fl  STRAND. 
PORTSMOUTH  :  W.  H.  LONG,  120  HIGH  STREET. 

ISLE  OF  WIGHT  : 

O.  A.  BRANNON,  "COUNTY  PRESS"  OFFICE,  NEWPORT. 
1888. 


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REV.    SIR    W.    H.    COPE,    BART., 

OF   BEAMSHILL, 
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BY 

W.    H.    LONG. 


NOTE  TO  THE  INTRODUCTION. 


At  page  xxii.,  by  an  oversight  of  the  Editor,  Sir  J.  Oglauder  is  stated  to  have 
threatened  to  distrain  the  goods  of  his  friend  Worsley,  of  Appuldurcombe,  in 
default  of  paying  his  apportioned  quota  of  ship  money.  It  was  not  Sir  H. 
Worsley  of  Appuldurcombe,  but  his  uncle,  John  Worsley.  of  Gatcombe,  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  Richard  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  offending  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  May,  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,  Jord 
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  effectual  measures  so  that  the  church  might 
be  repaired,  and  the  church  house  and  land  restored  to  the  parish  ;  and  to  see 
that  oo  man's  power  or  refractoriness  delayed  the  course  of  justice. — Stuff 
Papers,  Domestic,  VoU.  371,  390,  1637-8. 


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 


11.  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  \V.  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. 


[  Hi.  ] 


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  and  its  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,  mullioned  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."1 
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  Ib.  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  Watcliing- 
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  cliief  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 l 
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 
upon  between  them  and  their  employers.  The  rate  of  wages 
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  11s.  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  grain  out  of  the  country.  A  late  or  wet 

1  The  authorities  for  the  rates  of  wages,  prices  of  corn,  &c.,  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.  Vli. 

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  all  farmers  of  lands 
generally  murmured  at  this  plenty  and  cheapness ;  and 
the  poorer  sort  that  would  have  been  glad  but  a  few 

1     Sir  Simonda  D'Ewe's  Autobiography  and  Coreflpondence,  edited  by  J. 
O.  Halliwell,  voL  I. 


Vlll.  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,  says1 — u  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.  Roberts  for  the 
Camden  Society. 


INTRODUCTION.  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,  which  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  wild- 
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.  Tlu's  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 


Xll.  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  happy e  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  prejudiciall  to 
the  country,  and  I  wish  it  might  be  regulated."  At  this 


INTRODUCTION.  Xlll. 

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  Ryde  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  life  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  Majestic  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  discharge  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  exp'edicion  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  application  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  Parliament  of  1625),  with  which  unusual 
treatment  his  lordship  was  so  disgusted — "That  he 


INTRODUCTION.  XV. 

professed  himselve  noe  frynd  to  ye  Island  in  generoll,  or 
his  liftennants  in  p'rticular."  Sir  J.  Oglander  further 
remarks  in  his  "Life  of  Lord  Con  way,"  "That  whych 
made  him  respectles  of  this  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.  INTRODUCTION. 

spoken."  The  Corporation  could  not  endure  this  affront, 
a  meeting  was  convened  to  deliberate  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.  XV11. 

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  1635,1  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,  /Mtudowne  AISS.,  213. 

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XV111.  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  inarches  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  Normandie  from  whence  they  came," 


INTRODUCTION.  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  Deputies  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  Richard  de  Redvers,  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  Richard  de  Redvers,  and  by  him  was  appointed 
Dean  of  Christchurch.  The  family  grew  in  importance. 
In  the  reign  of  Henry  III.,  Robert  Oglander  married  the 
daughter  of  Sir  Theobald  Russell,  Kt.,  of  Yaverland, 

and  thus  allied  himself  to  one  of  the  most  distinguished 

c2 


XX.  INTRODUCTION. 

families  of  the  Island.  His  successor,  Henry,  who  died  in 
the  third  year  of  Edward  II.,  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 
Nun  well  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  VHI.,  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,  William,  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  life,  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, 

•*  o " 

or  matters  of  historic  importance  written  years  after- 


INTRODUCTION.  XXI. 

wards,  one  meets  with  such  affecting  entries  as  the 
following: — "Woolliest  them  know  wheathor  Sir  John 
Oglander  had  an  eldor  son  then  William  ?  I  resolve  thee, 
he  had ;  his  name  wase  George,  after  liis  grandfather 
Moore's  name,  for  his  grandfather,  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 
naturoll  and  artificoll  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  filled  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.  Tliis  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 


XX11.  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  obnoxious  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,  1638,1  Sir  John  writes,  that  he  had  paid  to 
the  receiver,  Sir  William  Russell,  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  Appuldurcombe,  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 
Maties  shipmoneyes.  I  shoolde  be  very  loft  to  doe  itt 
to  anye,  espetiolly  to  yourselve  ;  as  ye  moneys  must 
be  payde  to  his  Matie,  soe  there  is  littel  reason  yt  I 

1     State  Papers,  Domestic  Series,  1634. 


INTRODUCTION.  XX111. 

shoolde  besydes  my  paynes  and  care  paye  itt  out  of  my 
owne  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,  delivered  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  liis  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  Eoyalists 
soon  realised  what  it  was  to  be  regarded  as  "malignante" 
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  of  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.  Carne 
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  arrester  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  :— lu  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  will  be  the  better  for  his  absence,  and 
some  of  the  clergy  (God  willing)  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,  thougli  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  have  come  to  hand  some  weeks  after  the  event 
took  place: — "This  day  we  received  intelligence  that 

1     MSS.  of  O.  A.  Lowndes,  Esq.,  of  Barrington  Hall,  Essex.     Historical 
MSS.  Commuuion,  Seventh  Report,  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  liis  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  Nun  well  hi 
November,  1655,  and  was  buried  in  the  chapel  belong- 


INTRODUCTION.  XXV11. 

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,  lying  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  tliis  inscription,  probably  written  by  himself:— 
"Heere  lyeth  the  body  of  Sir  John  Oglander,  of  Nun- 
well,  Knt.,  whoe  was  in  his  lifetyme  Governour  of  the 
Garrison  of  Portsmouth,  under  Win.  Earle  of  Pem- 
brooke,  Lord  High  Steward  of  England.  Hee  was  alsoe 
Deputie  Ldeutennant  of  ye  Isle  of  Wight,  under  Lord 
Viscount  Conaway,  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  marry ed  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  tills  life  at  Nunwell,  ye  28th  of  November, 
1655,  in  ye  70th  yeare  of  his  age. 

Sic  transit  gloria  mundi." 


XXV111.  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  little 
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  liis  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,  they  re  lyeth 
liis  bodye,  although  he  hath  a  fayre  toombe  in  West- 
minster." Sir  Francis  Vere  at  the  time  of  liis  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,  wliich 
settles  the  matter:  "  1609,  August  29th,  Sir  F.  Vere  in 
St.  John  Evangelist'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.  ffather  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  minutiae  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  Royalist, 


XXX.  INTRODUCTION. 

Sir  John  was  a  thorough  patriot,  and  a  true  lover  of  his 
native  isle.  He  was  as  determined  an  assertor  and 
supporter  of  the  liberties  of  what  he  fondly  calls  "owre 
Island,"  as  Hampden  was  of  the  liberty  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  archaeological  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  fullest,  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  umivoidable. 


THE  CAPTAYNES  OF  YE  ISLAND. 


OCTOBER,  1626. — In  Henry  ye  Seventh  tyine  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;  wliere  hee  and  ye 
flowre  of  owre  Island  weare  all  slayne.1  In  Henry  VIII. 
tyine,  one  Waddam,2  a  Knt.,  whoe  lyeth  buryed  in 
Caresbrooke  Church  with  his  wyfe,  whoe  wase  sistor  to 
Edward  VIth  mother. 

Aftor  him,  Sir  James  Woorseley,  beinge  Henry  VIIIth 
page,  gott  to  marry  Sir  John  Leygh  his  dawghtor,  and 
lieyre  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,  llychard  Woorseley,  whoe  for 
religion  wase  putt  forth  in  Queue  Marie's  reygne,  and 

1  At  the  battle  of  St.  Aubin,  July  20th,  1488. 

2  Sir  Nicholas  Wadham,  who  was  buried  at  Ilminater,  Somerset;   his  wife 
Was  aunt  to  Jane  Seymour,  mother  of  Edward  VI.  (trf  vtit 


4  THE   OGLANDER   MEMOIRS. 

one  Girlinge1  putt  in  his  roome ;  but  in  Quene  Eliza- 
beth's tyme  he  came  in  agayne,  and  for  his  lionnor  had 
ye  lettinge  and  gettinge  of  ye  Queue's  lands  in  the 
Island  (ye  bane  of  owre  countery,  and  ye  sale  in  fee 
fferme  maye  hereafter  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.2 

There  was  not  a  hare,  or  very  fewe,  in  owre  Island, 
untill  Sir  Edward  Horsey3  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,4   a  man  beyond   all 

1  In  March,  1556,  William  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  France,  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   OGLANDER   MEMOIRS.  5 

ambitions,  whoe,  if  owre  forefathers  had  not  stoode 
stiffly  to  itt,  woold  have  browght  us  in  subiection;  hee 
wase  ye  fyrst  that  assumed  ye  name  of  Gotienour,  and 
cawsed  ye  Lecturer  soe  to  stile  him;  he  bore  himselfe 
soe  by  reason  his  fathor  wase  Lorde  Chamberlen;  it1 
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  nexte,  ye  fyrste  earle, 
therefore  not  willinge  to  lose  anie  of  his  predecessors' 
greatnesse,  att  his  fyrst  cominge  he  lived  at  ye  Castel.2 

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 
Lecturer  and  other  preachers,  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,  Wilmingham,  and  Shalcombe,  in  the  Isle  of 
Wight.  Their  residence  was  at  Ningwood. 

1  ••//  "  in  Sir  John's  MS.  always  represents  the  adverb  .>/•/.  and  is  still 
uiicd  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. 


6  THE   OGLANDER    MEMOIRS. 

of  Hunsdon's  tyme  and  my  Lord  of  Southampton's,  ye 
minister,  to  insinuate  into  tlieyre  greator  favor,  woolde 
stile  so  in  tlieyre  prayor,  "Owre  mooste  woorthie 
Captayne  and  Gouernour;"  but  that  woorde,  Gouernour, 
wee  have  nowe  cawsed  to  be  cleane  abolisched,  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  martioll  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  his,  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  generoll,  or  his 
Liftennantes  in  p'ticular. 


THE   OGLANDER   MEMOIRS.  7 

Of  the  gentlemen  that  lived  An'o  1595,  Mr.  Kychards 
lived  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  Cheeke,  a 
lewde  sonn  of  a  discreete  fathor,  sowlde  Motson  to  Mr. 
Dillington,  1G23.  The  awncestor  (as  grandfather  of 
Fleminge,  of  Haseley)  of  Fleminge,  sowlde  wares  by 
retayle  in  Xuporte  decimo  Eliz.,  he  bowght  Haseley  of 
Milles. 

On  ye  3rd  of  December,  1629,  Sir  John  Meux  de- 
parted this  life;  lie  wase  the  veryest  clown  (of  a  gen- 
tleman) that  evor  the  Isle  of  Wight  bredd.  As  lie  wase 
destitute  of  learninge,  soe  of  humanitie  and  civillitie;  it 


8  THE    OGLANDEK    MEMOIRS. 

although  his  clownisch  Immour,  a  good  honest  man.  If 
you  will  see  ye  picture  of  him,  you  may  truly  fynd  it 
in  his  sonn  Bartholomewe;1  moore  of  his  lyfe  I  cannot 
wryght,  beinge  of  no  greate  woorth,  only  his  sonn  Bar- 
tholomewe woold  report  in  ye  mayneland  that  ther 
wase  non  woorth  ye  havinge  in  ye  Island  for  a  howse- 
keper  but  his  fathor. 

Sir  John  Meux  wase  the  fyrst  knyght  of  ye  name 
here  in  owre  Island ;  he  had  2  sonns2  and  2  dawghtors. 
Sir  William,  ye  eldest  sonn,  marryed  for  his  fyrst  wyfe 
ye  dawghtor3  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  manie  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  marriage  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  llth,  1641. 


THE   OGLANDER   MEMOIRS. 

to  doo  owre  countery  a  pleasure,  imagininge  ye  mayne 
lancle  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,1  ye  choyse  of  yeJudgesand  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  fibrtes  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,2  on  ye  llth  of  March,  1626,  I  beinge  then 
present,  and  a  greate  many  gentlemen  of  owre  Island. 
Mr.  Hyde,  of  Berkeshyre,  beinge  then  Meyor,  wlioe 

1  The  Knighten  Court,  or  Curia  Miltium,  instituted  in  early  Norman  times, 
was  so  called  because  the  Judges  were  those  who  held  a  Knight's  fee  I'M  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  "  Sheriffs 
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. 


10  THE   OGLANDER   MEMOIRS. 

kept  an  Line,  and  there  gave  ye  Bischop  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,  tellinge  him  that  upon  they  re 
petition  to  ye  Archbischope's  Grace  of  Cantorberry,  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,  which  he  humbly  intreated 
him  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 
minister's  seate  under  ye  pulpett,  reade  a  long  sett 
prayer  for  ye  consecration  thereof,  which,  being  ended, 
ye  ordinarye  minister  begann  ye  ordinarye  prayer, 
setting  in  ye  geate  oposite  agaynst  ye  other;  for  his 
lessons  he  wase  appoynted  to  reade  ye  2nd  of  Cronicles, 
cap.  6,  and  part  of  ye  10th  of  St.  John,  verse  22,  and  so 


THE   OGLANDER   MEMOIRS.  11 

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  ye  ordinary e 
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 
unclor  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  tliat  grounde  maye  be  rayson  up  at  ye  last  daye. 


12  THE   OGLANDER   MEMOIRS. 

Then  wee  all  went  to  church,  where  ye  ministor  sayd 
prayors;  ye  fyrst  lesoon  wase  Genesis  ye  23rd,  ye 
second  John  ye  llth,  and  they  sang  ye  146th  Psalme. 
Then  Doctor  Davenett,  ye  Bischop's  chapleyne,  went  into 
ye  pulpett,  and  tooke  his  text,  Komans  ye  13th,  verse 
ye  14th.  There  wase  a  communion  theyre,  ye  Bischop 
administred  itt,  myselve  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,1  I  found  there  a 
poore,  lame,  decrepite  fellowe,  one  Stocwell,  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  pave 
him;  he  answered,  "  Paye  your  owne  debtes  fyrst,  and 

1    Sir  John  was  Deputy  Governor  of  Portsmouth,  1620  to  1624. 


THE    OGLANDER    MEMOIRS.  13 

then  I  will  take  your  woorde  for  others."  The  Duke 
deraaundynge  of  him  what  people  sayde  of  him,  he 
answered  that  they  prayed  God  to  blesse  Kinge  Charles, 
and  ye  divell  to  take  ye  Duke.1  Whereupon  ye  Duke 
tolde  him  he  wase  a  ryght  rouge;  he  reply ed,  "Noe,  I 
am  a  crooked  rouge,  but  itt  seemeth  that  you  are  a 
ryght  rouge." 

The  Kinge  comminge  downe  to  Portesmoutb  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  multis  aliis.) 

Abowte  ye  beginninge  of  Awgust,  1628,  my  Lorde 
Mountioye,2  base  sonn  of  ye  late  Lorde  Mountioye, 


1  March,    1627.     Three  fiddler*  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, 
O  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  S  taines ;  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  Rhe  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  t»ld  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,  I»rd  Mount- 


14  THE   OGLANDER   MEMOIRS. 

Earl  of  Devonshire,  on  ye  bodye  of  my  Lorde  Eyche's 
wyfe,  wase  by  ye  Kinge  created  Earle  of  Nuporte  in  ye 
Isle  of  Wyglit.  I  myselve  went  unto  him  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  homior  upon  him;  he  is 

ye  fyrst  Earle  tliat  evor  wee  had  in  owre  Island 

What  success  this  newe  Earle  may  haue,  who  liathe  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  hindered  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  aftorward.es  by  repay  re  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. 


THE   OGLANDER   MEMOIRS.  15 

October,  1626.  Sir  John  Bourg,1  my  cosen  germain, 
and  commandor  in  cheife  in  ye  Rochell  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  witli  me.  One  for  land,  ye 
other  for  seae,  had  not  many  equals. 

1627.  Sir  John  Bourogh's  bodye,  my  cosen  germain 
and  noble  frynd,  wase  brought  to  Portesmouth  for 
funerall  ryghts  ye  fyrst  of  October,  1627,  to  ye  generoll 
sorrowe  of  all  trewe  harted  subjects,  espetially  of  his 
kyndred.  He  was  slayne  in  ye  He  of  Eez. 

1  Sir  John  Burgh,  or  Burroughs,  cousin  perm  an  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  in  the  Netherlands  and  under  Count  Manafeldt.     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  annum 
for  life.     He  was  second  in  command  under  Buckingham  in  the  Isle  of  I! h.  . 
1627.      "  Sir  John  Burrows  was  slain  viewing  the  works,  and  with  him  died 
all  our  hopes  of  good  success."     (Sir  Rich.  Qrenville'*  Journal  of  the.  Esite- 
i/if  Km  j.     He  was  honourably  interred  at  the  cost  of  Charles  I.  in  Westminster 
Abbey, — "near  the  tomb  of  Sir  Francis  Vere,  whose  pupil  he  had  been  in  the 
art  of  war"— October  26th,  1627. 

2  Captain   (afterwards   Sir  Henry)  Main  waring  was  the  son  of  Sir  Oeo. 
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  (iibraltar,  than  ho  gave 
full  vent  to  hispredatory  inclinations.  Lying  otf  CapeSpartel  he  captured  every 


16  THE   OGLANDER   MEMOIRS. 

1627.     My   hop   garden  wase  ye  fyrst  in  ye  Island 

Spanish  vessel  he  could  master, with  now  and  then  a  Frenchman  or  Dunkirker; 
but  he  always  respected  the  flag  of  his  country.  He  overhauled  a  bark  from 
Lubeck  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  gran  ted 
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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tliat  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  hail  already  sent  him  a  friendly  dis- 
missal, and  that  he  only  held  his  place  on  condition  of  surrendering  it  when 
required  to  do  BO.  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  Meet.  All  possible  expedition  was  required, 
and  the  Superintendent  was  equal  to  the  demands  of  the  occasion.  In  a 
letter  to  Rutland  be  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 
from  the  Castle,  so  that  warrants  could  not  besigned.nor  oaths  administered;  that 
to  remedy  this  he  would  sign  blank  warrants,  and  leave  them  with  the  Clerk  to 
fill  up  aa  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 
Mucceeding,  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 
Zouch'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  1637  he  was  one  of 
the  Captains  selected  by  the  King  for  service  under  Sir  John  Pennington.  He 
was  an  unsuccessful  candidate  for  the  Surveyor-ship  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 
ChfvaJifr's  Journal. ) 


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lOOOlbs.  of  hoppes  in  a  yere,  beinge  not  full  an  aker  of 
growfid. 

1627.  Owre  harvest,  by  reason  of  ye  coldness  of  ye 
suiinnor,  and  ye  greate  fall  of  rayne  in  August  and 
September,  wase  not  inned  till  Michaelinasse,  and  soome 
long  aftor  ;  mutch  barlie  wase  spoyled.  and  almost  all  ye 
ftatches. 

Tlie  seae  haue  infinitely  eaton  upon  o\vre  Island, 
witnesse  Saiulam  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,1  soe  it  is  an  imputation  or 
taxe  that  is  laved  on  itt,  nevor  or  seldome  to  be  guilltie 
of  bredinge  a  hansom  woman  or  horse.  Tempora 
mutant.  I  can  saye  that  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  Uarisbrook,  white  ones  at  Quarre.  That  they  have  lawyers  they  know, 
when  they  pay  them  their  fees." — (Fuller'*  Worthie*,  "  I/amjtitliire. ")  "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  monaaterie  called  Quarre,  valued  at  £134  of  yearly  revenue."—  (  Lom- 
bard, Topographical  Dirtt/.,  under  "  Wiyht.") 

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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  an  cor.  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  they  re  randevouz,  and  to 
victell  there,  they  neede  noe  other  markett  or  meanes 
to  make  ye  Island  hapie  and  fortunate. 

1627.  The  Isle  of  Wyght,  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 
terme  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  G  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   OGLANDEU   MEMOIRS.  21 

peace  and  lawe  hath  beggared  us  all,  soe  that  within 
my  memorie  manic  of  ye  gentlemen  and  almost  all  ye 
Yeomandrie  ar  undon. 

Gosson,  Ayres,  and  Redman  weare  three  Attourneys, 
who  with  theyre  stirringe  up  of  swytes  betwene  ye 
flermors  and  Yeomandrie,  they  utterlye  undon  ye  whole 
communalitie. 

1627.  Owre  Hygh  Constables  uevor  apeared  att  ye 
Assises,  beinge  exempted  for  theyre  daylie  attendance 
at  hoome;  and  wee  nevor  payde  anytlnnge  to  ye  gaole 
till  1624,  and  we  gott  a  privie  scale  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  lawyer 
nor  attournye  in  owre  Island;  but  in  Sir  George  Carey's 
tyme  an  Attournye  comminge  to  settle  in  ye  Island, 
wase  by  his  commaunde,  writh  a  pownd  of  caudels 
lyghted  hanginge  att  his  breeche,  with  belles  abowt  his 
legges,  hunted  owt  of  ye  Island:  insomutch  as  owre 
awncestors  lived  here  soe  quietly  and  securelie,  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 


22  THE   OGLANDER   MEMOIRS. 

noe  trooble  lyke  to  travayle.     How  thinges  are  since 
altered  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 
within  owre  Island.  Itt  hath  mutch  abated  ye  greatnes 
of  ye  Captayne,  and  was  hindered  by  ye  Earle  of 
Sowthampton1  what  he  coold;  but  he  goinge  a  Colonell 
in  ye  Lowe  Couutery,  in  his  absense  itt  wase  graunted. 
My  Lorde  of  Holdernesse  begged  Appse  and  Wroxall, 
and  sowlde  it  to  Mr.  Baskett;  and  my  Lorde  of 
Anglesey2  begged  Buckham,  Thorley,  and  Ugden,  and 
sowlde  one  to  Knowles  and  the  other  to  Streapor  and 
March.  I  myght  haue  dealte  in  anie  of  them  for  my 
owne,  butt  I  findings  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.  Redman,  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  Villiers,  youngest  brother  of  George  Villiers,  Duke  of  Buck- 
ingham, created  Earl  of  Anglesey  1623.     He  died  1030,  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  theyrc,  and  cardes,  and  tables.  Mutamur. 
The  gentlemen  wliich  lived  in  ye  Island  in  ye  7th  yere 
of  Kinge  James  his  reygue,  all  lived  well,  and  weare 
moste  commonly  at  owre  ordinarie,  viz.,  Sir  Eobert 
Dyllington,  Sir  Ey chard  Worseley,  Sir  Thomas  Flemminge 
(Lord  Chefe  Justice  of  England),  Sir  Thomas  Flemminge 
his  sonn  (liis  grandfather  sowld  small  wares  in  Nuport), 
Sir  Rychard  White1  (he  maryed  Sir  Ey  chard  Worseley 's 
mother),  Sir  John  Meux,2  Sir  John  Leygh,  Sir  William 
Lisle,  Sir  Bowyer  Worsely  of  Aschey,  who  sowld  all  to 
Thos.  Cotelle,  Esq.,  Sir  John  Eychards,  Sir  J.  Dingley,3 
Sir  John  Oglander,  Sir  Edward  Dennis,  owld  Mr. 
Eychards,  owld  Mr.  Bowreman,4  Mr.  Barnabye  Leygh, 
Mr.  Cheeke  of  Motson,  whose  sonn  sowld  all ;  Mr.Dylling- 

1  "A  follower  of  the  Earl  of  Southampton."        3    Of  Wolverton. 

2  Of  Kingston.  4    Of  Brooke. 


24  THE   OGLANDEH   MEMOIRS. 

ton,  who  will  bwye  all,  Mr.  Bowrenian,  Mr.  Cheeke  of 
Merston,  Mr.  Lislie  of  Briddle.sford  (went  to  dawghtors), 
Mr.  Barnabye  Colnet  of  Pann,  his  sonu  sowld  all ;  Mr. 
German  Eychards,1  Mr.Wayght,Mr.Earlsmanof  Calbron, 
Mr.  William  White,  Mr.  Eichard  Baskett,2  Mr.  Eyce  of 
Bangboriie,  Mr.  Leygh  of  Bradinge,  Mr.  Hobson,3  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  Shryffe,  1627),  a  brewer;  Mr.  John  Leygh, 
sonn  of  Mr.  Barnabye,  since  knyghted.  Fermors,  Mr. 
Urrey  of  Awghton,  Mr.  E.  Knyght  of  Landguard, 
Streapor,4Legge,5  Fitchett,Shambler,6Wavell,7  Lovinge,8 
Sampson,  Champion.9 

1627.  May  30.  On  Wensday  in  ye  aftornoone,  one 
Granger,  Captayne  of  a  small  man  of  warre  belonginge 
to  Mr.  James  of  Portesmouth,  beinge  on  ye  Sowthsyde 
of  ye  Island,  spyed  a  fleete  of  Hollanders  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  Appuldurcombe,  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  is  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,  march  ant,  the  sone  of 
Edward  Loving,  and  was  buryed  the  18th  of  July,  An'o  D'ni,  1625." 

9  Of  Carisbrooke. 


THE   OGLANDER    MEMOIRS.  25 

wherof  one  Sir  Larrance  Eeull  wase  Admirall ;  he 
presentlye  tooke  tliem  for  Spaniardes,  and  came  into 
ye  Island  and  sent  intelligence  by  lettor  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  Weusday  by  4  of  ye  clocke, 
ye  Towne  rose  all  in  armes,  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,  wliich  came  to  ye  Coun- 
sell  and  to  my  Lorde  Ducke's  knowledge  by  2  ye 
same  nyght;  hee  presentlye  commaunded  downe  all  ye 
Collonels  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  weare  then 
readie.  On  Sattordaie  morninge  followinge  by  7  in 
ye  morninge  came  ye  Ducke  downe  with  22  sayle  into 
Stoakes  Baye  (on  a  smaler  inteligence  and  falce  never 
followed  a  busines  of  greator  consequence),  for  all 
London  and  most  of  England  had  a  nelinge  of  itt,  and 
possesed  with  feare  or  armes.  My  Lorde  of  Killultagh 
(Con  way)  rode  downe  post  to  us  (whose  letter  is  lykewyse 
in  my  studye).  Although  all  preceded  from  nothinge,  it 
ye  eflectes  myght  be  made  useful,  botlie  to  use  moore 


26  THE  OGLANDER  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  Portesmotith 
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 
Spaniardes  he  hoped  shee  woold  wisch  him  good 
fortune; — her  replie  wase  not  onlie  agaynst  ye  Spani- 
ardes, but  olso  agaynst  all  ye  Kinges  inemyes  shee 
woold  both  wische  and  pray  for  his  good  fortune.1 

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  nine  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  ffreschwater  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  ff  Vance,  and  to 
turne  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.  ffellens,  Jno.  Fitchett  1 

Mr.  Badd  1  Win.  Streapor  l 

Thos.  Woolferey  1  John  Nuland  l 

The  Personage  1 

Bradinge  Haven  1 


Sir  Edward  Dennis  2 

Sir  John  Oglander  2  Godtkitt. 

The  Ladie  Rychardes  1  The  Ladie  Worseley  1 

Mr.  Knyght  1  Mr.  Ryce  1 

Thos.  Knyght  1  Petor  Gard  1 


on  Saturday  night."    (Letters  of  Mead  and  Beaulieu  to  Sir  Thos.  Pwkeriny,  in 
"Court  and  Times  of  Chat.  I,"  Vol  I.) 


28 


THE    OGLANDER   MEMOIKS. 


Rychard  Coleman  1 

Mr.  Legge  1 

The  Personage  1 


Nyghton. 

Nicholas  Nuraan  1 

Matthewe  Arnole  1 

John  Horden  1 


Nuchwrch. 

Mr.  Dyllington  2 

Mr.  Baskett  1 

Mr.  Cuttele  1 

The  Personage  1 

Mr.  Lovinge  1 

Wroxall  Ferine  1 


Wotton, 

Sir  Wm.  Lislie  2 

Mr.  Thos.  Lislie  1 


Nuport. 

Mr.  Beale  1 

Mr.  March  1 

Mr.  Swalterton  1 

Mr.  Broad  1 

Mr.  Ayres  1 

Mr.  Edward  Leygh  1 

Mr.  Adams  1 

Mr.  Win.  Searle  1 


Mr.  Nicholas  Searle  1 

Mr.  Kent  1 

Mr.  Goter  1 

Widdowe  Rawlins  1 

12 

Arreton. 

Mr.  Cheeke  1 

Mr.  Shambler  1 

Arreton  Ferme  1 

The  Personage  1 

Comeley  1 

Haseley  1 

David  Wavill  1 

llafe  Reddon  1 

Robert  Holebrooke  1 

James  Melliscli  1 

Edward  Herbert  1 

David  Budden  1 

Thos.  Reddon  1 

13 

Caresbrook. 

Mr.  Champion  1 

Mr.  Earlsman  1 

Mr.  Jene  1 


Shalfelet. 

Mr.  Hobson  1 

The  Ferme  1 

The  Personage  1 

Hezechias  Legge  1 


THE   OGLANDER   MEMOIRS.  29 

Chale.  Shorwell. 

The  Ferme                                1                Sir  John  Dinglie  1 

Wm.  Numan                            1                Mr.  Leygh  1 

The  Personage  1 


1627.  Sir  Alexander  Brettes1  and  Sir  Henry  Spries2 
to  Eegimentes  came  unto  us  abowght  ye  6th  of  May, 
1627,  and  staied  with  us  untel  ye  21st  and  24th  of  June 
folio winge.  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  Rhe,  1627. 

2  A  brave  soldier,  who  died  soon  after  his  return  from  the  Isle  of  Rhe 
expedition.     A  contemporary  letter  says — "Sir  Henry  Spry,  one  of  the  com- 
manders of  the  Isle  of  Rhe,  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. " 
(Mecule.  to  Sir  S. Stuteville,  Dec.  la,  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  £5, 
1627.)  From  Sir  JohnV  own  account,  it  appears  that  things  turned  out  better 
than  he  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  Tsle  of  Wyght,  ye  10th  of 
May,  1627,  1000  sowldiors,  beinge  Sir  Alex.  Brettes 
Regiment.  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  my ght  be  no  chardge,  and  olso  of  a  sudden 
departure.  Brett,  ye  Collonel,  and  Sir  Thomas  Thorne 
the  Liftenant,  weare  with  theyr  Companyes  bilited  in 
Nuport,  where  if  they  had  money,  all  ye  reste  showlde 
haue  been  there  olso.  Sergeant  Maior  Fryor1  att  Mr. 
Kingswelles,  his  Companye  att  Casebrook  and  Buckam; 
Captayne  ffennelthorpe  with  mee,  he  beinge  my  ac- 
quayntance,  his  Companye  in  Bradinge ;  Brett2  att 
Mr.  Ryce's,  his  Companye  at  Godshill;  Eychardes  at 
Knyghton,  liis  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  Rhe.      He  was  afterwards  Deputy-Gover- 
nor of  Portsmouth  under  Lord  Wimbledon. 


THE  OGLAXDER  MEMOIRS.  31 

at  Brook,  himselve  at  Mr.  Booremaii's;  Preston1  at  Mr. 
Hobson's,  his  Companye  att  Yarmouth. 

1627.  The  1st  of  June  by  his  Maties  Commission 
there  went  owt  of  Stoake's  Baye  2  of  ye  Kinge's  shipes 
and  8  other  (ye  2  Captaynes  of  ye  Kinoes  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.  Tliis  wase  ye  fyrst  hostil  breache  by 
Commisson  p'formed  betweene  ffrance  and  us,  the  succes 
of  those  Warres,  although  those  shipes  did  nothings,  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.  Deux 
avertat. 

I  wase  ye  fyrst  in  ye  Island  that  aftor  ye  Itochell 
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 
Ride,  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   Kin-       Mr.  H<>h«nii*R  house  w:w  at  Ningwood. 


32  THE   OGLANDER    MEMOIRS. 

Ride  to  Arreton  Downe,  and  wase  his  gwide  on  ye 
Downe.  He  saw  Sir  Alex.  Brette's  Regiment  trayne, 
whych  wase  ye  motive  that  browght  him  over.  I  had 
ye  honor  to  kiss  his  Maties  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  Company e  that  came 
with  him  wase— The  Duke,1  the  Earles  of  Mongom- 
mery,2  Suffolke,3  Rutland,  Holland,4  Northampton,5  and 
Sowthampton ;  Lordes — ye  Lordes  St.  John,6  Compton,7 
Selinger,8  President  of  Mounster,  Young  Villers,9  Vi- 
count  Somersettj^Jermain^Terrett,12  Sir  John  Finnet,13 

1  Buckingham. 

2  Philip  Herbert,  Lord  Chamberlain  to  Chas.  I.,  who  in  1630  succeeded  his 
brother  as  Earl  of  Pembroke. 

3  Theophilus  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  Jerrayn  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   OGLANDEli   MEMOIRS.  33 

Sir  Henry  Maynoweringe,  Sir  Eobert  Dennie,  Sir  Eobert 
Carr.  His  Matie  neythor  eate  nor  dranke  in  owre  Island. 
On  owre  complaynt  unto  him  lie  promised  wee  shoould 
liaue  Sandam  Castell  repayred  (which  I  showed  afarr 
of  unto  him,  together  with  ye  consequenses  thereof),  a 
ffbrte  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  Matie  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  lettor  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*Ue>  or  anie 
ocasion  given  to  minister  sutch  a  certifycate.  His  Matlc 
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,1  but  sent  his 
excuse,  and  left  ye  bourthen  on  us. 

1     Conway,  in  a  letter  to  Nicholas,  June  19,  says  that  the  King— regard- 

w 


34  THE    OGLANDEU    MEMOIRS. 

My  Lortle  Vicount  Conway  came  into  owre  Island  ye 
14tli  of  September,  1627,  hauinge  bene  Captayne  thereof 
bettor  than  2  yeres  before,  and  had  nevor  scene  itt,  but 
commaunded  itt  by  Sir  Edward  Dennis  and  Sir  John 
Oglander;  and  his  cominge  then  wase  thought  to  bee 
by  ye  commaund  of  his  Matie-  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  ye  schoolemaystor's  doore 
by  Keelinge,  one  of  ye  schollers;  then  ye  Maior 
mett  him  with  his  Bretheren  with  tender  of  wyne  and 
cakes.  Cominge  neare  ye  Castell,  ye  companye  of  Bwojres 
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  Mondaye  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  generoll  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  return  to  London. 
—S, P.,  Dom.,1627. 


THE   OGLANDEU    MEMOIRS.  35 

journies,  and  on  ye  19th  from  Blackedge1  he  went  o\vt 
of  owre  Island.  Concerninge  liis  p'son,  liee  was  olde, 
unwildie,  and  verie  sickly;  neythor  fitt  for  ye  employe- 
ment  or  commannd.  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  generoll;  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 
bothe  for  his  owne  honor  and  owre  safetie. 

On  ye  18th  of  September,  1627,  theye  came  in  att 
St.  Hellens  3  Dutch2  sliipes  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." 
(Bf.aulifu  to  Puckrriny,  Sept.  26,  16^7.)    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  Matie8  ships  arested,  for  ye 
losse  and  murther  bv  them  comitted  on  owre  Englische 

v  O 

att  Amboyna  in  ye  East  India ;  satisfaction  beinge  divors 
tymes  promised.  What  ye  event  will  be  God  kuoweth, 
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  Regyment  under  ye  Earle 
Morton  that  was  billetted  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.1  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  tliinke  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.,  1628, 


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  Kegyment  to  bee 
bilitted  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.1  A  people  insolent  by 
reason  of  theyre  unanimous  holdinge  togeather,  and  ye 
weaknesse  of  theyre  commaundors,  as  beinge  moost  un- 
experienced sowldiors;  and  farthoringe  all  tliinges  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  f requent,  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.,  16SS. 


38  THE   OGLANDER   MEMOIRS. 

nationals  raunkle;  insomtitcli  as  noone  daringe  to  apre- 
hencl  ye  malefactors,  they  became  fearful  to  owre  coun- 
terymen.  Butt  of  themselves,  I  speake  of  ye  meaner 
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  libertie  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  Regmt>  all  ye  gentlemen  re- 
solved to  petition  his  Matie  (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  Matie- 
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  respectfullye, 
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  nyglit,  I  informed  him  what  wee  had 
done,  togeathor  with  his  Matie'8  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  William  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  hapeiied  unto  us  then  ye 
bilitinge  of  those  Lordedanes. 

1628.  Upon  ye  fyrst  of  Sept.,  1628,  his  Matic  came 
into  owre  Island,  pourposely  to  see  ye  Scotch  llegyment, 


40  THE   OGLANDER   MEMOIRS. 

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  bothe  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  Matie  for  paye  for  theyre 
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  shook!  haue  moneyes ; 
and  for  owre  Island;  when  thease  his  greate  busyneses 
weare  a  little  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  OGLANDER  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  tyine  before  Wilkinson's  doore  I  procured  them 
a  table,  stooles,  and  cardes,  where  my  Lorde  Threa- 
suror,1 Stuarde,  and  Sir  Robert  Vane,2  ye  Coferor,  went 
to  12d.  Gleke;3  soe  ended  my  treble  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  Regyment ;  olso  att 
his  goinge  over  att  Ride,  att  ye  furthest  poyut  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,4  wee  weare  freed 
from  owre  Egiption  thraldome,  or  lyke  Spayne   from 


1  Richard  Lord    Weaton  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.     Biahop  Hall,  in  his  Horae  Vacivae,  1646,  says — "(Jleeke  requires  a 
vigilant  memory." 

4  The  regiment  sailed  Sept.  8,  in  the  last  and  utterly  fruitless  expedition 
for   the  relief   of    Rochelle,    under   the   command    of   the    Earl   of    Lindsay ; 
Mountjoy  Blount,  Earl  of  Newport,  being  Rear  Admiral,  and  second  in  com- 
mand.    Rochelle  surrendered  to  the  King  of  F ranee,  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   OGLANDER   MEMOIRS. 

theyre  Moores,  for  since  ye  Danische  slauerie  nevor 
weare  these  Islanders  soe  opressed.  The  Isle  of  Wyght 
had  bene  forced  to  entertayne  ye  Scottes  att  theyre 
cominge  from  Rochel,  if  by  my  paynes  and  travel  bothe 
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,1  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  that  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  hall,  his  horse  beinge  att  ye  doore  readie  for  him  to 
goe  to  ye  Coorte  (then  att  Sowthwike);2  he  lived  not 
above  half  an  hower.3  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   OGLANDER   MEMOIES.  43 

before  (this  fact  wase  done  on  ye  Sattordaye)  for 
moneyes  for  owre  biletors  whoe  had  bilked  ye  Scotch 
Kegyment;  and  he  gave  me  fayre  woordes  and  gratious 
promises.  He  wase  bownd  for  ye  realivinge  of  Eocliel, 
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.  flelton  came  to 
Portesmouth  butt  that  morninge  with  a  full  resolution 
to  murther  liim,  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  ye  knyfe  present  lye  went  3 
steppes,  thinkynge  to  have  killed  him  with  that  knyfe, 
butt  faynted,  and  dyed  within  halfe  an  hower.  His 
MaUe  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 


44  THE  OGLANDER  MEMOIRS. 

morninge  ye  Duke1  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  Monsr-  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  seene  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  onlie  braueley 
attended  when  he  came,  butt  olso  long  expected,  and 
ye  Kinge  looked  owt  of  ye  windowe  towardes  ye  Downe 
a  whole  hower  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 
•lain  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  lave  on  ye 
flower  in  Mason's  parlor,  gored  in  his  owne  blonde,  and 
respected  of  noone.  Sic  transit  (jloria  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  mariners  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   OGLANDEU    MEMOIRS. 

them  to  ye  Poynt  Gate,  in  a  moste  furious  maner; 
killinge  some  to  of  them,  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  Cast  el.1 

1  A  vivid  narrative  of  this  affray,  and  of  the  assassination  of  the  Duke  the 
day  following,  is  given  in  a  letter  of  one  Higham,  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  muteny  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 
himselfe,  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  MEMOIRS.  47 

Stamford1 — ye  Duke's  ininyon,  that  drewe  his  sworde 
on  ffelton,  wase  hanged  att  Tyburne,  ye  25th  of  Julye, 
1629,  for  an  uproar  in  London,  and  not  departyhge 
aftor  proclamation.  He  wase  an  active,  brave,  valiant 
gentlemen,  whose  p'ts  deserved  a  better  ende. 

ready  on  horsebacke,  and  himselfe  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  aribbe.  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  villaine,  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  "  The  diary  of  John  Roux,  of 
tianton  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  Ashenham  (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  prevented 
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  hia  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  occasioner  of  all  this  mischief.'" — (Postscript  of  a 
letter  from  Mead  to  Stuteville,  July  25,  1(>29.  Court  «t-  Times  of  Chas.  /.,  l'ot.2.) 


48  THE  OGLANDER  MEMOIRS. 

The  Duke  when  he  went  to  releave  Eochel,  not 
liavinge  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  sowlde  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  Matie,  that  they  not 
p'forminge  ye  growndes  of  ye  fyrst  institution;  as  not 
payings  £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,  liberoll,  and  free  nature  and  dispocition 
where  he  affected,  and  to  those  that  aplied  themselves 
to  him,  aplawded  his  actions  and  wase  wholie  his 
creatures;  but  above  all  he  wase  wonderfullie  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   OGLANDEU   MEMOIRS.  49 

yt  Eiiglaiule  evor  hadd.     Of  his  contrarie  virtues  I  will 
say  nothings.     De  mortals  nil  nisi  bonum. 

A  PORTESMOUTH  POET  ON  YE  DUKE.1 

Charon — Att  Portsmouth  Duke  I  will  noe  longer  staye, 

My  boate's  att  hand,  and  therefore  come  awaye. 
Duke —    Who  calls  great  George  I 
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 — Pisch — come,  I  say,  my  boate  shall  staye  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 — ffelton — 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  'I'll is  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.  F.  W.  Fairholt,  for  the 
Percy  Society,  in  his  "  Poems  and  Songs  relating  to  Geo.  Villiers,  Duke  of 
Buckingham,  and  his  Assassination  by  John  Feltou."  The  next  on  "  Rex  and 
Orex  and  Dux  and  Crux"  has  also  been  reprinted  in  the  same  work,  with  a  few 
variations  from  the  version  hero  given.  The  two  couplets  under  the  heading 

G 


50  THE   OGLANDER   MEMOIRS. 

IN  DUCON   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  DUKE. 

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.1 


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  devil."  His  ill  reputation  affected  all  con- 
nected with  him,  and  many  years  after  his  death,  Ann  Bodenham,  who  had 


THE   OGLANDER   MEMOIRS.  51 

ffelton1  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  Matte  for 
moneyes  to  haue  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  wab  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 
Colemau  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  Stuteville,  June  SI  and  29,  16SS. 
Court  and  Times,  VoL  I.) 

\  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   THK   DUKE   AND    FELTON. 

Awake,  sad  Brittaine,  and  advance  at  last 

Thy  drooping  head  ;  let  all  thy  sorrowes  past 

Hoe  drowned,  and  sunk  with  their  owne  teares ;  and  now 

O'er-looke  thy  foes  with  a  triumphant  brow. 

Thy  foe,  Spaine's  agent,  Holland  a  bane,  Home'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 
Freschwater  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  Matie>  which  wase  well  aproved  of  in 
all  thinges  sauinge  in  owre  needles  feares  of  ye  ffrench; 
his  Matie  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  gaue  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  no  we,  it  is  open  to  all 
invasion.  They  tolde  us  they  hearde  wee  had  remooved 
owre  wyfes,  children,  and  goodes.  I  answered — on  my 
life  and  reputation,  when  I  came  owt  of  ye  Island  there 


THE   OGLANDER  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  cliild- 
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,1  my 
Lord  Stuarde,2  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  repay  ring  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   OGLANDEIl   MEMOIRS. 

retrayte  with  cuttinge  ye  seae,  makinge  a  drawebriclge 
and  halfe  raoone,  250£;  ye  lyke  for  Freschwater,  250£. 
My  Lord  Threasuror  tolde  me — that  on  his  honnor  wee 
shoold  liaue  monyes  very  shortly,  it  wase  his  Matie" 
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  theyr  countery's 
servise  weare — Sir  Edward  Dennis,  Sir  William  Meux, 
Captayne  Cheke,  Mr.  Barnabie  Leygh,  Captayne  Hobsou, 
and  myselve,  Sir  John  Oglander.  We  had  a  promise 
for  payment  of  owre  billet  monyes,  beinge  8130£  when 
his  Matie  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  strangers.  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,1 
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  sovvnd, 
And  Mors  neare  Mars  is  fownd. 

Itt  grieved  my  harte  to  see  ye  pouertie1  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  Queue  Elizabeth's  tyme  it  wase 
other wyse, — 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,  corn- 
modi  tyes  ven tinge  themselves  att  moste  hygli  rate 
pryces,  and  menu  of  warr  att  ye  Cows  wliych  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  tliinges  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 
•n  poor  since  I  was  born  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  corn,  or  cattle,  or  whatsoever  else 
they  have  in  lieu  of  rent ;  and  corn  is  at  so  easy  rates  as  I  never  knew  it,  at 
20  pence  a  bushel,  barley  at  9  pence,  and  yet  no  quantity  will  be  taken  at  that 
price. " 


56  THE  OGLANDER  MEMOIRS. 

coold  not  stand  att  anye  rate;  ye  State  wase  well 
ordered;  wee  had  in  a  good  manner  warres  with 
Spayne,  and  peeace  witli  ffrance ;  and  ye  Lowe  Countery- 
men  weare  owre  servantes,  not  owre  maystors;  then  itt 
wase  Imula  fortunata,  nowe — Infortunata. 

1631.  Jany.  3.  Thos.  Urry  wase  buryed  att  Thor- 
leye  in  ye  midle  of  ye  church.1  There  wase  a  greate 
funerol ;  Sir  William  Lyslye,  Sir  Kobert  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.  Pryce2  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,  Praeiit  non 
Periit.     Here  lyeth  buryed  the  body  of  Mr.  Arthur  Price  who  was  rector  of 
this    parish   22   years,   and  died  2Cth  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. 


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uror,1  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  Matie>  and 
came  for  ye  Isle  of  Wyght.  He  had  in  his  companie, 
Vicount  Conway,2  My  Lord  Cottington,3  Chauncelour 

1  Sir  Richard  Weston,  Lord  Weston  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  opuleucy,  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  unlamentcd 
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  Han  worth,  Middlesex, 


58  THE   OGLANDER   MEMOIRS. 

of  ye  Excheccor,  and  ye  Lord  of  Mount  Norris,1  Sir 
Kelloum  Digby,  Sir  Walter  Stuarde,  ye  Kinge's  kinsman, 
Sir  Nicholas  Foskewe,  Sir  William  Uvedale,  Threastiror 
above  ye  stayres  to  his  Matie>  Sir  Eychard  Titchbourne, 
Mr.  Gage  of  Sussex,  Coronels  Fryor,  Hacklet,  and 
Farrer,  Captayne  Kercke,  Sir  Bevis  Thelwel,  Sir  Henry 
Maynowringe,  Captaynes  Mason,2  and  Brette,3  Mr.  May- 
nowringe ;  besydes  manie  other  knyghtes  and  gentelmen 
of  quallitie,  ye  totoll  amountinge  to  300  horse.  He 
had  ye  Kinge's  pinnice  to  bringe  him  over,  and  one  of 
ye  Whelpes4  to  wayght  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  Bochelle, 
two  of  them  were  lost  at  sea,  and  they  were  never  afterwards  all  in  commission 
at  the  same  time.     The  "Lion  "  herself  was  a  40-gun  ship  with  a  crew  of  200 
men. 


THE   OGLANDER    MEMOIRS.  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  his  Honnor  contrarie  to  they  re  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  Wliitfield  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  lie  layde.  Att  ye  entrance  of  ye  doore, 
ye  schoolemaystor  of  ye  Free  Schoole  mett  him  with  all 
his  schollars,  and  presented  him  with  a  speach  by  one  of 
his  schollars  (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  Matie*  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.  All  ye  gentlemen  sent  him  in 


60  THE   OGLANDER    MEMOIRS. 

provisions,  soe  that  he  kept  a  most  bowntifull  howse; 
and  every  meale  he  woold  drinke  his  Matie'8  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  further,  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  stave,  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  pave  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  packet  t 
came  to  him  from  his  Matle>  commaundinge  him  to 
Coourt;  whereupon  he  tolde  mee  that  wee  shook!  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  greater  entertaynement  in  my 
lyfe.  He  had  sent  him  in  by  ye  countery — a  hogshed 
of  sacke,  claret,  and  white wyne;  a  fat  ox,  fiscli  of  all 
sortes,  pewettes,  guiles,  rabbitts,  pigions,  ffeasantes,  par- 
trydges,  chicken,  &c.  Nevor  wa.se  anye  Captayne  of  ye 
Island  bravor  entertayned,  or  nobler  used  and  respected 


62  THE  OGLANDER  MEMOIRS. 

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  decay  e  of  ye  Kinge's  woodes,  as  nowe  beinge  so  wide 
in  fee  ferine,  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  followinge  he  sent 
me  a  letter  post,  that  I  shoold  command  ye  bwyors  of 
wood  in  ye  parke  to  forbear  to  fell  any ;  untill  his  Matle 
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, 
other wayes  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  IS  ewe 
Forrest :  time  will  discover  his  further  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  Eudd  to  be  ye  Ingineer,  and  Mr.  Thomas 


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Heath  to  be  ye  raaystor  woorkeman.  The  5th  of  July, 
1632,  my  Lord  Threasuror  sent  down  500£  to  myselve 
and  Sir  Edward  Dennys,  to  sett  forward  ye  fforte,  which 
Rudd  placed  in  that  place  where  no  we  itt  is.  My  Lord 
Wimbledon  came  downe  to  see  it.t  on  ye  8th  of  Awgust, 
1632,  and  liked  itt  well.  This  Rudd  and  Heath  weare 
men  who  had  bene  longe  emploied  by  ye  States  of 
Holland  in  makinge  of  ffortes,  and  other  fortifications. 
Heath  had  made  that  fforte  3  yeres  before  at  Hawitch 
in  Suffolk ;  Rudd  wase  chefe  Ingineer  att  ye  Isle  of  Rez ; 
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 
mine  of  ye  woorke. 

When  I  bwylt  this — I  lost  my  sonn,1 
And  raysinge  this,  myselve  undone. 

Mr.  Rychard  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  Tobye2  ye  commaund  of 

1  His  eldest  son,  George,  who  died  at  Caen,  July  II,  1632,  aged  23  years. 

2  On  the  south  side  of  Hrading  Church,  Adjoining  the  Oglander  Chapel,  on 


64  THE   OGLANDER   MEMOIKS. 

Sandam  Castell  in  Bucke's  abscens;  and  he  is  to  have 
2s.  a  daye  for  his  entertaymnent  and  payiies. 

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  November,  1647. 
J.O. 

Sondaye  morninge,  att  churche  I  heard  a  rumour 
that  ye  Kinge  wase  that  nyght,1  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  Governour  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  governours  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  chuse  his  own  time  of  quitting  the  Island." — (Memoirs 
of  Sir  John  Berkeley).  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  MEMOIRS.  65 

Nouember,  landed  at  Cows.  I  confesse  I  coold  not 
beleeve  itt,  but  att  evening  prayor  ye  same  daye  Sir 
Robert  Dyllington  sent  his  servant  to  mee  to  informe 
mee  of  his  Maties  cominge  into  ye  Island,  and  that  owre 
Gouernor  Coronel  Haminon1  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  son  of  Robert  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  VVolverton,  Isle  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  office  as  Governor  of  the  Island  was 
brief,  lasting  scarcely  two  yean.  He  eventually  was  appointed  a  Commis- 
sioner in  Ireland,  and  died  there  in  October,  1654. 

H 


66  THE   OGLANDER   MEMOIRS. 

ye  Island;  and  not  longe  aftor  Hammon  came,  when 
hee  made  a  shorte  speach  to  us,  whych,  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  Ma416'8  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  Matle  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  gathered  togeathor,  whatsoeuor  bee 
theyre  pretence;  I  woold  haue  you  dissipate  them,  or 
timely  notice  given  to  mee  of  itt;  alsoe  if  there  bee 
anye  of  those  formerlve  spoken  of,  sutch  as  his  Ma 


tie 


THE  OGLANDER  MEMOIRS.  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  Maties  persone.  And  to  this 
ende  I  shall  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  Expres1  to  P'rliament  to  signify e  his  Maties  being 
heere,  and  as  soone  as  I  receave  anye  awnsor  I  shall 
acquaynt  you  with  itt."  Aftor  this  speach  Sir  Robert 
Dyllington  niooved  ye  Coronel  to  knowe  weathor  ye 
gentlemen  myght  not  aftor  dynner  goe  up  to  his  Matte 
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  Matte;"  intimatinge  thereby  that 
he  wanted  ye  gentlemen  theyre  assistance;  whereupon 
I  and  others  promised  him  to  send  in  to  liim  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  K  ing'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. 


68  THE  OGLANDER  MEMOIRS. 

had;  soe  he  thanked  us,  and  retourned  to  ye  Castle  to 
his  Matie-  Nowe,  when  wee  had  dined,  wee  all  wente 
up  to  Caresbrooke  Castell,  where  wee  had  not  staied 
above  halfe  an  hower  but  his  Matie  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 
till  there  maye  bee  soom  happye  accomodacion  mayde." 
Aftor  this,  he  cawsed  Mr.  Legge,1  one  of  his  servants, 

1  "Honest  Will  Legge,  the  faithfullest  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  Island  were  strongly  reinforced,  and  orders  were  sent  to  I  Iain- 


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  greater 
number  of  these  Levelors  shoold  come  into  owre  Island 
then  wee  weare  able  to  resist?  What  coorse  coold  then 
be  taken  for  his  Matto  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  Matie  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  Castell, 
his  Matle  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  Ashburnham  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  1G73,  and  in  1682  was  elevated 
to  the  peerage  with  the  title  of  Lord  Dartmouth. 


70  THE  OGLANDER  MEMOIRS. 

His  Maties  farewell  speach  unto  ye  Lordes  Com- 
misioners  att  Nuport,  November  ye  27th,  1648.1 

The  Commisioners  cominge  to  take  theyre  leafe  of  his 
Matie>  hee  spoke  as  followes: — "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  afflictes 
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,  violentlie  poursue  theyre  owne  interestes  and 
endes." 

His    Matie    delivered     these    wordes     with     mutch 

1  This  speech  was  spoken  at  the  conclusion  of  the  so-called  Treaty  of 
Newport ;  the  negociations  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  Hollis,  Wm.  Pierre- 
point,  John  Crewe,  Saml.  Browne,  J.  Glynn,  Recorder  of  London,  and  John 
Eulkeley,  Esqs.,  members  of  the  House  of  Commons. 


THE  OGLAKDER  MEMOIRS.  71 

chearfulnesse  and  with  a  serene  cowntenance,  and 
carridge  free  from  anie  disturbance;  and  thus  hee 
p'rted  with  ye  Lordes  and  Commisioners,  leavinge 
manic  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  placed] 

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  Admiroll,  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   OGLANDER  MEMOIRS. 

then  wase;  lived  honestlye,  and  dyed  well;  leavinge 
three  sonnes  and  four  dawghtors;  one  dawghtor  mar- 
yed  to  Mr.  Dennis,  another  to  Mr.Wryght1  of  East  Meane 
(Hanberry  of  Berry  ton  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. 

MERSTON. 

These  Chekes  (or  in  awntient  tymes  Cheekehills)  came 
owt  of  ye  howse  of  Motston:  this  Edward  Cheke  now 
livinge,  maryed  3  wyfes,  one — the  dawghtor  of  Mr. 
Thomas  Dennys;  Elinor  (by  whom  he  had  all  his 
children)  wase  ye  daughter  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  William 


1  The  last  descendant  of  the  Richards  family  bequeathed  Yaverland  to  a 
Rev.  Mr.  Wright,  and  the  estate  continued  with  his  successors  till  the  death 
of  J.  A.  Wright,  Esq.,  of  Crowsley  Park,  Oxford,  in  1822. 


THE  OGLANDER  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  flerme  of  my  Lord 
of  Holdernesse,1  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,  wliich  they  aftor- 

1  John  Ramsay,  Viscount  Haddington,  and  Earl  of  Holderness,  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  flermor  and  a  gentelman. 

STENBURYE. 

The  de  Haynoes  weare  Lords  of  Stenbury,  anno  1488, 
when  ye  ffrench  had  taken  ye  Island  and  beseyghed 
Caresbroke  Castle.1  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  killed  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 
Eatcliff 2  marryed  ye  dawghtor  and  heyre  of  Anthony 
Powndes. 


1  In  1377,  when  the  towns  of  Newport,  Francheville,  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  Hoiiora,  daughter  and  heiress 
of  Anthony  Pounds.     He  died  1593. 


THE   OGLANDER  MEMOIRS.  75 

WOLVERTON,    KNYGHTON,    APLEDERCOMBE,    ETC. 

Hackett  hath  bene  a  awiitient  and  woorsliipful  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  matcliinge 
with  ye  dawghtor  and  heyre  of  Leygh. 

CLATTERFORDE. 

At  Clatterforde  liveth  one  James  Rookley,  a  member 
of  that  awntient  howse ;  this  man  hath  lived  theyre,  and 
Ms  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  liis  sonn 
solde  to  Captayne  Mann,  and  hath  bene  ye  mine  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-hulls,  from  ye  place  of 
theyre  #boade,  as  beinge  on  a  hill,  as  one  woold  say 
Cheke  of  ye  Hill.  Tliis  wase  a  verie  awntient  famelye. 


76  THE   OGLANDER  MEMOIRS. 

Theyre  habitation  in  Henrye  ye  3rd  reygne  wase  at 
Whipingame,  but  there  weare  manie  famelyes  of  ye 
name,1  and  I  verily e  conceve  these  Chekes  nowe 
livinge  amongst  us  are  linioll  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  fathor,  so  wide  Motston  to  Mr.  Dyl- 
lington,  1623,  and  soe  mutch  for  both  these  famelyes, 
both  of  ye  Chekehills,  and  Cheke2  of  Motston,  and 
Cheke  of  Merstone;  and  Sir  Thomas  Cheke3  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  born  at 
Cambridge  in  1514;  his  sister,  Mary,  was  the  first  wife  of  his  pupil,  Cecil, 
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  Lislie1  of  Woditon  in  the  Isle  of  Wyght, 
nowe  caled  Wotton,  wase  ye  last  of  ye  linioll  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.  Tliis  Sir  John  de  Insula  lived 
and  dyed  in  Henry  ye  8th  rayne;  he  had  only  one 
dawghtor,  which  he  maryed  to  Sir  Eoger  Kingston  a 
courtior,  and  had  a  good  place  about  ye  Kinge.  Sir 
Roger  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,  Blackpan,  Briddelsford,  Mottestone,  Underclyffe,  Bathingbourne, 
Hartingshott,  Chalcroft,  Rowde,  and  Mannesbridge ;  Messuages  at  Bradford, 
Wodehouse,  Charleton,  Kinge's  Enham,  and  Knight's  Enham ;  the  Manor  and 
AdvowBon  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  m.-iy  readily 
£•  recognised. 


78  THE  OGLANDER  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,  lived  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  Lislie  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  William  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  tender  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   OGLANDER   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 
Lislie  died,  and  wase  buryed  at  Thruxon.1  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  pariah  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 
woorshippfully ;  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;1  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.  0  tempom, 
0  mores. 

M8trs  Milles,  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  alive  in 
ffrance.  She  dyed  ano  dom.  1603.1 

ASCHYE. 

Gyles  Woorsley  wase  ye  fyrst  that  came  into  ye  Island 
of  that  ffameley ;  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  father  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,2  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  DGLANDER  MEMOIRS. 

named  Dorothye  maryed  to  one  Wooden;  Alee  mar- 
yed  Persone  Moore,1  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  Holdernesse2  wase 
one  of  his  godfathers ;  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,3  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  his  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  Holderness.     Of  the  King's  lands  in  the  Island, 
he  obtained  a  grant  of  Apse  and  Wroxall,  which  he  sold  to  Mr.  Baskctt.     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 
his  royal  master.     According  to  L'Estrange,  the  King  one  day  going  hunting, 
with  his  person  and  clothes  begrimed  with  dirt  and  filth,  Lord  Holderness  ex- 
claimed to  the  surrounding  attendants,  in  the  King's  presence, — "My  Lords, 
see  our  Solomon !  Is  this  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'a 
daughter,  Barbara,  appear  to  have  contracted  a  clandestine  marriage ;  as  Sir 


THE   OGLANDEK   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,1  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  liis  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, 
wliich  cawsed  him  to  spend  and  to  be  the  overthrowe  of 
that  howse,  and  I  feare  misery  will  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," 
who  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.t  VoL  144-  1629. 

I  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  Edgcumbe, 
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   OGLANDER   MEMOIRS. 

and  lived  there  verie  well;  they  had  theyre  chappell, 
and  there,  weare  manie  of  them  buryed,  and  had  fayre 
monumentes;  ye  chappell  is  no  we  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  Ellenor  de 
Georges  wase  possessor  of  itt  in  Edward  ye  Fyrst's 
reygne,  and  helde  Knyghton  by  three  Knyghtes'  fees; 
My  Lord  Georges,1  of  Wiltshyre,  commeth  of  a  yonger 
howse  of  these  Georges.  Itt  aftorwardes  by  matches 
came  to  ye  Hacketts,2  and  from  them  to  ye  Gilbertes, 
of  whom  Mr.  Anthonye  Dyllington3  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  Dyllington,  and  then  seated  themselves  in 
Somersetshyre. 


1  Sir  Edward  Gorges,  of  Langford,  Wilts,  created  Baron  Gorges,  of  Dun- 
dalk,  1620.     Extinct  1712. 

2  Hackett  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  Dillington  bought  Knyghton  in  15G3. 


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EAST   STANNUM    (STANDEN). 

I  fynd  by  awntient  evidences  that  William  Urrey,1 
Esq.,  in  Edward  ye  4th  reynge,  had  but  2  dawghtors, 
which  Hollis  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  no  we  giveth  ye  3  faulcons,2 
ye  awntient  coate  of  ye  Urryes,  it  there  may  be  a 
quere  how  they  deriveth  themselves  from  those  Urryes. 

EAST   NUNWELL. 

The  Keenes  weare  an  awntient  name,  they  weare 
owners  of  East  Nunwell  by  a  match  from  whome  Eopely 
of  Cliiddingefold  in  Sussex  hadd  it,  whoe  sowlde  itt  in 
fee  fferme  to  Oliver  Oglander,  Esqr.,  and  aftorwardes  ye 

1  In  a  Chantry  Certificate  Roll  of  Edward  VI.  is  found:— "The  chaple  of 
Standeu,  founded  by  thauncestors  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  dystaunt  from  ye  p'risch  church.     The  value  of  the  lande  and  tythes  to 
the  same  chaple  belongynge  by  yeare,   Ciiij  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  receyve  to  his 
owne  use,  not  servinge  or  mynystrynge  there  accordinge  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.  Kychard  Keene1  of  this 
famely  lived  in  Henry  ye  Seventh's  reygne,  and  wase 
wryghten  Esqr.;  he  marryed  Cicely,2  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  dignity e. 

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  any  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  OGLANDER  MEMOIRS.  87 

and  given  wyfes  to  moste  of  ye  awntient  famelyes  of  ye 
Island,  but  that  ye  name  is  still  extant  in  a  linioll 
descent  from  father  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 
enernye  when  that  sepulture  wase  on  topp  of  ye  hill, 
and  once  by  casualtie. 

THE  PRIORY   OF   ST.    HELLENS. 

Mr.  Emanuell  Badd  wase  a  verie  poor  man's  sonn, 
and  bownd  aprentice  to  one  Bernard,  a  shoemaker  in 
IS  uport ;  but  by  God's  blessinge  and  ye  losse  of  5  wyfes, 
he  grewe  very  ritch,1  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  relict  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 
lie  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. 
Sue  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. 


00  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  halibardes  wayghted  upon  him. 
His  estate  fell  to  2  dawghtors,  Captayne  Bourly  marryed 
one,  and  Hambrydge  ye  other. 

LANGUARD. 

The  Knyghtes1  weare  nevor  accompted  any  gentle- 
men. I  knewe  well  Michael  Knyght,  the  fathor  of  this 
Thos.  now  livinge,  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  fiermor,  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  famely s;  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,1  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  alive  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. 

Shambler2  is  butt  a  yeoman,  his  predecessors  beinge 
only  ffermors  of  Binbridge  Ferine.  This  William  nowe 
living,  is  a  gentill  fellowe,  and  a  pretty  scholler;  he 
maryed  ye  dawghtor  of  one  Mr.  Smith  in  Sussex. 

PANN. 

Barnabye  Colenet3  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  MEMOIRS. 

mann  with  Sir  Edward  Horsey,  weare  possessors  of 
Pann;  but  Edward,1  his  unthriftie  sonn,  sowlde  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,2  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  so  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  William  that  wase  a 
sowldier  in  Spayne,  and  Sir  John  and  William  in  Kinge 
James'  reygne. 

Sir  John,  the  father  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  his  lands  in  the  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  OGLANDEB  MEMOIRS.  91 

of  Kychard  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  William,  ye  eldest  sonn,  maryed  for 
his  fyrst  wyfe  ye  dawghtor  of  Sir  Francis  Barrington ; 
his  seconde  wyfe,  ye  widdowe  of  one  Eamon,  and  sis  tor 
to  Sir  Gilbert1  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.2  of  Gloucestershyre ; 
ye  younger  dawghtor  maryed  one  Mr.  William  Hick- 
ford,3  of  ye  same  shyre.  I  beleeve  ye  Mewxes  or  Mewys 
not  to  be  very  greate4  gentlemen,  for  ye  fyrst  y*  maryed 
Drew's  dawghtor,  of  Kingston,  had  bene  constable  of 
Lymingeton.  I  haue  scene  a  record  of  itt,  notwith- 
standinge  they  may  be  goode  gentlemen.5 


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,  William  Mcaux, 
with  Eleanor,  daughter  of  Sir  Henry  Strangways,  could  claim  descent  in  the 
female  line  from  the  Nevilles,  Earls  of  Westmoreland,  and  Edward  III. 

5  Lodovick  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  Rychard  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,1  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  daughter  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  father  of 
this  Sir  John  now  livinge,  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  Barrington,  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  OGLANDER  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  liis  Liftennant's 
place.  He  (Mr.  J.  Dingley)  bwylt  the  newe  liowse  att 
Wool ver ton,  by  whych  you  may  judge  of  his  wisdome. 
Sir  John,  ye  fyrst  Knight  of  that  famely,  maryed  Jane, 
ye  dawghtor  of  Doctor  Hammon,1  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  Numvell  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,2  his  cosen  german.  Be- 
tweene  these  wase  nevor  good  quarter.3  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.     Robert,   son  of  Sir  J.   Dingley,   was  a  Puritan  divine  and  Rector  of 
Brighstone,  at  the  time  his  cousin,  Col.  Hammond,  was  Governor  of  the  Island. 
He  was  the  author  of  several  theological  works,  and  died  1059.     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   OGLANDEB   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  Sorewell, 
no  we  called  Shorwell,  where  Mr.  Leygh  dwelleth. 
These  Sorwelles  weare  verie  awntient,  and  gaue  soom 
landes  and  tythes  owt  of  this  manner  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  Manner  of  North 
Shorwell.1  On  ye  disolution  one  Mr.  Temms  bowght 
that  and  other  landes  in  ye  Islande  beinge  apurtenances 
to  itt,  and  so  wide  moste  of  it  againe  to  Mr.  Leygh,  or 
rathor  to  his  father,  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  Laycock,  Wilts.  Margaret,  daughter  of  the  Countess,  was  a  nun  at  Lay- 
cock  ;  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  Roberte  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  Colledge;  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,1  exceptinge  that  parte  that  wase  formerly e 
given  by  the  Mascorelles  to  ye  Knyghtes  Templars  by 
one  Knyghtes  fee,  to  be  helde  of  ye  Castle  of  Cares- 
brooke.  This  sayde  Roberte  Glamorgan2  wase  a  greate 
Lorde  in  ye  east  p't  of  owre  Island,  for  he  wase  honnor 
of  ye  Mannor  of  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 
DomuB   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  New  town. 


96  THE  OGLANDER  MEMOIRS. 

I  have  sene  standinge,  called  Centurions'1  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  idiot  t,  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  Manner  of  Brooke 
came  to  Bowreman,2  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,  alias  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  Manner  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  manner,  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 

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,  Wilts,  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  tafore 
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 
•ores  of  wood  on  the  Manor  of  Meriafield,  Somerset,  and  to  make  enclosures 

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98  THE   OGLANDER   MEMOIRS. 

SHALFLETE. 

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  Manner  of  Shalflete  and  Chessell,  and 
divors  other  landes  in  Shalflete  p'rische.  One  peece 
named  Walderon1  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.2 

SWAYNSON. 

Thomas  Mountacute  or  Mountague,  aftorwardes  Earle 
of  Salisburye,  had  given  unto  him  by  Edward  the 
III.  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  Shalfleet 
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  Wolverton,  was  Sheriff  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  northe  isle. 
But  how  this  Mannor  of  Swaynson  came  from  ye 
Bischopricke  of  Winton1  (quere?),  for  that  itt  did  be- 
longe  to  ye  Bischopes  of  Winchester  appeareth  by  ye 
severoll  charters  gratinted  by  them  to  Newtowne,  awn- 

tiently  parte  of  ye  sayd  manner 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,2  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  Pole,  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  Stafford,  and  by  matches  from 
ye  Poles  came  ye  greatest  part  of  ye  estate  to  be 
divided  betweene  Stafford  and  Barrington.1  Barrington 
by  this  meanes  came  to  be  Honnor  of  ye  Manner  of 
Swaynson,  and  Sir  Jeffery  Pole  sowld  ye  Manner  of 
Whitwell,  in  ye  lyfetime  of  his  mother  to  severoll 
p'sons.  Ford,  that  Nicholas  Numam  hath,  wase  part 
of  ye  sayd  manner.  Sir  Eychard  Pole  wase  very  old 
when  Henry  ye  7th  maryed  him  to  ye  Countes  of 
Salisbtirie,  she  beinge  a  braue-spirited  younge  woman, 


1  After  the  execution  of  the  Countess  Margaret,  Swainston  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  married  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 
of  the  family  who  fixed  his  permanent  residence  at  Swainston, 


THE  OGLANDER  MEMOIRS.  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  Jeflery  Pole  dwelt  at  Lordington,  in  Sussex,  and 
had  issue  which  lived  to  see  wantes,  so  this  greate 
estate  came  to  nothinge. 

AFFETON. 

The  Affe tones,  of  Afieton  (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  Ringbone,  and  from  them  to 
the  Bruines,1  of  Rowner,  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 
come  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  Fordingbridge, 
H.ints,  in  the  beginning  of  the  reign  of  Elizabeth. 


102  THE  OGLANDER  MEMOIRS. 

Mr.  March,  of  Nuport,  hath  a  very  fayre  dede  sealed 
by  Isabella  de  Fortibus  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 
Ellena,  Eychardus  de  Afton,  Knyghtes,  Geflery  of  the 
Isle,  Henricus  de  Vernaye,  Eogerus  de  Gardino,  and 
many  others;  dated  1292:  The  scale  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,1  ye  sonn  of  a  clothier  who  dwelt 
att  ye  corner  howse  in  ye  Beastemarket ;  he  was  Rector 
of  Freschwater,  and  Deane  of  Woorcester,  and  Chap- 
layne  in  Ordinarye;  the  other  for  her  bodye — viz.  Dr. 


1  Dr.  Richard  Edes,  student  of  Christchurch,  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  Thus. 
James. 


THE  OGLANDER  MEMOIRS.  103 

James,1  her  Phisition  in  Ordinarye,  and  one  that  day  lie 
redd  to  her;  his  fathor  lived  att  ye  corner  howse  to  ye 
west  of  ye  Fischmarket ;  ye  third — Mr.  Thos.  ffleminge2 
— for  her  goodes ;  his  fathor  wase  a  mercier  in  Nuport, 
and  lived  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,3  ye  widowe  of  Sir  Eychard 
Woorseley,  and  ye  Earle  of  Essex  theyre  dawghtor.4 

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  Clanricarde  and  St.  Albans. 


104  THE   OGLANDEK   MEMOIRS. 

concluded  before  mee  at  ye  Towne  Halle,  when  Mr. 
Elgor  ye  fyrst  schoolemaystor  wase  then  in  ye  lyke 
maiinor  chosen  after  ye  ellection  of  ye  Maior,  whoe 
con  fir  me  th  under  his  towne  seale,  becawse  ye  schoole 
cowld  not  be  made  over  to  anye  other  but  by  way  of 
mortmayne  to  ye  towne.  The  landes  that  weare  given 
to  ye  schoole,  and  rent  charge,  totoll  £20,  besides  ye 
howse.  Honyhill1  beinge  formerly  pt  of  ye  fforrest, 
wase  by  my  Lord  of  Sowthamptones  aprobation  en- 
cloased  for  a  mayntenance  to  ye  schoole.  Itt  is  no  we 
stated  for  £8  per  ami.;  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  Attelode  and  John  Earlsman  made  a  grant  of 
about  34  acres  of  land,  situated  on  Hunnyhill,  to  the  bailiffs  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  Chappell  of  Nuport  on  Eastor  Daye1  and  admin- 
istor  the  sacrament,  and  he  wase  to  dine  with  ye  Baylie 
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 
fieast  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  baillives  with  theyre  bretheren,  after  ye  olde 
usage,  receaveth  ye  sacrament  of  ye  bodie  and  bludd  of  Christe  at  morninge 
prayer.     The  same  daye,  after  dynner,  the  burgesses  attendeth  the  baillives  to 
walke  abroade  into  ye  ffieldes  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  drincke 
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  ye  reste ;  for  yt  hit  lieth 
in  him  to  moderate  ye  diett  thereof  accordinge  to  ye  scott  of  his  gests  afore- 
sayd." — (Newport  Records.) 

2  "The  Sat'y  after  Maye  Daie,  the  custom  is  and  bathe  ben,  tyme  owt  of 
myii'lr,  yt  ye  baillives  for  ye  tyme  beinge  sholde  yerely  appoynte  a  Lorde  to 
ride  w'th  a  myneatrelle  and  a  Vice  abowte  ye  towne,  a  pretie  companie  of 


106  THE  OGLANDER  MEMOIRS. 

customs  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,  warneth  everie 
of  them  to  attend  upon  ye  saide  baillives  att  ye  Wood  Ovis  of  Parckhurst  ye 
nexte  morninge  to  ffetche  home  male,  and  to  observe  ye  olde  custome  and 
usadge  of  ye  towne ;  upon  payne  of  everie  one  makinge  defaulte  and  not  they 
there  present  before  ye  sonne  rysinge  to  loose  a  greene  goose  and  a  gallon  of 
wyne.  When  ye  sayd  baillives  with  ther  co'panie  coburgess  be  come  to  ye 
Wood  Ovis,  yere  cometh  forthe  ye  keapers  of  ye  fforest  meetinge  and  salutinge 
them,  and  offeringe  smawle  greene  bowes  to  everie  of  them ;  signitienge  thereby 
yt  ye  saide  baillives  and  coburgess  hathe  free  common  and  pasture  for  all 
maner  there  livinge  thinges  in  all  ye  landes  of  P'khurste  unto  ye  saide  Wood 
Ovis  for  ever.  After  ye  bowes  soe  delivered  to  ye  burgess,  presentlie  (accord- 
inge  to  awncient  custome)  ye  common  people  of  ye  towne  entereth  into 
P'khurst  woode  with  their  hatchetts,  sarpes,  and  other  edge  tooles,  cuttinge 
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  morris  daun- 
cers;  after  ye  sergeaunts  with  their  maces,  then  ye  baillives  and  coburgs, 
cooples  in  their  degree ;  ye  gunns  and  chambers  goinge  off  after  a  triumphant 
maner,  untill  they  come  to  ye  Corne  Markett,  where  they  sheweth  suche  pas- 
ty me  as  ye  leeke  to  make ;  and  after  casting  themselffs  in  a  ringe,  all  departeth, 
excepte  onlie  ye  burgess,  w'hch  with  ye  keapers,  bringethe  ye  baillives  home, 
where  of  custome  ye  keapers  breaketh  ther  faste  prepared  for  them ;  eche  of  ye 
baillives  and  burges  with  speede  preparinge  themselffes  to  morninge  prayer, 
and  fro  thence  with  ther  wifes  to  ye  olde  baillives  dynner." — (Newport 
Record*.) 


THE   OGLANDEB  MEMOIKS.  107 

greene  goose  to  ye  bay  lie.  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  charter  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  happy e  for  them  and 
ye  counterye  to  if  itt  had  soe  continued. 

Nuport  still  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  metropolis  of  owre  Island. 


108  THE  OGLANDER  MEMOIRS. 

Aftorwardes,  when  through  ye  benefite  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  Matie-  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  frenchmen,  and  there  were  many  monumentes  of 
them  in  ye  chawncel,  which  wase  taken  down  anno 
domi  1590.  Sir  Francis  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  will  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  OGLANDER  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  Ey chard 
Worseley's  time,  and  ended  in  that  place  where  ye 
figures  standeth.  Theyre  weare  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  bottome;  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; 
formerlye  12  in  my  memory. 

BRADING   HAUEN. 

The  fyrst  part  of  Bradinge  Hauen  wase  inned  by  one 
Sir  William  Eussell,  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  sluce  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  so  wide  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  healthfullor, 
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 
Edward  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  argue th  it  had  binn  firme  lande  and  in- 
habited, 


112  THE  OGLANDER  MEMOIRS. 

Bradinge  Hauen  wase  begged  fyrst  of  all  of  Kinge 
James  by  one  Mr.  John  Gibb,1  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  yt 
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  Brading  Haven  to  John  Gibb  was  made  in  1616,  a  rental  of 
£20  per  annum  being  payable  to  the  King. 


THE  OGLANDER  MEMOIRS.  113 

becawse  itt  concerned  liis  olde  servant,  and  olso  becawse 
itt  woold  be  a  leadinge  case  for  ye  fens  in  Lincolnshyre. 
Aftor  ye  verdict  went  in  ye  chequor  agaynst  the  gentle- 
men, then  Sir  Bevis  woold  give  notliinge  for  itt  till  he 
coold  see  that  itt  wase  made  feasable  to  be  inned  from 
ye  seae,  whereupon  Sir  Hugh  Myddelton1  (whoe  wase 
a  goldsmyth  in  London)  wase  called  in  to  assist  and 
undertake  ye  woorke,  and  Dutchmen  weare  browght 
owt  of  ye  Lowe  Counteries,  and  they  began  to  inn  the 
hauen  abowght  ye  20th  of  December,  1620.  Then, 
when  it  wase  inned,  Kinge  James  compelled  Thelwell 
and  Myddelton  to  give  Gibb  (whom  ye  Kinge  called 
Fathor)  £2000.  Aftorwardes  Sir  Hugh  Myddelton, 
lyke  a  craftie  ffox  and  subtel  cytison,  putt  itt  off  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  beste  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. 

L 


114  THE  OGLANDEB  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 
inconvenience  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  hardlie  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  fforce  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  medling  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  MEMOIRS.  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  easternmost e 
ende.  I  demaunded  of  him  what  ye  chardge  myght  be 
to  stop  it  owte,  he  told  mee  he  thowght  abowght  40 
shilhnges,  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  medling  with  it,  and  Ripley  went  up  presentlie  to 
London  to  Sir  Bevis  Thelwell  himselfe,  to  have  him 
come  downe  and  take  soome  further  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,  no  we  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 


116  THE  OGLANDER  MEMOIRS. 

browght  with  him  a  letter  from  my  Lorde  Conwaye  to 
mee  and  Sir  Edward  Dennys,  desieringe  us  to  cawse  my 
Ladie  Woorseley1  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,2  but  itt  seemeth  to  mee  not  reasonable  that 
shee  shoold  suffer  for  not  complyinge  witli  his  requeste. 
If  hee  had  not  inned  ye  hauen  this  accident  cookie 

1  Frances,  widow  of  Sir  Richard  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  plaintiff  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  commissioners, 
no  practical  result  followed ;  and  Brading  Haven  remained  submerged  till  re- 
claimed 240  years  afterwards  in  the  reign  of  Victoria. — (S.P.,  Dom..,  Vol.  210, 
1632,  and  Vol.  377,  1637.) 


THE  OGLANDER  MEMOIRS.  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  Thelwell,1 
and  the  commoner  sorte  weare  as  glad ;  as  to  say  trulye 
of  Sir  Bevis  hee  did  ye  countery  manie  goode  offices, 
and  wase  readie  at  all  tymes  to  doe  his  beste  for  the 
public  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  dwellinge  howse,  and  water 
mill,  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  low  fell  upon  Thelwall,  as  Sir  H.  Myddleton  had  made  over 
all  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  Romane  custome, 
and  manie  peeces  of  Romish  quyne;  for  in  awntient 
tymes  they  did  desior  to  be  buryed  in  summitatem 
mantis ,  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  liilles,  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  mannor  belonginge  to  ye  Abbeye  of 
Lyra,  thou  mayst  find  manie  good  antiquities.  The 
Ligior  Booke  of  Caresbrook,  Mr.  Fleminge,  Mr.  Kings- 
well,  and  Mr.  Clover,  all  hath  him — in  Mr.  Roffe's  hand, 
sometimes  Minister  of  Caresbrook,  nowe  in  Covent 
Garden,  London. 


THE  OGLANDER  MEMOIRS.  119 

Henry  ye  VII.  tooke  a  p'rticular  viewe  of  this  Island1 
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  Nun  well,  Wootton,  Brooke,  and 
Nuporte,  in  ye  howse  by  ye  bullringe.  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  Porchester,  Sept.  2  at  Bishop's  Walt  ham,  Sept.  3  at  Winchester.  — (MS. 
Ifouieltald  Book  of  Henry   VII.  in  British  Museum. ) 

2  Delivered  at  Greenwich  in   1597  to   Paulus   .Inline.   Ambassador  from 
8igismund,  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,1 
in  hope  to  take  that  cittie,  or  otherwyse  to  be  fooled  by 
ye  Spaniords,  Anno  1621. 

The  second,  by  Wimbleton2  to  Gales,3  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  Rez,  by  owre  greate  Duke, 
whoe  in  poynt  of  honnor  scorned  to  take  thence  theyre 
wTines  and  salte,  Anno  1627. 

The  last  (I  hope),  by  that  noble  Earle  of  Linsye4  to 
Rochell,  the  succes  whereof  is  itt  in  deposito,  pray  God 
it  proove  not  woorse  then  ye  others.  I  myght  haue 
added  another  by  Generoll  Fyldinge,  Earle  of  Denbye,5 
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   OGLANDER   MEMOIRS.  121 

JAMES   I. 

In  ye  fyrst  yere  of  Kinge  James  (1603)  when  he  came 
to  Bewley,1  all  owre  companyes  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  bwoyes2  skirmishe,  whoe  he  loved  to 
see  betor  and  willynglior  then  menn. 

Kinge  James  came  twyce  into  ye  Island,3  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. — (S.P., 
Dom.,  Vol.  77,  IB27.) 

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  landed    .    .     . 
and  sawe  a  muster,     .     .     .     dined  at  the  Castle,  and  sawe  in  the  afternoone 
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  OGLANDER  MEMOIRS. 

haue  olso  bene  in  this  Island.  Kinge  Charles  when  he 
wase  Prince,  wase  in  owre  Island ; l  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  Fortes- 
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  scholler  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  Carisbrooke  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;1  a  lover  of  his  favorytes  beyond  ye  love  of 
menn  to  women ;  verye  liberoll ;  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 
Balinger"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,  iufinitelie 


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  his  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." — (Goodtnan'n 
Court  of  King  James,  Vol.  I. ) 


124  THE  OGLANDER  MEMOIRS. 

given  to  him  tinge ;  although  in  his  latter  tyme  by  reason 
hee  coold  not  ryde  faste,  he  had  littel  pleasure  in  ye 
chase:  his  delyght  wase  to  come  in  at  ye  dethe  of  ye 
deare,1  and  to  heare  ye  comendationes  of  his  howndes. 
An  infinite  lover  of  fruite,2  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.  For  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  Richard  Weston3 
went  to  heauen,  as  hauinge  a  tounge  that  spoke  ill  of 
all  men.  He  had  manie  wittie  jestes,  and  olso  in  his 
passion  manie  prophane ;  he  woold  haue  a  reason  giuen 
liim  for  all  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  legs  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  King  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." — (Ooodman,  Vol.  I.) 

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  litell, 
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  politician,  and  verie  sownd  in  ye  reformed 
religion;  witnes  his  confession  on  his  dethe1  bed. 
His  laste  sicklies  wase  at  Theobaldes  of  an  ordinarye 


I  "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  con- 
eluded  the  verbal  creed  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  HENRY  NfiviLL1  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  Hand  in  Ano  Dom.  1609,  and  lived  manye 
yeres  in  ye  Hand;  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 
count  ery  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  Carleton,  March  81,  1625.  Court  and  Times,  Vol.  I.) 
1  Of  Billingham,  Berks.  His  daughter,  Frances,  was  the  wife  of  Sir 
Richard  Worsley,  of  Appuldurcombe,  the  first  baronet. 


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THE   DILLINGTON   FAMILY. 

Anthony  Dyllington  wase  ye  fyrst  of  that  famelye, 
he  came  owt  of  Somersetsliyre  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  childn)  2  sonns  and  4 
dawghtors,  wase  Ann  Reade,  of  Wales.  Aftorwardes 
he  maryed  one  Goddardes  widdowe,  of  Hampton,  a 
meccannicke  or  merchaunt;  his  eldest  sonn  wase  Sir 
Robert,  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  Robert  now  livinge.  His 
(Ant.  Dillington)  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  Rez)  named 
Amey.  Francis  ye  3rd  wase  maryed  to  Mr.  Scott,  a 
woorthie  gentleman,  and  a  singular  good  schollar,  he 
had  an  estate  in  Shalflete  flerme,  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  Dyllington1  (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  Robert  Dyllington  (the  sonn  of  Anthonie)  wase; 
he  wase  as  hansome  well  complexioned  as  you  coold 
wisch ;  he  wase  a  good,  not  greate  travilor  and  schollar ; 
he  had  his  Latine,  ffrench,  Spanisch,  and  Italion  tounge 
he  hadd;  he  wase  very  honest,  stout,  and  valiant;  but 
above  all  his  sweete,  noble,  merry  carridge;  as  full  of 
conceypts  without  offense;  verie  liberoll  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  K  nigh  ton  Georges, 
I.W.,  by  William  Camden,  Olarenceux,  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  government,  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  Kobert  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,1 
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, 
msomutch  as  his  unkell,  Sir  Eobert,  cowld  hardlie 
endure  him.  His  father,  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  woman2  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  Rooa,  he 
was  disgraced,  fined,  and  ruined,  1618-19. 

2  He   married   first,   Mabel,  daughter  of  Sir  Humphrey  Foster,  Kt.,    of 
Berkshire,  and  secondly,  Catherine,  sister  of  Lord  Georges. 

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130  THE  OGLANDER  MEMOIRS. 

in  ye  Island  he  grewe  soe  rytch  as  he  pourchased1 
Motson  of  Mr.  Clieeke,  and  divors  other  thinges,  which 
he  kept  all  in  his  handes,  as  fearfull  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- 
sliip  to  sell2  (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,  0  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  further  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  VVestover  of  Mr.  Erlesman, 
and  the  Manor  of  Butbridge  from  the  Urrys. 

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  pliisitions  as  dawngerous,  butt  God  re- 
served him  to  see  moore  miserie. 

THE   GARD   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  flrance,  of 
what  howse  or  famelye  I  knowe  not,  but  itt  is  moste 
likelye  he  tooke  his  name  from  his  office.  Butt  tliis  is 
moste  certayne,  he  comitted  there  hygh  treason,  and 
wase  hanged,  drawne,  and  quortered,  or  otherwyse  as 
ye  coustome  in  ffrance  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  Elizabeth'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 

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132  THE'OGLANDER  MEMOIRS. 

p'risch,  maryed  there,  and  had  too  sonnes,  Eychard 
and  Petor,  and  a  dawghtor.  His  dawghtor  maryed 
one  Hobbs,  of  Bide,  nowe  livinge.  Kycharde,  ye  fathor, 
was  a  notable  slie  fellowe,  dishoneste,  and  giuen  to 
filchinge;  he  browght  soome  trickes  owt  of  ffrance 
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  religion;  he  dyed1  abowght  1616, 


1     Richard  Gard  died  Feby.,  1617,  and  on  the  wall  of  the  porch  of  Godshill 
Church  is  a  tablet  with  a  Latin  inscription  to  his  memory,  now  almost  illegible : 
' '  Ecce  cumbat  Gardi  corpus  mortale  Richardi, 
Hoc  tumulo ;  verum  spiritus  astra  tenet. 
Cujus  dona  scholia  largita  et  munera  egenis 
Annua,  perpetuo  non  peritura  nianent. 
Inclyta  si  pareret  multos  hsec  insula  tales, 
Qualem  jam  tandem  protulit  nuncce  virum ; 
Tune  bene  pauperibus,  meliusq,  scholaribus  esset, 


THE  OGLANDER  MEMOIRS.  133 

and  in  his  will1  gaue  Kychard,  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  Kychard  ye  Bandit. 


Sub  pede  quos  presses  quisq,  jacere  sinit. 
Dictus  Richardus  Gard,  sepultus  fuit  5  die  Februarii  1617." 
On  the  opposite  wall  is  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  father,  a  littel  lande 
att  St.  Hellens  (whych  how  itt  myght  be  pourchased  in 
his  owne  name,  beinge  an  alien,  I  leaue),  woorth  per 
annum  £5.  Ey chard,  ye  eldor  brother,  beinge  willinge 
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  unwillinge)  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  nullifie  that  deede 
by  nonage.  The  enmitie  then  betweene  ye  2  brothers 
wase  greate,  they  vilified  one  another,  and  discouered 
each  others  knauerie  to  ye  vie  we  of  ye  whoole  Island. 
I  cannot  omitt  one  in  silence,  beinge  soe  notorious. 
Kychard  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   OGLAKDER   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- 
lowinge  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  littel  re- 
spected; he  wase,  and  is,  one  of  ye  slyest,  craftyest 
kuaues  that  I  knowe;  witt  and  judgement  in  matters 
of  lawe  he  hath  enough  both  to  seme  liis  owne 
tourne  and  to  cosen  his  neyghbours;  a  man  woorse 
spoken  of  I  nevor  knewe.  He  rnaryed  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  liaue  had  ye 


136  THE  OGLANDER  MEMOIRS. 

hearinge  of  ye  differences  betweene  them.  Nevor  did 
I  lieare  ye  lyke  woordes  betweene  fathor  and  sonn, — 
ye  father  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 
tmwoorthie  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  Elizabeth's  shil- 


THE  OGLANDER  MEMOIRS.  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  father  used,  he  gaue  them  £98, 
but  itt  is  thought  that  there  wase  moore.  I  hearinge  of 
itt,  sent  my  warrant  for  them  all,  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  fellowe,  who  dyed  soome  14 
yeares  before  itt  wase  found. 

THE   LIFE   OF   SIR   GEORGE   MORE,    KNT.1 

When  he  wase  younge  he  wase  putt  to  schoole  by  his 


1  Sir  George  More  was  born  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,  Guildford,  is  a  monument  to  the  memory  of  Sir  George  and  his 
wife. 


138  THE  OGLANDER  MEMOIRS. 

father,  Sir  William  More,1  to  ye  fre  schoole  at  Gwilford; 
from  thence  at  15  yeres  of  adge  he  went  to  Oxforde 
to  Martin  Colledge,  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  letter  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  William  More's,  very  often,  whom  she 
called  her  black  howseband.  Aftorwardes  he  traveled 
with  Sir  Philip  Sydney  as  his  kinsman  and  companyen 
all  over  Ffrance,  Itally,  and  Germanic ;  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  Firford,  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  liniolly  descended  from  ye 
howse  of  ye  Lord  Poyninges,  of  Shropshire ;  he  had  2 
sistors  onlye,  one1  maryed  to  my  Lord  Chancelor 
Egerton,  and  the  other2  to  Sir  Francis  Mannering,  of 
Shropshire.  Sir  George  More  beinge  a  Parliament  man, 
wase  by  the  Queene,  not  beinge  in  ye  Bill,  chosen  by 
her  shryfe  for  spetioll  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 
James3  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  OGLANDEB  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  hindered  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  liued  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  all  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  Gary,1  the  second  to  Sir  Thomas  Grymes,  ye 
third  to  ye  Deane  of  St.  Pawles,  Doctor  Donne,2  the 
fourth  to  Baronett  Milles,3  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,  knowlledge,  ellocution,  honestie,  loue,  and 
liberallitie.  He  wase  littel  and  good.  "Morus  tarde 
moriens ;  Morum  cito  moriturum."4  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  by  the  sides  of  it. 


142  THE  OGLANDER  MEMOIRS. 

ye  best  of  men,  departed  this  wordle  (wherein  he  took 
more  paynes  for  ye  seruice  of  his  countery  then  any 
man  liuinge)  ye  5th  of  October,  1632,  and  left  his  grand- 
child, Poynings  More,  ye  sonn  of  Sir  Eobert,  to  succeed 
him  as  his  heyre  in  Loseley;  which  Poynings1  More 
kept  his  Christmas  with  me  1632. 

THE  LIFE  OF  SHI  JOHN  LEYGH,  OF  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  father2  left  him  soome 
yeres  in  Arreton  flarme,  and  he  had  an  unkell3  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  dawghtors4  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  f orraine  partes  and  therein  to  remain  for  the  space  of  three  yeres, 
provided  that  he  repairs  not  to  the  Cittie  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  Elizabeth. 


THE  OGLANDER  MEMOIRS.  143 

(so  chosen)  Lord  and  Ladie  of  a  Sommerpole  at  a  Wliit- 
sontide  in  ye  P'risch  of  Shorwell;  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  liuinge  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  Gameliell)  inabled  him  soe  well,  that 
aftor  Mr.  Dinglie's  death  Sir  George  Carye  made  choyce 
of  him  for  his  Debutie  Liftennant,  and  aftor  him  my 
Lord  of  Sowthampton.1  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,2  and  a  sistor 
maryed  to  Sir  George  Guntor;  he  liued  to  see  them 


1  Dec.  31,  1603,  the  Earl  of  Southampton  nominated  Thoe.  Woraley,  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  Barnaby  Leigh,  of  Thorley,  who  married 
Mabel,  daughter  of  John  Dingley,  of  Wolverton. 


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  satisfied  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  schollar,  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  disaster.  He  hadd  manye  children,1 
butt  only  2  dawghtors.  He  lived  to  see  4  Captaynes2 
of  ye  Island  buryed;  to  see  all  those  that  weare  howse- 
kepers  when  he  wase  a  younge  mann  buryed;  to  see  all 
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  liuinge,  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  liued  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  wy fifes,1  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  Matie-  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.  Barnaby  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  )5  hopeful  children;  and  Mrs. 
Oartrude  Parsevall,  who  died  childles,  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  widow  of 
-  Bulkeley,  of  Burgate,  Hants,  by  whom  he  had  one  son,  Francis  Leigh,  of 
Alvington,  I.W, 

N 


146  THE  OGLANDER  MEMOIRS. 

take  up  his  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  duetifull  sonns,  for 
he  woold  often  say,  "Woold  I  coold  say  ye  beginnings 
of  ye  Lorde's  Prayer."  Sir  John  Leygh  bwylt  and 
bowght1  Northcoort,  which  formerlye  wase  a  priorie; 
he  surveyed  all  ye  workes  at  Caresbroke,2  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,  1629,3  ye 


1  Of  Mr.  Temes. 

2  In  a  roll  of  the  accounts  of  the  works  and  repairs  carried  out  at  Caris- 
brooke  Castle,  1587-88,  occurs  this  item:  "John  Leigh,  gent.,  for  the  expenses 
and  chardges  of  himself e,  fyve  men,  and  sixe  horses,  for  12  dayes  travellings 
from  the  Isle  of  Wyghte  to  London,  stayinge  there,  and  bringing  downe  the 
thousand  markes  appoynted  for  the  fortifications,  £4.0.0." 

3  New  style,  1630. 


THE  OGLANDER  MEMOIRS.  147 

19th,  and  was  buryed1  with  greate  solemnity  8th  of 
March  by  Mr.  Jones,2  of  Arreton. 

THE   LIFE    OF   SIR   RYCHARD    WOORSELEY, 
KNYGHT  AND   BARRONET. 

When  he  wase  younge  he  wase  taught  and  educated  by 
his  fathor,  Mr.  Thomas  Woorseley,3  a  man  well  learned 
and  of  very  good  partes ;  when  he  accomplishched  ye 


1  The  north  aisle  of  Shorwell  Church  was  the  burying  place  of  the  Leigh 
family,  where  there  is  a  monument  with  kneeling  effigies  to  the  memory  of  Sir 
John   Leigh   and   his   grandson,  with   the   following   inscription:    "Memoria 
Sacrum,    Olarissimo  Amantissimo    Patri    Johanni   Leigh  de  Northcourt    in 
Insul.i  Vectis  Equiti  Aurat.  qui  obiit  18  die  Janivari,  Ano.  Dni.  1629,  a-tatis 
su;u  83,  et  sepultus  fuit  sub  hoc  tumulo,  hoc  Honoris  Amoris  Doloris  Testi- 
monium  posuit  moestissimus  Filius  natu  maximus,  Barnabas*  Leigh,  Armig. 
Vixit  post  Funera  Virtus." — Ten  lines  of  verse  here  follow.     In  another  com- 
partment is  this:    "Mors  ^ternitatis  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  nis  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  (if tie  yeares  a  wyfe, 
Make  ye  sum  totall  of  my  passed  life. 
Long  tared  so  finely  spunn,  so  fairlie  ended, 
That  few  shall  match  this  patterne,  fewer  mend  it." 

•    ThU  must  hare  been  written  after  Mr.  Barnabas  had  mid  the  beglning  of  the  Lurd'a 
Pniyer. 

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. 


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  father  dyed,1  then  he  wase 
putt  to  Oxforde,  to  Magdeline  Colledge,  where  with  the 
helpe  and  laboure  of  his  tutor,  one  Castilion,  he  grewe 
to  be  a  very  pregnant  scholler,  and  verie  expert  in  ye 
Greeke  tounge;  well  seene  in  all  learninge.  When  he 
wase  scholler  in  Winton  Colledge,  at  a  hun tinge  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  ovvt  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  Rycharde's  mother,  so  he 
carryed  him  to  Billingbeare  to  Sir  Henry  Neville's 
howse,  where  he  fell  in  loue  with  M8tnj-  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;2  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  bountifull  howse,  and  gaue 
greate  entertaynement ;  lived  in  greate  repute  in  his 

1    In  1604.        2    In  161}f 


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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  liim  and  anie  other.1 
Verie  collerick,  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  VVorsley,  and  John  White, 
of  Southwick,  co.  Hants,  that  his  son,  Richard  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  VVymering,  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  OGLANDEK  MEMOIRS. 

respectinge  good  clothes.  Beinge  in  a  parliament,1  ye 
last  of  Kinge  James,  sooin  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  dyed2  in  ye  flower  of  his  adge,  to  ye  greate 
gryfe  of  his  fryndes  and  generoll  loss  to  ye  whole 
counterye;  he  is  buryed  in  ye  sowth  chawncell  in 
GodshiU  Church. 

Sir  Eychard  Woorseley,  my  good  frynd,  who  both 
for  naturoll  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. 

M*18-  Ann  Worseley,  dawghtor  to  Sir  Eychard  Worse- 
ley,  Knyght  and  Barronet,  whoe  soom  6  yeares  aftor 
her  father's  death,  wase  by  her  mother  maryed  at  17 
yeres  of  adge  to  one  Sir  John  Leygh,3  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 2th  of 
August,  Ano.  1630;  and  she  herselve  dyed  ye  16th  of 
August  followinge,  weathor  by  takinge  colde  (which 
coold  hardlie  bee)  or  with  an  iinposthume  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  fay  re  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  rathor  than  demonstrate  theyre 
woorth.  Only  frame  an  idea  of  a  most  p'fect  man  and 
woman,  and  then  beleve  yt  sutch  they  weare. 

Sir  Rychard  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 
outlive  all  toombes. 

Richer  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, 


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Butt  it  will  burne  as  long  as  them  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  I'le  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."1 


Ye  Pedigree  of  ye  Woorseleys  of  Apledorcombe. 

Apelder    Combe    wase    originollie    one    Apelder's; 

Combe   in  ye  Saxon   tongue   signifieth  a  valley  or  a 

bottom  betweene  hilles.     Kychard  Eivors,  Lord  of  this 

Isle,  gaue  it  to  a  religious  howse  att  Lyra2  in  Norman- 


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 
in  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  Redvers,  in  1090.     The  alien 
priories  being  dissolved  and  their  lands  seized  by  the  Crown,  Appuldurcombe 


154  THE  OGLANDER  MEMOIRS. 

die,  iii  Edward  ye  1st  or  2nd,  therfore  ye  {Frenchmen 
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  ffrench  mill,  still. 
Aftor  ye  warres  with  Ffrance,  itt  wase  grawnted 
by  ye  Kinge  to  ye  Minorys  without  Aldgate,  London. 
Sir  John  Leygh,  originollie  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,  Kychard  and  John. 
Eychard1  maryed  a  Sinbarbe,2  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  "Rychard  wase  Captayne  of  ye  Island,  and  bwylte  Woorseley 's  tower. 
He  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,  Somerset, 
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;  liued  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.1  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  barrel! 
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. 
Walaiugham  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  WaJsing- 
li-ini  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  Pajiers,  Doinentic.) 
I  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,  entered  into  Aple- 
dorcombe,  maryed  a  Mewx,1  had  butt  one  child  named 
Thomas.  John  dyinge,  Thomas  entered,  and  maryed 
a  Sinjohn;2  had  2  sonnes,  Eychard  and  John;  Eychard 
aftor  Thomas's  death  entered,  maryed  Sir  Henry 
Neville's  dawghtor,  dyed  of  ye  smale  pox,  left  sonnes, 
Henry,3  Eychard,  Thomas  (my  godson),  John,  Ann, 
Elizabeth,  and  Dorothee. 

Thomas  Woorseley,4  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,  liued  well 
and  gott  a  good  estate  owt  of  Chale  ferme,  beinge  all 
that  wase  by  his  father  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  OGLANDER  MEMOIRS.  157 

£200  a  yere  land,  and  dyed  and  left  it  to  his  eldest 
sonn;  for  he  had  as  I  remember  but  one  soim  and  a 
dawghtor,1  which  wase  maryed  to  Mr.  William  Bowre- 
man,  of  Brooke;  his  sonn  olso  maryed  ye  sayd  Mr. 
Bowreman's  sistor,2  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   LORDE   CONWAY,    CAPTAYNE   OF   YE 
ISLE   OF   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 

\     fcrbara  Worsley.        2    Emma  Bowrenum. 


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  was  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;  afterwardes  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  fathor,  but  by  ye  deth  of  his  eldest  brother,1  he 
had  that  Estate  of  Eagland,  beinge  woorth  £800  per 
annum.  When  ye  Brill  (on  payment  of  ye  moneyes  by 
ye  Dutch  that  Queene  Elizabeth  lente  on  those  caution- 
arye2  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,  ve  Duke  of  Buckinrjame's 

'      * 

cosen  germain;  and  came  for  England,  and  putt  him- 
selve  wholley  to  please  and  flatter  ye  Duke,3  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  stilled  with  the  smoke,  that  he  died  presently, 
leaving  better  than   £2000   land  a  year  in  the  country  to  descend  to  Mr. 
Secretary."— (  Cluimberlain  to  Carkton,  Due.  18,  1624-     C.  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  listen  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  otticers  who  had  held  com- 
mands in  the  towns  received  pensions,  Sir  E.  C'onway  amongst  them,  who  was 
granted  an  annuity  of  £500  in  compensation  for  the  loss  of  his  post  at  Brill. 

3  "Mr.  Secretary  (Jonway  is  yours,  bodie  and  soul.     I  never  heard  of  the 
like  of  him,  for  he  Hies  at  all  men  that  1  >u  not  yours. " — (Sir  J.  Hijtpuiley  to 
Buckingham. ) 


160  THE  OGLANDER  MEMOIRS. 

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,1  and  a  woonderful  complimentor,  and 
to  grosse  a  flatterer;  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  Matie  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,2  (as  you  maye  see  his  wryghtinge  in  soome 
postscript,  of  letters  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  Carleton,  Oct.  12, 
1622.) 

2  The  handwriting  of  Conway  was  so  bad  that  his  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;1  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- 
plimentol;  and  that  whych  made  him  soe  ill-beloved 
wase  that  he  woold  tender  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  wilhnge  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  fellowe."  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 
»croul«  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.'" — (  WiUon's  Life  and  Jteign  of  King  James  /., 
1663.) 

2  Either  the  second  or  third  wife  of  Sir  Edward  Cecil,  third  son  of  the  first 
Earl  of  Exeter,  created  in  July,  1626,  Viscount  Wimbledon.     He  died  in  163S 
without  issue  male,  and  all  his  titles  became  extinct. 

O 


162  THE   OGLANDER   MEMOIRS. 

and  compliraentes  he  woold  use  to  all,  but  most  espetiol- 
ly  to  ye  feminine  sexe,  as  may  appeare.  When  I  invited 
him  to  my  howse,  att  his  cominge  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;1  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  thinke  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  Seale  that  noe  gentleman  of  ye  Island  showld 
be  made  Shryfe.  He  tooke  a  mapp  of  ye  whoole 
Island,  informinge  his  Matie  how,  and  in  what  manner 
he  woould  haue  ye  Island  fortifyed ;  and  wase  a  sutor 
to  his  Matte  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  Hesh 
at  prohibited  times,  as  fish  did  not  agree  with  him  ;  provided  that  he  did  so 
privately,  to  avoid  scandal,  and  paid  13s.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 
him  respectles  of  tliis  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,1  whych 
thinge  he  tooke  very  ill,  and  aftorwardes  wase  not  soe 
willinge  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  castells,  espetiollie  Sandam,  whych  fell  down  in 
his  tyme ;  and  olso  they  thought  he  wase  a  meanes,  or 
att  least  myght  haue  hindered  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  Regyment 
wase  putt  into  this  Island  becawse  they  shook!  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  I ;  !>• 

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- 
seutlye  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, 
1630,1  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  Edward  Dennis  and  Sir  J.  Oglancler. 


THE   OGLAKDER   MEMOIRS.  165 

THE   LITE   OF   GEORGE   OGLANDER,   ESQ. 

In  his  youth,  beinge  born  at  Nunwell,  wase  brought 
up  at  scoole  there  till  1 5  yeres  of  adge ;  then  he  went  to 
ye  Ins  of  Chancerye,  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  punctioll  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;1  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,2  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  Nuuwell,1  soom  yere  aftor  his 
mother;  for  his  mother  wase  so  carefull  over  him, 
beinge  a  kinde  of  physition,  and  he  beinge  of  a  weak 
constitution,  shee  made  him  many  goode  brothes  and 
cullises  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,  Counsellor-at-Law,  and  a  Bencher  of  Lincoln's  Inn, 
was  the  son  of  Oliver  Oglander,  who  married  Ann,  daughter  of  Gilbert  Bullock, 
Esq. ,  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  "Centoner 
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  colcle,  which  made  an  ende  of  him  in 
one  weeke.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  answer 
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  Cliff  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  makinge  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, 


168  THE   OGLANDER   MEMOIRS. 

THE   LIFE   AND   DEATH   OF   SIR   WDLLIAM    OGLANDER. 

He  wase  borne  at  Nunwell  abowght  ye  yeare  of  owre 
Lorde  1558  j1  he  wase  brought  up  att  schole  at  Winton 
Colledge;  his  father  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  Balioll  Colledge,  Oxforde. 
He  wase  ye  first  that  had  a  birdinge  and  fowlinge  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  peril!  of  drowninge  in  gettinge  his  ded 
fowle.  From  Oxforde  he  came  into  ye  Island  where 
Mr.  Anthonie  Dillington,  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,  ofGwilforde,  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  Dillington  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 
born  many  years  prior  to  1558,  probably  in  1543-44.  He  was  knighted  at 
Hampton  Court,  1606. 


THE  OGLANDER  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  Balioll 
Colledge  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,1  and  ye  towne 
seriant,  which  grawnte  beinge  voide  in  lawe,  I  rnyght 
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  M1^  Dillington, 
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  summer,  and  used  his  peece 
ye  winter,  that  browght  him  in  mutch  provisions,  those 
commodyties  beinge  then  farr  more  plentifull  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 
liberall  benefactor  to  Bailioll  Colledge  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  April,  1575." 


170  THE  OGLANDER  MEMOIRS. 

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  trebles  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  lonsre  that,  they  tooke  ye 
Abbye  of  Bewlie  and  there  lived  soome  sixe  yeres, 
where  his  wyfe  dyed  to  his  intolerable  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  M1"*8-  Lewk- 
nor,1  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,  lu's  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  OGLANDER  MEMOIRS.  171 

his  sonn,  John,  wase  fayne  to  undertake  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,hefell  into  akinde  ofdropsey  and  dyed 
at  Westdeane,  over  ye  greate  parlor,  ye  27th  of  March, 
1609.1  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  scoller.  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  tenderer  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  generoll  know- 
ledge in  all  thinges;  very  industrious  and  hatinge  lase- 
ness.  He  wase  a  spare  lene  timbered  man,  soome  5 
foote  and  a  halfe  hygh;  he  wase  a  goode  scoller,  and  a 
wyse  gentleman;  he  wase  longe  in  ye  Commission  of 


1  The  inscription  on  his  tomb  in  Bradiug  Church  is:  "Heere  lyeth  the  body 
of  William  Oglander,  Knight,  and  Ann  Dillington,  his  wife,  who  dyed  the  27th 
of  March,  1G08." 


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  spade1 
faschion. 

THE  LIFE   OF   SIR  JOHN   OGLANDER,    KT., 

WHO    CAME    TO    KEEPE     HOWSE    ATT    NUNWELL    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  littel 
tennement  of  Baronett  Worseleyes;  he  wase  browght 
up  in  his  infancie  att  Bewlie,  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  Baylioll  Colledge  in  Oxon, 
arid  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  cut,  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  ; 
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,  162 L 


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  Wliitlock;1  there  he  olso  stayed  3 
yeres ;  wase  Stuard  att  ye  Reader'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,2  of  Loosely  in  Surrey; 
and  came  he  and  his  wyfe,  and  lived  with  his  father  at 
Westdeane  in  Sussex,  (in  ryght  of  Lewkenor's  widowe), 
whych  Sir  William  Oglander,  his  father,  had  mar- 
yed); and  Sir  William  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  father,  Sir  William,  dyed;  and  then  Sir 
John,  his  sonn,  came  to  Nunwell,  and  browght  his  wyfe 


1  James  Whitelock,  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,1  and  his 
brother,  and  came  and  lived  there,  and  bwylt  ye  howse. 
This  wase  ye  7th  of  March,  1607;  ye  Midsomer  follow- 
ynge  his  wyfe  wase  browght  abed  of  theyre  eldest  sonn, 
George.2  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.  After3 
my  father'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  fathor  was,  but  missinge  of  itt 
becawse  his  Matie  refused  to  Knyght  fathor  and  sonn 
togeather:  he  refused  itt  untill  manie  of  his  inferiors 
weare  Knyghted  before  him.  (Sir4  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  fathor 
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  last1 
took  itt;  whych  is  ye  true  reason  that  soe  manie  steped 
before  him.)  He  wase  Liftennant  Governor  of  Fortes- 
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  Rychard 
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. 

2  1620  to  1624. 


176  THE  OGLANDER  MEMOIRS. 

whych  hindered  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  innnitelie 
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 
lived  att  a  greate  rate  of  expense  in  his  howsekepinge. 
for  he  alwaies  kept  3  servinge  men  and  a  footbwoye, 
besydes  retainors ;  alwaies  his  coache  well  horsed,  (his 
coache  wase  ye  second  that  evor  wase  in  ye  Island) ;  he 
spent  usuolly  £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 
interlaced  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  filled  the  office  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  slu'p  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   MEMOIRS. 

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  Russell,  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   OGLANDEU   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. 


[180] 


A  SORVEY  TAKEN  BY  SlR  JOHN  OGLANDER,  KNYGHT,  OF 
ALL  YE  CHURCHES  AND  CHAPPELLS  WITHIN  YE  ISLE  OF 
WYGHT;  TOGETHOR  WITH  ALL  YE  AWNTIENT  MONU- 
MENTS THEREIN  ;  AND  BY  CEBTAINE  TRADITIONS  AND 

WlLLS  OF  YE  DECEASED,  AND  YE  LIKE  EVIDENCES, 
WHAT  KNYGHTES  AND  GENTLEMEN  HATH  BENE  BURYED 
THEREIN,  WHOSE  MONUMENTS  ARE  NOW  DEMOLISCHED. 
APRIL,  1632. 

BRERDINGE  ALIAS  BRADINGE. 

This  church  is  ye  awntientest  in  owre  Island,  when 
and  by  whom  it  wase  fownded  it  doth  not  apeare,1  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  Brad  ing 
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  till  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  Hollises,  who  gave  ye  inoyety  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  fayre1 
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  followeth: 

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  haa  been  described  in  Boutell's  "Monumental  Brasses." 


182  THE  OGLANDER  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  OGLANDER  MEMOIRS.  183 

sent  of  ye  Bischop  the  Abbott  of  Bremore,  and  Sir 
John  Kussell,  Honnor  of  Yaverland;  for  his  ease,  his  ser- 
vantes  and  tennantes.  One  of  ye  objections  wase  that 
all  ye  winter  they  cowld  not  come  to  Bradinge  Church, 
except  they  went  abowt  by  Sandam,  2  myles,  for  then 
ye  cawseway  at  Yarb ridge  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  in 
Latin,  made  under  the  authority  of  Cardinal  Beaufort, 
Bishop  of  Winchester,  between  Simon  of  Beverley,  Parson 
of  Bradinge,  and  Geoffrey  of  the  Isle  (de  Insida),  and 
William  Stower,  concerning  the  establishment  and  endow- 
ment of  a  Chapel  at  Shanklin,  acknowledging  and  oicniug 
fealty  to  Brading  as  the  Mother  Church.  The  agreement 
is  signed  by  Ralph,  Archdeacon  of  Winton ;  Roger, 


184  THE  OGLANDER  MEMOIRS. 

Archdeacon  of  Surrey ;  Robert  de  Lyra ;  William  Russell ; 
and  Ralph  Beamed] 

GODSHJLL. 

The  church  wase  bwylt  in  ye  rayne  of  King  Edward 
the  Confessor,  and  aftor  ye  Conquest  wase  giuen  by 
William  Fitz  Osberon  to  ye  Abbie  of  Lyra. 

Iii  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,  films  Eic.  Frye  et  Margarite  uxoris  suae,  qui  obiit 
11  die  Januar.  Anno  Dom.  1512.  Cujus  animae  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  hey  re  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  father,  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 
aide  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,1 the  widdowe  of  Sir  James,  who  dyed  a  verie  olde 
woman.  There  weare  her  armes  and  an  inscription  on 
brasse  on  her  toombe,  but  no  we  defaced.  In  ye  sowth 
wall  of  the  sowth  chawncell  is  the  toombe  of  Rychard 
Woorsley,2  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,3  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  William 
Pouude. 


186  THE  OGLANDER  MEMOIRS. 

Whit  well,  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  Woorseley1 
coffined  in  leade,  who  dyed  in  London;  next  to  him 
lyeth  the  bodie  of  his  soun,  Mr.  Thomas  Woorseley,2  a 
braue  schollar,  and  a  plaine  but  woorthie  gentleman, 
and  a  most  plentifull  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 
Walsingham. 

2  Died  1604,  leaving  by  will  12d.  to  the  Mother  Church  of  Winchester, 
and  £100  to  the  poor  of  Godshill.     He  also  bequeathed  to  his  cousins,  Bowyer 
Worsley,  of  Ashey,  Jane  Baskett,  Bartholomew  Meux,  and  William  White, 
40s.  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. 
Ky chard  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.  Hellen.  ...  On  ye  dissolution  it  wase  given  to 
Eaton  Colledge,  neare  Windsore,  whoe  still  enioyeth  itt; 
and  accordiuge  to  ye  dedication,  ye  place  hath  altored 
his  name.  Monumentes  in  this  church  there  none  nowe 
extant;  in  Edward  ye  Sixth  liis  reygne  ye  north  isle  of 
the  church  wase  taken  downe;  what  monunientes  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  Nettlestone  and  Troublefyld.  Nowe 
only  Mr.  John  Hopkins  that  I  knowe  lyeth  there,  a  fine 
scollard,  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  all  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  smalle  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  im ployed  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  Andrewes1  weare  Bischoppes  of  Winchester. 

WHIPPINGAME. 

In  this  church  there  is  no  monument,  nor  any  man 
of  quallitie  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.    LAWRANCE. 

This  is  a  verye  smale  church,  under  ye  cliffes,  at  ye 
sowth-east  parte  of  owre  Island,  commonly  called  Undor 
Wathe.  In  which  ar  no  monumentes,  neythor  of  late 
any  man  of  quallitie  there  buryed.  Not  farr  from 

1     Bibon  1597-1617.     Andrevea  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 
chappell1,  but  what  itt  wase  is  nowe  utterly e  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  weare  soe 
tyed;  which  is  strange  if  true,  and  must  proceed  from 
some  naturoll  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  is  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  altered  and 
impropriated  to  Queene's  Colledge1  in  Oxforde;  at  ye 
swyte  of  ye  Queene,  solicited  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  Colledge. 

ARRETON. 

This  church  did  belonge  to  ye  Abbeye  of  Quarr,  but 
since  ye  disolution  one  John  Milles  bovvght  of  Henry  ye 
8th  both  Quarr,  Comley,  ye  awntient  seate,  and  Hazeley 
ye  Graunge.  Aftor  ye  death  of  George,  ye  sonn  of 
Ry chard,  one  Sir  Ry chard  Milles,  nephewe  to  ye  sayd 
George,  and  his  heyre,  sowld  it  to  Mr.  Flemniinge,  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-Chamberlain  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  5s.6d.  for  gilt,  the  total  amounting  to  £591  Is.  9d.  ;  but  the  loan  wag 
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- 
ligious  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 
Milles,  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  MEMOIRS.  193 

shee  dyed  Anno  Doin.  1624.  If  Sir  Edward  Horsey 's 
wyfe  had  dyed  before  him,  he  had  maryed  Mrs.  Milles ; 
his  wyfe  wase  a  ffrench  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  midle  chawncell  is  wryghten:  "Here  lyeth  ye  body 
of  Thomas1  Lislie,  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,2  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  effigy  and  the  shield 
of  arms  have  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. 

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194  THE  OGLANDER  MEMOIRS. 

but  yt  soom  of  theyre  sonnes  are  livinge,  whose  fathers 
knewe  of  his  burioll.  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  table1  in  ye  north  walle  of  ye  sowth  ile 
is  wryghten  as  followeth: — 

"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  Garretts,  on  St.  George's 
Down,  was  purchased,  supplying  a  fund  by  which  the  poor  of  the  parish  are 
relieved  in  winter 


THE  OGLANDER  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  tyine. 
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  Dora. 
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, 

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196  THE   OGLANDER   MEMOIRS. 

is  wryghten  in  brasse:  "Here  in  this  toombe  lyeth 
buryed  ye  bodye  of  William  Colnett,  of  Comely,  Gent., 
whoe  departed  tliis  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  french- 
man, to  whom  William  Fitzosberon,  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,1  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    Biahop  of  Winchester,  1070—1098. 


THE  OGLANDER  MEMOIRS.        197 

WODDITON  (WOOTTON). 

This  church  was  bwylt  by  Walter  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  father  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. 

QUARR   ABBY,    ALIAS   QUARRARA. 

Baldwins,  ye  sonn  of  Rychard  Rivors,  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  Win  ton;  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  helpor  and  furtheror  of 
ye  sayde  woorke,  on  ye  fyrst  day  of  June,  1150.  The 


198  THE  OGLANDER  MEMOIRS. 

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 
Erapresse,  in  his  banischment  made  a  vowe  that  if  he 
retourned  with  health  and  restored  to  his  former  for- 
tunes, he  woold  bwyld  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  meminge,  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  li ttle  did  Eivors  imagine  this  when  he  brought 
him  owt  of  Germanic.  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  father's,  mother's,  and 
grandfather'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,  Father  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  further  sayd  that 
itt  stoode  to  ye  sowthward  of  all  ye  ruins,  corne  then 
growinge  where  it  stoode.     I  hired  soome  to  digge  to 
see  whether  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  nowe  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  purchaser.     This 
wase  a  verye  greate  Abbeye  both  in  bwyldinge  and 
revenues.      Itt  had  mutcli  landes  belonginge  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  tliinke  Apse;   the 
Fsonage  of  Arreton,  Newchurche,  and  Godshill ;  and 


200  THE  OGLANDER  MEMOIRS. 

all  ye  land  betweene  Binsteed  and  Wootton  Han  en. 
The  Abbott  sate  in  ye  Upper  Howse  of  Parliament,  and 
wase  honored  here  in  ye  Island  like  a  pettie  prince;1 
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 — Treasurer,  Stuarde,  Chefe  Butler,  Solicitor, 
Eent  Gatheror,  Courte  Keeper,  or  Baylie  Generoll. 
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  ruines,  except  ye  seller  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  with  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 

standinge.  Goodly  monuments  in  ye  greate  church 
certenly  there  weare,  but  those  of  chyfe  note  wase 
Baldwyne  Bivors,  ye  fyrst  funder;  Cicelye,1  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  funeroll. 
The  other  of  note  wase  a  greate  Mownsyor  of  flrance, 
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  scene.  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  Milles, 
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  dwellinge 

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  Chiefe  Justice  of  ye  Kinge's  Bench. 
He  gaue  not  for  ye  whole  manner  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  fede, 

The  druncken  Flemminges  now  doth  scrape 

With  gayne  thereof  to  rayse  theyr  seed. 


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ADDITIONAL  NOTES. 


STENBURY — page  74. 

Mary,  daughter  and  heir  of  Thos.  Heynoe,  of  Stenbnry,  married  William 
Pound,  and  had  issue  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  Southwick 
Priory.  His  second  wife  was  Catherine,  daughter  of  William  Pound. 


WOOTTON — 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  in 
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  Oglander.  One  of  the  sons  of  Sir  William  Lisle  was  John  Lisle,  the 
regicide,  one  of  Cromwell's  peers,  who  tied  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  Sheriff  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  in  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  William  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  Chauncellor  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. 


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EERATUM. 


Page  118. — Three  lines  from  foot  of  the  page,  for  Mr.  Roffe  read  Mr.  Rosse, 
and  sometime  for  sometimes.  This  "Mr.  Rosse"  was  the  "Alexander  Ross"  im- 
mortalized by  Butler  in  his  Hudibras.  He  was  a  native  of  Aberdeen,  who  left 
Scotland  for  England,  and  was  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  bis  wife  was  Barbara,  daughter  of  William  Bowerman, 
Esq.,  of  Brook,  by  Barbara,  daughter  of  Thomas  Worsley,  of  Chale.  He  was 
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  was  buried  in  the  parish  church  of 
Eversley. 


[206  ] 


INDEX. 


Alton  101 

,  Richard  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  Red- 
man 21,  22 

Bad,  Emanuel,  High  Sheriff  24 
,     purchased     the     Priory,     St. 

Helens  87 

,  epitaph  87,  note 

Bands  of  the  Island  xvii. 
Bangborne  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 

Bench urch,  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 

,  inning  of  113,  &c.,  116,  note 


Brett,  Sir  Alexander  29 

,  his  regiment  in  the  Island  30 

Bridlesford  80 
Buckingham,  Duke  of  22 

at  Stoke's  Bay  25 

on  ArretonjDown  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  baiting^xi. 

Burroughs,  Sir  John,  slain  in  the  Isle 

of  j  llhe  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 

Carne's,   Col.   Thos.,  letter  to  Sir  J. 

Barrington  xxv. 


INDEX. 


207 


Cicely,  daughter  of  Edward  IV.  86  and 
note,  201 

Centoners  and  Hobblers  xvi. 

Charles  I.  in  the  Island  31 

reviews  Brette'a  regiment  32 

reviews  the  Scotch  regiment  40 

at  Sputhwick  43 

,  petition  to  52 

at  Portsmouth  56 

at  Cowes  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 

Colnett,  W.  196 

Conway,  Sir  K.  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    handwriting 

160,  161  and  note 
,  his  courtesies  161-2 

run  through  the  body  by  a  mad- 
man 164 

Cooke,  R.,  Captain  of  Sandham  Castle 
63,  88,  194 

Cottele,  Thoe.  83  and  note,  204,  note 

Cottington,  Lord  57,  note,  58 

,  his  dog  "Captain"  60 

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  Aulaa  or  Hawles  89 
De  Bloia,  Bishop  of  Winchester  127 
De  George*,  Sir  Thoe.  83 


De  Haynoe,  Peter  74 

De  Redvers,  Baldwin  198 

Dennis,  Sir  Edward  8,  9,  23,  25,  34, 

39,  54,  79 
Dillington  family,  the  127 

,  arms  of  128,  note 

Dyllington,  Anthony  81 

,  purchased  Knyghton  84 

,  Sir  R.,  his  letter  to  Conway  37, 

note,  65,  67 

,  death  of  128 

,  R,  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  Xunwell  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 

,  Richard,  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 

Girling,  William  4 

Glamorgan,  Sir  Robert  de  95  and  note 

Gleek,  game  of  41 

Godshill  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 

,  his  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  1 19  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- 
der64 

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,  Barnaby  23,  73,  93 

John,  knighted  41,  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  Rochelle 

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 

Mainwaring,  Sir  Henry,  famous  pirate 

15 

,  account  of  16,  17,  18,  note,  33,  58 

Margaret,  Countess  of  Salisbury  99, 

100 

Mascorell,  William  95 
Mather,  Margaret  192 
Maunsell'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 


INDEX. 


209 


Mottestoue  95 

Mountjoy,  Lord,  Earl  of  Newport  13, 14 

Myddelton,  Sir  Hugh  113 

Newport,  charter  of  xii. 

,  Ordinary  at  23 

,  Lord  Conway  at  34 

,  Lord  Weston  at  59 

,  Charles  I.,  speech  of,  there  70 

— ,  Commissioners  there  70 

Market  paved  101 

— ,  men  of,  servants  to  Queen  Eliza- 
beth 102  and  notes 

,  schoolmaster  of  103 

,  Grammar  School  of  104  and  notf 

— ,  old  customs  of  104,  Ac. 

,  records  of  105-6,  note* 

,  Mayor's  feast  105 

Niton  Church  190 

,  monuments  there  191 

Oglander  family,  birthplace  of  xix. 

,  Peter  de  xix. 

,  Oliver  xx.,  85 

,  George,  xxL,  81 

,  life  of  165,  166,  note 

,  his  horse  and  hawke  167 

,  Sir  J.,  Sheriff  of  Hants  xxi. 

— ,    letter    to    John    Woreley,    of 

Gatcombe  ;  attention  called  to  his 

conduct  in  the  House  of  Commons 

xxiv. 

— ,  sent  to  London  by  Col.  Came 

XXV. 

— ,     account    of,    in    "  Mercurius 
Aulicua"    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  Nun  well  1 74 

,  knighted  175 

,  Lieut.-Governor  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 

chapels  in  the  Island  180,  &c. 

visit  to  Quarr  Abbey  199 

verses  by  152,  202 

SirW.,  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". 

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  corn,  4c.  vii.,  viiL,  ix. 

Pryce,  Mr.  A.,  of  Calbourne,  56  and 
note 

Quarr  Abbey,  19,  note,  197 

,  lands  of  199 

,  Abbots  of  200  and  note 

,  monuments  there  201 

Ratcliff,  Earl  of  Sussex  74 
Roads  and  highways  ix.,  x. 
Rookley,  James  75 

— ,  of  Rookley  96  and  note 
Ross,  Alex.  118,  205,  note 
Rowridge  84 
Russell,  Sir  VV.,  of  Yaverland  89  and 

note 
Rychardes,  German  24,  71 


210 


INDEX. 


Shorwell  94  and  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 
Kland  29 

,  death  of  29,  note 

St.  George's  Down,  company  at  23 

St.  Helens,  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 

Stockwell,  gunner's  son  at  Ports- 
mouth, his  sayings  to  Buckingham 
and  Charles  I.  12,  13 

,  self-styled  Earl  of  Portsmouth  14 

Stenbury  24,  74,  203,  note 

Stokes  Bay,  ships  sailing  from  31 

Swains  ton,  manor  of  98  and  note 

Thelwell,  Sir  Bevis  54,  58,  112,  115, 

116,  note 
Treuchard  family  98  and  note 

Uggeton  95  and  note 
Undercliff,  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 

Wayghtscourt  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 
Whitelock,  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 

j  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  1 19 

— ,  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 


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INDEX. 


211 


Worsley,  of  Ashey  7 

SirBowyer23 

christening  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.  fiartlett  153 

,  her  marriage  to  Col.  Brett  153, 

note 

Worsleys,  pedigree  of  the  153 
Worsley,  Sir  Richard,  life  of  14? 

,  his  marriage  145  and  note 

,  flinging  cushions  at  Gatcombe 

149 


died  of  the  smallpox  150 

character  of  151,  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 

154,  155,  notf, 
Woreley'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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