The New Forest and the Isle of WightWith eight plates and many other illustrations . of success, while he played off the Parlia-ment against the army. Hence the extreme anxiety shown in Cromwellsletters to Dear Robin, as he calls Colonel Hammond, the Governor ofCarisbrook. But Hammond was staunch and prudent, and the town ofNewport was so wholly for the Parliament as to neutralise the personalloyalty to the king of the leading families in the island. Sir John Oglander, of Nunwell, whose family had held that estatein lineal descent, as he remarks in his quaint diary, since the days ofHenry I.,
The New Forest and the Isle of WightWith eight plates and many other illustrations . of success, while he played off the Parlia-ment against the army. Hence the extreme anxiety shown in Cromwellsletters to Dear Robin, as he calls Colonel Hammond, the Governor ofCarisbrook. But Hammond was staunch and prudent, and the town ofNewport was so wholly for the Parliament as to neutralise the personalloyalty to the king of the leading families in the island. Sir John Oglander, of Nunwell, whose family had held that estatein lineal descent, as he remarks in his quaint diary, since the days ofHenry I., has left, among the interesting personal experiences with whichhis notes are filled, an account of the reception of the king in the was evidently very much broken in spirit. His last visit to theisland had been paid to review his troops before the expedition to Rochelleand the assassination of the Duke of Buckingham. He now appearedalmost as a suppliant. Sondaye morninge, writes Sir John Oglander, att churche I heard a rumour that ye King wase that nyght, beinge ye. £9 O THE ISLE OF fVIGHT 27 14 of November, landed at Cows. I confesse I coold not beleeve itt,but att evening prayor ye same daye Sir Robert Dyllington sent hisservant to mee to inform mee of his Ma coming into ye island, andthat our governor, Col. Hammon, commanded mee and my sonn (as hehad done all ye gentlemen of ye island) to meet him att Nuport yenexte daye, being Mondaye, by nine in ye mornynge. Truly this newstrebled mee very mutch : but on Mondaye mornynge I went to Nuport,where I found most of ye gentlemen of ye islande ; and not longe afterHammon came and he made a short speache to us, which as well as myolde memorie will give me leafe, wase thus, or to this purpose—Gentlemen, I beleeve it was as straunge to you as to mee to hear of hisMa comynge into this island. Hee informs mee necessitie broughtehim hithor, and theyre weare a sorte of people neare Hampton Coorte(from whence he came) th
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