The New Forest and the Isle of WightWith eight plates and many other illustrations . nely carved Royal Arms,supported, not by the lion and unicorn, but by the lion and griffin. Thewhole building is an interesting mixture of feudalism, Tudorism, andmodernism. Its erection marked the end of French invasions of theisland. The town grew up again under cover of its guns, and by thetime of James I. had so increased that he had granted it a charter and acorporation. In this charter it is stated that Since the building of thecastle the town is better inhabited than before, and that the Mayor andBurges
The New Forest and the Isle of WightWith eight plates and many other illustrations . nely carved Royal Arms,supported, not by the lion and unicorn, but by the lion and griffin. Thewhole building is an interesting mixture of feudalism, Tudorism, andmodernism. Its erection marked the end of French invasions of theisland. The town grew up again under cover of its guns, and by thetime of James I. had so increased that he had granted it a charter and acorporation. In this charter it is stated that Since the building of thecastle the town is better inhabited than before, and that the Mayor andBurgesses, esteeming the charters before granted them insufficient toauthorise them in using their liberties and immunities, had petitionedthe king to make and new create them a body politic and the king did, and Charles II. presented the corporation with a finesilver-gilt mace and seal. This, with the ancient charters, and a curiousemblem in the form of a large glove fixed on a pole, which was set upfor two days during a fair held on St. Jamess Day, to indicate that for. >!g THE ISLE OF WIGHT ii that time no one should on any account be committed to prison, arc allthat remains to attest the ancient state of the corporation. The existenceof the tiny borough was denounced in Parliament, and this picturesquesurvival has been turned into a modern town trust, though the oldmunicipal insignia are still preserved. Close by the Castle is the fine house formerly used by the Governorof the island. It is a fine example of an early Stuart mansion, panelledthroughout, and with a beautiful central staircase, with the landings laidin parquet, perhaps one of the oldest examples of this kind of Holmes, the conqueror of New Amsterdam, from whose cap-tures of Guinea Gold the first guineas were coined, lived in thathouse, after he was made Governor of the Isle of Wight by Charles the church, which, like the rest of the town, was rebuilt under theprotection of the C
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