The New Forest and the Isle of WightWith eight plates and many other illustrations . int element John had written an obituary notice of his father, Sir WilliamOglander, and pleased with the effect, went on to do the same for became rather mixed at times, between the third and first person,being unused to the form of composition known as writing ones ownepitaph.] Extracts from tlC MSS. of Sir Jo/./i Oglander, Kt., of Niimvcll, Jcpiit^-governorof Portitnouth, deputy-lieutenant of the Isle of Wight. Edited, with an introductionand notes, by W. H. Long. Portsmouth : W.


The New Forest and the Isle of WightWith eight plates and many other illustrations . int element John had written an obituary notice of his father, Sir WilliamOglander, and pleased with the effect, went on to do the same for became rather mixed at times, between the third and first person,being unused to the form of composition known as writing ones ownepitaph.] Extracts from tlC MSS. of Sir Jo/./i Oglander, Kt., of Niimvcll, Jcpiit^-governorof Portitnouth, deputy-lieutenant of the Isle of Wight. Edited, with an introductionand notes, by W. H. Long. Portsmouth : W. H. Long, 120 High Street. 54 THE ISLE OF WIGHT The life of Sir John Oglander, Knight, who came to keepe houseat Nunwell, Anno Dom. 1607, March ye 7th. He wase borne at Eastnunwell, in ye chaumber over ye parlour,May ye 12 Ano. Dom. 1585, and wase nursed att Borderwood by oneCookes wyfe in a littel tennement of Baronett Worseleyes : he wasebrought up in his infancie at Bewlie (Beaulieu), and afterwards put toschoole at ShaJfleete in ye island ^ and Winchester ; from whence he went. Shalfect Church. By Johm Fulkvood. to Baylioll College in Oxon, and had a grownde chamber in ye BachlorCourte, nexte to a Inne called ye Cateronwheele [the Catharine wheel]. . After my fathers deth I came to live in ye island, and bwylt moostpart of ye house [Nunwell]. . I was put into ye commission of yePeace att ye adge of 22 yeres, when I not well understoode myselve or my 1 Shalfleet, near Yarmouth. Its ancient church tower is thought to have been oncebuilt for defence. The cost of the spire was paid by selling the metal of the bells andof the parish cannon. THE ISLE OF WIGHT 55 place, and was ashamed to sett on ye Bench, as not hauinge then anyhayre on my face and less wit . . he was liftennant Governor of Ports-mouth, and was Liftennant of ye island, and lived soom tymes atChicester, and soomtymes at Nuport. . also mutch trobled with apayne in his hedd, which wold last him 2 or 3 days . . but wh


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