ARCHAEOLOGICAL AND HISTORICAL

RELATING TO THE ISLE OF WIGHT

BY THE LATE

REV. E. BOUCHER JAMES, M.A.

SOMETIME FEllow of queen's college, OXFORD; VICAR OF CARISBrooke, 1858-1892

COLLECTED AND ARRANGED

BY HIS WIDOW

VOLUME II

London

HENRY FROWDE

OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS WAREHOUSE

AMEN CORNER, E.C.

Oxford

HORACE HART, PRINTER TO THE UNIVERSITY

King James I and the Isle of Wight, A.D. 1603-1624. I .

The Earl of Southampton, Governor of the Isle of Wight, and

Captain of Carisbrooke, A.D. 1603-1625

Christmas in Carisbrooke Castle, A.D. 1606

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The Newport Grammar School and the Oglander MSS., A.D.

1615

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Sir Hugh Middleton's Attempt to enclose Brading Haven, as

told in the Oglander Memoirs

Lenten Abstinence at Carisbrooke, A.D. 1620

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A Stage Play at Newport, I. W., A.D. 1624

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The Scotch Troops in the Isle of Wight, September, 1627;
from the Oglander MSS.

The Orders of Tityre and the Bugle .

Edward Lord Conway, Captain of the Isle of Wight and Caris-

brooke Castle, A.D. 1625-1631. I

The Consecration of Yarmouth Church, I.W., March 11, 1626

A Scare in the Isle of Wight, May 30, 1627, from the Oglander

MSS.

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The Assassination of Buckingham

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Sir John Oglander and a Deputation from the Isle of Wight,

August 19, 1628.

The Earls of Newport, and Society in the Elizabethan Age

Richard Weston, Earl of Portland, Governor of the Isle of

Wight, A.D. 1631-1634. I.

Alexander Ross, Vicar of Carisbrooke, A.D. 1634-1654

Jerome, Second Earl of Portland, Captain and Governor of the

Isle of Wight, 1634-1642

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Locomotion, Postal Service, and Water Carriage in the Isle of

Wight before the nineteenth century.

Freshwater and Robert Hooke, A.D. 1635-1702.

Case of John Worsley of Gatcombe, I.W., in the Court of High

Commission, A.D. 1637

The Exaction of Ship-Money in the Isle of Wight, A.D.

1637

How the Sunday was kept in Newport by some, A.D. 1639

Viscount Falkland, M.P. for Newport, I.W., A.D. 1640 1642

Henry, Duke of Gloucester, youngest son of Charles I, 1640–

1665. I

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An Election for the Long Parliament in the Isle of Wight, A.D.

1640

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Philip, Earl of Pembroke, Governor of the Isle of Wight, A.D.

1642-1647

The Dingley Arms in Winchester Cathedral

The Hobson or Hopson Family, and Milton's Sonnet to the

Lady Margaret, wife of Captain Hopson

A Letter from Robert Dillington to Sir John Oglander, December

3, 1644

A Contested Election at Newport, I.W., A.D. 1645

W. Stephens, LL.D., Member for Newport, A.D. 1645

'Majesty in Misery.'-A Poem written by Charles I in Caris-

brooke Castle

The Trattle Family

Early Visits of Charles I to the Isle of Wight

Letter from Charles I, when in Carisbrooke Castle, to the

Marquis of Argyll, Dec. 23, A.D. 1647 .

The Secret Conditions of the Scotch Commissioners with

Charles I at Carisbrooke Castle, A.D. 1647-48

Rate for the Maintenance of a Minister at Newport, A.D. 1647. 206

Imprisonment of Sir William Davenant in Carisbrooke Castle,

Letter from the Mayor of Newport, I.W., about John Chandler,

an Anabaptist, A.D. 1647

Christmas in Carisbrooke Castle, A.D. 1647

Charles I's Last Coming to the Island, A.D. 1647

Colonel Robert Hammond, Captain and Governor of the Isle of
Wight, A.D. 1647-1649. I .

The Treaty of Newport, A.D. 1648

Sir Edward Walker, Knight, Secretary and Writer to Charles I

at the Treaty of Newport, 1648.

The Stipulations of the Treaty of Newport with regard to the

Church of England

Sir John Bowring and Charles I at Carisbrooke Castle

Glimpses of Romantic Realities from the Isle of Wight in the

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seventeenth century

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James Harrington in attendance on Charles I at Carisbrooke

Castle, A.D. 1648.

The Exhumation of Charles I.

Mrs. Whorwood and the Second Attempt of Charles I to escape

from Carisbrooke Castle, 1648

Carisbrooke Castle, September 15, A.D. 1648

Carisbrooke Castle during the Second Civil War, A.D. 1648

The Seizure of Charles I at Newport and his removal to Hurst

Castle.

The Scene of the Execution of Charles I

Robert Dingley, M.A., Minister of Brixton, Isle of Wight, A.D.

1653-1659. I

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Sir Henry Vane a prisoner in Carisbrooke Castle, A.D. 1655. I

The Puritan Pulpit in Carisbrooke Church, A.D. 1658

Lord Colepeper, Governor of the Isle of Wight, A.D. 1660-1667

The Christian' Family in the Isle of Wight

The 'Christian' Family of the Isle of Man and Cumberland

St. Bartholomew's Day, 1662, in the Isle of Wight, and the

Presbyterians

Query-Richard Wavel

John Churchill, afterwards Duke of Marlborough, M.P. for

Newtown, I.W., A.D. 1679 .

An Astrologer of the seventeenth century and his connexion

with the attempt of Charles I to escape from Carisbrooke

Castle. I

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The Bicentenary of the Revolution of 1688 in the Isle of

Wight

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