\>'ir Forest : its History <in<1 /'/.* .sv, //, /_//. 



On somewhat better authority,* it rests that the unhappy 

 Charles I., on the 13th of November, 1647, outwitted by his 

 enemies and deceived by his friends, entrusted himself, after his 

 flight from Hampton Court, to Colonel Hammond, and, embark- 

 ing here, returned by Hurst to atone for the past by his life. 



But of greater interest is the Roman Road which connected 

 Leap with Southampton and Winchester in one direction, and 

 Ringwood and the west in another. Its traces may be found 

 not only here but on the opposite side, where, still known by the 

 Norman name of Rue Street, it passes westward of Carisbrook to 

 the extreme south of the Island. Its old appellation is pre- 

 served, too, on this side in the name of a farmhouse King's 

 Rue, and Rue Copse, and Rue Common ; and it is well worthy 

 of notice that this word is even now sometimes used in the 

 Forest, as in Sussex, for a row or hedgerow. The road, how- 

 ever, can still tell us something of the past. The op'nion of 

 late philologists and geographers, with the exception of Lappen- 

 burg and Sir G. C. Lewis, has been against the idea that the 



canum. Bouquet. Recueil des Historiens des Gaules et de la France, torn, 

 xviii. p. 113 C.), nor the Chroiiicon Turonense (in the Yeterum Scriptorum 

 Amplissima Colleclio of Martene and Durand, torn. v. p. 1059 B), nor"" 

 Rymer's Fcedera ("De salvo conductu Domini Ludovici," torn. i. p. 222). 

 say anything of the place of embarkation. 



* I believe on that of the Oglander MSS. in the possession of the Earl 

 of Yarborough, but which I have never seen. Xeither the Iter Carolinum, 

 Herberts Memoirs (London, 1572, p. 38), Huntington's account (same 

 volume, p. 160), Berkeley's Memoirs (second edition, 1702, p. 65), The 

 Ashburnham Narrative (London, 1830, vol. ii. p. 119), nor Whalley's letter 

 in Peck's Desiderata Curiosa (torn, ii., lib. ix., pp. 374, 375), nor Hammond's. 

 in RushwortKs Collection (part iv., vol. ii., p. 874), mention the place, 

 though the latter would seem to indicate that the King sailed direct from 

 Tichfield to Cowes. Ashburnham and Berkeley had, we know from 

 Berkeley (Memoirs, same edition as before, p. 57) and Ludlow (Memoirs. 

 1771, p. 93), previously gone by Lymington to the Island. 

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