Tlic X<'ir Forest : its History and its Scenery. 



man of more grim aspect, and no less robust and rude was his 

 behaviour."* The account is very life-like, though some allow- 

 ance must be made for Herbert's prejudices against this gaunt 

 Puritan captain, who, we learn, by-and-by became more civil. 

 Colonel Cobbit, in whose charge the King was, seems to 

 have treated him with uniform respect and kindness. Charles 

 stayed here six-aud-twenty days, walking along the beach, 

 watching the ships passing up and down the Solent, and receiv- 

 ing the cavaliers of Hampshire, who came for the last time 

 to pay their respects. Then, at last, he was suddenly taken 

 away to show at Whitehall a better courage and wisdom in 

 death than in life. 



About three miles from Milford, on the mouth of the Boldre 

 Water, lies the port of Lymingtou, the Mark of the Limingas, as 

 the neighbouring hamlet of Pennington is that of the Penn- 

 ingas.f Its manor, like that of Christchurch, once belonged to 

 Isabella de Fortibus, and was given, with some other possessions, 

 by Edward I., to her rightful heir, the Earl of Devon, whose 

 arms are still quartered with those of the Corporation. It 

 is another of those towns, which, like Christchurch, though in a 

 very different way, is associated with the past. It has no 

 monastic buildings, no ruins of any kind, no church worth even 

 a glance. Yet, too, it can tell of departed greatness. 



From the coins which have been dug up in the town, and the 

 camp at Buckland Rings, J it was evidently well known to the 



* Herbert's Memoirs, pp. 85-86. 



| A Keltic derivation for both places has been proposed, but it is not on 

 critical grounds satisfactory. 



I Gough possessed a brass coin inscribed Tetricus Sen. rev. Lactitia 

 Augg., found here; and adds that in 1744 nearly 2 cwt. of coins of the 

 Lower Empire were discovered in two urns. Camden's Britannia, Ed. Gough, 

 vol. i. p. 1:32. 



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