132 THE NEW FOREST 



No doubt, from her description, Madame 

 D'Arblay and her companion occupied those old 

 rooms over the Verderers' Hall, separate from the 

 royal apartments, but as she says " commodious " 

 as to the principal apartment and lined through- 

 out with that fine old Elizabethan oak panelling 

 (for that portion of the house was by no means 

 " built by Charles II"), the remains of which 

 form the dado round the Verderers' Hall in its 

 modern condition. 



King George III paid a second visit to the 

 New Forest, but was then the guest of Sir George 

 Rose, at Cuffnells. 



Neither George IV nor William IV appears to 

 have visited the New Forest. Nor is there any 

 record of Queen Victoria having honoured the 

 district with her presence ; but about the year 

 1903, King Edward VII paid a flying visit to 

 New Forest, coming over from Cowes, where he 

 was residing on his yacht, and sailing up the 

 Beaulieu River, where he landed, and was met by 

 Lord Montagu, who took him for a long experi- 

 mental drive (it was in the early days of motor 

 cars) all through the Forest. He paused at the 

 King's House, just to see it, but did not enter it 

 or descend from his car, as time was pressing. 



In August 1895, the Aldershot command of 

 troops visited the New Forest for military training, 



