[74]At the date of the Dauphin’s leaving England, William de Vernon was dead, which makes his embarkation at Leap less probable. Neither Roger of Wendover (vol. iv. p. 32. Ed. Coxe), nor Walter Hemingburgh (vol. i. p. 259. Ed. Hamilton), nor Ralph Coggeshale (_Chronicon, Anglicanum Bouquet Recueil des Historiens des Gaules et de la France_, tom. xviii. p. 113 C.), nor the _Chronicon Turonense_ (in the _Veterum Scriptorum Amplissima Collectio_ of Martène and Durand, tom. v. p. 1059 B), nor Rymer’s _Fœdera_ (“De salvo conductu Domini Ludovici,” tom. i. p. 222), say anything of the place of embarkation. [75]I believe on that of the Oglander MSS. in the possession of the Earl of Yarborough, but which I have never seen. Neither the _Iter Carolinum_, Herbert’s _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_ (tom. ii., lib. ix., pp. 374, 375), nor Hammond’s, in Rushworth’s _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. [76]The road is marked in the map which accompanies Dr. Guest’s paper on “The Belgic Ditches.” _The Archæological Journal_, vol. viii. p. 143. [77]As the passage is so important, I give it in full:—Ἀποτυποῦντες δ’ εἰς ἀστραγάλων ῥυθµοὺς κοµίζουσιν εἴς τινα νῆσον προκειµένην µὲν τῆς Βρεττανικῆς, ὀνοµαζοµένην δὲ Ἴκτιν. κατὰ γὰρ τὰς ἀµπώτεις ἀναξηραινοµένου τοῦ µεταξὺ τόπου ταῖς ἁµάξαις εἰς ταύτην κοµίζουσι δαψιλῆ τὸν καττίτερον. Ἴδιον δέ τι συµβαίνει περὶ τὰς πλησίον νήσους τὰς µεταξὺ κειµένας τῆς τε Εὐρώπης καὶ τῆς Βρεττανικῆς. Κατὰ µὲν γὰρ τὰς πληµµυρίδας τοῦ µεταξὺ πόρου πληρουµένου νῆσοι φαίνονται, κατὰ δὲ τὰς ἀµπώτεις ἀποῤῥεούσης τῆς θαλάττης καὶ πολὺν τόπον ἀναξηραινούσης θεωροῦνται χεῤῥόνησοι.—Lib. v., cap. xxii., vol. i., p. 438. Ed. Dindorf. Leipsic, 1828-31. Pliny, as Wesseling remarks, in his note on this passage, quoted by Dindorf, vol. iv. p. 421, by some mistake, makes the Isle of Wight (Mictis) six days’ sail from England. See Sir G. C. Lewis’s _Astronomy of the Ancients_, chap. viii., sect. iii. p. 453. [78]As before, sect. iv. p. 462. [79]_The South-Western Parts of Hampshire_, vol. ii. pp. 5, 6, 1793. [80]For an account of the barrows on Beaulieu Heath, see ch. xvii.