“That narrow sea, which we the Solent term, Where those rough ireful tides, as in her straights they meet, With boisterous shocks and roars each other rudely greet; Which fiercely when they charge, and sadly when they make retreat, Upon the bulwark forts of Hurst and Calshot beat, Then to Southampton run. _Polyolbion_, book ii. [187]Hall’s _Union of the Families of Lancaster and York_, xxxi. year of King Henry VIII., ff. 234, 235, London, 1548. [188]From Peek (_Desiderata Curiosa_, vol. i., b. ii., part iv., p. 66) we find that in Elizabeth’s reign the captain received 1_s._ 8_d._ a day; the officer under him, 1_s._; and the master-gunner and porter, and eleven gunners and ten soldiers, 6_d._ each, which in Grose’s time had been increased to 1_s._ (Grose’s _Antiquities_, vol. ii., where a sketch is given of the castle). Hurst, on account of its strength, was to have been betrayed, in the Dudley conspiracy, to the French, by Uvedale, Captain of the Isle of Wight. (Uvedale’s Confession, _Domestic MSS._, vol. vii., quoted in Froude’s _History of England_, vol. vi. p. 438.) Ludlow mentions the great importance of Hurst being secured to the Commonwealth, as both commanding the Isle of Wight and stopping communication with the mainland (_Memoirs_, p. 323). Hammond, in a letter from Carisbrook Castle, June 25th, 1648, says it is “of very great importance to the island. It is a place of as great strength as any I know in England” (Peck’s _Desiderata Curiosa_, vol. ii., b. ix., p. 383). [189]Sir Thomas Herbert’s _Memoirs of the two last Years of the Reign of King Charles I._, Ed. 1702, pp. 87, 88. [190]Warwick calls the King’s rooms “dog lodgings” (_Memoirs_, p. 334); but it is evident from Herbert (_Memoirs_, p. 94) that both Charles and his attendants were well treated, which we know from Whitelock (_Memorials of English Affairs_, p. 359; London, 1732) was the wish of the army, as also from the letter of Colonel Hammond’s deputies given in Rushworth (vol. ii., part iv., p. 1351). Of Colonel Hammond’s own treatment of the King we learn from Charles himself, who, besides speaking of him as a man of honour and feeling, said “that he thought himself as safe in Hammond’s hands as in the custody of his own son” (Whitelock, p. 321). [191]Evidently a misprint for three-quarters of an hour. [192]Herbert’s _Memoirs_, pp. 85-86. [193]A Keltic derivation for both places has been proposed, but it is not on critical grounds satisfactory. [194]Gough possessed a brass coin inscribed Tetricus Sen. rev. Lætitia 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. 132.