OF CARISBROOKE.] IMPRISONMENT OF THE KING. 303 Duke of Richmond to learn the cause, who found there a person who said his name was Mildmay-a brother of Sir Henry Mildmay, and one of the servants placed by the Parliament about the king's person. On the duke's enquiring his business, he answered that there were several gentlemen from the army, who were very desirous to speak with the king. The duke carried in this message; but the knocking still increasing, the king gave orders for their admission. The doors were no sooner opened, than those officers rushed into the bed-chamber before the king could rise from his bed, and abruptly told him that they had orders for his removal. From whom?' enquired the king. From the army,' they replied. And to what place?' enquired the king. To the castle,' said they. To what castle?' demanded the king. They again answered, To the castle. The castle,' said the king, ' is no castle;' but added, that he was well enough prepared for any castle, and therefore required them to name it; when, after a short whisper together, they said Hurst Castle.' - Indeed!' replied the king, you could hardly have named a worse.' The Duke of Richmond then ordered the king's breakfast to be hastened, presuming that there was little provision made for him in that desolate fortress; but before his majesty was well ready, the horses being come, they hurried him away, only permitting the duke to attend him for about two miles, and then telling him he must go no further. He therefore took a sad farewell of the king, being scarcely permitted to kiss his hand. The king's last words to the duke were, Remember me to my Lord Lindsay and Colonel Cooke; and command Cooke from me, never to forget the passages of this night!" He then proceeded a prisoner to Hurst Castle," which at that time," says Warwick, "contained only a few dog-lodgings for soldiers."-In his way to that dismal receptacle, he accidentally met Mr. Worsley, one of the gentlemen who had so generously risked their lives for him in the above-mentioned attempts to escape. Charles wrung his hand with affection; and pulling the watch out of his pocket gave it to him, with these words-" Keep this in remembrance of me: it is all my gratitude has to give."-This watch is still preserved in the Worsley family; it is of" silver, large and clumsy in its form; neatly ornamented in the case with filagree work; but the movements are of very ordinary workmanship, and are wound up with cat-gut." On his arrival within its walls, the "solitude and dreariness of the castle struck like a death-damp to the heart of Charles!" Never till this moment had he thought himself in danger; but now suspicions of secret assassination haunted his mind; and as he looked around him, and compared Hurst Castle with that which he had left, "Here," said he to himself, "were the place for such a deed!"-But the events which followed the king's departure from the Isle of Wight require no further notice in this place. With these brief notices of Carisbrooke Castle, and the chief personages and events with which it is connected, we close this portion of our subject: and for many interesting facts and persons which our limits will not permit us to detail, we refer, with every due acknowledgment, to the Authorities here annexed-particularly to that of the late Sir Richard Worsley. Ground Plan of Carisbrooke Castle. HERMAN, D. T B WALMSLEY. EXPLANATION OF Plan.-A A. Governor's apartments; B. The parts of it demolished; C. Well of the Garrison; D. The Gunner's House; E. Formerly a Guard House; F. Buildings demolished; G. Parish Church; H. Coach House; I. Powder Magazine; K. Store House; L. Stables, formerly Barracks; M. S.-East Platform; N. S.-West Ditto; O. Now a Garden; P. Gateway, with two Round Towers for Prisons; Q. Out Guard; R. Tower of Keep, with a Well 36 fathoms; S. Stone Wall, with its Parapet; T. Place of Arms. AUTHORITIES:-Order. Vital. De Gul. Primo.Gul. Cimitensis, De Ducib. Normannis, lib. vII. c. XV. -Dugd. Bar. and Monast.-Will. Malmsb.-Matt. Paris. Holinshed.-Polyd. Virg. Camden. Froissart. Sir Richard Worsley.-Cooke.-Lane.Clarendon, Hist. Rebel. vol. iii. Part I.-Gilpin. Monstrelet, vol. ii. 458.-Col. Cooke's Narrative, MSS. Harleian Collect.-Hist. of England, Civil and Milit. Transact., p. 298; for the event here noticed see Monstrelet, vol. i. p. 32.-For Waltheof v. Ingulph. Selecta Monumenta, p. 254. Note.-See also APPEND. to Orig. EXTRACTS to this Volume. N.B. All the VIEWS were taken on the spot within the last six weeks. |