long consultation with those who attended him, he yielded to their
advice, which was, to trust to Colonel Hammond, who was governor of
the Isle of Wight for the Parliament, but who was supposed to be
friendly to the king. Whatever might be the feelings of commiseration
of Colonel Hammond toward a king so unfortunately situated, he was
firm in his duties toward his employers, and the consequence was that
King Charles found himself again a prisoner in Carisbrook Castle.

But we must now leave the king and retrace history to the commencement
of the civil war. A short distance from the town of Lymington, which
is not far from Titchfield, where the king took shelter, but on the
other side of Southampton Water, and south of the New Forest, to which
it adjoins, was a property called Arnwood, which belonged to a
Cavalier of the name of Beverley. It was at that time a property of
considerable value, being very extensive, and the park ornamented with
valuable timber; for it abutted on the New Forest, and might have been
supposed to have been a continuation of it. This Colonel Beverley, as
we must call him, for he rose to that rank in the king's army, was a
valued friend and companion of Prince Rupert, and commanded several
troops of cavalry. He was ever at his side in the brilliant charges
made by this gallant prince, and at last fell in his arms at the
battle of Naseby. Colonel Beverley had married into the family of the
Villiers, and the issue of his marriage was two sons and two
daughters; but his zeal and sense of duty had induced him, at the
commencement of the war, to leave his wife and family at Arnwood, and
he was fated never to meet them again. The news of his death had such
an effect upon Mrs. Beverley, already worn with anxiety on her
husband's account, that a few months afterward she followed him to an
early tomb, leaving the four children under the charge of an elderly
relative, till such time as the family of the Villiers could protect