914.28

AzEts History, Topography, and Antiquities.

WITH NOTES UPON ITS PRINCI AL SEATS, CHURCHES, MANORIAL HOUSES,
LEGENDARY AND POETICAL ASSOCIATIONS, GEOLOGY, AND
PICTURESQUE LOCALITIES.

ESPECIALLY ADAPTED TO THE WANTS OF THE
TOURIST AND EXCURSIONIST.

By W. H. DAVENPORT ADAMS:

NEW AND REVISED EDITION,

With Sixteen Pages of Sectional Maps and Plans, and Large Map of the Island
printed in Colours; all from the Maps of the Ordnance Survey:
together with Eight Views printed in Tints.

London:*

T. NELSON AND SONS, PATERNOSTER ROW.

EDINBURGH; AND NEW YORK.

1884.

Contents.

HISTORY OF THE ISLAND.

The Isle of Wight during the Celtic Period,

The Isle of Wight under the Romans,

The Saxons in the Isle of Wight,

Condition of the Island at the Period of the Norman Conquest,

The Lords of the Island, from William Fitz-Osbert to Isabella de Fortibus,

The Wardens of the Island, from Isabella de Fortibus to Sir James Worsley,

From Sir James Worsley to Colonel Hammond,