Isle of Wight
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the Isle of Wight
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The Constitutional Documents of the Puritan Revolution, 1625–1660
The island to which Charles I fled from Hampton Court in November 1647.
[xlviii] November 11, he fled from Hampton Court, where he had been under the custody of the army, to the Isle of Wight, where he was placed in virtual imprisonment in Carisbrooke Castle.
Provided also, and be it enacted, that this present Act shall not extend to the impressing of any of the menial servants of the members or assistants or officers of the Lords’ House of Parliament, or to the menial servants of the members or officers of the House of Commons, or of any of the inhabitants of the Isle of Wight, or of the Isle of Anglesey, or of any of the Cinque Ports, or members thereof.
The Four Bills sent to the King in the Isle of Wight to be passed, together with the Propositions sent unto him at the same time, which, upon the passing of those Bills, were to be treated upon.
Magna Carta: A Commentary on the Great Charter of King John
Island to which, according to Wendover's disputed account, King John retired after the settlement to prepare for war.
He rightly refuses to believe Wendover’s unlikely story of John’s immediate retiral to the Isle of Wight, and of the war preparations he made there in a delirium of fury.