HURST-CASTLE, (Hampshire) on that neck of land, which, running farthest into the sea, makes the shortest passage to the
Isle of Wight, the distance being not above 1. m. It stands on a beach 1 m. and 1-half in the sea, and was the last prison
of K. Cha. I. before he was brought to London for his trial. Here is always a garrison, commanded in chief by a governor.