Old Hampshire Mapped
Cox's Hampshire
Transcription (7)Ringwood
Regni
Monmouth, Duke of
Battle of Sedgmoor
Ringwood or Regnewood, in Domesday Book called Rinceived, anciently named Regnum, and inhabited by a People, called by the Romans, Regni, as we may gather, not only by the Remainder of their Name in that of this Town, implying, The Wood of the Regni, but from the Course of Antoninus's Itinerary, the Places to and from it exactly answering the Distances therein mentioned.
That this Town was anciently a Place of some Eminency, seems probable from the adjacent Hundred, which derives its Name from it, but now it is of little Note but for its weekly Market, which is very much frequented, and is kept on Wednesday; but the Chief Commodities sold there, are Corn and Cattle. The Fair is on [ ]
Near this town the Duke of Monmouth, after his Army was routed at Sedgmoor, in July 1685, was taken in a Peace Field, and with him the Lord Grey, and a German Count, who accompanied him, by the Lord Lumley, who carried them all Prisoners to this Town, and kept them there, till Orders came from the Council and King James II. to bring them up to London, where the Duke was soon after beheaded. The Avon runs from hence to
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