The Oglander Memoirs - Extracts From the Mss; Of Sir J. Oglander, Kt;, Of Nunwell, Isle of Wight, Deputy-Governor of Portsmouth, and Deputy-Lieutenant of the Isle of Wight, 1595 1648 #226414

The population of the Island was probably about or The houses were generally built of the native stone and — except those of the gentry mostly thatched. Each cottage had a garden in which vegetables were grown, with the exception of potatoes, which, though introduced into England before the end of.