It was arranged that the king and Major Legg should proceed to a house of Lord Southampton at Titchfield, and that Berkeley and Lord Ashburnham should go to the Isle of Wight to Colonel Hammond, to find if he would receive the king.

Harry, with his followers, was to proceed to Southampton, and there to procure a ship, which was to be in readiness to embark the king when a message was received from him.
Agents of the king had already received orders to have a ship in readiness, and should this be done, it was at once to be brought round to Titchfield.
"This seems to me," Jacob said, as, after separating from the king, they rode to Southampton, "to be but poor plotting.

Here has the king been for three months at Hampton Court, and could, had he so chosen, have fixed his flight for any day at his will.

A vessel might have been standing on and off the coast, ready to receive him, and he could have ridden down, and embarked immediately he reached the coast.

As it is, there is no ship and no arrangement, and for aught he knows he may be a closer prisoner in the Isle of Wight than he was at Hampton, while both parties with whom he has been negotiating will be more furious than ever at finding that he has fooled them.