'•LEOPARD" AND "LINDEN TREE." 2 , 



as the sequestrators, by a little trouble and inquiry, could have obtained 

 the necessary information from Mr. Gregory Julian, who, as yeoman 

 of the stud, was still in office, although the Marquis of Hamilton, and 

 many of the officials previously mentioned, had ceased to exercise their 

 several duties at erst royal haras. It may be, however, that the omis- 

 sions to which I have referred as occurring in the two contemporary 

 transcripts of this inventory which I have had access to — one in the 

 Record Office, the other in the Victoria Tower, House of Lords — are 

 supplied in the original document preserved among the Marquis of 

 Salisbury's manuscripts at Hatfield, which I have not seen. 



" Such was the state of the king's stud at Tutbury when the inventory 

 was finished, July 27, 1649. Prior to this date, however, a bay horse, 

 three years old, and a black horse, five years old, by Newcastle, had 

 been 'taken up' by Quartermaster Tomlinson. These were returned 

 to the stud, and figure in the inventory at a valuation of thirty pounds 

 each. Colonel Sanders obtained two black horses, five years old, and 

 a bay mare ' with a tanned mussell, 8 years old, with a mare foale,' 

 which remained in his custody, the horses being valued at twenty pounds 

 each, and the mare and foal at sixteen pounds. 



" No time was lost by the authorities in London in taking action as 

 to the future of the ex-royal stud. On July 31 the Council of State at 

 Whitehall had the inventory under consideration, when it was decided 

 that in consequence of the great destruction of horses during the late 

 wars, and as Tutbury was 'the only place in England' where provision 

 could be made of a good breed, and the sale of the stock at this time 

 preserved there would not equal what it amounted to in the way it was 

 then used, the Council determined not to sell off the horses until further 

 consideration. This decision was received with general satisfaction, for 

 the Roundheads liked a good horse as much as the Cavaliers. And it 

 may be noted that in suppressing horse-racing, the Parliamentarians 

 were not actuated by any innate antipathy to the Turf, as they were 

 constrained to do so chiefly owing to the excuse which a projected race 

 meeting presented to the Royalists to assemble, under cover of the sport, 

 to disseminate sedition. Indeed, they but followed the example of 

 the Royalists in that respect, for it is on record that General Sir Jacob 

 Astley suppressed a race meeting at Berwick in the spring of 1 639, 

 which was projected by the Scotch Covenanters chiefly as a rendezvous 

 to mass their forces in a favorable position to resist the king's army. 



" Turning from this digression to the vicissitudes of the royal stud at 

 Tutbury in 1649, the next thing we hear of it was when the House of 



