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Bulbeck ("wherein are certain Heath Grounds, which 

 form a part of Newmarket Eace Ground, commonly 

 called the Beacon Course and Round Course),' and 

 the Swaffham Prior Inclosure Act, wherein mention 

 is made of John Peter Allix, Esq. (of Swaffham House, 

 Cambridgeshire, and a descendant of the celebrated 

 Dr. Peter Allix, a French ecclesiastical refugee in this 

 country), who is described as being * seised of divers 

 lands in Swaffham Prior ' ; and on both occasions 

 when the Acts were passed, as well as when the 

 Exning Inclosure Act of 1807 was passed, the Club 

 (whose members included, as we have seen, many 

 influential hereditary and elective legislators) no doubt 

 was instrumental in taking care that conditions were 

 inserted which provided that certain portions of the 

 lands ' and a space of fifty yards at least in breadth 

 on either side of the course be preserved for ever for 

 racing.' The Club, then, between 1805 and 1808, 

 bought of the aforesaid Mr. J. P. Allix, or his 

 immediate successor, certain of the aforesaid lands 

 of which he was ' seised ' ; other adjacent lands in 

 1808 of a Mr. Salisbury Dunn and a Mr. C. Pember- 

 ton ; and by 1819, partly by buying up Crown pro- 

 perty and partly by exchanging bits of land with the 

 representatives of Pembroke College, Cambridge, be- 

 came practically masters of Newmarket Heath, as 

 proprietors of nearly all the Beacon Course (of which 

 the other courses are but subdivisions or embranch- 

 ments), upwards of four miles in extent. Further 



