sporting ami Rural Records of the Cheveley Estate. 107 



Tregonwell 

 Frampton. 



cliaryr, including the maintenance of boys and their lodging ; and Saxtox Hall. 

 provision of hay, oats, bread, and all other necessaries for the 

 horses. In the absence of official evidence it is, therefore, 

 impossible to ascertain precisely in what year Mr. Frampton 

 obtained the post of Governor or Keeper of King's Racehorses at 

 Newmarket.* As there is no doubt of his having been paid 

 about the year 1695 £\g'2. igs. 8d. " for settling the establishment 

 of the racehorses at the Green Cloth and Avery and for a plate 

 [to be run for] at Newmarket," through the office of the Master 

 of the Horse to William III. (Henry D'Auverquerque, Duke of 

 Nassau), we may assume he was nominated or actually appointed 

 to the place in question at this time. Still, if we deduct 

 100 guineas for the plate abovementioned, and if it was a King's 

 Plate (perse) of the value of 100 guineas {^£10^ 10s.), there 

 would only remain £S^ gs. 8if. for Mr. Frampton to take; and that 

 amount or balance may only represent a disbursement to him for 

 his pains and trouble in attending at the offices of the Green Cloth 

 for the purposes mentioned, and would thus be distinct from his 

 remuneration as Governor or Keeper of the King's Racehorses at 

 Newmarket. At the same time, only £60 or thereabouts might 

 have been allocated to this plate, which, according to an announce- 

 ment or advertisement in the London Gazette, October 17, 1695, 

 was " a plate of above ;^6o value," and to be run for at New- 

 market, " on Thursday, the 24th instant ; gentlemen to ride ; three 

 heats ; 1 1 stone. Any horse may put in for it, paying 5 guineas, 

 except a horse known by the name of Headpiece." It is, more- 

 over, doubtful if this ;^6o was supplied by the Treasury, or that 

 the Plate was a King's Plate {per se), for which no horse, mare, or 

 gelding, duly qualified, could be barred. In Luttrell's " Diary" it is 

 called the " Town Plate," and it is said that Mr. Frampton won it 

 with the King's horse. In the Post Boy, October 19-22, 1695, it is 



He acts 

 officially. 



* The Accounts of the Cofferer in the R.O. series are very imperfect. There 

 is (or used to be) a set of them at the ofBcc of the Green Cloth, Buckingham Palace, 

 which is also imperfect. 



