34 THE HISTORY OF NEWMARKET. [Book I. 



A similar event was prohibited in 131 3, when the 

 king warned his nobles generally, and seven of them 

 by name, not to attend the tournament at " Novum 

 Mercatum," on the 17th of January of that year. 

 Among those " named " were the Earl of Pembroke,* 

 the Earl of Gloucester and Hertford,^ the Earl of 

 Surrey,^ Paganus de Tybotot, William de Latimer, 

 and Bartholomew de Badelesmere.* 



Holinshed, in referring to the great floods and 

 inundations which happened in England in 1393, 

 says that at Newmarket the deluge knocked down 

 the walls of houses and brought men and women 

 in great danger of drowning.^ 



Margaret of Anjou, Queen of Henry VI., was at 

 Newmarket early in the year 1453, when she gave 

 two men, whose stable was burnt down, £1-^ 6^-. 8«f.J 



In those days the road towards Newmarket was 

 well known to the pilgrims to the shrine of Our Lady 

 of Walsingham.§ 



The town of Newmarket is divided into two parishes, 

 All Saints' and St. Mary's, the former being in Chiveley 

 hundred, Cambridgeshire, and the latter in Lackford hundred, 

 Suffolk, the High street dividing the two counties. It is 



* Reymer's " Foedera " and " Calendar of Patent Rolls." 



t Mr. H. T. Riley, editor of Walsingham's "Ypodigma Neustris " (p. 

 365), with reference to the " great inundations at Bury and Newmarket " 

 in 1393, gives the following reading of the text : " Aquarum inundatio 

 apud Bury tanta ruit, ut aream adimpleret ecclesice, et apud Novum 

 Forum parietes domorum dirueret, et viris illic, ac mulieribus, pene 

 periculum dimersionis inferret, in Octobrio." 



X Strickland, " Lives of the Queens of England," vol. ii., p. 209. 



§ The stages between London and Walsingham used to be as 

 follows : — From London to Ware, 20 miles ; to Newmarket, 34 miles ; to 

 Brandon Ferry, 10 miles ; to Dickham, 10 miles ; and thence to 

 Walsingham, 12 miles. Total 86 miles. 



