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distant sixty miles from London, and thirteen east from 

 Cambridge, and is in the rural deanery of Fordham, arch- 

 deaconry of Sudbury, and diocese of Ely. Under the new 

 Redistribution of Seats Act, the Newmarket division of 

 Cambridgeshire is entitled to return one member of 

 Parliament. 



*Adomarus de Valentia, Comes Pembrochiae, as he is called 

 in the royal mandamus, was Aymer de Valence, 2nd Earl 

 OF Pembroke, third son and successor of William de 

 Luzignan, otherwise De Valence, Earl of Pembroke, killed 

 in battle in France, A.D. 1296. Aymer, the 2nd Earl, was in 

 the wars of Scotland, temp. Edward I., and obtained consider- 

 able grants from the crown in that kingdom. Being with the 

 king at Burgh-upon-the-Sands, immediately before the death 

 of Edward I., he was one of those to whom the king recom- 

 mended his son, and enjoined him not to suffer Piers de 

 Gaveston to come into England again, for which he was 

 ever after much hated by Piers, " being called by him 

 ' Joseph the Jew,' in regard he was tall and pale of counte- 

 nance." He subsequently joined the coalition against the 

 power of Gaveston, and assisted at the siege of Scarborough 

 Castle, in which, upon its surrender, the favourite was made 

 prisoner, and was soon after beheaded, by order of the Earl 

 of Warwick, at Blackburn Hill, near Warwick. In the 8th 

 Edward H., the Earl of Pembroke was constituted general 

 of all the king's forces, from the river Trent, northwards, to 

 Roxborough, and he obtained license to make a castle of his 

 house at Bampton, in Oxfordshire. Two years later he was 

 again in the Scottish wars, but being made prisoner in his 

 journey towards the court of Rome, by John Moilley, a 

 Burgundian, and sent to the emperor, he was constrained to 

 give twenty thousand pounds of silver for his ransom ; by 

 reason, Moilley alleged, that he himself, having served the 

 king of England, had not been paid his wages. After 

 obtaining his liberty, his lordship returned to the wars in 

 Scotland, and for several subsequent years was engaged in 

 that kingdom. In the 15th Edward II. he was one of the 



