40 THE HISTORY OF NEWMARKET. [Book I. 



well, April 21, 1227 (where the king was then 

 present), a slight difference will be observed — 



f Rico de Argentoein. D'n's Rex concessit Rico de Argen- 

 toein q'd feria qua consuevit hire ap maneriu suu de Novo 

 M'cato vigil' 't die't 1 c'^stino Sci Egidii usq' ad etate diii R. 

 vigil' 't die'' 1 c"stino Aplo^" Simois 't Jude, nisi 'tg. Et mand' 

 est Vic Suff q'd feria ilia clamari 't ten'i faciat sic predcm est. 

 T.R.ap BurewelI,*xxj.dieAp'l. — Rot.Litt. Clans. ,No\.\\.,'^. io6a. 



In 1293 Reginald de Argentine, ist Baron de 

 Argentine obtained the confirmation of the grant made 

 by Henry III. to his predecessor in the year 1227 : — 



" For Reginald de Argentem. The King to the 

 Archbishops etc. greeting. Know ye that we have 

 granted and by this our charter have confirmed to our 

 beloved and faithful Reginald de Argentem that he 

 and his heirs for ever may have a fair at his manor of 

 Newmarket in the county of Suffolk every year to last 

 for eight days namely on the supervigil and on the 

 vigil and on the day and on the morrow of St. Bar- 

 nabas the apostle and during the four days following. 

 And a fair at his manor of Haleswarth' in the county 



* Burwell lies about four miles north-west of Newmarket. Burwell 

 Castle, of which some vestiges remain, was besieged in the reign of King 

 Stephen by Gefifory de Mandeville, Earl of Essex, who lost his life by a 

 wound from an arrow before its walls. The manor of Tiptofts, in this 

 parish, takes its name from the baronial family of Tiptoft, who possessed 

 it in the year 1277, before which time it belonged to the family of Camois. 

 John Tiptoft, Earl of Worcester, died seised of this and other manors in 

 the neighbourhood, in 1470. From the Earl of Worcester, these estates 

 passed by descent to Sir Thomas Lovell, ^emp. Queen Elizabeth. In 

 1632 the property was held by the Marche family ; and about the begin- 

 ning of the present century it belonged to the Earl of Aylesford, whose 

 father acquired it by marriage with the younger daughter of Charles, Duke 

 of Somerset. A memorable and most melancholy incident happened at 

 Burwell in the year 1727, when seventy-nine persons, being spectators at 

 a puppet-show, exhibited in a barn, lost their lives in consequence of a 

 fire which destroyed the building, when the audience were burnt to death. 



