so THE HISTORY OF NEWMARKET. [Book I. 



representative, George Marmaduke AHngton, Esq., of Swin- 

 hope, is also male representative of the old Lords Alington. 

 Sir Giles was succeeded by his eldest son, 



Sir Giles Alington, of Horseheath, High Sheriff of 

 Cambridgeshire in 1530-31, and of Huntingdon in 1545-46. 

 He appears to have attended Henry VHI. as Master of the 

 Ordnance at the siege of Boulogne, by the inscription of a 

 clock which he brought from that siege, and affixed over the 

 offices at Horseheath Hall, in which was the alarm bell of 

 the garrison of Boulogne. 



This Sir Giles sumptuously entertained Queen Elizabeth 

 at Horseheath, during her progress from London to Norwich, 

 in the year 1578. He died in 1586, outliving his son Robert 

 and grandson Giles. 



Giles Alington, son of the last-mentioned Giles, suc- 

 ceeded his great-grandfather, and was knighted by James I., 

 at the Charter-house, London, May 11, 1603. By Dorothy, 

 his wife, daughter of Thomas Cecil, Earl of Leicester, he had 

 issue Thomas, Giles, James, and William, and six daughters. 



Sir Giles Alington, his second, and eldest surviving, 

 son, succeeded him in 1638. He married " a half-sister of one 

 of his nieces (the daughter of his sister, Mrs. Dalton)," for 

 which breach of the forbidden degrees of consanguinity he 

 was fined, in the Star Chamber, ;^ 12,000, his issue declared 

 illegitimate, and he was condemned to do penance at St. 

 Paul's Cross, London, and in St. Mary's church at Cambridge, 

 in 1 63 1 ; the same punishment being inflicted on the lady, who 

 died of the small-pox in 1644.* Sir Edward Peyton asserts 



* The Rev. Joseph Mead, writing from Christ Church College, 

 Cambridge, to Sir Martin Stuteville, May 20, 1631, says: "Sir Giles 

 Alington being stripped of all protection of the Common Law, by eight 

 bishops and four of the other Commissioners [of the Court of High 

 Commission, anglice ' The Old Powdering Tub '] was fined to the King 

 ^12,000; bound in a bond of ^20,000 never to cohabit or come in her 

 private company more ; to be committed to prison, or to put in sufficient 

 bail till both of them have undergone the censure of the court, which 

 enjoins them to do penance both at St. Paul's Cross and at Great St. 

 Mary's, in Cambridge. Besides his father-in-law and brother-in-law, 

 Mr. Dalton was fined ^2000 for having procured the licence, and hardly 



