54 THE HISTORY OF NEWMARKET. [Book I. 



Exning, of the king in capite, by service of one espear 

 per annum.* 



The manor of Wyke's Place belonged to the Slades ; 

 and a manor which lay in this town was in possession 

 of the prior and monks of Thetford. In 1406, William 

 Knight sold to Edmund Eldehall, of Wood Ditton, 

 Esq., and others, all his lands in Newmarket, laying 

 in the manor of the prior of Thetford, called Monks 

 Wyke, which lands, in 1412, were settled by the said 

 Edmund, on the above prior.f 



The alien priory of Neron and Newmarket leased out to 

 farm during the war. 4 Henry VI., A.D. c. 1425. — Rot. Pari., 

 vol. iv., 313 b. 



The alien priory of Newmarket, late belonging to the 

 abbey of St. Ebrolphis in Normandy, granted to the priory 

 of Jesus of Bethlehem, Shene. 38 Henry VI., A.D. c. 1459. — 

 lb., vol. v., p. 365 b. 



Matthew Paris (who was a native of Cambridge- 

 shire) mentions, that when Henry III. besieged and 

 took Northampton, on Passion Sunday, 1264, among 

 the distinguished knight bannerets taken prisoners was 

 Adam de Newmarket, whom the king kept in strict 

 custody. But whether this Adam belonged to our 

 Eden is by no means certain.:]: 



* Page, " Sussex Traveller." t Ibid. 



X Close R. 13 H. 3, m. 13^/. Adam de Novo Mercato, Walter de 

 Soureby, and William de Barton, appointed justices to hear the appeals 

 of Jordan de Riton, John Fatuus, Godfrey de Pickering, and William de 

 Savage, approvers in York jail. 



18 Hen. 3. Close R., m. 27. John de Novo Mercato, official of the 

 Archdeacon of Canterbury, commanded to cause to be restored to him 

 the jewels which a certain chaplain stole from him in his pilgrimage to 

 St. James, which chaplain the said official kept in prison. 



19 Hen. 3. Close R., m. ^d. Adam de Newmarket and five others 

 appointed to receive the aid granted to the king in the co. York. 



