Book II.] HENRY VIII. 59 



Earl of Essex — The gold bell given by the Earl of Pembroke — 

 Memoirs of the Earls of Pembroke, Cumberland., Essex, Warwick, 

 Lords Chandos, Thomas and Williain Howard j Sir Walter 

 Hungerford, John Danvers, Thomas Wroughton, William Courte- 

 nay, Mathew Artttidel, and other supporters of the meeting — 

 Doncaster — The meeting established — The stand — Is ordered to be 

 pulled down — The course on Wheatlay Moor — Huntingdon — The 

 races " invented " — The first meeting — The silver bell — Won by Sir 

 Oliver Cromwell — The race — Incidents — Sir Oliver Cromwell — 

 Richmond (Yorkshire) — The first meeting in 1576 — The cup — 

 CarHsle — The silver-gilt bell — Won by Sir William Dacre — De- 

 scription of the prize — The Turf in Scotland — The Border meetings 

 — Haddington — Peebles — Dumfries — Solway Sands — The fathers of 

 the Turf in Scotland — Lord Hamilton — David Home — Teviotdale — 

 Disturbance at the meeting— Racing in London — The metropolitan 

 courses — Conjectures concerning other race-meetings — Popularity of 

 rural sports in the Elizabethan era — Bishop Hall's comments on 

 the Turf — Thoroughbred stallions fed on eggs and oysters — Lord 

 Herbert's animadversions on racing — Allusions to the popularity and 

 the iniquities of the Turf — Shakespeare's allusions to horse-racing — 

 Markham's book on horses — His references to race-horses — Describes 

 the Arabian — His rules for training race-horses — Food and exercising 

 — How to finally prepare a horse for his race — Stable secrets — Going 

 to the post — The last injunction — Che sara sara — Gervase Mark- 

 ham — Horse-bread — How made — Statutes relating thereto — Queen 

 Elizabeth's racing establishment — Her Barbary steeds — Number of 

 race-horses in training — Her jockeys — Their wages and emoluments 

 — The royal studs and stables — John Selwyn's equestrian feat — 

 Holinshed's description of horses and horse-breeding in England at 

 this period — Sir Nicholas Arnold's celebrated stud — Statutes relating 

 to horse-breeding — How enforced — Newmarket : The town and 

 its vicinity in the sixteenth century — Value of land and houses during 

 this period — The popular inns— The last will and testament of 

 Simon Folkes, junior — Malting — The taxes— Amounts paid by the 

 inhabitants temps. Henry VIII., Edward VI., and Elizabeth— The 

 names of the residents and the business pursued by them about this 

 period — Value of church property in the town in the reign of 

 Henry VIII. — Imprisonment of Queen Elizabeth, when Princess 

 Royal, at Kirtling — Probability that she was a frequent visitor to 

 Newmarket in those days. 



In the Privy Purse expenses of Henry VIII. we 

 find mention of various sums of money given in 

 reward to servants or grooms by whom horses were 

 brought to Eltham, Windsor, and elsewhere to com- 



