64 THE HISTORY OF NEWMARKET. [Book II. 



The following orders were issued by the municipal 



authorities at Chester, in the 31st year of Henry VIII., 



for the encouragement of archery and the 

 Chester. 



regulation of the sports on Shrove Tuesday, 

 which took place in the presence of the mayor and 

 aldermen, and owed their success in a great degree to 

 the drapers', saddlers', and shoemakers' companies. 

 It is recorded in the memorandum, "That the said 

 occupaciouns of shoumacres, which alwayez time out 

 of mannez remembraunce haue geuen and deliuered 

 yearely upon teusday comonly cauled Shrofe teuesday, 

 otherwyse Gowddesday, at afternone of the same, 

 vnto the drapers afore the mayre of the citie, at the 

 Cros vpon the Rode-hee, one bale of lether cauled a 

 fout baule, of the value of iii.6-. iiii.^., or aboue, to 

 pley at from thens the comon baule of the said citie. 

 And further at pleasure of euille disposed persons, 

 wherefore hath ryssen grete inconuenynce &c. — From- 

 hensforth shall yerelye vpon the said Tuesday geue 

 and delyuer vnto the said drapers afore the mayre of 

 the said citie for the tyme being at the said playes and 

 tyme, six gleaues of siluer, to the value of euery of 

 them v\d., or aboue at the discretion of the drapers, 

 and the mayre of the said citie for the tyme being. 

 To whome shall run the best and furthest upon foot 

 befor them upon the said Rode-hee that day or anye 

 other daye after at the Drapers pleasure with the over- 

 syght of the Mayer for the tyme beyng ; and allso that 

 the said occupacion of saddlers within the said citie 

 which be all the same tyme of no man's remembraunce 

 haue geuin and delyuered yerelye the said place and 



