86 THE HISTORY OF NEWMARKET. [Book II. 



34^-. was expended on a stand (which can hardly be 

 termed " grand ") for the use of her Majesty during 

 the meeting.'" She was also present in 1587,! and 

 again in 1588, when similar accommodation was pro- 

 vided on the course for her to see the races.J 



" These two years, in March, there was a race run 

 with horses, at the furthest three miles from Sarum, at 

 Salisbury, which were divers noble personages, whose 

 c. 1585. names are underwritten, and the Earl of 

 Cumberland won the golden bell, which was valued at 

 ^50 and better, the which Earl is to bring the same 

 again next year, which he promised to do, upon his 

 honour, to the mayor of this city. 



" The Earl of Cumberland," the Earl of Warwick,^^ 

 the Earl of Pembroke,^^ the Earl of Essex,'"^*^ 

 the Lord Chandos,-^ the Lord Thomas Howard, 

 the Lord William Howard,^- Sir Walter 

 Hungerford,-^ Sir John Danvers,'* Sir Thomas 

 Wroughton,-^ Sir William Courtenay,"^ Sir 

 Matthew Arundell,^^ Mr. Thomas George,^^ 

 of Her Majesty's Privy Council, with divers 

 others." § 

 " During the stay of the Earl of Essex, he gave 



* "To Frauncs Coote for thallowance of him selfe for makinge 

 readye a standinge for her ma"° at the horse race at Croydon, by the 

 space of ij days mens. Aprilis 1585 . . . xxxiv'." — Wardrobe Accounts, 

 Treasurer of the Chamber, box F, bundle 2, m. 64, 65. The " Bishoppes 

 house at Croydon" was made ready at a cost to her Majesty of ^8 i^s. \d. 



t Similar expenses occurred during this visit. — Ibid., m. 91. 



+ The Apparelers were engaged six days making ready the Archie- 

 piscopal Palace : also a standing " against the runninge of the horses 

 there xxxixs."— /^^/V/., m. 105, MS. P.R.O. 



§ Records of the Corporation of Salisbury, quoted by Sir Richard 

 Colt Hoare, Bart., in " Hist. Wilts," vol. vi., p. 294. 



