88 THE HISTORY OF NEWMARKET. [Book IL 



years together, so that at length, for two or three years before 

 his death, they parted houses, to her extreme grief and sorrow, 

 and also to his extreme sorrow at the time of his death ; for 

 he died a very penitent man, in the duchy-house, called the 

 Savoy, 30 October, 1605, aged 47 years, 2 months, and 22 days, 

 being born at Brougham Castle, 8 Augt. 1558." * 



* Burke's "Dormant and Extinct Peerages," ed. 1866, p. 123. For 

 accounts of his voyages "vide " Purchas Plis Pilgrimes," part iv. Lond. 

 1625, fo. — On one occasion he missed, by three or four days, the Spanish 

 fleet at the Island of Fayael, where they discharged " fortie millions of 

 gold and silver " which he might have captured, " as the Spaniards them- 

 selves confessed," instead of the small galleon which he took which was 

 valued at only ;^i 50,000. Politically he was Ultramontain, and at one 

 time in league with the Northern Lords (who, like himself, were addicted 

 to the chase and the Turf) concerning the plot to depose Elizabeth and 

 to place Maiy Queen of Scots on the throne (see Froude, chaps, xvii., 

 xviii.). " Malgre les richesses immenses conquises par Clifford, la con- 

 struction et I'armement de ses vaisseaux, son gout pour les joutes et les 

 courses de chevaux lui firent dissiper une partie de son patrimonie. II 

 mourut en 1605." — Biegi'aphie Universelli., Paris, 181 3. " He sold much 

 land at Rotherham and Malton to the Earl of Shrewsbury and others, and 

 to Sir Michael Stanupp, so that he consumed more of his Estate than 

 [ever] any of his Ancestors did by much, to which his continual building 

 of ships, and his many sea voyages, gave great occasion to these Vast 

 cxpences of his, and that which did contribute the more to the consuming 

 of his estate, was his extream love to Horse-races, Tiltings, Bowling 

 matches. Shooting, and all such expensive sports . . . Queen Elizabeth 

 made him Knight of the most noble Order of the Garter, and made him her 

 Champion at all the Tiltings from the 35th year of her reigne till her Death, 

 for in those exercises of Tilting, Turnings and Courses of the field, he did 

 excell all the nobility of his time . . . Also K. James, her Successor, 

 made this George Earl of Cumberland, one of his Privy Counsell and 

 Conferred some gifts of profit upon him in part of recompence for the 

 great Service he had done in England in his many Sea Voyages — A 

 Summary of the Vetriponts, Cliffords and Earls of Cu/nberland and of 

 the Lady An?ie^ Countess Dowager of Petnbroke, Dorsett, and Moittgomery^ 

 &=€. Daughter and Heir to George Clifford, Earl of Cund)erland, iti whom 

 ye Name of the said Cliffords Determi}ied ! " — Harleian MS., 6177, fo. 98. 



After the death of the second Earl of Cumberland, in 1572, in an 

 inventory of his effects, etc., at Skipton Castle, the following horses and 

 geldings are mentioned, with a valuation attached to each : Young Marc- 

 antony, stoned, ^16; Grey Clyfiford, ^11 ; Whyte Dacre, ^10; Sorrell 

 Tempest, ^4 ; Whit Tempest, ^5 ; Baye Tempest, ^^5 ; Baye Myddleton, 

 £\ ; Mayres and ther followers, 11 ; Carthorses, 10. 



Mr. Morant remarks — " With respect to the earl's stud of horses, there 



