go THE HISTORY OF NEWMARKET. [Cook IT. 



park of Wedgenock was granted, in 1601, by Queen Elizabeth 

 to Sir Fluke Greville, to whom, in four years afterwards, 

 James I. likewise granted the Castle of Warwick with the 

 gardens and dependencies. This Sir Fluke Greville was 

 descended through his grandmother, Elizabeth, one of the 

 daughters and co-heirs of Lord Beau champ, of Powyk, from 

 the old Beauchamps, Earls of Warwick ; and from him have 

 sprung the existing Earls of Brooke and Warwick. 



^9 Henry Herbert, 2nd Earl of Pembroke, K.G., 

 succeeded his father, William Herbert, the ist Earl, on March 

 17, 1569-70. He married, 1st, Catherine, daughter of Henry 

 Grey, Duke of Suffolk, from whom he was divorced ; 2ndly, 

 Catherine, daughter of George, Earl of Shrewsbury, but by 

 that lady had no issue ; and Srdly, Mary, daughter of Sir 

 Henry Sydney, K.G., by whom he had two sons and a 

 daughter. He died January 19, 1600-1, and w^as succeeded 

 by his eldest son, Wilham, 3rd Earl, K.G., chancellor of the 

 university of Oxford, and lord-chamberlain of the household, 

 who married Mary, daughter of Gilbert, Earl of Shrewsbury, 

 and co-heir to the Baronies of Talbot, Strange, Blackmere, 

 and Furnival, but died without surviving issue, April 10, 1630, 

 when the honours of his family devolved upon his brother 

 Philip, 4th Earl of Pembroke and ist Earl of Montgomery. 



2" Robert Devereux, 2nd Earl of Essex, who was a 

 prominent patron of the Turf and staunch supporter of the 

 old Sarum meetings, was born on the loth of November, 1567, 

 at Netherwood, his father's seat in Herefordshire. He was 

 educated at Cambridge, where he took the degree of M.A. in 

 1583, but soon after retired to his villa venatica, Lampsie, in 

 South Wales, where he spent some time, and became so 

 enamoured with his rural retreat that he was with difficulty 

 prevailed on to quit it. The earl was an expert horseman, 

 saw service abroad, distinguished himself at the battle of 

 Sutphen, fought in 1586, and soon after his return to England 

 was made Master of the Horse. Two years later we find 



