Book IL] TEVIOTDALE. 103 



ing horses, and likewise in cards and dice. Yet he 

 was sufficiendy careful of his affairs without doors. 

 Those of a more domestic nature he committed to 

 the care of his wife, and when he had none to his 

 servants, so that he neither increased nor diminished 

 his patrimony." * 



A disturbance at the horse-races of Teviotdale in 

 May, 1 60 1, is mentioned in despatches from George 



Nicholson, dated, Edinburgh, —^^^j 1601, teviotdale. 



June 2,' ' ^«^i- 



to Sir Robert Cecil, t when it seems Lord Roxbourghe 

 and his followers caused the strife. 



There was a " grand " race-course on Spafields, 

 Clerkenwell, from this period till about the accession 

 of the House of Hanover, when it was built Elizabeth. 

 upon, and its site may still be indicated by ^°'^^°^- 

 Exmouth Street and Cobham Row, N. 



Racing, or tilting, appears to have taken place in 

 St. James's Park in November, 1590: — 



" To Richard Brackenburye one of the ordenarye yeu' 

 vshers of her ma** Chamber for thallowaunce of him selfe 

 one yeoman vsher iij*^ yeomen and twoe gromes of the 

 Chamber twoe gromes of the wardrobe and one grome porter 

 for makinge readye a dyninge house at Whitehall for her 

 ma"*^, & for makynge twyce readye to see the Runnynge, 

 & for twice makinge readye the standinge for the Judges 

 in all by the space of viij dayes mense Novembris 1590 . . . 

 vij" xvij-\" X 



* " Domestic Annals of Scotland," by Robert Chambers, vol. i., 

 p. 98. 



t State Papers, Scotland, Eliz., vol. Ixvii., Nos. 53, 58. 



X MSS. Wardrobe Ace. Treas. Chamb. Eliz., bundle 2, m. 152. 



