142 THE HISTORY OF NEWMARKET. [Book III. 



or never, except uppon an extraordinarye cause, have 

 knowne a greater Court of gentlemen then nowe is ; 

 but all of them cannot appease & satisfye the King 

 why a fay re whyte jerfaulkon of his lately flewe awaye, 

 & cannot be heard of againe. But the Court will 

 lessen for a season within these two dayes, for my Lo. 

 Haddington,^^ & all his favorytes, followers, and para- 

 ketts goe shortly to Huntingdon, to a match of hunting 

 that he there hath against my Lo. of Shefeeld's^^ 

 horse : And well maye he afford to lose such a match ; 

 yea better then so poore a man as I to be at cost to 

 trayne & dyet my horse to win one ; by reason that 

 (as I conseve yt) his losing is wining ; for he had a 

 good and a gratiouse makar * in this terrestrial globe ; 

 for he that made him saved and delivered him out of 

 the merchant's books ; yea, yf I heard truth, he being 

 10,000^' deepe lately : But good Lord, yt was well 

 bestowed of him, & the King could doe no lesse for 

 him, he being to match so well as to my Lo. of Sussex, 

 dough ter, which makes a Mayde of Honor weare 

 willowe, and keepe her Christmas in the cuntrye. 



" What is sayde of the famouse howse my Lo. Dunbar 

 ys building at Barwick I cannot heare subscribe ; but 

 surely {adiuwando cand) yt ys, as they saye, the greatest 

 squadron [i.e. quadranglar building] by much in Eng- 

 land ; and of that exceeding heyght, & yet magni- 

 ficent turrents above thay heyght, a goodly front, & 

 a brave p'spect open to the meanest & most distant 

 roome, & that uniforme p'portion everye waye, gene- 



* The king's free-gifts alone to Lord Haddington amounted to 

 -^31,300! 



