144 THE HISTORY OF NEWMARKET. [Book III. 



It is very probable that during those early visits 

 of the king to Newmarket the court was held at 

 the inn known by the sign of The Griffin, which sub- 

 sequently became by purchase the property of James L, 

 and probably the site of the royal palace of aftertimes. 

 It is traditionally alleged that the palace arose from a 

 house in the town given, or sold, to the king by Sir 

 Robert Cecil, ist Earl of Salisbury. At any rate the 

 earliest reliable notice of the palace, court-house, 

 chief messuage, or house as it has been variously 

 desienated, is in the accounts of the Public Works and 

 Buildings for the year 1609.* 



^ Lancelot Andrews, D.D., was elected Bishop of Chi- 

 chester, October 16, 1605. In 1609 he was translated to the See 

 of Ely, and installed as its bishop, September 22 of that year. 

 He is said to have laid out i^2000 in repairs of Ely House, 

 Holborn, London, the palace at Ely, Downham Manor, and 

 Wisbeach Castle. In 16 19 he was translated to the Bishopric 

 of Winchester, and died at his palace in Southwark, Sep- 

 tember 25, 1626. He was at the head of that school of 

 divines in the English Church which maintained Catholic 

 doctrines, of which Laud was the most conspicuous defender. 



^■^ Sir George Chaw^ORTH, Knight, of Annesley and 

 Wiverton, county Nottingham — only son of John Chaworth, 

 Esq., of Cophill Bulter (a descendant of the old feudal Lords 

 Chaworth), and Jane, daughter of David Vincent, Esq., of 

 Stoke D'Abernon, county Surrey, and Bernade, county North- 

 ampton — was knighted by James I., at Greenwich, May 29, 

 1605, and created a peer of Ireland as Baron Chaworth, of Trim, 

 county Meath, and Viscount Chaworth, of Armagh, March 4, 

 1627-8. He married Mary, daughter of Thomas Kayveston, 



* See post. Richard Hamerton was appointed keeper of "the 

 king's house at Newmarket," April 20, 160S. — Docque Book, sub data, 

 MSS., P. R. O. 



