148 THE HISTORY OF NEWMARKET. [Book IP- 



England France, and Ireland, and of Scotland the Two & 

 Fortith.* 



Half-yearly payments of the rent for the Griffin 

 continued to be paid until the fee simple was purchased 

 in 1610 : — 



" Leonard Beale for a year's rent for the Griffin in New- 

 market. — By Order vltimo Octobris 1608 : To Leonard Beale 

 of Ovsett in the Countie of Essex the summe of tenne pounds 

 being a yearly Rent reserved vnto him out of a Lease of the 

 Griffen in Newmarket in the County of Cambridge by Richard 

 Hammerton and purchased by his Ma'"^ paieable halfyearly 

 by even pro'cons vntill such time as the said Leonard Beales 

 shalbe treated w"' for the purchase therof in Fee simple being 

 his owne inheritance, and due for one whole yeare ended at 

 the Feast of St. Michael th'archangill last past 1608 : f bve. 

 dat xxviij° Julij i6o8.'-wx"." — Pells, Order Book, 1608-9. 

 Vol. viii., p. 28 d. This is repeated sub dato Nov. 24, 1609. 

 Ibid., vol. ix., p. 41 ^. MS. P.R.O. 



The next visit of royalty took place in the spring 

 of 1608. Sir Thomas Lake,*'' the Latin secretary, 

 1608. was in attendance on the king, and it 

 March. seems he had to conduct the correspondence 

 between his Majesty and Salisbury. Thus, on March 

 7th, he enclosed a letter to the minister for Lord 

 Knyvet about taking deer out of St. James's Park,*}* 

 and transacted divers and sundry affairs of state in 

 which we are not interested. 



In the autumn the king again arrived at New- 

 market on a prolonged visit. J On October 14, Sir 



* W^arrant Book, vol. ii., fo. 35 d. 



+ State Papers, Dom., vol. xxxi., No. 71. 



X On Sunday, October 12, the king left London for Newmarket, 



