1615.] ENTERING A NEW MINISTER. 173 



— Posthumous present of hawks from James I. to Louis XIII.— 

 Expenses and account of their transmission to France — The ninety- 

 nine knights of Newmarket created during the sojourns of the King 

 — Contemporary opinions upon the knights and baronets of the 

 period — Lord Baltimore. 



On January 12, 1615, the king left London for 

 Newmarket, where the court was located, on and off, 

 until March 22nd. During this royal visit jamesi. 

 the Marquis of Brandenburg was entertained Newmarket. 



^ ^ , Royal 



at the palace at a cost of ^125 \s. S^ci^* On sojourns, 

 the igth, Sir Dudley Norton was knighted ^^ — ^^^^ — -^ 

 at Newmarket, "whither he went to take January— 

 his leave at his going over to Ireland." f On ^^^^^• 

 the first day of the ensuing month, Mr. Secretary 

 Win wood paid his first official visit to Newmarket, 

 where he was obliged to consult the king on affairs of 

 state. The journey down was made in a fearful storm 

 of snow, and was doubtless anything but a pleasing 

 reminiscence to the minister, who, it seems, was not 

 prepared for such an inclement passage. He was, 

 however, better prepared for his journey back, as he 

 left Newmarket on the morning of February 8th, and 

 arrived in London " in a day," after " a sore journey, 

 as the ways are ; but he had coaches laid for him in 

 three places." J 



* Cofferers Aces., Series II., box E., Rot. 71, MS., P.R.O. 



t Birch MS., Add., 4173. 



X Mr. Chamberlain to Sir Dudley Carleton, London, Feb. 9, 1614-15, 

 Birch MS., 4173. Of the hard winter of this year, see Howe's Abridgement 

 of Stow's Chronicle, 8vo edit., 161 8, by which it appears the severity of 

 the frost and snow was extreme, and continued almost without change 

 until the first week in March, " by meanes whereof much cattle perished, 

 as calves and lambs, deer and conies, etc. The snow brought extreme 

 danger to travellers. After this snow thawed, there followed inundations 

 great and violent, which did great spoil and damage." 



