i8o THE HISTORY OF NEWMARKET. [Book IV. 



ing day the king dined with Lord Gerard, when, let 

 us hope, " the salmon disagreed with him." If parsi- 

 monious to the poor fishermen, King James was 

 prodigal to his favourites ; Somerset ^^ sent to the 

 Tower, Buckingham created a duke, and " elected into 

 the order of the Garter ;"* the Earl of Rutland ^^ being 

 also honoured with the promise of the Blue Ribbon ; 

 while Sir Edward Brabazon " and Sir Garrett Moore ^^ 

 were elevated to the peerage, the former with the 

 title of Baron Brabazon of Ardee, the latter as Baron 

 Moore of Melfont. Such were the doughty deeds done 

 at Newmarket during this Spring Meeting ; unfortu- 

 nately, they have eclipsed the ordinary affairs of sport 

 thereat occurring.^ 



In November and December the king again 



honoured Newmarket with visits, when some changes 



took place in the keepership of the Palace 



November. ^ i r 



and the New Warren. The Duchess of 

 Guise wrote for renewal of permission for her people 

 of Eu and Treport, to fish with four boats on the 

 coasts of the Cinque Ports, which was graciously 

 granted, on condition that it should not be a pretext 

 for others to fish, or employ improper nets, otherwise 

 the licences to be forfeited. J 



Mr. Secretary Winwood,^^ in a despatch to Sir 

 Dudley Carleton, dated Whitehall, November 26, 

 1616, says: "Here hath nothing happened, but the 



* Technically this is a mistake on the part of the intelligencer. 

 George Villiers was made a baron and viscount by patent, dated August 

 22, 1616, and installed K.G. in July same year. 



t State Papers, Dom., vol. Ixxxvi. ; " The Court and Times of 

 James I.," vol. i. % Ibid. 



