igo THE HISTORY OF NEWMARKET. [Book IV. 



Taken altogether, it must be considered a good joke — for a 

 Scotch king. In 1614 Winwood was made Secretary of State, 

 in which office he continued till his death, which took place 

 October 27, 161 7. During this interval he was a frequent 

 resident in Newmarket. He left a son, who dying without 

 issue in 1688, his estate went to a son of Edward, Earl of 

 Montague, who had married his sister. 



^^ Sir Lionel Cranfield, a merchant of London, and 

 married to a kinswoman of George Villiers, ist Duke of 

 Buckingham, was introduced to the court of James L by that 

 celebrated favourite, when he received the honour of knight- 

 hood, and soon after attracting the attention of the king by 

 his habits of business, he was appointed master of the requests, 

 next master of the king's great wardrobe, then master of the 

 wards, after which he was sworn of the Privy Council, and 

 elevated to the peerage as Baron Cranfield, of Cranfield, co. 

 Bedford, July 9, 1621. In the October following he was con- 

 stituted Lord Treasurer of England, and created, September 

 16, 1622, Earl of Middlesex (the first person, says Dugdale, 

 to whom that county gave the title of earl). Within two 

 short years, however, he was impeached by Parliament through 

 the influence of the very person who was the founder of his 

 fortune, the favourite Buckingham, for bribery, extortion 

 oppression, and other misdemeanours, for which he received 

 judgment. He died in 1645, and notwithstanding his disgrace, 

 was buried in Westminster Abbey, where a monument was 

 erected to his memory. 



^1 Thomas Wotton, 2nd Baron Wotton — son and 

 successor of Sir Edward Wotton, Knight, 1st Baron Wotton, 

 of Maherly or Marley, county Kent, and his wife Hester, 

 daughter and co-heiress of Sir William Puckering, Knight of 

 Oswald-Kirk, county York — succeeded, on the death of his 

 father, circa 1604, to the family honours and estates. He 

 married Mary, daughter and co-heiress of Sir Arthur Throck- 



