203 THE HISTORY OF NEWMARKET. [Book IV. 



The following year the king went to Newmarket 



on January 14, and remained there until February 



1618 ^7' when the court returned to London.* 



January— During the interval a list of tilters to 



FGbm&rv. 



compete on the 24th of March, was 

 drawn up by the king, and forwarded by Mr. Secre- 

 tary Naunton to the Earl of Suffolk " and the rest 

 of the Lords Commissioners for Causes Martiall." j" 



Another royal visit took place in November, when 

 the court was " very merry," and some quaint inci- 

 dents occurred. A feast was held at a 



November. 



farmhouse in the vicinity of the town, to 

 celebrate the birthday of the Prince of Wales, "to 

 which the king and each present brought a dish." J 



Concerning this extemporized banquet, which was 

 held in celebration of the birthday of Charles, Prince 

 of Wales, Mr. Chamberlain wrote as follows to Sir 

 Dudley Carleton ; — " We hear nothing from New- 

 market, but that they devise all the means they can to 

 make themselves merry ; as of late there was a feast 

 appointed at a farm house not far off, whither every 

 man should bring his dish. The king brought a great 

 chine of beef, the Marquis of Hamilton ^^ four pigs 

 incircled with sausages, the Earl of Southampton ^^ two 

 turkies, another six partridges, and one a whole tray 

 full of buttered eggs ; so all passed off pleasantly." 



Philip Mainwaring^^ writing to the Earl of Arundel from 

 Newmarket, November 22, gives the following additional par- 



* State Papers, Dom., vol. xcv., xcvi. 



t See Nichols' " Progress of James I.," vol. iii., p. 472. 



+ State Papers, Dom., vol. xcv., xcvi. 



