2o6 THE HISTORY OF NEWMARKET. [Book IV. 



of knights made by James I. at Newmarket at the end of this 

 Book). Mr. Chamberlain in a famiHar letter to his friend, Sir 

 Dudley Carleton, says : " Here be two or three ships ready for 

 Virginia, and one Captain Yardley, a mean fellow by way of 

 provision, goes as Governor, and to grace him the more the 

 king knighted him this week at Newmarket, which hath set 

 him up so high, that he flaunts it up and down the street in 

 extraordinary bravery, with fourteen or fifteen liveries after 

 him." 



'^'^ Sir Thomas Stukeley (or Stewkley), knighted by 

 James I. at the Charterhouse, London, May ii, 1603, was 

 son and heir of Sir Hugh Stukeley, of March, county Cam- 

 bridgeshire, and Elizabeth, daughter of Richard Chamberlayne, 

 Esq., Alderman of London. He married Elizabeth, daughter 

 and co-heiress of John Goodwin, of Over, Wichingdon, Bucks, 

 by whom he had, with other issue, Hugh Stukeley, created 

 a baronet June 9, 1627. 



'° Sir Albertus (or Albert) Morton, of Kent, was 

 knighted by James I. at Hampton Court, September 29, 161 7. 

 He was elected Scholar at King's College, Cambridge, in 

 1602. He went to Venice as secretary to his uncle, Sir Henry 

 Wotton, when ambassador there, and was afterwards Agent 

 to the Court of Savoy, and with the Princes of the Union in 

 Germany, and in 161 6 Secretary to the Queen of Bohemia. 

 He was at last, for a short time, one of the Secretaries of 

 State, and died in that post in November, 1625. 



In concluding our account of this royal sojourn at 

 Nev^market we must not omit to record that on 

 November 25, Sir John Digby. vice-chamberlain of 

 the king's household, was created by patent Baron 

 Digby of Sherborne, county Dorset. ^^ 



" John, Lord Digby, third son of Sir George Digby (who 

 had been knighted by the Earl of Leicester for his bravery at 



