2IO THE HISTORY OF NEWMARKET. [Book IV. 



Chamber brought him to his Audience there. This done, the 

 Ambassador requested me to move the Prince for the honour 

 to kisse his hand. But it was observed, that the demand 

 should be more seasonably made, before the very instant of 

 presenting it. Thereto the Ambassador replied, that he had 

 no spare time for it between that of his Arrival at Court and 

 his immediate repaire to his Majesty, which excuse admitted, 

 he was immediately introduced to his Highnesse in his owne 

 Lodgings." * 



The king left London on January 9, 1619, en route 

 to Newmarket, vid Theobalds and Royston, w^here he 

 jgjg arrived soon after safe and sound, when 

 January— he issued proclamations for the regulation of 

 ale-houses, and for the stricter execution of 

 orders for restraint of killinof and eatlnsf flesh In Lent 

 and on Fridays. On the 24th It was arranged that the 

 Earl of Oxford '^ and Lord Hunsdon '^ were to tilt In 

 lieu of the Prince of Wales and Buckingham. On 

 the 6th of March his Majesty was laid up " with a 

 severe fit of the stone," from which distemper the 

 Lord Chancellor, then at Newmarket, also suffered, 

 which caused the tilting to be postponed.")* On the 

 1 2th his Majesty was able to attend to business, and 

 Issued another proclamation relating to the building 

 trade, by which order timber was forbidden to be used 

 in the fronts of houses. 



■^2 Henry de Vere, i8th Earl OF Oxford, succeeded his 

 father (who dissipated the noble inheritance of his family) in 

 1604. He married Lady Diana Cecil, second daughter of 



* Finetti Philoxenis, London, 1656, p. 32. 



t Tilting and tournaments at Newmarket seem to have been subject 

 to many disappointments. 



