212 THE HISTORY OF NEWMARKET. [Book IV. 



he gave instructions that the enclosure should be 

 maintained and used as a fresh pasture for the 

 royal deer during the winter half of the year only. 

 About this time Buckingham was appointed to the 

 office of Lord High Admiral of England. On the 

 30th, Mr. Chamberlain records that the king was not 

 expected in London for some days : "His Majesty 

 went lately from Newmarket to Sir Nicholas Bacon's 

 to hawk," * and it is probable the royal visitors 

 returned to London the following day.f 



On the 15th of February the king returned to 



Newmarket, with a small retinue ; the Prince of Wales 



forbore the journey, in order to train for 



February. 



running at the ring: his Royal Highness 

 having this year, for the first time, entered the lists as 

 a tilter.J 



The principal tilters, about this date, were the 



Duke of Lennox, the Earl of Pembroke, the Earl of 



_,.,^. Arundel, the Earl of Rutland, the Earl of 



Tilting. ' ' 



James I. Dorset, the Earl of Montoromery, Lord 



c. 1619. 



Clifford, Lord Howard de Walden, Lord 



* This was, probably, Culford in Suffolk, where the king went hawk- 

 ing with Sir Nicholas in February, 1613-14. It is situated about twelve 

 miles from Newmarket and four from Bury St. Edmunds. It was part 

 of the possessions of the Abbey of Bury, and was granted to Sir Nicholas 

 Bacon, afterwards Lord Keeper, in the 36 Henry VIII. His son, 

 Sir Nicholas, erected a mansion there in 1591, and lived in it for 

 some years. The latter gentleman was the first baronet created, when 

 James I. devised that dignity to raise the wind, which Lord Bacon 

 estimated to yield ;^66,666 per annum. Baronetcies varied in price from 

 ;!^5oo to ^2000 each. 



t State Papers, Dom., vol. cv., passim. 



X Birch MSS., 4176. The prince evidently trained to some purpose, 

 as Camden says his Royal Highness, on March 12, ran twelve courses 

 at the ring, and got all the praise. 



