2i6 THE HISTORY OF NEWMARKET. [Book IV. 



too lone, in his return from Newmarket, was forced 

 to put in at an inn at Wichfordbridge, by reason 

 of his being indisposed, and came very late in the 

 night to Royston." * As usual at Newmarket, knights 

 and peers were created, among the latter Lord Scott 

 Buccleuch,^^ Lord Binning,^^ and Viscount of Fenton ^^ 

 were advanced to the title of earLf 



^^ Walter Scott, 2nd Baron of Buccleuch, created at New- 

 market, March 16, 16 19, Lord Whitchester and Eskdale, and 

 Earl of Buccleuch, with remainder to his heirs whatso- 

 ever. He was a mihtary character, and had the command 

 of a regiment under the States of Holland, against the 

 Spaniards. He married Lady Mary Hay, daughter of Francis, 

 Earl of ErroU. He died in 1633. 



^* Sir Thomas Hamilton, of Priestfield, eldest son of Sir 

 Thomas Hamilton, who obtained a charter for Balbyn, Drum- 

 cairn, and Priestfield, in the year 1597, and Elizabeth, daughter 

 of James Heriot, of Trabroun, was born in 1563. He studied 

 the law in France, was admitted advocate in 1587, and soon 

 distinguished himself at the bar ; and was appointed Lord of 

 Session in 1592, by the title of Lord Drumcairn. He was 

 subsequently one of the commissioners of the Treasury of 

 Exchequer, called Octavians, and king's advocate. In 1604 

 he was nominated a commissioner by Parliament to treat of 

 a union with England. In 1612 he was received Lord-Clerk- 

 Register of Scotland ; and in the same year succeeded Sir 

 Alexander Hay as Secretary of State. He was elevated to 



* The queen's jewels were valued at ^400,000 ; her plate at ;^9o,ooo ; 

 her ready coin consisted of 80,000 Jacobus-pieces, besides cloth of gold 

 and silver, and silks and linen "for quality and quantity beyond any 

 prince in Europe." By her death the king saved ^60,000, the annual 

 cost of her household, servants, and stables, besides her jointure of 

 ;^i3,ooo (Birch MS., 4174). 



t Nichols, " Progress of King James," vol. iii., p. 532 ; Camden's 

 "Annals ;" Goodman's " Court of James L," vol. ii., p. 186. 



