226 THE HISTORY OF NEWMARKET. [Book IV. 



for a Maske there viij daies Menss. Janur et ffebr i6i9[-2o] 

 etc. (m. 115 d). 



To William Holmes in the behalfe of diverse Preachers 

 for the Sermons preached before his Ma*^ in his hunting 

 Journeys at Royston Hinchinbrooke and Newmarkett from 

 the first of October 16 18 to the first of March following by 

 warraunte of the xxv*'^ of June 1620 Ixx'' (m. 121 d). 



To Sir Robert Vernon keeper of his Ma'* house at New- 

 markete for hire of a Carte to carry away soile and rubbish 

 by reason of building there by warraunte of the iiij"^ of 

 November 1620 Ixvj* viij'^ (m. 122 d'). — Wardrobe Aces,, 

 bundle 4, m. 100. 



For xiij dz di of gold open lace for a skie coullor mask- 

 ing suite sent to Newmarket at vij* pr iiij^' xiiij* . vj*^. — 

 Account of Viscount Purbeck, Master of the Wardrobe to 

 the high and mightie Prince Charles, Prince of Wales, etc., 

 fo. 21, MS., P.R.O. 



^^ Henry Montagu, Baron Kimbolton, Viscount Mandevil, 

 and Earl of Manchester, was grandson of Edward Montagu, 

 of Huntington, Northamptonshire, Speaker of the House of 

 Commons temp. Henry VHL, Chief Justice of the Court 

 of Common Pleas temp. Queen Mary, being the third son of 

 Edward, his eldest son, who was seated at Broughton, North- 

 amptonshire, and sheriff of that county and its representa- 

 tive in Parliament, by his wife Elizabeth, daughter of Sir 

 James Harington, of Exton, in the county of Rutland. He 

 was born at Broughton about 1553, and showed so much 

 intelligence that even at school it was prognosticated " that 

 he would raise himself above the rest of his family." On 

 November 16, 16 16, he was selected to succeed Sir Edward 

 Coke as Chief Justice of the Court of King's Bench, He is 

 said to have procured this appointment by consenting to give 

 the Duke of Buckingham's nominee the clerkship of the 

 Court of King's Bench, worth ^4000 a year, which Coke, in 

 whose gift it was, refused to part with, although by doing 

 so he might have retained his office. Montagu did not long 

 rest satisfied with the place of Chief Justice. He aimed still 



