234 THE HISTORY OF NEWMARKET. [Book IV. 



By patents dated Newmarket, February 2, 162 [-2, 

 William Crichton, 7th Lord Crichton, of Sanquhar,®^ 

 was advanced to the title of Viscount Air ; and Sir 

 Andrew Kerr (or Carr), of Fernihurst, was created 

 Lord Jedburgh''* in the peerage of Scotland.* 



^^ Sir Richard Graham, Knight, Gentleman of the Horse to 

 James I., was created a baronet, March, 1629, by the style of Sir 

 Richard Graham, of Esk, county Cumberland. He purchased 

 Netherby and the barony of Liddell, in the same county, of 

 Francis, Earl of Cumberland. Sir Richard subsequently dis- 

 tinguished himself under the royal banner, particularly at 

 Edgehill, where he was severely wounded, and lay among 

 the slain for an entire night. As we have frequently seen, he 

 was an habitue at Newmarket, and a prominent patron of the 

 turf Early in the seventeenth century he married Catherine, 

 daughter and co-heiress of Sir Thomas Musgrave, of Cumcatch, 

 Cumberland, and "having," says Hutchinson, "took, in 1648, 

 a solemn adieu of the king in the Isle of Wight," he died in 

 1653. His descendant, the present Sir Richard Graham, Bart., 

 member of the Jockey Club, worthily represents his valiant 

 predecessor. 



^^ William Crichton, 7th LORD Crichton of SAN- 

 QUHAR, succeeded to that title on the death of his cousin- 

 german Robert, the 6th lord, who, in a fencing-match with 

 one John Turner, a master of that art, was deprived of an 

 eye. The loss, which he confessedly brought upon himself, 

 induced him in May, 161 2, to hire two of his distinguished 



favourite " preacher for the hunting journeys " the controversional work 

 " Tortura Torti"was elaborated at Newmarket. Andrewes was born at 

 London in 1555 ; educated at Pembroke Hall, Cambridge ; chaplain in 

 ordinary to Queen Elizabeth ; ditto and sporting preacher to James I. ; 

 appointed Bishop of Chichester, November 3, 1605 ; translated to Ely, 

 September 22, 1609 ; nominated to the Privy Council, and attended James 

 in his progress to Scotland, in J617 ; translated to Winchester, February 

 18, 1618 ; ob. September 25, 1626, cet. 71. 



* Nichols, " Progress of James I.," vol. iv. page 752. 



