238 THE HISTORY OF NEWMARKET, [Book IV. 



will borrow all the money they have," which made 

 Tyburn and Wapping *' have so many hangers-on." 

 He adds that when these young gallants had effected 

 a robbery on Newmarket Heath, in case the hue and 

 cry came too hotly after them, they posted to London, 

 and there got themselves arrested for a small debt, and 

 by lying in prison "until the matter cools," escaped 

 detection, " for who would look into such a place 

 for such offendors ? " * 



The manuscript accounts of Sir Richard Graham, 

 as Gentleman of the Horse f to George Villiers, 

 Duke of Buckingham, contain a list of the 

 horses, and other interesting particulars 

 relating to the royal stud, the chase, and the turf, at 

 this period. Reference is also made to the personal 

 disbursements of the Master of the Horse, in 

 connection with this office, which, among other 

 matters, exhibit the duke losing ^loo to Lord 

 Salisbury j on a race at Newmarket; and other 

 betting transactions are similarly recorded. The 

 king's two jockeys-in-ordinary, or, as they are termed, 



* "The Competers Common-Wealth," etc. : Lond. 1617. i,s. Highway- 

 men were formerly called " Saint Nicholas' clerks." — See notes by Bishop 

 Warburton and Mr. Steevens on the First Part of " King Henry the 

 Fourth," A. ii. s. i. 



t It seems he subsequently resigned the Mastership of the Horse to 

 the Duke of Buckingham, that post having been held by Baltazar Gerbier, 

 as appears by the following passage in the Hist. Preface to Carleton's 

 Letters (xxviij) : " The Lord Dorchester had the direction of the negocia- 

 tion for a peace with the court of Madrid ; the first overtures of which 

 had been carried on, between Reubens the painter, by a private commis- 

 sion from the Infanta at Brussels, and Baltazar Gerbier, Master of the 

 Horse to the Duke of Buckingham, before the assassination of the 

 latter." 



\ William, 2nd Earl of Salisbury. 



