1622.] RACING INTELLIGENCE. 239 



"riders for the races," were Thomas Freman and John 

 Prichard. Their wages are not given ; they were, 

 however, entitled to one horse hvery each. Sir 

 WilHam PowelP^ and Sir George Marshall,^^ surveyors 

 of the races, each enjoyed ^22 per annum and two 

 hackney Hveries.* 



We have been indebted to the papers of Sir 

 Richard Graham and Sir Edmund Verney ^^ for some 

 rather interesting items of information relating to the 

 turf in those days. It is also remarkable that an 

 ordinary incident gives us an insight into the distri- 

 bution of patronage between these celebrities and the 

 king's favourite minister with respect to the lieutenancy 

 of Waddon Chase, which office was in the gift of 

 Buckingham, by whom it was conferred on Sir 

 Edmund in June, 1622. Some time previously, Verney 

 solicited the post from Buckingham on " Newmarkett 

 heath," when Graham was present, doubtless with 

 many more, at the races. The appointment was now 

 confirmed, without limit to venison, with permission 

 to kill what he chose both in park and chase, and 

 without restriction to his own pleasure or those of his 

 friends.f 



95 William Powell, Esq., of Pengethby, in the county of 

 Hereford, one of the Masters of the Requests, was created 

 a baronet, January 18, 162 1-2. He married Mary, daughter 

 of Sir Peter Vanlore, Knight, but died without issue at his 

 manor of Munster House, Middlesex, in 1653, when the title 

 became extinct. 



* Hist. MS. Coss., vi., Rep. App., pp. 323-325. 

 t Verney Papers, p. 106. Ibid. 



