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who, of old, was too well patronized in the country 

 you are in." * 



In the meantime a few ordinary passing events 

 at Newmarket may be mentioned. On March 7 Sir 

 Edward Peyton ^°*^ wrote to the Earl of Holderness -^"^^ 

 to furnish him with a warrant to take one hundred 

 partridges yearly, in the Isle of Ely, Marchland, 

 Holland, and the woody part of Norfolk, where 

 gentlemen cannot hawk. These were to be turned 

 down at Newmarket and Iselham. The warrant was 

 granted the same day : hence both personages must 

 have been at Newmarket at this date. The Spanish 

 and Flemish Ambassadors were also at Newmarket, 

 which was full to overflowing until the departure of 

 the court at the end of that invigorating month.! 

 On the loth of March the Cambridge comedians 

 (" lez comedian Cantabrig.") were entertained at the 

 palace at a cost of ^16 17^. \d.\ 



^^SiR Edward Conway— son and heirof Sir John Conway 

 and Elene, daughter of Sir Fluke Grenville, of Beauchamp's 

 Court, county Warwick — received the honour of knighthood 

 from Robert, Earl of Essex, at the sacking of Cadiz, where he 

 commanded a regiment in 1596. He afterwards served in the 

 Netherlands, and was Governor of the Brill. In the twentieth 

 year of James I.'s reign he was constituted one of the principal 

 Secretaries of State, and elevated to the peerage, March 22, 

 1624, as Baron Conway of Ragley, county Warwick, a manor 

 acquired by purchase towards the close of Queen Elizabeth's 

 reign. He was appointed captain of the Isle of Wight in the 



* State Papers, edited by Lord Hardwicke (Lond., 1778), vol. i., p. 406. 

 t State Papers, Dom., vols, cxxxviii., cxxxix., passim ; compare 

 Hackett's " Life of Williams." 



+ Cofferers' Aces., Series IIL, box E., Rot. 44, MS., P.R.O. 



