256 THE HISTORY OF NEWMARKET. [Book IV. 



Sports is exhibited in many transactions and occur- 

 rences here at this time. Thus, Sir Wilh'am Russell 

 is ordered to destroy a coney warren on composition ; 

 Cuthbert Bacon, ranger and riding- forester in the 

 New Forest, appointed to have the oversight of the 

 game and woods therein, during the vacancy occa- 

 sioned by the absence of the warden ; the dispute 

 between Mr. Lee and John Knight, his under-keeper 

 in Waltham Forest, to be reinvestigated, that a 

 reconcihation may be effected between him and his 

 master ; Sir Robert Osborne to examine deer-stealers 

 from Higham- Ferrers Park; warrant to Auguistine 

 Parker to preserve the game of pheasants within five 

 miles of Stanton, county Suffolk, and to take away any 

 guns, nets, etc., used to destroy them ; warrant to 

 Richard Kerry to have charge of the game in and 

 about Hampton Court. Being informed that Lord 

 Clifford has bought a very fleet hound, the king desired 

 him to send it to Newmarket : " The demand may be 

 unacceptable, but it shows the king's freedom with his 

 lordship." Lord Clifford replied that the hound was 

 lame, or he would gladly send it to his majesty. Most 

 of these documents were signed in the king's presence, 

 "by his stamp in custody of the Earl of Annandale," ^°'' 

 in consequence of his Majesty being unable to hold a 

 pen. * Such was the last visit but one of the British 

 Solomon to the palace and the " royal village " which 



* " During the greater part of the Year, the King had kept at New- 

 market as in an Infirmary, and forgot his Recreations of Hunting and 

 Hawking, having his Thoughts set upon the Match, and the restoring his 

 Son-in-La\v to the Palafhiate; which, if it did not take Effect, he thought 

 he should be undervalu'd by all the Princes of Europe." — Goodman, p. 58. 



