276 THE HISTORY OF NEWMARKET. [Book V. 



Reresbfs stud — Remarkable rides— Sir Robert Carey — Prince Henry 

 — The Duke of Alva — Edmond Howe's riding academy — Famous 

 circus horses — Bank's performing horses — " The wonder of the 

 world " — They perform in Rome^And are burnt alive by order of 

 the Pope — Referred to by Shakespeare and Bishop Hall — Pedes- 

 trianism — Account of some curious matches — Sir Dudley Diggs 

 endows a race for men and women — Gaming — Restrictions on horse- 

 racing and gaming in Scotland — Act of Parliament thereon — Its 

 provisions, pains, and penalties — Sir Christopher Hatton — The Earl 

 of Pembroke — Twelfth-night at the Groom Porters — Lord Scrope — 

 Lord Walden — Mr. Blunt — Lord Mayor Lee — Lord Monteagle — The 

 Earl of Dorset — The Marquis of Hamiltoti — Sir Francis Wolley 

 — Lord Scrope^ and other notable gamesters of the period — George 

 Villiers, ist Duke of Buckingham. 



The following extracts from the accounts of the 

 Lord Treasurer's Remembrancer, preserved in the 

 James I Public Record Office, show the cost of 

 1609—1625. materials used in works and building, with 

 The Palace, the money disbursed for workmen, at New- 

 1609-1610. niarket Palace, from 1609 to 1625. The 

 first for the year 1609 is as follows : — " Alsoe allowed 

 to the said Accompt' for money by him yssued 

 paide and defrayed for worke and Emp'cons and 

 Provi'cons within the tyme of the Accompte donne 

 and bestowed in and aboute his Ma" house at New- 

 markett, viz., Masons ymploied in cutting, fitting, and 

 setting fower Chymney pannells in the new pryvy 

 lodgings and laying the Borders of the same : Car- 

 penters ymploied in fitting and setting up of planks 

 for Dressor boordes in the privy kitchen and Larder, 

 Setting up a pti'con with quarter boordes in the privy 

 Chamber at the stayres head by the Chamber of 

 p''sence, taking downe and setting up a paire of 

 stayres in the said roome ; boording up part of a 

 wall between the Larder and the roome where the 



