284 THE HISTORY OF NEWMARKET. [Book V. ' 



the same with paveing tyles upon the brycks ; thatch- 

 ing the king's hey barne ; laying the gutters between 

 the brew-house and store-house ; making perti'cons, 

 doores, tressels, and formes ; joysting and boordinge 

 of floores, with dooeing sondry other workes and 

 repairs about the said house," etc.* 



During the ensuing year only ^467 \^s. \\d. was 



spent on this palace, chiefly on account of a stable, 



with lodorinors over it, for Sir Thomas 



1617—1618. . 



Compton ; alterations and extensions to the 

 king's great stable ; " making great tables, cupboards, 

 tressels, formes, and screens for feasting the Germany 

 prince and Sweden ambassador ; " likewise " for 

 bringing up the fence-wall by the tennis-court, and 

 another low fense-wall into the churchyard over 

 against the great gates with brick and stone, and in 

 doing sundry other works upon and about the said 

 house," etc. 



The accounts for the following year are not 



extant, but in those for 1619-20, which amount to 



/^27iQ i^s. 64-rt^., we learn that some old 



1619—1620. . . ^ 



buildings and sheds towards the street were 

 pulled down and the ground cleared for the erection 

 of additional lodgings of brick and stone, a wooden 



appointed to be builded at his Ma"*'' House at Newmarkett, for the 

 recreation and exercise of the nobility and others his Ma'"'' attendants, 

 and such as have cause to repair to his Majesty's court. By writ &c. 

 C»." _ Pells Order Book, sub data. MS., P.R.O. 



* Francis Carter, chief clerk of the works, was allowed 4ar., which he 

 gave to Sir William Carway for changing ^400 in silver into gold " for 

 the easier carriage of it down, and in consideration it was paid ten days 

 sooner than it was due to the king." He was also allowed 73-y. \d. for the 

 charges of himself and three others " for safeguard of the same iiij"' 

 to Newmarket" (Account No. 55). 



