286 THE HISTORY OF NEWMARKET. [Book V. 



In 1622-23 the sum of ^253 2s. 6d. was expended 

 in mending the wainscot, shutting windows and case- 

 ments in the king' and prince's privy 



jg22 1623. 



lodgings, planking in the prince's great 

 horse-stable, repairing the rack in the king's great 

 horse-stable, a wainscot casement at the end of 

 the tennis-court and the bins in the king's pantry; 

 setting up shelves in the Groom of the Stole's 

 lodging ; setting up ledges on the walls of the 

 great horse-stable, with strong pins to hang saddles ; 

 setting up a shed to boil fish for the prince, 

 setting up shelves in the lodgings of the prince's 

 secretary, boarding part of a decayed floor in the 

 wardrobe, making a high stool with steps to ascend 

 the top of it for the prince to run at the ring, making 

 a new hearth and range in the king and prince's privy 

 kitchen, mending the hearths and setting the pans in 

 the boiling-house for fish, mending the chimneys in 

 the great and presence-chambers, running up the 

 lower lights in the dog-house, mending the walls in 

 the prince's gallery, new lathing and laying the walls 

 of the stable in the timber-yard with lime and chopped 

 hay, new matting a room for the Marquis of Bucking- 

 ham and a chamber for the master of the prince's 

 robes, and piecing and mending the broken mats in 

 the king's privy lodgings and the lodgings of the 

 Marquis of Hamilton, the Earl of Montgomery, 

 and the Marquis of Buckingham, Among other 

 expenses, John Straver and Humphrey Warcup 

 received a present of 22^. for carrying letters from 

 Newmarket to London, and 6^. to a labourer for his 



