296 THE HISTORY OF NEWMARKET. [Book V. 



wages of xij*^ by the day to him the said S"" Rob't Vernon 

 and his assignes from the Feast of the birth of o^' lord God 

 last past before the date hearof duringe his naturall life out of 

 the Treasure of vs o'" heires and successors at the Receipt 

 of Thxcheq^' of vs o"" heires and successors by the hands of the 

 ThrSr Underthrer & other officers of vs our heries and succes- 

 sors there for the time beinge at tow vsuall Feasts of the 

 yeare that is to saie at the Feasts of the birth of o"" Lord God 

 and the Natiuitie of St. John Baptist by even porcons half 

 yearlie to be paied Althoughe expresse mencon &^ In 

 Witness whereof we have caused theis o'" i^re's to be made 

 patents Witness our self at West'm the sixt day of December 

 in the Fowerteenth yeare of o'' Raigne of England Fraunce 

 and Ireland & of Scotland the Fiflity. 



" Cartwright." 

 "per b're de pri: sigillo." * 



11° Sir Robert Vernon, of Hodnel, in Shropshire, was 

 created a Knight of the Bath by Queen Elizabeth, and made 

 comptroller of her Majesty's household. He married Mary, 

 daughter of Sir Robert Needham, of Shavington, sister to the 

 1st Viscount Kilmorney. It is unnecessary here to recapitu- 

 late the incidents of his life as keeper of Newmarket Palace 

 during the reign of James I. He died in 1625 (at which time 

 he also held the office of Cofferer to the household). 



" Martii 19. Cursus Equestris ad Novum Mer- 



catum, cui diim R, diutius interfuit a Novo-mercatu 



discedens, in Hospitium ad Wichford- 



(j^r.^) Bridge prse invaletudino divertit, & multi 



James I. nocte ad Roistonam venit." — Gulielmi Cam- 

 Newmarket. 



deni, " Annales Regni Regis Jacobi I.," 



edit. 1691, p. 42. 



" March i. Queen Anne died of a Dropsy in the 



* Pell, Office Inrolments, MS., P.R.O., vol. v., p. 19. 



