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THE HISTORY OF NEWMARKET. 



[Book V. 



forwardly inclined to bring up horses ; " no cost should 

 be spared in breeding from the best strains. He 

 has also something to say in "prayse of hunting," 

 which, unfortunately for us, refers to ancient Greece 

 and Rome, rather than to the British Island of his 

 own time.* 



On the accession of James I. the four child-riders 

 or jockeys in ordinary had 6</. each per day, 

 with some other small allowance, altogether 

 amounting to ^59 a year : — 



1603—1604. 



Fower boyes \ Also allowed for money payde to \ ' 

 broughte upp the Erie of Worcester Master of 



under y® iiij*"" y the horse for thallowaunce of 

 Ryders of the fower boyes broughte upp under 



Stables viz. j the fower Riders of the Stable 

 for their boord waages at vj'^' the 

 yere W diem and for other neces- 

 saries at vj^^ xvij^ vj'' the yere '^ 

 ann due for one yeare ended at 

 March 1603.! 



Iviiij^'. 



As to the royal studs, those at Newmarket, Tut- 

 bury, Malmesbury, Eltham,| and Cole Park § appear to 

 have been the most important. 



* " The Court of the Most Illustrious James the First," etc. London : 

 Printed by Edw. Griffin, in Eliot's-Court in the Little-old-Baily, neere 

 the Kings-head, 1620. 



t Accounts of Sir John Stanhope, Knight, Treasurer of the Chamber, 

 44 Eliz., Michaelmas, 1602 ; i James I., Michaehnas, 1600, m. 88, MS., 

 P.R.O. 



X In 1620,^70 was expended for enclosing the paddock, Middle Park, 

 Eltham, with pales, which were brought from Waltham Abbey and Theo- 

 balds for that purpose. — L.T.R., Works and Buildings, No. 441, MS., 

 P.R.O. 



§ 1609-1611,^382 i6x 8^. was expended, under the supervision of 



