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Italy to purchase race-horses for the king, as appears 

 by the annexed warrant : — 



"James R. 



" James by the grace of God &''. To the Trer^ and 



Under Tres® of o'' Excheq'' Greeting, Wee will and require 



yow out of o'' Treasur in o'' said Excheq'' remayn- 



1617. jj^g ^Q p^j Qj. cause to be paide to o'' trustie and 



welbeloved George Digbye esq'" one of o' quirries 



or to his order the sume of fyve hundred and fiftie poundes of 



lawfuU monie of England to be imploied and disbursed by 



hini for provision of horses for us for the Race, And theis 



are, &''. 



" By order from the 

 "Westminster, Nov. 4, 1617. Lord Treasuur. 



"Ex*: Levjnus Munck." * 



Besides the above sum of ^550, Digby was 

 further authorized, by a Sign Manual, No. 72^, dated 

 Westminster, Nov. 20, to draw upon the Treasury for 

 ;^200, to meet the expenses of his journey into 

 " Italy "^ — for his own entertainment 40^-. per day, and 

 3i-. a day for each of his four servants, the said charges 

 to continue until he accomplished his mission and 

 returned to the royal presence. 



"April 6, 1605, there arrived at Greenwich Palace 'a dozen 

 gallant mares, all with foal, 4 horses, and 1 1 stallions, all 

 coursers of Naples,' a present to James I. from the Arch- 



duke."t 



Sir Thomas Edmonds ^^'-^ arrived in England with " half a 

 dozen Barbry horses," which were sent to the royal paddocks 

 at Newmarket about Nov. 15, 1617.:!: 



* Sign Manual Grants and Warrants, 1617, No. 48, MS., P.R.O. 

 t Lodge's " Illustrations of Brit. Hist.," vol. iii., p. 276. 

 X Chamberlain to Carleton, in Birch, vol. ii., p. 53. 



