3i6 THE HISTORY OF NEWMARKET. [Book V. 



eminent astronomer. Dudley was his eldest son, born in 

 1583, educated at Oxford. He was knighted by James I., 

 and sent ambassador to the Czar of Muscovy, which was 

 followed by other employments abroad. But his reputation 

 was gained in the House of Commons in the reign of 

 Charles I., and his opposition to the court and the Duke of 

 Buckingham procured his committal to the Tower. The 

 government at last contrived to release him by making him 

 Master of the Rolls, in 1636, three years after which he died. 

 He had a monopoly of the Feversham oysters. His son 

 Dudley and his brother Leonard also distinguished them- 

 selves in the world of letters. 



At a Parliament held at Edinburgh, in 1621, an Act 



(xiii.) was passed for the purpose of preventing excessive 



betting upon horse-races in Scotland, which were, 



James I. ^^ ^j^jg time, "over much frequented" in that 



1621. . ^ 



Scotland. country, to the great prejudices of the lieges. 



Racing in Cards and dice were also, to a certain extent, 



Scotland. interdicted, because the honest man ought not 

 ActofParlia- , 



ment to re- ^o expect that any winnings at cards, dice, or 



strain exces- racing could conduce to his good or prosperity ; 



sive betting on therefore it was enacted That no man shall play at 

 horse-races . 



and gaming, cards or dice in any common-house, town, hostlary, 



or " Kuikis houss," under pain of forty pounds 

 money of this realm, to be exacted of the keeper of the said 

 inn, etc., for the first fault, and loss of their liberties for the 

 next ; moreover it shall not be lawful to play in the private 

 house of any one where the master of the family plays him- 

 self " And giff It shalhappin anye man to win anye sommes 

 of money at Carding Or dyceing Attoure the soume of ane 

 hundreth merkis within the space of Tuentie four houres Or 

 gayne at waigeris vpon hors' Races anye soume attoure the 

 said soume of ane hundreth merkis. The superplus shal be 

 Consignit within tuentie four houres ]?airefter in the handis of 

 the thesaurer for the Kirk ef it be in edinburgh. Or in the 

 handis of suche of the kirk sessioun in the Countrey parochines 

 as Collectis and Distributis money for J>e Poore of the same. 



