320 THE HISTORY OF NEWMARKET. [Book V. 



heir of Lord John Hamilton, ist Marquis of Hamilton, and 

 Margaret, only daughter of John, 8th Lord Glamis — succeeded 

 his father, April 12, 1604, and his uncle, James, Earl of Arran 

 (who fell in love with Mary, Queen of Scots, and was ac- 

 cordingly declared a lunatic, incapable of managing his own 

 affairs), in 1609. He obtained the English peerage June 16, 

 1 61 9, by the titles of Baron of Innerdale, in Cumberland, and 

 Earl of Cambridge, and was installed a Knight of the Garter, 

 at Windsor, July 7, 1623. He married Lady Anne Cunning- 

 ham, daughter of James, 7th Earl of Glencairn, by whom he 

 had two sons and three daughters. He died March 2, 1625, 

 and was succeeded by his elder son, James, 3rd Marquis and 

 1st Duke of Hamilton. 



"9 Richard Sackville, 3rd Earl OF DORSET — eldest son of 

 Robert, the 2nd Earl, and his first wife, Margaret, daughter 

 of Thomas, Duke of Norfolk, born March 28, 1589 — succeeded 

 his father (who enjoyed the family honours but a few months) 

 February 25, 1 608-9 ; married Anne, daughter and sole 

 heiress of George Clifford, Earl of Cumberland, by whom he 

 had two daughters ; he died in 1624, when the honours 

 devolved upon his brother, Edward Sackville, 4th Earl, K.G. 

 This nobleman, before he attained the title, was concerned 

 in a fatal quarrel with Lord Bruce, " upon which they both 

 transported themselves into Flanders, and attended by two 

 chirurgeons, placed at a distance, and under an obligation not 

 to stir but at the fall of one of them, they fought under the 

 walls of Antwerp, when the Lord Bruce fell dead upon the 

 place." This earl (4th) died in 1652. 



In August, 1 6 19, the quidnuncs were full of an 

 alleged quarrel between Lord Scrope and a young 

 gentleman named Foster, in which the latter was 

 generally supposed to be killed. Foster had won 

 ^1500 from Lord Scrope ^'^° "at bowls and other 

 gaming, besides his coach and coach-horses : and for 

 refusing to lend him them, they fell out. But the 



