338 THE HISTORY OF NEWMARKET. [Book YI. 



production in question. As we shall subsequently see, 

 Farndon became a popular race-meeting later on in the 

 seventeenth century. 



" Great horse-racing " came off at Croydon during 

 the Easter holidays, a.d. i6ii. The king and the 

 1611. court were present, and an immense as- 

 (Monday sembly of nobility, gentry, and the public, 

 March 10.) " where by occasion of foul play or foul 

 words, one Ramsey [probably Lord Haddington], a 

 Scottishman, struck Philip Herbert, Earl of Mont- 

 gomery, with his riding rod.^^- Whereupon the whole 

 company was ready to go together by the ears, and 

 like enough to have made it a national quarrel. But 

 for want of weapons it was pacified." ''•" " The begarly 

 Scotch " were so disliked in England at this time that 

 it is said King James iyviva vocid) made this Philip 

 Herbert a knight, a baron, a viscount, and an earl on 

 the spot, for the loss of reputation he sustained by not 

 offering to strike again, whereby it is probable a tumult 

 was avoided. f 



It is remarkable to notice the frequent allusion to 

 the detestation in which the Scots were held by the 

 English in the reign of James I. The offensive arro- 

 gance of the king's Caledonian followers almost pro- 

 duced an insurrection in 1612, when "the Scottish-men 

 were bodily afraid." Three hundred of them left London 

 for Scotland within ten days, in fear of their lives. A 

 Scotch knight having been buried, with almost regal 



* Chamberlain to Carleton : " The Court and Times of James I.," vol. i. 

 t "Traditional Memorials of the Reign of King James," by Francis 

 Osborne, ch. 23. 



