1620.] LINTON — BRACK LEY. y^-j 



dental mention of a horse-race in Cambridgeshire, in 

 the reign of King James I. near Linton, at jamesi. 

 which town most of the company lay on the Linton, 

 night of the race (Top. Brit, No. xv., p. ii)."* — 

 Lyson's " Magna Britanica," vol. iii., pt. i., p. 240, 

 note. Lond., 1808. 



Linton is a small town and parish, having a station on 

 the Cambridge and Sudbury branch of the Great Eastern 

 Railway, thirteen miles south-west from Newmarket. At the 

 time of the Domesday survey, there were two manors in 

 Linton, both of which belonged to Alan, Earl of Britanny ; 

 these manors were united as early as the reign of Henry VI. 

 in the Paris family, of which they were purchased in 1675, by 

 Sir Thomas Scalter, Bart., who dying in 1684, bequeathed the 

 estate to his great-nephew, Thomas Scalter, Esq., then a 

 student in Trinity College, Cambridge : he afterwards assumed 

 the name of Bacon, and was at the time of his death, in 1734, 

 M.P. for the town of Cambridge. In 1768 Mr. Thomas 

 Scalter King, to whose family the estate had been devised by 

 Mr. Bacon, sold them to Lord Montfort, of whom they were 

 purchased three years afterwards (when his lordship " got 

 broke " by bad investments on the Turf) by Dr. Keene, Bishop 

 of Ely, ancestor of Col. Edmund Buck Keene, the present 

 lord of the manor. 



The following primitive agreement of a match, to be 

 run for at Brackley, was made July 13, 1612, between 

 two gentlemen of the same family in North- jamesi 

 amptonshire : "It is agreed on between c. 1612. 

 Henry Throgm'ton [Throgmorton] and Northampton- 

 Thomas Throgm'ton, the daye and yeare ^^^®" 

 above written, that the above named are to meete 



* See ante., p. 322. It was at this meeting James I. became acquainted 

 with George ViUiers, Duke of Buckingham. 



