1626.] THE FIRST VISIT OF CHARLES I. 3 



The Doctors of Cambridge University entertained at the palace — 

 Cost of the banquet— Their last visit to Newmarket in the reign of 

 Charles I. — Incidental annual expenses of the officials at the palace 

 — The last entries until the Restoration — The Duke of Lennox — Sir 

 yohn Coke — 1641. Brief visit of the King in March — Makes three 

 knights during his sojourn at the palace — 1642. Arrival of the King 

 on the 7th of March— The Queen departs with the crown jewels to 

 Holland — Arrival of a committee of both Houses of Parliament — 

 Their remonstrance with the King — Stormy interview — Undignified 

 conduct of the Monarch — Grossly insults the Earl of Pembroke — 

 The royal prerogative — Infatuation of the King — His departure from 

 Newmarket on the 13th of March for the North — 1647. The King's 

 last visit — His removal from Holmby — The journey to Newmarket — ■ 

 His arrival at the palace — His last sojourn — Rendezvous of the army 

 on the Heath — Arrival of Oliver Cromwell — The King's removal to 

 London — His escape from Hampton Court — Imprisoned in the Isle of 

 Wight — 'His execution — Memoir— Chippenham Park — Additional par- 

 ticulars relating to the last sojourn of Charles I. at Newmarket. 



Charles I. was expected to go to Newmarket early 

 in November, 1626, but it is very doubtful if the 

 projected visit took place on that particular 



occasion.* Newmarket. 



,, . , . , . 1627—1647. 



However, m the meantmie, the mterests visits and 

 of Newmarket, and its sportinof associations, sojoumsof 



^ ^ , ' the King and 



were not neglected by the new sovereign, Court. 

 as we find a warrant was issued on the 4th 

 of April, to pay Francis Wetherlay, Surveyor of his 

 Pviajesty's Stables, ^95 Si-. 6d., for repairing the stables 

 and mews at Newmarket, St. James's, Sheen, and 

 Royston. On the 2nd of August a similar warrant 

 was issued in favour of Thomas Grey, under-keeper 

 of the palace and garden at Newmarket, in payment 

 of ^150 for his service for nine years past, and ^30 



* The Rev. Joseph Mead, in a letter to Sir Martin Stutville, dated 

 Christ College, Cambridge, October 14, 1626, says : " I know not what 

 you take the cause to be of the King's not coming to Newmarket, as was 

 expected, and he proposed ; but I hear some of opinion that the Duke 

 [of Buckingham] likes not so unguarded a place.'' — Harl. MS., 390, vol. i. 



