4 THE HISTORY OF NEWMARKET. [Book VI f. 



per annum for the future, during the royal pleasure. 

 At this time Captain Henry Wood was authorized to 

 take yearly out of other counties, fifty brace of 

 partridges to be turned down about Newmarket, and 

 fifty brace of hares to be put into the New Warren 

 there ; he was also to take away all dogs, guns, nets, 

 and other engines likely to be hurtful to the said 

 game.* 



The first visit of Charles I., as sovereign, to New- 

 market took place in the spring of 1627, where he and 

 the court arrived on or about February 

 February— 23rd. During the royal sojourn a great 

 deal of state business engaged the attention 

 of the king and his ministers. The baneful example 

 of James I. in ignoring the liberties of the subject, 

 disregarding the privileges of Parliament, and 

 enforcing that right divine to govern wrong, typified 

 in the royal prerogative, was again, unfortunately, of 

 frequent occurrence. With such affairs we have little 

 concern, therefore it is only necessary to notice such 

 transactions as are affiliated to our subject. Thus on 

 the 27th, Secretary Conway wrote to Secretary Cook, 

 at Whitehall, that the king was in good health, " and 

 follows his exercises according as the weather serves." 

 On the 2nd of March the king wrote from Newmarket 

 to James Ley, Earl of Marlborough,^^^ his treasurer, 

 directing him to send down a surveyor to view the 

 defects in the pales of the hare warrens there and at 

 Royston, and to issue warrants to cut down trees, and 



* State Papers, Dom., vol. xxxix. ; Conway Papers and Docquet 

 Books, MS., P.R.O. J. d. 



