8 THE HISTORY OF NEWMARKET. [Book VII. 



issue orders for the protection of the game in various 

 parts of the country, for the denization of Andrew 

 Pitcairn, master falconer to the king, money for John 

 and Walter Danker, sent to Holland to take hawks 

 for the royal mews, and for the appointment of Row- 

 land Roberts to the office of keeper of the king's 

 wardrobe at Newmarket,* and for similar routine 

 matters thereunto belonofine. 



The king, the court, the ministers, and every ad- 

 ministrative board, from the Lords of the Admiralty 



,,.o/^ to the Officers of the Green Cloth, were at 



1630. 



February— Newmarket towards the end of February, 

 1630. This stately visit apparently lasted 

 three weeks, and does not throw any light upon racing 

 subjects. 



On Sunday, the last day of February, " the Doctors 

 [of the University] of Cambridge" were entertained at 

 the palace at a cost of ^35 18^. <^d., and on the following- 

 day, Charles I. made his first Knight of Newmarket. f 

 In June, Sir John Carleton received ^200 for re- 

 pairing the pales of the New Warren, 



The cost of the royal stables for this year amounted 

 to / 1 2,438 \<^s. A,\d. 



Peter Paul Rubens was (according to some 



* State Papers, Dom., vols, xciv., xcv., passt»i. 



t Ibui., vols, cl, cli. Sir Dudley Carleton of Halcomb, nephew to 

 Secretary Lord Viscount Dorchester, was sworn one of the clerks of his 

 Majesty's Council Extraordinary, August 31, 1623. He was knighted 

 at Newmarket, on March i, 1629-30, being the next knight made by 

 Charles I. after his Excellency Sir Peter Paul Rubens. Sir Dudley 

 acted as the king's agent, returning to and from the Hague, where he was 

 joined with Sir William Boswell, in a special mission in August, 1632, and 

 returned to England on the 9th of November following. 



