1G31] FOWLING AND HUNTING. 13 



Counties of Suftblkc Essex & Cambridge, for the stoarc & 

 increase of his Ma*^ Game about Newm'kett w*'^ dirreccon to 

 acquaint the gent of those "Fts w"* the occasion of theire 

 comming to the end there may bee noe spoile made of the 

 game nor abuse coiriitted. His Ma'* pleasure signified by 

 the Lord Viscount Dorchester & by him Tcured. Pro. R. — 

 Ibid. 



S"" John Carleton. A warr*^ in pay vnder the Signett 

 to S'' Jo : Carleton Knt, & Baron' Comanding him to give 

 Warning to such as use to hunt in his Ma'" jg„g 

 absence to forbeare to come w*in the liberties of 

 Newmarkett &c, Entered at large. Procured by Mr. Sec. 

 Coke. Dat. 13'" die [April 1636] ¥- ^^g&.—Ibid. 



On or about the loth of January, 1631,* the king, 

 queen, and court arrived at Newmarket, accompanied 

 by the Earl of Carlisle,^'^*' Groom of the Stole, 



•' 1631. 



the Earl of Holland, ^^^ Lord Warden and February- 

 Justice in Eyre, and a brilliant suite of noble- 

 men and gentlemen connected with the royal house- 

 hold. Like the preceding visit, no information has 

 transpired in connection with the sports peculiar to the 



* " On Sunday last were published in the Court strict orders, appointing 

 who should come into the Privy Lodgings, and who should not. The 

 same day Sir Thomas Yale, a Gentleman of the Privy Chamber, and Mr. 

 Patrick Murray, one of the King's carvers, did in the same room spit in 

 one another's faces. The same night the masque was performed at the 

 Court with great spleandour. The King and Queen went yesterday 

 towards Newmarket, where the University of Cambridge shall be spared 

 from furnishing preachers to the Court, the King's Chaplins in Ordinary 

 being appointed to that function." — Mr. John Pory to Sir Thomas Puck- 

 ering ; January 13, i63o[-3i]. The real fact of the matter was that the 

 queen brought down her own priests and the king his own parsons, so 

 that between the rival churchmen the palace was a " hell upon earth " 

 during the greater portion of this royal visit. 



It seems from a letter of Mr. Beaulieu to Sir Thomas Pickering, Bart., 

 dated London, March 7, 1631, that all despatches received from foreign 

 embassies, etc., were sent direct to the king at Newmarket. 



