i6 THE HISTORY OF NEWMARKET. [Book Yll. 



to o'' request, in receyving againe your sonne into yo"" favor, 

 that wee cannot chuse but let you know that wee take it very 

 thankfully at your hands. If wee can prevaile but this much 

 further with you, that you will extend the same kindness 

 towards your daughter in law, and so receive them both into 

 yo"" motherly care, you shall put such an obligation upon us 

 as wee shall never forget, but remember upon all occasions 

 wherein our favour can be of any use unto you ; and, with 

 this assurance, wee committ you to the protection of the 

 Almightie. 



" Given under o'" hand at Newmarket, this one and thirty 

 day of January [1630-31]." * 



Early in March the court left Newmarket for 

 Royston, " intending to have Iain at Theobalds, 

 where, not finding their bedding arrived, they were 

 forced to come to Whitehall, where, nothing being 

 prepared for their entertainment, they were fain to 

 try what hospitality the Prince of Wales kept at 

 St. James's." \ 



m 

 ^^'^ See ante. 



^^'^ Sir Henry Holland, K.B. — second son of Robert Rich, 

 created Earl of Warwick by James I., August 6, 161 8, and 

 Lady Penelope Devereux, daughter of Walter, Earl of Essex, 



* " The Private Correspondence of Lady Cornvvallis," edited by Lord 

 Braybrooke. Sir Frederick Cornwallis was born in November, 16 10. In 

 May, 1617, he was created a baronet, and shortly after was appointed an 

 equerry to the king. In 1643-4, Sir Frederick, then representing Eye 

 in Parliament, retired with the king to Oxford, and sat with the members 

 there ; and about that time had the misfortune to lose his wife. He was 

 attached to the royal cause during the Rebellion, and at the Restoration 

 was created a baron : but his days were almost numbered, as he died 

 suddenly on the 31st of January 1661-2. His second wife, Elizabeth, 

 daughter of Sir Henry Crofts, of Little Saxham, survived her husband 

 thirteen years. 



t State Papers, Dom., vols, clxxxii., clxxxiii. ; " The Court and Times 

 of Charles I.," vol. ii. 



