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are diuers both Lords and other of our subjects that 

 usually giues their meeting there in those places w"'' 

 Wee preserue for our own Sport these are therefore to 

 will comaiid you vpon sight hereof to giue warning 

 to all such as uses to hunt in our absence to forbeare 

 to come within our Liberties of Newmarkett and here- 

 aftere as you will be answerable to vs upon your perill 

 permit or suffer no man to come in our absence except 

 such of our serfia*^ and others as bringe their hounds 

 at those tymes of our being there to make vs sport. 

 Giuen Vnder our Signett att our Court at Whitehall 

 the 13th of Aprill 1636. 



"To our Trusty and Well Beloued S'' John Carle- 

 ton ^^^ Kn* and Baronett whom we haue appointed 

 for preseruing of our Game within the bounds of 

 Newmarkett." * 



^*^ Sir Robert Huddleston, or Hodelston, elder son of 

 Henry Hodelston, of Sawston, and Dorothy, daughter of 

 Robert, ist Lord Dormer, by his wife, the Hon. Elizabeth 

 Brown, daughter of Sir Anthony Brown, Viscount Montagu, 

 succeeded his father in 161 7. Sir Robert was for some time 

 a gamekeeper to Charles I. at Newmarket. He married, ist, 

 the Hon. Mary Roper, daughter of Christopher, Lord Tyne- 

 ham, by whom he had a son, Henry, who predeceased him, 

 unmarried ; and, 2ndly, Mary, daughter of Richard Tufton, 

 Esq., and niece of Nicholas, Earl of Thanet, but had no issue. 



William Huddleston, who settled at Swaston (six miles 

 south of Cambridge) in consequence of his marriage with one 

 of the co-heiresses of John Neville, Marquis Montague, was 

 of an ancient family in Cumberland. His son, Sir John 

 Huddleston, entertained the Princess Mary at his house, 

 immediately after the death of her brother. King Edward VI., 

 and contrived her escape to Framlingham Castle, for which 

 * State Papers, Dom., vol. cccxviii., No. 69 (149). 



