1636.] CA.\fE .VOT TO BE EATEN OR SOLD. 31 



Oxford, and administration was granted to his sisters and co- 

 heirs. At Sir George Carleton's decease, in 1650, the 

 Baronetcy became extinct. 



In October the kins: and court were aofain at 

 Newmarket for another brief visit, when the depre- 

 dations of poachers engaged his Majesty's 



T 1 1 /--I • r T^ October. 



attention. In a letter to the Chiei baron 

 of the Exchequer and the Judges of Assize, he tells 

 them that persons of inferior rank used great boldness 

 in killing game, which is interdicted to them by great 

 penalties, and, notwithstanding the late proclamation, 

 are unable to be restrained ; and that he was now 

 resolved, as a probable remedy, that every tavern and 

 ale-house keeper shall every year become bound in the 

 sum of ^20, not to dress or sell any venison, red or 

 fallow, or any hare, pheasant, partridge, or heath-poult, 

 and that he has committed the charge thereof to Sir 

 William Uvedale^" and Sir Thomas Hatton.-^^'' A 

 letter was also sent to the Lord Mayor and Alder- 

 men of London, and the Justices of the Peace there, 

 requiring them to take care, "that every Taverne, 

 Inkeeper, Ordinary Keeper, Common Cook, and Ale- 

 house Keeper, do once every year become bound unto 

 his Majesty in the sum of ^20 not to dress, or suffer 

 to be dressed, or directly or indirectly to buy to sell 

 again any venison, red or fallow, or any hare, pheasant, 

 partridge, or heath-poult." This most extraordinary 

 injunction was formulated by the Earl of Holland, and 

 is dated Newmarket, April, 1636.'" 



* Signet Office, Docquet Books, sub dato, MS., P.R.O. It would be 

 interesting to know what steps were taken by the civic authorities in 



