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bond should be cancelled and Killigrew held harmless 

 therein. 



On the 23rd of October the Vice-Chancellor'^- and 

 the doctors of the University of Cambridge were 

 entertained at the Palace at a cost of ^29 14.5-. \od. ■'"' 



It is difficult to say how long the king's visit lasted 

 on this occasion. Owing to the Plague many of the 

 royal accessories were dispensed with in order to 

 minimise the risk of contagion ; the theatres were 

 closed, fairs interdicted, and race-meetings prohibited 

 with a view of preventing the danger of spreading that 

 dreadful epidemic, f 



^^^ Sir William Uvedale, Knight, of Wickham, Hampshire. 



^^^ Sir Thomas Hatton — youngest son of John Hatton, 

 Esq., of Long Stanton, county Cambridge, and Jane, daughter 

 of Robert Shute, one of the Barons of the Exchequer — was 

 knighted by James I., at Havvnes, Nottinghamshire, July 26, 

 1 61 6. He was created a Baronet by Charles I., July 5, 1641. 

 Sir Thomas married Mary, daughter of Sir Giles Alington, 

 of Newmarket and Horseheath, county Cambridge. He died 

 September 23, 1658, in the seventy-fifth year of his age. 



^^^ Sir Thomas Wentworth, Bart. — eldest son and successor 

 of Sir William Wentworth, created a Baronet by James I., June 

 29, 161 1, and Anne, daughter and heir of Robert Atkinson, of 

 Stowell, county Gloucester — was born April 13, 1593. In the 

 reign of James I., Sir Thomas Wentworth w^as member of 

 Parliament for the county of York, and also in the beginning 



* Cofterer's Aces., Inrolments, Series II., box E., Rot. 96. 



t " E.R. to London Sept. 28. 1636. 



" I doe here from Court that the King and his Lords are to be all this 

 weeke in Councell at Windsor and that vpon the 10"' of October his 

 Matie goes toward Newmarkett to stay there vntill Allhollandstide, but 

 the Queene is to continue still at Oatlands." — Harl. MSS., 7000, fo. 362 d. 



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