36 THE HISTORY OF NEWMARKET. [Book VII. 



halfe a yeare ended at Ladie Day 1636 by warr' 

 dated the xvj"^ of Aprill 1636 . . . iiij" iiij' (Rot. 

 'J'^. [Similar payment for the half-year ended 1636.] 



To Robt'e Lindsey esq'' Keeper of his Ma** house at New- 

 markett, for Basketts, Broomes, Shovells, Sweeping of Chimnies 

 &° within the time of this Account by warr' of the xvij"' of 

 Febry 1636 . . . Xiij'' vj* viij''. 



To Robert Ramsey, Randolph Floyd, and Richard Stocke 

 for riding and attending on his Ma*^' at Hampton Courte, and 

 from thence to Theobalds, St Jameses and Newmarkett from 

 the ffirst of January 1635 to the last of March following 1636 



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being at the space of iiijvj dales at ij^ each man "f diem 

 . . . xxvij" vj' {Ibid:) (j-zV).— A.O.R., s.d. 



A prevalence of cold easterly winds and the plague, 



which increased and diminished in intensity, " according 



to the chanore of the moon," kept the court 



1637. . ^ ^ 



in London, and caused the usual royal visit 

 to Newmarket to be abandoned in the spring of 1637.* 

 In December, Sir William Russell,^^^ of Chippen- 

 ham, and his son, Francis Russell, obtained a special 

 licence from the king for the preservation of the game 

 at Newmarket " and divers places near adjoining." \ 



^*9 The Russells of Chippenham, Newmarket, Cam- 

 bridge. The first member of this family recorded is THOMAS 

 Russell, of Yaverland, in the Isle of Wight, who held the 

 manors and advowsons of Yaverland and Wathe, the manor 

 of Rouburgh, in the Isle of Wight, and Carisbroke Castle, in 

 capite, and died temp. Henry VI. 



* Rev. G. Garrard to Lord Deputy Strafford. 



t " S' W" Russell. — A license vnder the Signett to S' William Russell 

 Knight & Baronett & Francis Russell his sonne for preservacon of his 

 Ma'" Game in divers places neere adioyning to Newmarkett. Subcr by 

 S'' Abraham Williams, By Order of IVf Pitcarne M'' Faulconer to his 

 Ma'^ & by him procured. (Fee 6^. 8^/.)" — Docquet Book, sub dato, M.S., 

 P.R.O. 



