1642.] MORE NEU'MARk'ET KNIGHTS. 45 



stuffc in liis chardgc in the months of December February 

 and March 1639 and Aprill June July and August 1640 by 

 seaven bills . . . xlix.^' ix^ iiij'' {Ibid.). [This is the last 

 entry relating to Newmarket Palace in the Accounts of the 

 Treasurers of the Chamber of the Household until the year 

 1666.] 



In 1 64 1 the king paid a brief visit to Newmarket, 

 in the month of March ; but, beyond the bare fact of 

 his having knighted three persons, we know jg^^ 

 nothing of his sojourn on this occasion.* March. 



Exclusive of the honours and dignities previously 



mentioned, the following persons were knighted by 



Charles I. during his sojourns at Newmarket Palace : — 



"1627 [N.S]. March 21. William Poshal. 



1632. March 19. William Witherington, of 



Witherington. 

 1626. October 16. Thomas Ingram, of York. 

 1 64 1. March 12. John Read. 



Robert Compton. 

 March 13. — Fortescue." f 

 We can find no reference in the State Papers to 

 the spring meeting at, or the king's visit to, New- 

 market in 1642. According to " England's jg^g 

 Remembrancer," Part II. (London, 1676), March, 

 p. 51, Charles I. arrived at Newmarket on the 7th 



* In a book entitled "A Discourse of divers Petitions," by John 

 Spencer, published in 1641, is a "Petition delivered unto our gracious 

 King Charles upon this occasion : the King was to go towards New- 

 market upon Monday, bid the waggon and the hounds went through 

 Cheapside upon the Lord's Day, which was not lawfull o King ; I never 

 heard that they removed since upon the Lord's Day, so gracious was the 

 King's care therein. Good King Charles, Remember to Keep holy the 

 Sabbath Day." 



t " A New Catalogue of Dukes, &c., by T. W[alkley]," Lond., 1657. 



