48 THE HISTORY OF NEWMARKET. [Book VII. 



House, as usual, but at the house of Sir Arthur Ingram, in the 

 Minster Yard " * (pp. 42, 43). 



Such was the last visit but one paid by Charles I. 

 to Newmarket. We can find no trace or reference 

 to the king or his court having been at Newmarket 

 again until 1646, when he arrived there for the last 

 time, a prisoner in the hands of the Parliamentary 

 forces.f 



^^^ Created Earl of Chichester, July 3, 1644, ob. December 

 21, 1653. Clarendon describes him "as a man of rough and 

 tempestuous nature, violent in pursuing what he wished, 

 without judgment or temper to know the way of bringing 

 it to pass ; however, he had some kind of power with forward 

 and discontented men ; at least he had credit to make them 

 more indisposed. But his greatest reputation was, that the 

 Earl of Southampton married his daughter, who was a beauti- 

 ful and worthy lady." 



153 u -phe Lord Seymour, being brother to the Marquis of 

 Hertford, was a man of interest and reputation ; he had been 

 always very popular in the country, where he had always 

 lived out of the grace of the court ; and his parts and judg- 

 ment were best in those things which concerned the good 



*"The journey from York, about 55 miles, occupied two days: 

 on the evening of the i6th of August, the King arrived at Nottingham, 

 and took up his quarters at the Earl of Clare's, who was then recorder of 

 the town. From the time that he left Newmarket, the King seldom slept 

 in a house that he could call his own, until he was taken as prisoner to 

 his own palace of Holdenby. Henceforth his days, few and evil, were 

 passed in pilgrimage ; its shrines were battle-fields, its goal a bloody 

 grave." — Warburton, vol. i., p. 322. 



t In Hudson's examination before Henry Dawson, Esq., deputy-mayor 

 of Newcastle-on-Tyne, taken circa May, 1646, touching the king's escape 

 from Oxford, he deposed (8) that after their departure from Whistham- 

 stead, near St. Alban's, his Majesty went thence ' to a place within seven 

 miles from Newmarket, being a little villiage ; and lodged in a common 

 inn.' " — Peck's " Desiderata Curiosa " (edit. 1779), lib- ix., No. xii., p. 350. 



