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market, or to some house thereabouts, on Friday. It 

 is sayd, that they gave the King his choise of Oxford, 

 Audley-End, or Newmarket, to go unto, and it seems 

 his Majestye chose Newmarket." * 



At the close of the civil war the king was removed 

 from the house of Lady Cutts, of Childerley, to Newmarket 

 on the gth of June, 1647, and remained at New- 

 market about ten days.f In conducting him from 

 Childerley to Newmarket, the Roundheads took him by way 

 of Trumpington, to avoid passing through Cambridge, the 

 townspeople having testified a disposition to show him respect ; 

 flowers were strewn before him as he passed along.| 



At Newmarket the king experienced a greater 

 deofree of freedom and kindness than had hitherto 

 been his lot. He was allowed to take 

 exercise on the Heath, either in his coach 

 or on horseback ; his friends and chaplains were 

 permitted to attend him without restriction ; and he 

 was treated generally by the officers of the army, 

 not only with civility, but with respect.§ He dined in 

 public, as in former days ; his presence-chamber was 

 thronged with the neighbouring gentry ; and when he 

 went abroad he was received with loud acclamations 

 by the people. || Sir Philip Meadows, who was at 

 Newmarket at this time, assured Lord Dartmouth that 

 the only cheerful countenance he had seen in the place 



* "Journals," p. 22 ; " Hist. MMS. Coss.," Rep. vii., App., p. 183 a. 

 t Lewis, "Topographical Dictionary of England and Wales," vol. iii., 

 p. 367. London, 1831. Whitelocke's " Memoirs," p. 257. 

 X Sanderson, " Life of King Charles L," p. 986. 

 § " History of the RebeUion," vol. v., p. 443. 

 II Herbert, " Memoirs," p. 38. 



