BOOK VIIL 



MISCELLANEOUS OCCURRENCES AT NEWMARKET 

 FROM 1626 TO 1653. 



Newmarket Palace — Cost of works and buildings — The materials used 

 and the workmen employed there during the reign of Charles L 

 — Survey and sale of the palace and the new warren in 1650 — 

 Description of the palace and its appurtenances at this time — And 

 the new warren — Are sold to Tobias Bridge for ^1722 — -Copy of the 

 survey and conveyance — S waff ham- Bulbeck — -Burrough Green — 

 Hare Park — 1628. Thomas Lovett appointed keeper of the palace 

 and gardens — Rowland Roberts appointed keeper of the royal 

 wardrobe — His duties and emoluments^Captain Wood resigns his 

 office of gamekeeper at Newmarket — Obtains a pension of ^60 

 a year — 1631. Royal licence to the Funstons to keep a tavern and 

 wine-cellar in Newmarket — Curious conditions — The variety and 

 prices of the wines on sale — Legislation thereon — The Spring 

 Meeting of 1634 — The Gold Cup — Losses on the rdiCe — The Earl 

 of Southampton — The course and stand temp. Charles L — Lord 

 Conway's expenses at Newmarket — Kennet Warren — Charles L and 

 Lord Petre — Fricklam Warren — Kennet — Alleged robbery on the 

 Heath — Landowners and householders in Newmarket in 1627-1640 

 — The taxation — Description of the town and vicinity of Newmarket 

 in 1637 — The inquisition of 1638 — The only Royalist householder in 

 the town in 1646 — Fined ^60 by the Parliamentary sequestrators — 

 Copy of the proceedings thereon — The Devil's Ditch — Rendezvous 

 of the army on the Heath in 1647 — Its object — And result— Action 

 of Oliver Cromwell thereon^Occurrences at Newmarket during the 

 interregnum — A sailor murdered on the Heath — Horses for the use 

 of the judges on the Norwich circuit — Colonel Wharton's regiment 

 quartered at Newmarket — The Great Fire of 1653 — The town in 

 ruins — The inhabitants petition Parliament for reliefs Referred to a 



