1637.] KENNET. 99 



among my lords lime "js. 6d., horse meal at Bishops Stortfords 

 IS. \d., for shoing a horse at Newport ^d., ' for to backoe pipes,' 

 3^., paid for post horses from London to Bishops Stortford i is., 

 the stable bill at Newmarket for the 3 first nights £,\ 2s. 6d., 

 for watch candles 6d., for 3 torches 2s., ' my lord had of me 

 at Newmarkett' £15, to Fellame and John there, running 

 money to Newmarket and back again 4^-., for a quarter of oats 

 in the market i6s. 6d, for a pair of galotias and waxing a pair 

 of boots 45-., paid for washing 6s. 6d., for wax candles 3^-., the 

 stable bill at Newmarket ^2 135. 2,d., to the ostler 6d., paid for 

 the footmens lodging 4J-. /^d., for the hire of a hackney coach 

 two days i6s., &*^ &^" — Ibid., vol. cccxlvi., p. 109. 



King Charles to Lord Pet re. 



" To the L'^ Peter 



" Right Trusty and well Beloved wee Greet you well whereas 



our father of blessed memory preuailed with you 



Charles I 

 for his contentm* and accomodation at New Newmarket 



Market, to lay downe your warren at Kennet, 1637. 



wee takeing the like pleasure in the Couneuiency Kennet 



Warren, 

 of that place both for the aire and our disport, 



have thought fitt to recoihend unto you the same care of 



Vs : and if at our request you will againe order to free that 



ground from counies, and fill the borrowes, so as we may 



with more Security and lesse danger enioy our Sporte there. 



We s'hall accept it as an argum*^ of your obseruance of our 



desires w'^'^ we well graciously accept. Giuen vnder our 



signett at our Court at dated last of July 1632." 



The king's letter to Sir William Soame, Knight, relating to 

 his warren at Fricklam, is word for word similar to the above, 

 the name, of course, differing.* 



Kennet now constitutes part of the training-ground on 

 the Bury side of Newmarket, and is partly held by the Jockey 

 Club. The manor was anciently the property of the Bigods, 

 Earls of Norfolk, from whom it passed, with the title, to the 



* State Papers, Dom., vol. ccxxi., Nos. 58, 59. 



