1643.] THE QUEEN BOMBARDED. 109 



(IV.) 



A Perticular of the estate of Jasper Bridon. 



Hee is seized of an estate of Inheritance of a Messuage or 



Tennement in Cambridg amounting to the yearely value 



of Sixteen pownds per aiin. 



Hee is seized also of one small tenament to the value of 



fowre poundes I** annum being in Newmarket in Suffolke. 



Jasper Brydon.* 



Queen Henrietta Maria, in her " Memoirs," refers 

 to the Devil's Ditch at Newmarket. When a fugitive 

 at Burlington Quay, on the coast of York- 

 shire, in February, 1643, the Parliamentary The 

 fleet, under Admiral Batten, bombarded the 

 house where she had taken refuge ; " and before I was 

 out of bed," says her Majesty, " the balls whistled so 

 loud about me that my company pressed me earnestly 

 to go out of the house ; the cannon having totally 

 beaten down the neighbouring houses, two balls fell 

 from the top to the bottom of the house where I was. 

 So cloathed as well as in haste I could be, I went on 

 foot to some little distance from the town of Bur- 

 lington, and got into the shelter of a ditch like that at 

 Newmarket, whither before I could get, the cannon 

 bullets fell thick about us, and a servant was killed 

 within seventy paces of me." f 



Sir William Dugdale refers to this incident of 

 " grim-visaged war " in his diary, s. d. February 24, 

 1643 ; ^^*^ ^t ^^ ^^^^ mentioned in Naworth's Alma- 

 nack : " Four Ships and a Pinnace in the Rebbels 



* Royalist Composition Papers, series II., vol. xxii., pp. 755-761. 

 MS., P.R.O. 



t " Memoirs," 1671, p. 34. 



