1635.] HYDE PARK. 129 



Liddington's raunde * the eight day of Januarye last. The 

 said John Hauers to be the browne horse or nagg w*^'' he 

 bought of Dauid Cecill Esqr. 



"Itm,the said partyes haue agreed to ryde the said match 

 the three and twent' th day of April next being St. Georges 

 Day betwixt the howres of nyne and ten of the Clocke in the 

 aforenoone of the same day : To begin and start together at 

 the Upper-lodge in Hyde-park and to run the vsuall way 

 from thence ouer the lower bridge vnto the ending place at 

 the parke gate ; ther horses to Carry eight stone and a half 

 a peece after the rate of fowrteene poundes to eu'y stone, and 

 whether of the said horses as shall come first at the said 

 ending place or post to win the said match. 



" Lastly the said partyes to these articlles haue agreed, that 

 whether of them as shall fail in p'formance of the aboue said 

 agreem'* vpon the said day and at the said tyme and place to 

 forfeitt to the other fiftye pounds of law^ful money of England 

 and in witness therof haue joyntely herewith sett ther hands 

 and seales the day and yeare first aboue ritten. 



"Sealed Signed and 

 Deluiered in the View John Pretyman 



of Richard Alunne, 

 John Burton, Philip 

 Wilson.t John Haures" 



In its report of the proceedings of the House 

 of Commons, under date "Thursday, January 21 

 [1646-47]," the third number of the " Lon- c. 1635. 

 don Post " refers to the arrest and ar- ^y^® ^^'^^• 

 raignment of " Master Michael Hudson," who, in 

 his examination, confessed having written to Major 

 General Langhorn and others on treasonable subjects 

 against the Commonwealth, whereupon he was com- 



* Query, Rand = in old English, the margin or border of anything. 

 The reading is obscure. 



t State Papers, Dom., Charles I., vol. cclxxxv.. No. 63, MS., P.R.O. 

 VOL. II. K 



