I30 THE HISTORY OF NEWMARKET. [Book IX. 



mitted "close prisoner to the Tower, and no man 

 should speake with him but in the presence of his 

 Keeper." The Parliamentarians who arrested Hudson 

 at Newcastle, received the thanks of the House, and 

 pecuniary rewards. The writer in the " London Post" 

 then continues as follows : — 



" Though I am scanted in time, yet I have here roome in 

 this place to informe you how expert a man this Master 

 Michael Hudson was in the art of Horsemanship, and how 

 not many yeares since he was so hard at a Horse race in 

 Hide Parke, for all the Bishop of Canterburyes Gentlemen, 

 and came from them a cleere gayner of at least seven hundred 

 pounds. The story is briefly thus. 



" He had an excellent Mare and so swift of foote, that at 

 all races she did carry away the prize, And was so extra- 

 ordinary well knowne that no man would be so hardy, as to 

 adventure against her ; on all matches and races, this Mare 

 was allwayes excepted ; which Master Hudson observing not 

 long after became Master of a Nagge so full of speed as if 

 he had bin of the Race of those who were begotten by the 

 wind : Master Hudson in Lincolneshire would often privately 

 run these two together, and he found that in halfe a miles 

 race his Nagge would outrun the Mare twelve score paces : 

 With this Nagge he comes to London ; And the Archbishops 

 Gentlemen doe welcome to Zi^;;/^!;^'//^ their old O.i-ford acquaint- 

 ance. A match is made for a Horese-race in Hide Parke. 

 Master Hudson having not his Mare in Towne, the Arch- 

 bishops Gentlemen are so confident of successe that they 

 would lay downe all the Moneys they have, or what they can 

 borrow of their Friends, Master Hudson doth seeme to be as 

 desperate as they. The monyes being layd down, the race 

 with great expectation beginnes. And Master ////<^j-(?/w Nagge 

 what with its owne swiftnesse and courage, and the art and 

 helpe of his rider, doth make such hast that it doth out run 

 the other almost, halfe in halfe : the Archbishops Gentlemen 

 are brake, their money is lost, and to helpe the matter they 



