154 THE HISTORY OF NEWMARKET, [Book IX. 



" Veni Towlerton,* Stadiodriomi 

 Retinentes spem coronas, 

 Ducunt equos ea die 

 Juxta tramitem nots vis ; 

 Sequens autem solitam venam, 

 Sprevi primum et postremum. 



" Thence to Towlerton, where those stagers, 

 Or horsecoursers run for wagers ; 

 Near to the highway the course is, 

 Where they ride and run their horses : 

 But still on our journey went we, 

 First or last did like content me." 



The preceding extract is taken from " Corymbseus 

 Barnabse Itinerarium, or Drunken Barnaby's Four 

 Journeys," etc. ; first published in London, n.d., 

 temp. Charles I., in Latin and English. The author, 

 Barnaby Harrington, mentions the Knavesmire, but 

 does not refer to it as a race-course. However, he 

 assures us it was a place of execution, and instances 

 the case of John Bartendale, who was hung there, cut 

 down, buried, exhumed, pardoned, turned hostler and 

 lived very honestly after ! \ 



* Tollerton is a township and parish in the north Riding, and 9? 

 miles from the city of York. 



t A positive fact. See the particulars in Allen's " History of York." 



