1650.] PROCEEDINGS RELATING TO 171 



they determined the sale of such horses to be forborne 

 until further consideration.* The next thing we hear 

 of it was when the House of Commons, on August 29, 

 passed a vote of thanks to Colonel Jones on the occa- 

 sion of his recent victory over the forces of the Duke 

 of Ormond in Ireland, coupled with a pension of ^1000 

 a year to him " and his heyres for ever in Ireland ; " 

 and "six of the best horses in Titbury race to be 

 selected and sent to him, as a gratuity from the 

 House."! This draft was duly selected and sent to 

 Ireland, and it is a singular fact that some years after- 

 wards, five of these half dozen royal stud barbs were 

 acquired by the Earl of Thomond, by whom the strain 

 was carefully preserved, which doubtless accounts for 

 the many victories won by the racehorses owned and 

 bred by the O'Briens in England and Ireland after the 

 Restoration, and on to the beginning of the present 

 century. 



On the 22nd of October those in charge of the stud 

 were ordered to attend the Council, to report on its 

 condition, and receive instructions,! and a month later 

 the Earl of Denbigh,^^^ Sir Henry Mildmay,^^^'' and Mr. 

 Holland were appointed to examine Gregory Julian 

 concerning the state of that Race. § 



In the meantime the Duke of York (afterwards 

 King James II.) wrote from Brussels, November 12, 

 1650, to Sir E. Nicholas, ex-Secretary of State, 

 desiring him to move Lord Colpeper^*'^ to supply 



* State Papers, Interregnum, vol. xciv., p. 384. 

 t The Earl of Leicester's Journal, p. 8i. 

 X State Papers, Interregnum, vol. Ixiii., p. 162. 

 § Ibid., p. 287. 



