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the necessary funds to defray the cost of maintaining 

 the stud ; and to preserve three of the best horses 

 therein for the king's use. His Royal Highness 

 also wrote to Lord Colpeper as follows : " My Lord, 

 the Kinges [Charles H.] horses are to be sold for 

 money to pay for their meat. Some of them are much 

 pris'd by his Ma'^ and cannot be sold to their worth : 

 therefore I desire that you would laye downe the 

 money due for their charges, so that the Kinges honor 

 may be preserved, and the best of y® horses still kept 

 for y^ Kinges use: w"" w'^'' I am sure his Ma*'*^ wilbe 

 well pleased."* Unfortunately, the wishes of the Duke 

 of York proved ineffectual, and were not carried out 

 on this occasion, but at the sale of Sir Arthur Hasel- 

 rigg's stud in 1659, Lord Colepeper purchased several 

 lots of the " Tutbury race," which he presented to the 

 king soon after the Restoration, and these were sent 

 to the royal stud at Hampton Court, where the horses 

 of Cromwell, seized by the Crown, were already 

 located. 



On Christmas eve the Committee of Sequestra- 

 tions were directed to examine the delinquency of 

 Gregory Julian, and the surveyors to examine the trust 

 reposed in him, and to find some other place where 

 those horses may be kept in order to preserve the 

 breed. f 



On the 7th of January, 1650, the Council ordered 

 Gregory Julian to be sent down to Tutbury, to look to 

 the Race, and answer the charge made against him 



* Eviyn's Diary, ed. Lord Braybrooke. Appendix, 

 t Ibid., p. 424. 



