214 THE HISTORY OF NEWMARKET. [Book X. 



and merit, and well skilled in hawking, hunting, korse-racing, 

 with other sports and pastimes." * 



Mr. J. H. Hinde, in a paper entitled " Public Amusements 

 in Newcastle," says that the races at Newcastle, " with all 



other meetings of a similar kind, were suppressed 

 ^^h\q' in the time of the Commonwealth ; which caused 



Daniel Collingwood,son of Sir Robert CoUingwood, 

 of Branton, to say in a public company that ' there were none 

 now in power but the rascality, who envied that gentlemen 

 should enjoy their amusements.' For this offence he was 

 summoned by the Parliament as a delinquent, June nth, 

 1657. The races were revived after the Restoration, being 

 held as before, the week after Whitsuntidde. In 1659, they 

 are noticed in the Common Council books, the course being 

 still on Killingworth Moor." — " Archaeologia yEliana," part xiv., 

 p. 229. 



The following appears in " The Journals of the House of 

 Couinioiisl' in connection with the incident above mentioned : — 



" Thursday, the i itJi of June, 1657. 



" Sir Wni. Strickland acquaints the House with a Paper he 

 hath received from Robert Ogle Gentleman, subscribed by him : 

 Which was read ; being as followeth ; 



" ' The information of Robert Ogle, of Eslingion in the 

 County of Northumberland, Gentleman ; Who saith, That 

 in April last, he being at his Inn at Almvick in the said 

 County, Sir Robert Collingzvood, of Brantoji ; fohn Salkeld, of 

 Rock, the younger ; Daniell Collingzvood, Son of the said 

 Sir Robert, and one Robert Peniberton ; came unto the Room 

 where this informant was : Where, falling upon Discourses 

 about a king, Sir Robert Collingzvood said, " We must have a 

 King, and will have a King ; and my Lord Protector dares not 

 refuse it." And afterwards, the said Sir Robert Collingzvood 

 began to inveigh against Robert Fenzvick Esquire, a Member of 

 this present Parliament ; saying, " He was a base Fellow ; 



* " Some extracts from a description of Cromwell's Lords," quoted in 

 " Forster's Statesmen," vol. v., app. C. 



