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meeting — His departure from London— The order of his goings 

 The journey down — Dinner at Epping — Supper and bed at Bishop's 

 Stortford — The roadside inns — The journey resumed on horseback — ■ 

 Audlcy End — The roads — Incidents en route — Arrival at Newmarket 

 — The ducal party put up at the Maidens — H.S.H. visits the palace 

 — Congratulated by the King on his safe arrival — Visits the Duke 

 of York — Lord Thomond's house purchased by Charles II. — A 

 morning walk in Newmarket — An encounter with the King — A royal 

 coursing party — Home to dinner — Fowling dotterels on the heath — 

 Visit to the palace — An early supper — A dull morning — More coursing 

 — Dinner at the palace — The guests — They proceed to the race- 

 course — The course described — The posts — The races — Training 

 secrets— Going to the start — ^The jockeys — The colours of the riders 

 — The start — Scenes during the race — An exciting finish — Proclaim- 

 ing the winner — The return to Newmarket — An afternoon stroll — 

 An evening at the court — Charles touches for the King's evil — Scene 

 in the palace — The ceremony described — Dinner — Another day's 

 racing — Details — The King visits the Grand Duke at the Maidens — 

 And returns to London for the May-day festivities in Hyde Park — 

 A deputation from the Cambridge University invite the Grand Duke 

 to visit them — H.S.H.'s description of Newmarket — His departure 

 for and arrival at Cambridge — The Marquis de Blanquefort—Lord 

 Croftes — Lord Newp07-t — Royal visit in October. 



In August, 1660, a petition was sent to the king by 

 Robert Ford praying to be reinstated as keeper of the 

 ruins and rehcs of the royal palace at New- 



, 1660. 



market, asserting that he and his father had 

 held that appointment in the time of Charles I. "of 

 blessed memory," but that he, the petitioner, had been 

 dispossessed during the Interregnum by one Okey, 

 and others, by whom most part of the buildings were 

 pulled down ; and as these persons still retained pos- 

 session of what remained, he prayed they might be 

 evicted in his favour, " that there may be noe more 

 demolishing thereof." Ford annexed a schedule of the 

 parts of the palace then remaining, which only consisted 

 of two brew-houses, the butteries, the old building next 

 the street, a buildin"- at the end where the tennis-court 



