224 THE HISTORY OF NEWMARKET. [Book XI. 



On July 4, 1660, Sir Allen Apsley, Knight, was appointed 

 to the office or place of Master Surveyor and Keeper of his 

 Majesty's Hawks, during life, at a salary of ;^30 a month, 

 twenty-eight days to the month, for his entertainment, also 

 IOJ-. per day for providing meat for the hawks ; and by 

 another patent he obtained i^8oo per annum, of which ^200 

 was for the entertainment of four falconers at ;^50 a year 

 each, viz. for the crow hawks — and ^600 for provision of 

 hawks of all kinds : the crow, the heron, the field, and the 

 brook, and for all other charges of that nature, payable quar- 

 terly out of the Exchequer, 



By a later patent Peter Apsley, son of Sir Allen Apsley, 

 was joined with his father in the office with reversion to the 

 longer liver of them. Some years afterwards, when Sir Allen 

 died, this Sir Peter obtained the appointment, which he sur- 

 rendered, probably for a consideration, to Thomas Felton and 

 William Chiffinch, Esquires, and these persons were accord- 

 ingly appointed to the office by patent dated June 20, 1675. 



^•'^ Sir Allen Apsley — son and heir of Sir Allen Apsley, 

 twenty-one years victualler of the navy, and fourteen Lieu- 

 tenant of the Tower of London (who died May 24, 1630), and 

 Lucy, daughter of Sir John St. John of Lydiard, Knight — was 

 M.P. for Thetford in the Long Parliament, falconer to 

 Charles II., keeper of the New Warren and master of the game 

 there, and treasurer and receiver-general of James, Duke of 

 York. He died October 15, 1683. His only child and heiress, 

 Catherine, married Sir Benjamin Bathurst, Knight, M.P., 

 governor of the East India and the Royal African Companies 

 temp. James II. He was afterwards treasurer of the household 

 to the Princess Anne of Denmark, and on her accession to the 

 throne. Sir Benjamin was constituted her majesty's cofferer. 

 Allen-Alexander, 6th and present Earl Bathurst, now repre- 

 sents the family. The mansion, Old Place, in Pulborough, in 

 which the Apsley's resided till their extinction, was built in 

 the reign of Henry VI. Enough is still extant to afford a 

 curious specimen of the seat of a Sussex gentleman at that 



