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period. It enclosed a court, and the superstructure was of 

 timber-frame, with numerous and large square windows, many 

 of them projecting, 



John Cole, gentleman, was appointed by Privy 

 Seal, dated Westminster, February 25, 1 660-1, to the 

 " office or place of breeding- and keepino: 

 our wildfowl about Newmarket and the 

 places adjoining during his natural life in as large and 

 ample a manner and forme as John Fyson deceased 

 or any other formerly enjoyed the same," with the fee 

 of 2s. 6d. per day, payable quarterly.* 



About this time John Bayspole, Surveyor of the 

 Royal Stables, advanced ^800 for materials and work 

 for repairing the " ruinous stables " at Newmarket, 

 which amount he requested to receive, being anxious to 

 complete the job without delay. Two years, however, 

 elapsed before he received the whole of the sum 

 advanced by him for this purpose. t 



John Darcy, Esq., was appointed by patent, dated 

 Westminster, June 4, 1661, Master of the Studs, in 

 the place of Sir John Fenwick, deceased, during 

 pleasure, with a salary of ^200 a year, payable out of 

 the Treasury half yearly at Christmas and on the 

 Feast of St. John the Baptist. With and by the 

 consent of the Master of the Horse a contract was 

 made with him that for and in consideration of ^800 

 per annum, " Hee should out of his ground and Breed 



* Enrolled March 27, 1661. Pell's Enrolment Books, vol. xiii., fo. 92a, 

 MS., P. R. O. Cole surrendered his appointment, November 18, 1662, 

 and was succeeded therein by Lewis Hickes, Esq., an ancestor of the 

 present senior member of Parliament for the county Cambridge. 



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