226 THE HISTORY OF NEWMARKET. [Book XI. 



of Mares annually serve vnto o'" stable twelve choice 

 Horses without any further charge vnto us.'""* 



About this time the nominal annual charge of the 

 horses kept for the king and queen, with those allowed 

 to the officers of the household, was fixed at ;/" 16,640. 

 At the royal mews (exclusive of Newmarket) there 

 were (exclusive of carriage horses and nags, &c.), 

 forty-three coursers, stallions, and colts ; and thirty-one 

 hunters. Three equerries of the coursers' stable had 

 £^0 a year and the use of six horses each. Six equer- 

 ries of the hunting stable receive ^120 a year and the 

 use of twelve horses. Thirty grooms were attached to 

 the former, and thirteen to the latter. John Burwell 

 was appointed gentleman saddler, with an allowance of 

 \s. per day, and 3W. for his servant. Two surveyors 

 of the races had ^20 a year each, and the use of two 

 nags. The yeoman of the race enjoyed ^36 \os. a 

 year, and the use of one nag yearly. The Marshall 

 Farrier, Robert Snape, had ^250 a year, and a like 

 salary was paid to the Marshall Farriers belonging to 

 the king's hunters and running horses, f The following 

 relates to the king's four jockeys in ordinary : — 



" The Fower Boy Ryders, viz. : To Peter Allibond and 

 George Horniblowe two of the Boy Ryders vnder the iiij'^'' 

 Ryders of his Ma'* Stables for their wages at vj** the peece f 



* Enrolled, November 23, 1661. Pell's Enrolment Books. Patent 

 Books {Ibid.). On Darcy's death Sutton Oglethorpe, Esq., obtained the 

 appointment of Master of the Studs, by patent dated Westminster, July 

 27, 1674, during pleasure, at a salary of ^200 per annum, but the contract 

 to supply the king with twelve choice horses for ;/^8oo a year was then 

 discontinued. 



t State Papers, Dom. Charles II., vol. iii. No. loi, ef seq., and Audit 

 Office Records, Rot. 80, et seq., MS., P.R.O. 



