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to Newmarket, for the king's disport," and in Novem- 

 ber orders were issued to take care that no person 

 coursed with greyhounds within ten miles of the town, 

 and that no hounds but his Majesty's be allowed to 

 hunt within seven miles, great abuses having been 

 lately committed with the game there.* 



^■^^ Charles Stuart, 6th Duke of Lennox in Scotland, 

 4th Earl of March, and 3rd Duke of Richmond, (of the Stuart 

 family bearing this title) succeeded to the family honours 

 and estates on the death of his cousin, Esme Stuart, 2nd 

 Duke of Richmond, August 14, 1660. This nobleman, in 

 consideration of his father, George, Loid D'Aubigny, and his 

 uncle, Bernard Stuart's gallant services in the royal cause, 

 had been created, by King Charles I., by letters patent, dated 

 December 10, 1645, Baron Stuart, of Newberry, county Berks, 

 and Earl of Lichfield. His grace married, ist, Elizabeth, 

 relict of Charles, Viscount Mansfield, and daughter of Richard 

 Rogers, Esquire, of Bryanstown, county Dorset ; 2ndly, Mar- 

 garet, widow of William Lewis, Esquire, of the Van, 

 and daughter of Lawrence, son and heir of Sir Robert 

 Banaster, Bart, of Papenham, Berks ; and 3rdly, Frances- 

 Teresa, daughter of Walter Stuart, third son of Walter, Lord 

 Blantyre, but, dying without heirs, December 12, 1672, at 

 Elsenure, where he then resided as Ambassador-extraordinary 

 from Charles II. to the court of Denmark, all his dignities be- 

 came extinct. His grace was a Knight of the Garter, a good 

 jockey, and a notable partron of the Turf " La Belle Stuart," 

 the Britannia of our coins, who became the third wife of the 

 third Duke of Richmond in March, 1667, was admitted to be 

 the finest horse-woman at the court of the Merry Monarch. 

 As she was a frequent habitue at Newmarket it may not be 

 out of place, to briefly allude to her here. She was born 

 about the year 1647, and claimed a kind of Scotch kindred 

 to the king, and, we believe, "had her claims allowed." She 



* Ibid., vol. Ixxxiv., No. 5. 



