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annum, with which the Master of the Hawks for the 

 time beinfT-, was to provide and keep six cast of hawks 

 for the brook, and as many for the field, and to defray 

 all other charges, fees and salaries relating thereunto, 

 accordinof to the rules of that establishment. 



All the salaries of the gamekeepers under the 

 control of the Master of the Hawkes amounting to 

 ^504 Si'. \d. was ordered to be reduced, except those 

 of Whitehall, Newmarket, Hampton Court, Greenwich, 

 and Richmond, whose salaries come to ^107 15^-. \od. 

 per annum. The game in other places to be preserved 

 " by giving y" Power to Gentlemen of Quality " in such 

 localities. 



The expenses of the royal buckhounds were like- 

 wise considerably diminished.* 



It is doubtful if the spring meeting at Newmarket 

 was held this year ; at any rate, there is no record of 

 it having taken place ; and it is certain neither the 

 kine nor the court went there before the month of 

 May,"}" when some racing took place, as may be 

 gathered from the appended fragmentary references to 

 them : — 



" London, May 23. On Thursday morning last his 

 •1 II Majesty, accompanied by his Royal Highness, his 

 1668. Highness Prince Rupert, and attended on by the 

 Newmarket. Duke of MonnioiitJi, and several principal persons 

 '^^^' of the court, parted hence for Neivniarket, in- 

 tending to spend some days there and in the neigh- 



* State Papers, Dom. Charles II., March. Bundle 40, No. 46. 



t Expenss Dom. Re. Itinre ^ Whitehall usque Newmarkett et regro 

 mens May M'DClxviij Cxx", iij'' ob. q^ — "Accounts of the Cofferer and 

 Keeper of the Great Wardrobe of the Household." Excaequer, L. T. R. 

 Series I., box E. (Bundle 15 Charles I. to 20 Charles II,), MS., P. R. O. 



