270 THE HISTORY OF NEWMARKET. [Book XI. 



Chief Justice Keeling hath laid the constable by the heels to 

 answer it next Sessions ; which is a horrid shame. How the 

 King and these gentlemen did make the fiddles of Thetford 

 in this last progress to sing them all the obscene songs they 

 could think of . . . That the King was drunk at Saxham with 

 Sedley, Buckhurst, etc., the night that my Lord Arlington 

 came thither, and would not give him audience, or could not ; 

 which is true, for it was the night that I was there, and saw 

 the King go up to his chamber, and was told that the King 

 had been drinking. He tells me, too, that the Duke of York 

 did the next day chide Bab. May for his occasioning the 

 King's giving himself up to these gentlemen, to the neglect 

 of my Lord Arlington ; to which he answered merrily, that 

 there was no man in England that had a head to lose, durst 

 do what they do, every day, with the King, and asked the 

 Duke's pardon, which is a sign of a mad world, God bless us 

 out of it." 



" Whitehall, September (Qy. 30) — This morning His Majesty, 



accompanied by His Royal Highness, and attended by several 



Newmarket P^-'^sons of the most considerable quality about 



1668. the Court, departed hence for Ncivjuarkct, where 



September. ]-|g intends for some days to divert himself, and 



afterwards to go to Atidlcy end, where he may continue for some 



weeks." — The " London Gazette," Sept. 29 — Oct. i. No. 300. 



" Whitehall, October 6. This morning Her Majesty 

 attended by several Ladies of the Court, went hence for 

 Audly-end, where his Majesty was suddenly likewise expected, 

 having diverted himself for some time at Newmarket." * — 

 Ibid., No. 301. 



Lord Arlington to Sir Wm. Temple : — " His Majesty goes 

 to Morrow at break of day, but I shall not set out till Friday 

 Morning, and the Queen not till to morrow Sev'night." — 

 Letters, vol. i., p. 355. 



" Sept. 30. His Majesty accompanied with his Royal 

 Highness, etc., went for Neiv Market.'' 



* The King and H.R.H. arrived there again on Nov. i, and returned 

 to Whitehall on the 3rd of that month. 



