272 THE HISTORY OF NEWMARKET. [Book XI. 



The following patent, appointing Thomas Elliot * cus- 

 todian of the royal palace at Newmarket, at a salary of ;^300 

 a year, was issued at this date : — 



" Our Will & Pleasure is That you forthwith 



1668. pay or cause to be payd to Our Trusty and 



Newmarket. Wellbeloued Servant Thomas Elliotte Esq'' whom 



The Palace. ^^^ ^^^^ appointed to be Our House-Keeper of 



y'' House Wee bought at Newmarket y*" sume of three hundred 



pounds in consideration of his paines & charges in keeping of 



y*" s'^ House, in ayreing of y° Roomes, & Household stuffc & 



in other Services there from y° at w''' time Wee 



bought y'' s'' House untill Michaellmas last y" some to be 



taken w"'out acc^ For which this shall be y° Warrant. Given 



at Our Court at Whitehall y'^ day of November in y'^ 



20'" yeare of Our Reigne 



" By his Ma*^^^' Command." 

 " To y'' Lords ComnV" 

 of Our Treasury." 

 — State Papers, Dom. 1668, Nov., bundle 256, No. 114; Ibid., 

 bundle 253, No. 195. 



To Peter Walton, Ric'^ Woodgate, Rich'^ Collins, Gentle- 

 men Harbingers, Thomas Brereton, W'" Cotton, Thomas 

 1668 Wetherell, Thomas Samborne, Jacob Withers & 



October. Henry Cooper Yeomen Harbingers, & to Nathanill 

 September. Cotton, & Lancelot Griffith their Assistants for 

 their Attendance on the King & Oueene at Newmarkett, 

 Audley End & else where, from the xxj"' of September to 

 the xx^'' of October 1668 being xxx*-'' days at ix'' f diem to 

 each Gentleman Harbinger and v^ a piece V diem to each 

 yeoman and his Assistants by warr' dated the xxiiij''' of 

 March 1668 [-69] . . . C" x^— A.O.R.D.C.T.C. B. 398. R. 95- 

 To William Cotton and Thomas Brereton for their shares 

 of ix" x*" allowed to Nicholas Woodgate and others, at the 

 same rates, for their attendance on his Ma^'*" x" days at New- 

 market in October and November 1668 . . . v". (Rot. 119.) 



* He was appointed one of the grooms of the bed-chamber by patent, 

 dated November 20, 1661, with a salary of ^500 a year, during pleasure, 

 payable quarterly out of the Exchequer. 



