lGO;t.J THE FIRST SPRING MEETING. 273 



Order in Council. 



Cii3.rl68 XX 



Total of the king's revenue, i^ 1,030,000. I668. 



Household, ^90,000. Horses. 



Privy Purse, ii" 12,000. 

 Master of the horse " for horses," ^^2000. 

 Stud horses, ;^500. 



(This was exclusive of the Queen's, who was allowed a 

 dower of ;^23,ooo.) 



Army and garrisons, i^ 182,000. 



— Harl. 8636, fo, 69, 70. 

 Stables i; 10,000.— /^., 7 id. 1675-1676. 



We have discovered no trace of the Nevi^market 

 first spring meeting of 1669, beyond the formal an- 

 nouncement that the king, accompanied by ^.g 

 the Duke of York, Prince Rupert, the Duke Newmarket. 

 of Monmouth, and their suites, went down 

 on the 8th of March, and returned to London on the 

 1 2th of that month.* The expenses attending the 

 king's journey from Whitehall to Newmarket and 

 Audley End in March, i66'|, was ^412 17^-. o\d.\ 



" I hear that to-morrow the king and Duke of 

 York set out for Newmarket by three in the morning, 

 to some foot and horse-races ; to be abroad ten or 

 twelve days." — " Pepys' Diary," March 7, 1669. . . . 

 " March 8. To White Hall, from whence the king 

 and the Duke of York went by three in the mornino-. 

 and had the misfortune to be overset with the Duke 

 of York, the Duke of Monmouth, and the Prince 



* ''March 8. His Majesty and Royal Highness, etc., went to New- 

 Market. I2th. Returned to Whitehall." — "England's Remembrancer'' 

 (London, 1676), p. 99. 



t Accounts of the Cofferer of the Wardrobe, series i., box E, Rot. j-.</. 

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