1GG9.] THE SECOND SPRING MEETING. 277 



open in his resentments ; a minister with clean hands in a 

 corrnpt court, and endowed with a mind capable of forming, 

 and a heart ready to execute, the boldest and most hazardous 

 projects. The king soon learned to prefer his services 

 before those of his more cautious patron. Lord Clifford 

 married Elizabeth, daughter and co-heir of William Martin, 

 Esq., of Lundridge, by whom he had a large family, and, 

 dying in 1673, was succeeded by his eldest surviving son, 

 George, 2nd Baron Clifford. 



" London, May i. On Monday last [April 26, 1669] 

 His Majesty accompanied by his Royal Highness „ „ 

 and his Highness Prince Rupert, attended by i669. 

 several of his Nobility and Persons of the Court, Newmarket, 

 went hence to Nezv-Markct, to divert himself in 

 the country thereabouts, and this Morning returned again 

 hither. His Highness the Prince of Tuscany, having also 

 taken part in those diversions, is gone to take a view of the 

 University of Cambridge, desiring to be treated there as in 

 other parts incognito, and to wave those publick Honours with 

 which the said University intended to have received him." — 

 "The London Gazette," —^ 1669, No. 361. 



" His Majesty goes to Neivmarket to spend 1 5 days there if 

 His liking of the Sport there lasts so long. I shall follow 

 him six days after, and endeavour to return before him." — 

 Lord Arlington's Letters to Sir William Temple, vol. i., 



P- 397- 



The expenses attending the journey of the King from 



Whitehall to Newmarket in the months of April and May, 

 1669, was;^273 AfS. \o\d* 



To Roger Whitley Esq"" His Ma*^ Knight Harbinger by 

 virtue of a Warr' from the Lord Chamberlaine of his Ma*^ 

 Household for his and his two Assistants Attendance on His 

 Majesty at New-Markett by the space of xxvij" dayes, viz from 

 the xxiiij"' of February to the xxij"' of March i668[-69] 

 at the rate of x'' & v^ per diem each, by virtue of a warr*^ 



* Cofferers Aces., rot. J. rt'., MS., P.R.O. 



