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the purposes of the court, and more capable of containing the 

 persons who resort thither at the time the king is there. The 

 territory belongs to my Lord Henry Bennet, Baron Arlington,* 

 who lets it on twenty-one years' lease, at six shillings the 

 acre, the rent to be paid half-yearly, and the tenant being left 

 at full liberty, either to employ the land for pasture, or plough 

 it up, or to sub-let it. 



"At four o'clock in the morning of the nth, according to 

 the English mode of reckoning, the king, with the Duke of 

 York, Prince Rupert, and the other attendants of his court, 

 departed from Newmarket for London, in very windy and 

 boisterous weather ; and his highness having heard mass, gave 

 audience to my Lords Blandford, Thomond, Bernard Howard, 

 and others, who had come to pay their respects to him ; and 

 at seven set off in his carriage, with all his suite, for Cambridge, 

 which is eleven miles from Newmarket, where his highness on 

 his arrival went to the Rose Inn." 



185 « gjj. — Castiglioni " is obviously either a mistake of the 

 translator or a misprint, as the person referred to was, prob- 

 ably, Francesco Castiglione, son of Jean Benedict Castiglione, 

 called Grechetto, the eminent artist. Francis was the disciple 

 of his father, and was born in Genoa. He inherited in a very 

 considerable degree the talents of his sire, and imitated his 

 style and manner exactly in composition, handling, and design. 

 As he was a distinguished animal painter it may account for 

 his presence at Newmarket during the Grand Duke's visit 

 there in May, 1669. 



186 "Xhe Marquis of Blandford." As there was no such 

 title known in England before the reign of Queen Anne, the 

 person referred to was Louis de Duras, Marquis of Blanquefort, 

 who (with George Hamilton) obtained from Charles H., 

 February 25, 1666-^], a grant for the sole licensing of all sorts 

 of lotteries in the kingdom of England and Ireland and 

 the Plantations for seven years. On the 29th of June 

 in that year "the Marquis" was commissioned "Captain 



* Alington. The writer evidently confused one title for the other. 



