296 THE HISTORY OF NEWMARKET. [Book XII. 



D.D., Lord Palatine and Bishop of Durham, it is written : 

 " London, April 7th, 1670. — I believe the Parliament will 

 be prorogued or adjourned upon Saturday next, for all the 

 Bills are ready for the King to pass, who intends to goe 

 towards Newmarket upon Monday next . . . Aprill.pth. This 

 morning I was at the Parliament House, and found the King 

 gone to Hampton Court, from whence he will returne this 

 evening and finish all the Parliament Bills upon Monday or 

 Tuesday morning at furthest, having put off his journey to 

 Newmarket till the day following . . . Aprill 28th. The King 

 returnes hither this day from Newmarket, where my Lord 

 St. John won much money a weeke or a fortnight since, but 

 whether hee lost it againe yesterday or no we shall know 

 when the King and the Court come hither . . . P.S. — The 

 King came hither this day at noone, driving from Newmarket 

 hither in 8 houres, and my Lord St. John's Horse Tancfed * 

 is the victor againe." — The Publications of the Surtees 

 Society, vol. Iv. 



To W" Cotton, Thomas Witherell, Nath Cotton, & 

 Thomas Brerton, yeomen Harbingers for their attendance 

 on his Ma'"" at Newmarket & Dover viz. to VV" Brereton 

 XXV® dayes end'' y^ xxix"^ of April 1670 at v^ 'F diem vi'' v* 

 etc.— A.O.R. Rot. 95. 



To Thomas Donekley his Ma'® Chappell Closset keeper, 

 by two Warr'* y° one dated y*^ viii^'' of Nob'' 1676 y'' other 

 viii"' of December 1677 for washing Surplices, for Brooms 

 Brushes Rubbing Cloaths for both y*^ Clossetts, for loading 

 and unloading at removing times the goods in his charge, for 

 Holly and Ivy, Rosemery and Bays, and for horse hire in his 

 Journeys to Newmarkett, And for his Attendance there for 



sums at Newmarket. There could be little in common, we may venture 

 to suppose, between Lord St. John and the Bishop as regarded fondness 

 for the turf, yet the latter is not above taking an interest in the account of 

 my Lord having 'won much money' at Newmarket, and his 'horse 

 Tancred being victor again.' " — Vol. ii., xxx 



* This horse may have been named after Tankered, a highwayman 

 and horse-dealer of great notoriety, about this time, in Yorkshire. — See 

 Publications of the Surtees Soc, vol. xl. 



