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Stocking Hung, after the manner of a married bride ; 

 I acknowledge she was for the most part in her un- 

 dress all day, and that there was fondness and toying 

 with that young wanton ; nay, it was said, I was at the 

 former cerimony, but that is utterly false ; I neither 

 saw nor heard of any such thing whilst I was there, 

 though I had been in her chamber, and all over that 

 apartment late enough, and was myself observing all 

 passages with much curiosity. However it was with 

 confidence believed she was first made a Miss, as 

 they call these unhappy creatures, with solemnity at 

 this time." 



On the 1 6th of the month "all the great men" 

 from Newmarket and other adjacent parts came to 

 Euston " to make their court, the whole house filled 

 from one end to the other, with lords, ladies, and 

 ofallants ; there was such a furnished table, as I had 

 seldom seen, nor anything more splendid and free, 

 so that for fifteen days there were entertained at least 

 200 people, and half as many horses, besides servants 

 and guards, at infinite expense." 



He describes the scenes at Newmarket from two 

 points of view. At Euston, in the morning they went 

 racing, hunting and hawking according to taste ; in the 

 afternoon " till almost morning, to cards and dice ; yet 

 I must say without noise, swearing, quarrel, or con- 

 fusion of any sort." On the 21st he was in the town 

 of Newmarket, where he says, " I found the jolly 

 blades racing, dancing, feasting, and revelling, more 

 resembling a luxurious and abandoned rout, than a 

 Christian Court." The Duke of Buckingham was 



