1072.] JVAVS AND MEANS. 3i3 



Ma^'" to Norwich, Yarmouth, Newmarket, Cambridge, and 

 elsewhere by the space of xxvij days ended the xxj"' of 

 October 167 1 at the rate of x' '[)) diem for himselfe, & v"" '[j^ diem 

 for each of the said Trumpetters, by hke Warr^ dated the xx"' 

 of December 1671 . . . xl" xl (Rot. 92.) [Two Under- 

 Marshalls in attendance during the same journey were paid 

 at the same rate.] 



To Thomas Stevens, Marshall Farrier to his Ma*^ Hunting 

 Horses at Hampton-Court, Redding, and Newmarkett etc for 

 Medicineing bloodeing and drenching the said horses for the 

 space of ij'"" whole yeares viz : From the First day of October 

 1669 to the last day of September 1671 : As by ij"'' severall 

 Bills of Perticulars Examined by his Ma*'*"^ Equaries and 

 signed and allowed by the Master of his Ma"'^'* Horse and the 

 Acquittances of the Parties who received the same amounts 

 to the some of cxx". (Rot. 95.) 



We can find no reference to the spring meeting 

 at head-quarters for the year 1672. The country 

 was in a sad plight, and it is certain there 1672. 

 was no royal visit to Newmarket. The Newmarket. 

 Exchequer had suspended payment, by which the 

 king became bankrupt, " multitudes of widows and 

 orphants being beggared and undone." The sale of 

 Dunkirk to Louis XIV. for ^500,000 finally severed 

 England's territorial interests on the Continent, which 

 had survived from the Norman Conquest ; but the 

 " ravenous Mistress Palmer " was thereby enriched 

 by her royal lover without regard to the prestige of 

 the happy land upon which the sun never sets. And 

 if the king was merry, and the court dissipated, the 

 country at large had no right to complain ; it was 

 always in those days the prerogative of the public to 

 suffer for the pleasures of its princes. 



