314 THE HISTORY OF NEWMARKET. [Book XII. 



We have now to turn our attention to the New- 

 market October meeting of 1672, and the State 

 Papers, from which we learn that the kino- 



October. ^ • , 1 . 



was about to honour the races with his 

 presence ; and that Lord Arhngton intends to " divert 

 him at Euston with the hunting of a couple of hinds 

 which he has kept there for that purpose." * On the 

 loth, W, Bridgeman writes to Sir J. Williamson : "All 

 the news I can tell you from hence is that yesterday 

 Mr. Bernard Howard lost a horse match of^2 25 ; and 

 this morning all the Cheshire men are undone by a 

 foot match of one of that County against a Servant of 

 my Ld. Duke of Buckinghams, the latter remaining 

 conqueror." J On the 12th the king paid a visit 

 to Lord Arlington at Euston, \ and a few days after 

 the court returned to Whitehall. This, the only royal 

 visit to the head-quarters of the Turf in 1672, cost the 

 royal exchequer ^903 iSi". iif^.§ 



" We are commanded to give notice, That a Post is 



ordered to go every Monday, Wednesday, Friday and Sunday 



at ten a clock at niglit to Neiv market, during his Majesties 



stay there, and to return from thence on the extraordinary 



days between Eleven and Twelve." — The " London Gazette," 



Sept. 30. , T>T 

 Oct. 3. ^^^72, No. 717. 



" The queen and her court arrived from Norwich, atEuston 



* State Papers, Dom., bundle 336, No. 4. 



t Ibid., No. 41. 



\ This royal visit seems to have extended over a month. Lord 

 Arlington, writing on the 25th of October, to His Excellency, Sir Bernard 

 Gascoyn, Ambassador Extraordinary at the court of Vienna, says : " I have 

 been all this month at Euston during the time of his Majesty's being at 

 Newmarket, which is the reason you have not heard from me." 



§ Cofferer's Accts., Rot. s.d. 



