1672.] THE OCTOBER MEETING. 315 



October I, where she lodged that night, and after being very 

 nobly entertained, left via Audley End for Whitehall, where 

 she arrived on the evening of October ^r—Ibid. 



Passing from the State Papers, and similar official 

 archives, to the journal of Thomas I sham, of Pytchley, 

 Northamptonshire, we meet with the earliest mention 

 of the king as a jockey :— 



" October 30, 1672. Mr. Bullivant, Parson of 

 Maidwell, came and said the king had ridden two 

 heats at Newmarket (' Ac dicit Regem apud novum 

 Mercatum bis stadium currisse '), and the Duke of 

 Albemarle's horse had fallen under him and broken 

 his neck." * 



To John Chase Esq'" Apothecary in Ordinary to His Ma*' 

 Person for his riding Charges &c. in his Attendance vpon His 

 Mat"*" at New Markett by the space of xx*'*" dayes end'^ y'^ 

 xxj'^ of Octob"" 1672 at the rate of xx^ Y diem by warr* dated 

 y-^ xij*" of Aprill 1673 ... xx". A.O.R., MS. P.R.O. 

 (Rot. 95.) 



To David Powell and Thomas Bocock, Pages of the 

 Presence to His Ma'''' for their charges and Expends in their 

 Attendance vpon his Ma'^''^ at Newmarkett xx'-^' dales ended 

 the xxj*'' of October 1672 at the rate of v® IP diem to each of 

 them, by w^arrant etc . . . x". {Ibid.) 



To Thomas Cooke Esq"" Groome of his Ma'* Privy Chamber 

 in Ordinary for his Lodging in his attendance vpon his Ma'"^ in 

 his Progresse to Newmarkett at xx'" a weeke by Warr' dated 

 the xiij"' of November 1672, being from the first to the xxj"' 

 day of October 1672 . . . Ixl (Rot. 97.) 



To Henry Legatt one of His Ma''^ Messengers for his 

 riding Charges & Expences being sent an Express from New- 



* Journal of Thomas Isliam, translated by the Rev. R. Isham, rector 

 of Lamport, with an introduction, notes, and indexes, by Walter Rye, 

 Norwich (privately printed), Mullen and Lcavins, 1875, 8vo. 



