328 THE HISTORY OF NEWMARKET. [Book XII. 



wife, Catherine Tregonwell, of Moreton, Devonshire, where 

 he was born in 1641. He died at Newmarket in 1729, aged 

 eighty-eight. We shall subsequently refer to his career at 

 length. 



Concerning the Newmarket October meeting, we 



have no details to give. It was apparently well 



attended. The Parliament was at the time 



October. 



in session at Westminster, to which may be 

 attributed the absence of the court and many of the 

 usual notabilities. The Earl of Suffolk, Deputy Earl 

 Marshal, wrote from Newmarket on October 12, 

 expressing his willingness to attend his parliamentary 

 duties if his presence there was required, and leave 

 " those innocent sports." However, his proxy sufficed, 

 although he then appears to have been occupied in 

 devising the armorial bearings of the young Duke of 

 Grafton.* 



The earliest account extant durino^ this reio-n re- 

 lating to the works and buildings of the royal palace 



at Newmarket is that for the years 167s- 



Newmarket. 



The Palace. 1 6 76, the cost of which amouuts to 

 ^229 i8j-. ']\d. The subjoined is a ver- 

 batim copy of the little bill ; it tells its own story and 

 calls for no comment : 



" Alsoe allowed the said Accomptant for money by him 

 Isued and paid for sundry workes and reppairacons done for 

 his Ma*>' att Newmarkett in the months of November, 

 December, January, and Feb*"-^' 1675, by Masons, Carpenters, 

 Bricklayers, Labourers, and others, For performance whereof 

 sundry Empcons and Provicons have been bought and Pro- 



* State Papers (October), 124. MS., P. R. O. 



