344 THE HISTORY OF NEWMARKET. [Book XIII. 



purport and true meaning of these p'sents and that without 

 any Accompt, Imprest or other Charge whatsoever to be set 

 vpon her the said Elizabeth Elliott or her assignes for the 

 same And these o'' ^res patente or the Inrollment thereof 

 shall vnto all & every the said respective officers of the 

 Excheq"" of Vs o'' heires and successors for makeing due 

 payment & alio wau nee of the said yeare by Fee of two 

 hundred pounds in manner & forme as above is menco'ned a 

 good & sufficient warrant & discharge In WITNESS whereof 

 we have caused these o^ letters to be made patente WITNESS 

 o"" selfe att Westminster the second day of October in the 

 nine and twentieth yeare of o'" Raigne. 



" By writt of Privy Scale. 



" PiGOTT." * 



The kine attended the Newmarket October meet- 



ing. The particulars of the races are most meagre. 



In a letter dated September 26th, Secretary 



1677. Coventry writes to Williamson : " I need 



September— i^ot write you news from hence for you know 



October. what we are doing as well as we here. Sir 



Robert Carr lost one of his eight horse matches, and 



this morning we killed w**" the K^' begles three hares. 



All Campgnes prove not so bloody." f On the 30th 



Samuel Pepys arrived at Newmarket to consult the 



* MS. Patent Book, 1677 & 1679, vol. xxiii.. No. 8, p. 26, P.R.O. 



t Secretary Williamson, in a despatch dated Whitehall, September 

 28, 1677, to H. E. Sir Lionell Jenkens, complains that he was unable to 

 answer despatches relating to the negotiations at Nimeguen in consequence 

 of the king being with most of the lords at Newmarket. — Harl. MS., 

 1523, fo. 230. 



"The King had advice at Newmarket, of the fifth-monarchy-men's 

 design to murder him, and the Duke of York, there or at London, on the 

 Lord-Mayor's day, in a balcony ; and the prince of Orange on his way 

 from Harwich. But the design was laid aside, because they were not 

 enough prepared. The Duke of York, at the same time, had the like 

 advice." — Macpherson, Original Papers, vol. i. p. 84. 



