356 THE HISTORY OF NEWMARKET. [Book XIIT. 



Person for his riding charges & expences in his Attendance 

 on his Ma^"' at Newmarket and Windsor by the space of \\\f 

 daies in the yeares 1677 & 1678 at xv^ a day by warr*^ etc . . . 

 Ix" xvl {Ibid) 



To Thomas Donkly for washing surplices viij^' for Brooms, 

 Rubbers, & Wipers for his Ma*- Closset viij'' for loading & 

 unloading the things in his Charge at the times of Removing 

 iiij", for Holly and Ivy, Rosemary & Bayes for xiij° weeks 

 ended the second of February at v^ per week iij^' v^ For his 

 Court Cloth and Liveiy iiij^^ xiij® iiij'*. And for Ixxiiij'"'^ daies 

 Travelling Charges to Newmarkett and Windsor at v'' a day 

 xviij^' xl In all being due to him within y*" Space of a Yeare 

 ended at Michas 1678, by warr* dated the viij"^ of November 

 1678 . . . xlvj" viijMiij'l (Rot. in.) 



To Thomas Fordham yeoman of y° Bowes for his riding 

 charges and expencis in his Attendance vpon his Ma''" with 

 his Gunns at Windsor & Newmarkett Ixj dayes at v^ Y diem 

 . . . xv" x^ {Ibid?) 



In consequence of the king's illness, and the state 



of the political situation, it was doubtful whether the 



Charles II court would attend the Newmarket October 



1679. meeting this year. The result is recorded 



Newmarket. . 1 • • 



September— m the Subjoined extracts : — 



October. Sidney Godolphin, writing from Windsor 



Castle, August 18, 1679, to his familiar friend, the 

 Hon. Henry Sidney (afterwards Earl of Romney), at 

 this date Ambassador Extraordinary at the Hague, 

 says : " The King talks of going to Newmarket the 

 1 8th or 20th of next month. The queen is to be there 

 and all the court." * 



* Blencowe ; " Diary and Correspondence of the Times of Charles II.," 

 by the Hon. Henry Sidney, vol. i., p. 96. The royal borough about this 

 time was passing through one of the most exciting parliamentary elections 

 of the period. Messrs. Povvney and Carew, Yeoman prickej-s of the 



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