358 THE HISTORY OF NEWMARKET. [Book XIII. 



the Air of Neiv-Market is more suitable to his Constitution,* 

 'tis rather probable that His Majesty will divert himself for 

 some time at that place." — Ibid., Sept, 12, 1679, No. 20. 



" Wednesday wee expect his Majesty and all the court 

 here, in order to theyr goeing to Newmarkett the next weeke, 

 but if the weather continues soe wett as it is at present I 

 believe the phesitians will disuade his Majesty from taking 



that journey." — H. Thynne to F. Parry, Whitehall, Sept. — , 

 1679. "The Arlington Letters," p. 65. 



Lord Halifax, London, September 17, 1679, to the Hon. 

 Henry Sidney : " The King seemeth inclined to go to New- 



1679. market ; his inclination is so strong for it, that it is 



September— an ill way of making one's court to dissuade him 



October. from it, though most wish he would stay in town 



for more reasons besides his health." — Sidney, " Diary and 



Correspondence," vol. i., p. 147. 



" There was a Consultation held by the Kings Physitians, 

 whether the Season of the yeare, and His Majesties late 

 Indisposition, would be convenient for His Majesties intended 

 Journey for Nczvnmrket; and they did say, that the Season 

 was too far advanced, that the Air was too Serene, so that 

 then it was dubious whether he would go or no : But after- 

 wards His Majesty resolved upon his Journey on this day, 

 and the Carriages are already sent, and the Guards ordered 

 to March beforehand to wait upon His Majesty thither in 

 their several Posts, both Horse and Foot." — " The Domestick 

 Intelligence," Sept. 26, No. 24. 



" These are to give Notice, That during the Courts being at 

 Newmarket, a Post ivill go thither every day from the General 

 Letter-Office in London." — "The London Gazette," No. 1445, 

 Sept. 22-25, 1679. 



" Last Friday morning [Sept. 29] His Majesty and the 

 whole Court went to New-Market, where it is said they intend 



* The Countess of Manchester, in a letter to Lady Hatton, dated 

 Sept. 8, 1679, says : "About the 15 or 16 of this moneth the Kinge 

 speakes of Newmarkett. The docterrs are much against it, and if he 

 goeth not thither, I beheve will stay y'^ longer att Windsor." — " The Hatton 

 Correspondence/' vol. i., p. 193. 



