36o THE HISTORY OF NEWMARKET. [Book XIII, 



12 feet of underpinning done in the wall next the 

 stables ; for mending the Duke of Monmouth's range 

 in the kitchen ; for work done in the king's kitchen & 

 the top of the chimney. Edward Blowes, carpenter, 

 received ^8 i\s. 6d. for boarding 20 stalls with oaken 

 boards & mending the placks in the stables. John 

 Nelson, painter, was paid £/\. 6s. 6\d. for painting the 

 posts in the street before the king's garden, and 10 

 laterne windows and the cornishes of the roof of the 

 king's stables.* According to another account a further 

 sum of ^195 2s. 6ld. appears to have been laid out 

 on other works and building in and about " the king's 

 house at Newmarket " during this year.f 



The ordinary expenses of the king and queen at 

 Newmarket from the ist to the 15th of October, 1679, 

 amounted to ^1081 i/i^s. 5f(/.J 



" A Strawbery py'd Gelding, about 14 hands high, a short 



mane, and a bob tail, about 7 years old, all his paces, a 



Charles II. stradling gate behind, taken from Mr. Hugh 



1679. A /sop by three Highwaymen, upon Newmarket 



Newmarket. Heath, on Wednesday morning, being the 23rd of 



April last. Whosoever shall give notice of him to Mr. Alsop 



at the Eagle and Child in Nctvinarket, or to Mr. Edzvard Cooke, 



at the Siui Tavern behind the Royal Exchange, London, shall 



have Three pounds, besides his charges." — " The London 



Gazette," f^^ , 1679, No. 1403. 

 May I 



To Jervis Price for his riding charges and Expencis in his 



Attendance vpon his Ma"*^ with his Guns at Newmarket 



xviij" dales from y'^ xxvj"^ of September to y*^ xiij"' of 



* L.T.R. Works & Buildings, No. 97. 



t Ibid., No. 99, m. 2, 3. 



\ Cofferer's Accts., Rot. s. d. MS. P.R.O. 



