362 THE HISTORY OF NEWMARKET. [Book XIII. 



ceiving them at the Gate, amidst the Shouts of the 

 people. The entertainment was very great and noble, 

 there being several Tables in distinct Rooms.* At 

 that prepared for the King and the Duke, his Majesty 

 was pleased to command the Lady Mayoress, the 

 Sheriffs Ladies, the Lord Mayor, and several of the 

 Nobility, to sit down with Him, the Aldermen attend- 

 ing his Majesty, who, after Supper, was pleased to 

 confer the Honour of Knighthood upon W. Gtilston, 

 Esq., a near Relation to the Lord Mayor. The King 

 and the Duke (who were extremely pleased with their 

 Entertainment and the whole Carriage of it), returning 

 to Whitehall, the Lord Mayor, Aldermen and Sheriffs 

 waited upon them thither, and the City Guards to the 

 Temple, being followed with great numbers of people 

 making loud Acclamations of long Life and Health to 

 the King and the Duke, while others were demon- 

 strating the same dutiful affections towards them by 

 making Bonfires, and ringing of Bells." The following 

 morning "between 4 and 5 o'clock His Majesty and 

 his Royal Highness parted hence for Newmarket, as 

 her Majesty likewise did about two hours after." 



The Countess Dowager of Sunderland "°^ writes 



as follows to her brother, H.E. the Hon. Henry 



Sidney, Ambassador Extraordinary at the 



Newmarket. Haeue, under date of March 12, 1680: — 



March. u-pi^jg j^y j^y Lofj Sunderland is gone 



to Althorpe, and Mr. Smith has left the mirth of 



* "The London Gazette," No. 1493. It was at this carouse the Lord 

 Mayor, when the king was about to leave, pulled his Majesty back to 

 have " 'tother bottle." The liberty the Merry Monarch took in good part, 

 merely remarking that " he who is drunk is as great as a king." 



