366 THE HISTORY OF NEWMARKET. [Book XIII. 



great odds against Mr. Osley, but he won the Race, his Majesty 

 and his Royal Highness went on horse-back to see it run. 



" Yesterday the Town plate was run for at the three mile 

 Course, by three Lords and three Gentlemen : they all rid 

 their own horses, Mr. Griffine won the Plate and presented 

 it to the Town, who accepted it very kindly." — Ibid., No. 12. 



" London, March 22. This evening his Royal Highness 

 returned from Neivmarketr — Ibid., No. 12. 



" On Wednesday last His Royal Highness returned again 

 to Newmarket, from whence the Queen is expected next 

 Thursday, and his Majesty and the whole Court this day- 

 scnight." — Ibid., No. 13. 



" On the same day [March 27] the Privy Council was 

 assembled about the Plot in Ireland, and after some debate 

 thereupon, their Lordships sent an Express to his Majesty at 

 Newmarket concerning the same ; who returned with an 

 answer, that his Majesty would be personally here on Wednes- 

 day, to have a hearing of the business himself" — Ibid., 

 No. 15. 



"On Wednesday [March 31] his Majesty and his Royal 

 Highness returned thither from Neivjnarket, and in the after- 

 noon, the Aldermen and Sheriffs waited on his Majesty, to 

 congratulate him upon his arrival." — Ibid., No. 15. 



" On the 22nd of March, the King was at Newmarket, and, 

 the same day, the council met at Whitehall, on information 

 that a great number of apprentices were inlisted by one Alford, 

 under pretence of burning the rump. He was secured by the 

 lord mayor, and committed by the council, for high treason, 

 as he deserved, for offering to inlist men." — Macpherson, 

 " Original Papers," vol. i., p. 103. 



Lawrence Hyde, Earl of Rochester, writing from London, 

 March 16, 1680, to H.E. the Hon. Henry Sidney, mentions 

 that the spring meeting at head-quarters had emptied 

 London : " When my Lord Sunderland and Mr. Godolphin 

 are both out of town, I hope you will not be angery to hear 

 a word from me, which is only to tell you that every body 

 else is gone ; and that I only, who have the reputation of a 

 lazy and an idle man, to love London exceedingly, and to 



