1680.] THE RACES. 371 



" It is said, His Majesty intends sometime next week to 

 go to Windsor, and from thence to Nezvmarket, there to see 

 some Horse-Races, and take other Divertisements." — " Mer- 

 curius AngHcus," No. 42. 



" This Morning [April 27] between three and four of the 

 Clock, His Majesty accompanied with most of the Court 

 parted from WJiitehall for Nezvmarket, from whence he is 

 expected back hither on Friday next." * — " Mercurius AngH- 

 cus," No. 46. 



'' Newmarket April J. A true List of the Horse Matches 

 to be run here this instant April 1680. 



" Mr. Bernard Hoivards Ball'd White Leg'd Gelding and 

 Mr. Millwards Horse, called. Second mourning, for 100 

 Guinnies/£-r Horse, Pay or Play, 8 Stone a piece, on Tuesday 

 the Twenty seventh instant, the Beacon course. 



" Sir Rob. Hoivards Horse, Crop and Mr. W^xq'& Drag-on on 

 the 28. instant, for i^200 piece ; Crop rides 9. stone, and the 

 other 9 stone and 2 / the Beacon course f 2 / difference in 

 weight. 



" Leadenheels and Post-boy ; on the 28. instant 3. miles, 

 Leadenheels rides 8. stone and a half, the other 12/ under ; for 

 ;^30O a piece. 



^^ Red-rose and Darcy, 9 stone a piece on the 29. instant 

 April for ^^500 a Horse the Beacon course. 



" Mr. Bernard Howards Gelding called Sweet lips and Mr, 

 Bellinghams Scotch Galloway for ^500 a horse 7. stone and a 

 half a piece, the Beacon course the last of April : no more as 

 yet till October next." — " Smith's Currant Intelligence," April 



^°, 1680, No. 18. 

 13 



" Newmarket, April 14. Here are two Horse Matches to 



* His Majesty returned from Newmarket to Whitehall on 31st, and 

 was entertained at supper by Sir John Raymond, Sheriff of London, at 

 his house in Skinners' Hall, at Dowgate. — "London Gazette," No. 1499. 



t The author of a MS. "Parochial History of Cambridgeshire" says 

 that " Sir Edward Lawrence of St. Ives, who frequented Newmarket in 

 the Time of King Charles 2. told me, that the Long Course, as it is now 

 called, on Newmarket Heath, went then by the name of the Beacon 

 Course."— MS. Ad. Brit. Mas., 5805, fo. 14 b. 



