appeared in BeJVs Life^ in 1874, but I have ascertained since that 

 one or two slight inaccuracies with regard to the domicile and the 

 tracks used crept into that account, no doubt owing to the fact that 

 Bell itself was not in existence at the time, nor for thirteen years 

 afterwards, and as I ferreted out the particulars lately from perhaps 

 the only person alive who knows them, I will correct some of what 

 appears at pp. 376, 377. The track which was first selected began 

 at Barton's Yard, on Mill Hill, and continued along the Exning road^ 

 past where the gas works are, for half a mile out and home. It 

 is strange that this place should have been chosen at all for such a 

 feat, as the first sixty or seventy yards was up the sharp rise of 

 ground which we see there still. The house the Captain put up at was 

 that of the father of Frank Buckle the jockey, and there it stands now 

 exactly as it did in 1809 — the second on the left in Barton's Yard. It 

 is easy to understand why Barclay could not be made comfortable in 

 fcuch a pill-box of a place, nor could he continue to breast that hill 

 every time he started. The change of quarters and course had there- 

 fore to be made on the sixteenth day, as described, and the new abode 

 was a house which stood where Heath Cottage now is, near the Horse 

 and Groom (not " Horse and Jockey " as given by BelVs Life), both 

 the house and the inn belonging to a man named Parkinson, who was 

 a stonemason and a great friend of the fighting men of the day who 

 patronised the inn, and were backing Barclay through thick and thin. 

 There remains this moment the identical doorway at which the new 

 track began, and crossing the Xorwich road it went straight to the 

 corner of the Severals, where Judge Clarke's house now stands, and 

 to make the half-mile, along the Ely road, to a little beyond where 

 Tom Jennings lives, every yard of which was level as a table. The 

 line could not have been "up the heath," as described by BelVs Life, 

 for paddocks, enclosed by high hedges, then occupied the area on which 

 Captain Machell's and Ryan's stables are now built. Parkinson's 

 house was commodious, so Barclay was made as comfortable as he 

 could be under the circumstances, and guarded by Gully, Gregson, acd 

 that lot, needless to say he was not allowed to be disturbed by the 

 crowd outside. 



A DisGEACEFUL EXHIBITION.— In coutrast with Allardice's manly 

 exploit I shall relate a disgraceful exhibition which is recorded in the 

 "Records of the Racecourse." After having given little glimpses at the 

 morals of King Charles II. and his Court at Newmarket, and their diver- 

 sions, the author states that a certain nobleman (?), whose name he 

 gives but, for the sake of his descendants, I shall not repeat, for a 

 wager of £50 backed himself to walk, stark nal-ed and barefooted, five 

 miles on " Xewmarket Common" in an hour. He lost the match by 

 half a minute, but had the honour of good company, for the King, his 

 concubines, and hii- nobles attended ! On Newmarket Heaih have been 

 seen many strange sights, but I question whether a stranger one was 



