The History of Newmarket
JOHNA.SEAVERNS 3 9090 014 539 403 Webster Family Library of Veterinary Medicine Cummings School of Veterinary Medicine at Tufts University 200 Westboro Road North Grafton. MA 01536 THE HISTORY OF NEWMARKET, THE ANNALS OF THE TURF. : THE History of Newmarket, AND THE ANNALS OF THE TURF WITH MEMOIRS AND BIOGRAPHICAL NOTICES OF THE HABITUES OF NEWMARKET, AND THE NOTABLE TURFITES FROM THE EARLIEST TIMES TO THE END OF THE SEVENTEENTH CENTURY. BY J. P. HORE. IN THREE VOLUMES. VOL. I. FROM THE EARLIEST TIMES TO THE DEATH OF JAMES I. LONDON A. H. BAILY AND CO., 15, NICHOLAS LANE, CANNON STREET, E.C. 1886. \All rights reserved. '\ 1.©.^. D US 'i \ PREFACE. Rich, as many of our counties are, in topographical and historical literature, Cambridgeshire has been so neglected in this respect that she may be termed the Cinderella of the Shires. Need we wonder, then, when this important county—whose metropolis is the seat of one of our most renowned and ancient Univer- sities— has hitherto found no scribe to worthily chronicle her rural records, that an obscure hamlet within her confines should be unnoticed by writers upon ancient topographical subjects ? Nevertheless, this erst obscure hamlet (to use a racing phrase) is, on " book form," four times as wicked as the infamous towns mentioned in Genesis (which were only once destroyed by fire), because after Newmarket became the Metropolis of the Turf, on three several times, it was almost reduced to ashes, and once nearly destroyed by water, by way of a change. Surely a place enjoying such a reputation to start with, does not deserve to languish any longer in obscurity ; and being actuated with a desire to lift the veil which so long hid her blushes, viti PREFACE.
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