Excerpt from The History of Newmarket: And the Annals of the Turf Some of these business matters are characteristic of the age. Thus Lord Conway reports to Whitehall, on September 15, that for two or three days past, the Mayor and Aldermen of Oxford were staying at N ew market with an humble petition, praying that the king would be graciously pleased to confirm the nomination of Mr. Thomas Prince, to fill the then vacant town clerkship of that city. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.