NEWMARKET, (Suffolk and Cambridgeshire) 10 m.from St. Edmondsbury, 54 cm. 60 mm. from London, is a handsome well-built T,
with one long street, the N. side in Suffolk, the S. side in Cambridgeshire. It is a healthy place, and a great
thoroughfare in the road from London to Norfolk; but gets much more by the horse-races every year, in April and Octob.
here being the finest course in England on which there is a house for the K. when he comes to the races, which was built
by K. Cha. II. The K. gives a plate or two every year, besides those given by the nobility; and wagers are laid upon the
horses, which are seldom under 500 l. and often above 1000 l. Here are 2 coffee-houses, at which every night, after the
races, there is gaming, as there is also at the houses of the nobility and gentry. Here are also cockmatches; and such
sharpers at both, that a Newmarket Bite is a common proverb. Here is a little Ch. which is a chapel of ease to the mother
at Ditton; and another in the Suffolk side, which is parochial. The T. was burnt in 1683, but soon rebuilt by a brief.
Here are 2 ch. scs. one for 20 boys, another for 20 girls, supported by 50 l. a year, first settled by Q. Anne. Here is a
Mt. on Tu. and Th. Fair Octob. 18.