Class I. HORSE. 



to fuch excefs as to injure the fortunes of the no- 

 bility. The famous George Earl of Cumberland is 

 recorded to have wafted more of his eftate than 

 any of his anceftors ; and chiefly by his extreme 

 love to horfe-races, tiltings, and other expenfive 

 diverfions. It is probable that the parfimonious 

 Queen did not approve of it % for races are not 

 among the diverfions exhibited at Kennelworth by 

 her favorite Leicejler, In the following reign, were 

 places allotted for the fport : Croydon in the South, 

 and Garterly in Tcrkjhire^ were celebrated courfes. 

 Camhden alfo fays, that in 1607 there were races 

 near Tork^ and the prize was a little golden bell. 



Not that we deny this diverfion to be known in 

 thefe kingdoms in earlier times -, we only affert a 

 different mode of it, gentlemen being then their 

 own jockies, and riding their own horfes. Lord 

 Herbert of Cherbury enumerates it among the fports 

 that gallant philofopher thought unworthy of a 

 man of honor. " The exercife, (fays he) I do 

 " not approve of, is running of horfes, there being 

 " much cheating in that kind -, neither do I fee 

 " why a brave man (liould delight in a creature 

 " whofe chief ufe is to help him to run away ^ ." 



The increafe of our inhabitants, and the extent 



*■ The Life of Eckuard Lord Herbert of Cherbury, pub- 

 liihed by Mr. Walpole, p. 51. 



Jar^uis Markham, who wrote on the managenient of horfes 

 1599, mentions running liorfes ; but thofc were only defigned 

 for matches between gentleman and gentleman. 



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