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PART III. 

 EACING, WAGEES, AND GAMING. 



CHAPTER I. 



THEIR HISTORY, RISE, AND PROGRESS IN THIS COUNTRY. 



The time of 

 the Pharaohs. 



Used mostly 

 for warlike 

 purposes. 



The Time of the Fharaohs .... 

 Horses used mostly for Warlike 



FtirjMses in Early Times . 

 The Time of Julius Ceesar . 



Reign of Athelstan 



Reiyn of William the Conqueror 



Reiyn of Henry the First 



Feign of Henry the Second . . . 

 Feign of Fiehard the First , . . 



Feign of John 



Feign of Edward the Second . . , 

 Feign of Edward the Third . , . 

 Feign of Fiehard the Second . 

 Feign of Henry the Fourth . . . 

 Feign of Henry the Seventh. . . 

 Feign of Henry the Eighth . . . 

 Feign of Edward the Sixth . . . 



368 



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269 



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 370 



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 374 



Feign of Fhilip and Mary .... 



Feign of Queen Elizabeth 



Feign of James the First 



Feign of Charles the First .... 

 Ftign of Charles the Second. . . , 

 Feign of William the Third , . 



Feign of Queen Anne 



Feign of George the First 



Feign of George the Second .... 

 Feign of George the Third .... 

 Feign of George the Fourth .... 

 Feign of William the Fourth . . 

 Feign of Queen Victoria 



Fepeal of Duty on Faeehorses 



16 # 17 Vict. c. 119 



37 cj- 38 Vict. c. 15 



Faceco urses L icensingAct, 1879 



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 386 



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During tlie Pharaoli Dynasty the Egyptians seem to 

 have been well acquainted with the use of the War-horse, 

 and from dealers out of Egypt Solomon derived a great 

 supply of Horses, not only for his own use, but also for 

 the purposes of resale to the people living between Pales- 

 tine and the Euphrates (a). It has been thought, from 

 the name given by the Egyptians to the Horse, that it was 

 introduced into Egypt originally from Persia {b). 



The most striking feature in the Bibhcal notices of the 

 Horse is the exclusive application of it to warlike pur- 

 poses (c), with one exception, when it is mentioned as 

 employed in threshing by trampling upon the strewed 

 grain {d). 



(a) 1 Kings, X. 28. 



[b) Smith's Dictionary of the 

 Bible, tit. Horse. 



{e) Ibid. 



(d) Isa. xxviii. 28. 



