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estates and fortunes, and withdrawing them from noble 

 and laudable employments and exercises" (s). By this 

 Act persons winning by fraud, or cheating at Cards, Dice, 

 Tables, Tennis, Bowles, Kittles, Shovel-board, Cock-fight- 

 ings, Horse Eacings, Dog-matches, Foot Eaces, and all other 

 Grames and Pastimes, were to forfeit treble the sum or 

 value of the money so won {a). 



Every person losing above 100/. on ticket or credit at 

 these or any other Games and Pastimes, either by bearing 

 a pai-t in them or betting, was discharged from paying any 

 part of the money; all secmities given for it were to be 

 void ; and the winner was to forfeit treble the sum above 

 100/. so won {b) ; and it was held that an agreement to run 

 a Horse Eace for more than 100/. a-side w^as prohibited by 

 this statute (r). 



In the Eeign of William the Third, a.d. 1699, it Reign of 

 appears that certain Grames called Lotteries had been set ^^^^"^ ^^^'^ 

 up throughout England and Wales, by means of which 

 great sums of money had been fraudulently got from 

 unwary persons, and from the Childi'en and Servants of 

 several Greutlemen and Merchants; to remedy this, an Act 

 was passed " for suppressing Lotteries," which declared 

 them to be public nuisances, and imposed a penalty of 

 500/. on every keeper of a Lottery, and 20/. on every 

 player (r/). 



In the Eeign of Queen Anne the Darley Arabian was Eeign of 

 introduced by Mr. Darley, which tended very much to Queen Anne, 

 form our present breed of Horses. People began to pay 

 more attention to Pedigree and Breed, and we find it 

 noticed as remarkable, that a Horse called Bay Bolton was 

 got by a farmer's Horse without a Pedigree {e). 



It was found in this Eeign that the Act of Charles the 

 Second was insufficient to prevent the mischiefs arising 

 from the spirit of Grambiing then existing, and which it 

 appears had become so very prevalent that further legisla- 

 tion was required. Therefore, in a.d, 1710, 9 Anne, 

 c. 14, was passed, being " An Act for the better prevent- 

 ing of excessive and deceifful Gaming.^' It recited that 

 " the laws now in force for preventing the mischiefs 

 which may happen by Gaming have not been found suf- 



(z) 16 Car. 2, c. 7, now repealed (c) Edgebury v. Rosindah, 2 Lev. 



by 9 Anne, c. 19, and 5 & 6 Will. 4, 94 ; .S'. C. 1 Ventr. 253. 

 c. 41. {d) 10 & 11 Will. 3, c. 17. 



(rt) Ibid. s. 2. (e) Lawrence on " The Horee," 



[b) Ibid. s. 3. vol. i. p. 222. 



