24 HISTORY OF THE 



Elizabeth, mentions his having imported horses 

 from Turkey, Naples, and Spain. 



In this reign a law was made, for the purpose 

 of securing strength and size in the breeding of 

 horses, which remains unrepealed to this day. 

 By this law (32 Henry VIII. c. 13.) it is enacted 

 *' That no person shall put in any forest, chase, 

 moor, heath, common, or waste (where mares 

 and fillies are used to be kept) any stoned horse 

 above the age of two years, not being fifteen 

 hands high, within the shires and territories of 

 Norfolk, Suffolk, Cambridge, Buckingham, 

 Huntingdon, Essex, Kent, South Hampshire, 

 North Wiltshire, Oxford, Berkshire, Worcester, 

 Gloucester, Somerset, North Wales, South 

 Wales, Bedford, Warwick, Northampton, York- 

 shire, Cheshire, Staffordshire, Lancashire, Salop, 

 Leicester, Hereford, and Lincoln ; nor under 

 fourteen hands in any other county, on 

 pain of forfeiting the same ;" and it proceeds, 

 ** It is lawful for any person to seize any horse 

 so under size, in manner following : — he shall go 

 to the keeper of such forest, or (out of such 

 forest) to the constable of the next town, and 

 require him to go with him to bring such horse 

 to the next pound, there to be measured by 

 such officer, in the presence of three other ho- 

 nest men, to be appointed by the officer \ and if 



