of her reign ; she issued a Proclamation in 

 which she reminded her subjects that various 

 laws had been made and that the penalties 

 for disobedience would be enforced. The 

 Proclamation announced the creation of 

 machinery to see that her father's statute 

 requiring nobles of prescribed degree to keep 

 a stallion was being obeyed ; that his laws* 

 concerning the height of mares in parks and 

 enclosed lands, and requiring chases, forests 

 and moors, to be periodically driven, and 

 worthless mares, fillies and geldings found 

 thereon destroyed, should be vigorously en- 

 forced. The law of Philip and Mary which 

 obliged people to keep horses or geldings 

 in conformity with the scheme for national 

 defence, was recapitulated at length, and 

 obedience within three months enjoined on 

 penalty of fine. 



The Queen evidently considered the laws 

 she found on the statute book all that were 

 necessary to ensure attention to the interests 

 of horse-breeding ; for she refrained for many 

 years from fresh legislation, contenting her- 

 self with Royal Proclamations in which she 

 prescribed limits of time for her subjects to 

 supply themselves with horses according to 



See Ponies Past and Present, pp. 5-6. 



