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win over TOO marks in twenty-four hours 

 " at cards, dice, or wagering on horse races," 

 to make over the surplus to the kirk for 

 the benefit of the poor. 



Apart from the fostering care James I. 

 bestowed upon the Turf, the only pro- 

 ceedings that require mention are : his 

 Proclamation issued in 1608, which notified 

 that the laws against the export of horses 

 were not being obeyed, and would thence- 

 forward be enforced; and his repeal in 1624 

 of Henry VIII.'s law obliging every person 

 whose wife wore "any French hood or 

 bonnet of velvet " to keep a stallion. He 

 also repealed 32 Henry VIII., so far as it 

 applied to Cornwall (21 Jac. I., c. 28), even 

 as Queen Elizabeth had relieved some 

 Eastern and Midland counties from opera- 

 tion of that law, in view of their unsuitability 

 to breed heavy horses. 



CHARLES I. (1625, Behd. 1649). 



Charles I. inherited, to some extent, his 

 father's taste for the Turf, and combined 

 therewith a love of the manage, due to 

 his own accomplished horsemanship. The 

 interest in racing was now so general, and 

 the inducement to breed light and swift 

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