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months, which prohibition was repeated in 

 July. In subsequent years, by the same 

 means, he made racing, cock-fighting, bear- 

 baiting, and gambling, illegal. 



Owing what he did to his cavalry, it was 

 only to be expected that he should devote 

 attention to the matter of remounts. He 

 imported many Arabs, Barbs, and other 

 horses suitable for the lightly armoured 

 troops which had now replaced the knight- 

 hood of former days ; he also took measures 

 to encourage the breeding of horses for 

 hunting and hawking, sports in which he 

 himself indulged. 



At what date stage-coaches began to 

 supersede the old waggons, which (apart 

 from saddle and pack horses) were the only 

 means of journeying in England in Queen 

 Elizabeth's time, is not known. In the year 

 1610, a Pomeranian speculator was granted 

 a royal patent for fifteen years to run 

 coaches and waggons between Edinburgh 

 and Leith ; * but not until the end of the 

 Commonwealth (May, 1659) do we find 

 definite mention of a stage coach in England 

 in the diary of a Yorkshire clergyman. f 



* " Remarks on the Early Use of Carriages in 

 England," Archtfologia, 1821. 

 Ibid. 



