152 THE HORSE IN HISTORY 



Yet once again an attempt was made to induce 

 Henry to revoke his laws forbidding the exporta- 

 tion of horses, and again the attempt proved 

 futile. The Scottish nation in particular felt 

 deeply aggrieved at what they somewhat natur- 

 ally deemed to be an insult paid to them by the 

 king, but Henry, beyond threatening that if the 

 complaints continued he would put a stop to them 

 in rather a forcible manner, paid no heed whatever. 

 And at just about this time it was that a number 

 of Lowlanders were, so it is alleged, severely 

 punished for purchasing horses of Englishmen in 

 defiance of Henry's command. 



And still the king remained unsatisfied. He 

 had openly declared that he would transform 

 England into the foremost country in Europe 

 for valuable and well-bred horses, and to facil- 

 itate his doing so he presently passed another 

 statute. 



In this statute he commanded that stoned horses 

 under fifteen hands were not to be put to pasture 

 in any wood or forest in certain counties (which 

 he mentioned), the penalty for breaking the law 

 to be forfeiture to the Crown, while in certain 

 other counties the law was to apply to horses 

 under fourteen hands. 



Yet another statute which he drew up 33, 

 Henry VIII., c. 5 enacted that dukes and 

 archbishops must maintain seven stoned trot- 

 ting horses for the saddle ; marquises, earls and 



