!6 A HISTOR1' OF THE ENGLISH TURF. 



belonging respectively to the Prince of Wales and to Richard Fitzalan, 

 fourteenth Earl of Arundel, in which various details are confirmed by existing 

 documents in the Record Office. The Marquis cle Saluces, in a manuscript once 

 only known to the officials of the Bibliotheque Nationale, in the Rue Richelieu, 

 writes as follows, much in the style of Wace : 



" Un jour li Roy une feste faisoit 

 I )c son filz que chevalier faire vouloit. 

 La, faisait courer les destriers 

 Et si y uvoit joiaulx chiers 

 Oui devoient estre [a] cellui 

 Oui avoit meilleur cheval o lui, 

 lit (|iii mieulx seroit courant 

 Kt au\ joiaulx ])lus tost venant. 

 I, a furent [ - - ] assemble/ 

 Tous les destriers de mains contriez 

 l.e I'll/ le Roy y fu mesmement 

 Oui hien cuidoit estre gangnant 

 Car cuidoit avoir meilleur destrier 

 Que on petit nulle part trouver ; 

 Mais au derrein ce fu pour neant 

 Que Hose/ fut trestous passant 

 1'ar la force de son destrier, 

 Qui en mains lieux lui fu mestier, 

 Ce fu Arundel le courant ; 

 N'est meilleur ou firmament." 



The corroborative details of which I have spoken are contained in the facts that 

 Lord Arundel's horse passed into the possession of Sir Alured cle Vere, and was 

 from him very naturally bought by the Prince for a sum said to be equivalent 

 to ,20,000 of our money, soon after he had become Richard II.; and it is 

 significant that the first of many subsequent laws directed against gambling 

 appears in the statute-book of the same monarch just twelve years afterwards. I 

 may perhaps be allowed to add, to the greater glory of the Navy, that this same 

 Richard Fitzalan, who was so early a supporter of the British Turf, performed many 

 gallant actions as Lord High Admiral of England, one of which, the capture of a big 

 convoy off Rochelle, resulted in Froissart being able to chronicle that the wine he 

 brought to London was sold at fourpence a gallon for some months afterwards. 

 After his former old rival on the course had ordered his execution in the most 

 unsportsmanlike manner upon Tower Hill, what may very possibly have been a relic 

 of the dead owner's racing trophies was left to his brother, the Archbishop of 



