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Henry. In his anxiety to increase the number within his realms of the animals he 

 loved so well, he strictly enjoined every duke and every archbishop to keep seven 

 trotting stallions for the saddle of at least fourteen hands high, a minimum which 

 would have taxed even so splendid an establishment as that of the Duke of 



Robert Dudley, Earl of Leicester. 

 Pram the picture in the National Portrait Gallery . 



Northumberland, which we noticed in 1512. When even the ecclesiastics, who had 

 been lurned out of their abbeys by the hundred, saw themselves also compelled to 

 keep a horse, they must indeed have done their best t'o evade the statutes of so 

 illogical a sportsman. Clergymen with a yearly benefice of ,100, and laymen who 



