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Henry VII. the exportation of horses and mares beyond the seas 

 was prohibited, presumably because all the best, for which the 

 country was celebrated, had been sent abroad, and none but 

 inferior breeds left behind. Henry VIII. likewise prohibited 

 the exportation of horses to foreign parts beyond the seas 

 (Calais, of course, being excepted), as also to Scotland — 

 selling a horse to a Scotchman without the king's license 

 being felony to buyer and seller. A few years later, by 

 the statute of 27 Hen. VIII., c. 6 — which recites the case of 

 decay in English horses — owners and farmers of parks, etc., 

 should keep brood mares not less than thirteen hands high, 

 on penalty of Aps. per month ; and four mares should be 

 kept on every park of four miles in extent, under like penalty. 

 By a somewhat later statute it was enacted that no stoned 

 horses under fifteen hands high shall be put to pasture in any 

 forest, etc., within certain counties specified ; nor under fourteen 

 hands high in other counties, on penalty of forfeiture thereof. 

 Next, by the 33 Henry VIII., c. 5, archbishops and dukes had 

 to maintain seven stoned trotting horses for the saddle ; 

 marquises, earls, and bishops, five ditto ; viscounts, barons, 

 etc., having incomes to the value of 1000 marks, three ditto ; 

 others with incomes of 500 marks, two ditto ; and those in 

 receipt of ^100 a year, " whose wife shall wear any gown of 

 silk, or any French hood or bonnet of velvet, with any habili- 

 ment, paste, or 0:%^ of gold, pearl, or stone, or any chain of 

 gold about their necks, or in their partlets, or in any apparel 

 of their body," one ditto, under penalty, etc., etc. Many of 

 these acts were renewed and extended under Edw. VI., Philip 

 and Mary, and Elizabeth. 



Although there is no authority for the assumption, 

 it is nevertheless possible that the match between the 

 Earl of Arundel and Richard II. may have been 

 contested on Newmarket Heath. The locality had 

 long been famous for exhibitions of equestrian art. 

 Thus in 1309, Edward 11. interdicted a tournament 

 which was to be held there on the Feast of St. George. 



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