ii6 THE HISTORY OF NEWMARKET. [Book II. 



his monument in the church of Walton-on-Thames, 

 and he is accordingly there portrayed in the act of 

 stabbing the beast. He died March 27, 1587.* 



Hohnshed gives the following contemporaneous 

 description of horse-breeding in England at this 

 period : — "j" 



" Our horsses moreouer are high, and although not com- 

 monlie of such huge grcatnesse as in other places of the 

 maine : yet if you respect the easinesse of their pase, it is 

 hard to saie where there like are to be had. Our land dooth 

 yeeld no asses, and therefore we want the generation also 

 of mules and somers ; and therefore the most part of our 

 cariage is made by these, which remaining stoned, are either 

 reserued for the cart, or appointed to beare such burdens as 

 are conuenient for them. Our cart or plough horsses (for we 

 vse them indifferentlie) are commonlie so strong that fiue or 

 six of them (at the most) will draw three thousand weight of 

 the greatest tale with ease for a long iourneie, although it be 

 not a load of common vsage, which consisteth onelie of two 

 thousand, or fiftie foot of timber, fortie bushels of white salt, 

 or six and thirtie of bale, or four quarters of wheat, experience 

 dailie teacheth, and I have elsewhere remembered. Such as 

 are kept for burden, will caric foure hundred weight com- 

 monlie, without any hurt or hindrance. This furthermore is 

 to be noted, that our princes and the nobilitie haue their 

 cariage commonlie made by carts, whereby it commeth to 

 passe, that when the queenes maiestie dooth remooue from 

 anie one place to another, there are vsuallie 400 carewares, 

 which amount to the summe of 2400 horsses, appointed out of 

 the counties adioining, whereby hir cariage is conueied safelie 

 vnto the appointed place. Hereby also the ancient vse of 

 somers and sumpter horsses is in a maner vtterlie relinquished, 

 which causes the traines of our princes in their progresses to 



* "Antiquarian Repository," vol. i., p. 2, London, 1807. 

 t Holinshed, Chron. Eng., edit. Lond., 1807, vi., p. 370. 



