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Earle of Pembroke and divers other noblemen and sundrie 

 knights and gentlemen of qiiallity for the better advancement 

 of the said horse race did raise a certaine stocke of money 

 to the intent that for ever after a faire cupp of silver gilte with 

 gould should yearly be provided and run for with horses 

 at the generall horse race then used in tyme of Lent, as 

 aforesaid, for the better effecting whereof the said noblemen 

 knights and gentlemen did consent and agree that the said 

 golden bell and snaffle should be sould and that the money 

 thereby raised together with such other moneys to be added 

 thereto as could be gotten or raised by the severall guifts 

 and colleccons of and from such noblemen knights gent' and 

 others, as were or should be found willing to contribute 

 money towards the advancement of the said Race Cupp, 

 should remaine and be placed with the said Maior and 

 Commonalty to contynewe with them and their successors 

 as a stocke for the mayntenance of the said race for ever. 

 And whereas in or about the yeare of our Lord God one 

 thousand six hundred twenty and nyne it did 

 appeare that there then remained in the hands 

 of the said Maior and Comynalty the summe of three and 

 forty pounds as the money made by the sale of the said 

 golde bell and snaffle and alsoe the summe of two hundred 

 forty-six sixteen shillings nyne pence as money received by 

 them as voluntary contribucons of divers noblemen knights 

 and gent' to the use of the said race. It was then agreed 

 between the said Sir Edward Baynton and others in behalfe 

 of the said noblemen knights and gent' and divers of the 

 aldermen of the said city on the behalf of the said Maior and 

 Comynalty that the said Maior and Comynalty should out 

 of a voluntary contribution by the inhabitants of the said 

 city make upp the said several sums of forty and three 

 pounds and two hundred forty-six pounds sixteen shillings 

 and nyne pence the full summe of three hundred and twenty 

 pounds, which summe of three hundred and twenty pounds 

 should then remain as a settled stocke in the hands of 

 the said Mayor and Comynalty for ever, for the providinge 

 of a cupp as aforesaid to be yearly runn for with the Race 



