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Whether or no they change their sex every year 

 (as some have reported) let Huntsmen decide. These 

 late years of our civil wars have been very destructive 

 unto them, and no wonder, if no law hath been eiven 

 to hares, when so little hath been observed towards 

 men." 



Fuller refers in derision to Draytons poetic pane- 

 gyric on the celebrity of the horses of Wales, according 

 to whom that race were indebted for their swiftness to 

 the wind, by which they were supposed to be begotten. 

 The worthy Doctor, in commending the horses of 

 Hertfordshire, remarks that "their Teams {oft-times 

 deservedly advanced from the Cart to the Coach) are 

 kept in excellent equipage, much alike in colaur and 

 stature, fat and fair, such is their care in dressing and 

 great feeding of them. I could name the place and 

 person (Reader, be not offended with an innocent 

 digression), who brought his servant with a warrant 

 before a Justice of the Peace for stealing his grain. 

 The man brought his fine horses tailed together 

 along with him, alleging for himself * That, if he were 

 the Theefe, these were the Receivers,' and so escaped." 



Among other passing events at Newmarket a brief 



reference may be permitted to the administration of 



local affairs upon that part of the manor 



Local affairs. 



belonging to the Alingtons, in, and adjoining, 

 the town within the confines of the county of Suffolk. 

 The court rolls of this manor deal, chiefly, with 

 the ordinary routine affairs of the copyhold tenants, 

 and are, in general, too diffuse and uninteresting to 

 require much notice at our hands. This court assem- 



