i8 



killed there ; Guy Botetorte his brother had a 

 black hackney value 8 marks killed there . . . 

 Sir Henry de Beaumont had a brown bay charger 

 worth 60 marks killed at Falkirk ; Sir Eustace de la 

 Hecche had a bay charger with a white hind foot 

 value 100 marks killed." 



Numerous " hackneys " figure In the roll; 



and whereas the maximum value claimed 



for a hackney, or hack as we should now call 



it, is 10 marks, the smallest sum set upon a 



lost chareer or Great Horse is 60 marks. 



FROM THE TIME OF EDWARD III. TO 

 EDWARD IV. 



Edward III. (1327-1377) added measures 

 dealing with the matter to the Statute 

 Book. This King also, as history records, 

 spent very large sums on horses. We find 

 him indebted to the Count of Hainault to 

 the extent of 25,000 florins for horses ; and 

 Mr. Edward Burrows in his Introduction to 

 Lord Ribblesdale's The Queens Biukhounds, 

 says : — 



" In the long lists which occur in the Exchequer 

 accounts of the wardrobe of numerous classes of 

 horses belonging to the King — coursers, palfreys, 

 trotters, hobbies, genets, hengests and somers — the 

 ' dextrarii ' or great horses received most attention. 

 Provision was made for 102 of their housings out of 

 441 ells of canvas and 360 ells of cloth. The 

 boundary between the great cavalry establishments 



