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Realm is now lately diminished, altered, and decayed, 

 and further is like to decay if speedy Remedy be not 

 sooner provided in that Behalf." 



"It is provided that all Owners or Fermers of 

 parks and enclosed grounds of the extent of one mile 

 in compass, shall keep two Mares, being not spayed, 

 apt and able to bear foals of the altitude or height 

 of thirteen handfuls at least, upon pain of 40/." 



"A penalty of 40/ is imposed on the Lords, 

 Owners, and Fermers of all parks and grounds 

 enclosed as is above rehearsed, who shall willingly 

 suffer any of the said Mares to be covered or kept 

 with any Stoned Horse under the stature of fourteen 

 handfuls." 



The year 1541 saw another statute (32 

 Hy. VI 1 1.) This enacted that— 



" No person shall put in any forest, chase, moor, 

 heath, common, or waste (where mares and fillies 

 are used to be kept), any Stoned Horse above the 

 age of two years, not being 15 hands high, within 

 the SHIRES and territories of Norfolk, Suffolk, Cam- 

 bridge, Buckingham, Huntingdon, Essex, Kent, 

 South Hampshire, North Wiltshire, Oxford, Berk- 

 shire, Worcester, Gloucester, Somerset, South Wales, 

 Bedford, Warwick, Northampton, Yorkshire, Che- 

 shire, Staffordshire, Lancashire, Salop, Leicester, 

 Hereford, and Lincoln." 



" And furthermore be it enacted, that if in any 

 of the said drifts, there shall be found, any mare, 

 filly foal or gelding that then shall be thought not 

 to be able nor like to grow to be able to bear foals 

 of reasonable stature, or not able nor like to grow 

 to be able to do profitable labours, by the discretions 

 of the drivers aforesaid or of the more number of 

 them, then the same driver or drivers shall cause the 

 same unprofitable beasts, and every of them to be 

 killed, and the bodies of them to be buried in the 



