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ground or otherwise bestowed, as no annoyance 

 thereby shall come or grow to the people, there near 

 inhabiting or thither resorting." 



By another Act the exportation of horses 

 beyond the seas is strictly forbidden ; and 

 this Act is extended to Scotland ; selling a 

 horse in England to a Scotchman without 

 a Royal permission, is declared to be felony 

 in both buyer and seller (32 of Henry \^III. 

 cap. 6). This statute is entitled, " An 

 acte for the tryall of felonies upon con- 

 veivno'e of horses into Scotland." 



The use of the word "Shire" will be 

 noted in the foreo-oino- extract. It is of 

 interest in view of the diversity of opinion 

 expressed when the Shire Horse Society 

 was formed, concerning the propriety of 

 using this term. In this statute of Henry 

 VIII. for the first time we find the word 

 " Shire" used in connection with horses 



Ralph Holinshed, in his Chronicles (Ed. 

 London, 1807, vol. vi., p. 3), has an entry 

 which indicates that this monarch set his 

 subjects a good example in this particular 

 respect : — 



King Henry VIII. erected a noble studderie for 

 breeding horses, especially the greatest sorte, and for 

 a time had verie good success with them. The 

 officers however seemed wearie : and procured a 

 mixed breed of baser races, whereby his good purpose 

 came to little effect." 



