50 



to be determined by the said IMarquis, his deput}/, or 

 deputies, and 2S. 6d. will be given by the said Mar- 

 quiss to each Rider." 



Marshall in \\\s Riwal Economy of N'orfo/k, 

 published 1795, describes the road races in 

 which ''the lead was the goal contended 

 for : " in his time this dangerous amuse- 

 ment, as he justly considered it, had been 

 "a good deal laid aside though not entirely 

 left off." The gist of Marshall's account 

 has been oiven in a former little work.* 



From Heavy Horses (No. 3 of Messrs. 



Vinton's Live Stock Handbooks Series), we 



take the following interesting passage which 



shows the value set upon good Shires, by 



their owners in the middle of the 



eighteenth century : 



" Only within the last year or so there went over 

 to the great majority ... an old stud groom, 

 whose grandfather in his day was at the head of a 

 famous stud owned by people of the name of Galle- 

 more, who for generations had a celebrated Shire 

 stud within two miles of Calwich Abbey. At the 

 time when Prince Charlie marched on Derby in the 

 famous '45 this old retainer was forced to take refuge 

 from the invaders and place the stallions of this stud 

 in a place of safety. This he successfully did." 



The fear lest these animals should be 

 appropriated by the invader reminds us of 



'■' Harness Horses. By Sir Walter Gilbey, Bart. 

 Published by Vinton & Co., London. 



