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pound only — the Anglo-Saxon pound being equivalent 

 to forty shillings. 



In the laws of Howell the Good, Prince of Wales, 

 which were passed before this time, the value of a foal 

 under fourteen days old was fixed at five pence ; at a 

 year and a day old, at forty-eight pence ; and at three 

 years old, at sixty pence. It was then broken in, and 

 its value raised to a hundred and twenty pence. A 

 wild and unbroken horse was valued at sixty pence. 



Even in those days frauds were so common that the 

 purchaser of a horse was allowed time to ascertain if 

 it was free from three named diseases. He was 

 allowed three nights to prove that he was free from 

 staggers ; three months to prove him free from in- 

 flammation of the lungs or pipes ; and one year to 

 ascertain, if it were an old horse, that he was free from 

 glanders. 



For every blemish discovered after purchase, one- 

 third of the purchase-money was returned, except in 

 the case of a blemish of the ears or face. 



When horses were hired out, in the case of abuse, 

 the Act thus provided : 



' Whosoever shall borrow a horse and rub the hair 

 so as to gall the back, shall pay four pence ; if the skin 

 is forced into the flesh, eight pence ; if the flesh is 

 forced to the bone, sixteen pence.' 



There is no mention made of horses being used for 

 ploughing in those days, and in England, as in other 

 countries, bullocks were, until a comparatively recent 

 period, used for the purpose. However, about the 

 tenth century an attempt to use horses for ploughing 

 was evidently made, for we find a law enacted by the 

 Welsh, forbidding farmers to plough with horses. 



