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of her reign; she issued a Proclamation in 
which she reminded her subjects that various 
laws had been made and that the penalties 
for disobedience would be enforced. The 
Proclamation announced the creation of 
machinery to see that her father’s statute 
requiring nobles of prescribed degree to keep 
a stallion was being obeyed ; that his laws* 
concerning the height of mares in parks and 
enclosed lands, and requiring chases, forests 
and moors, to be periodically driven, and 
worthless mares, fillies and geldings found 
thereon destroyed, should be vigorously en- 
forced. The law of Philip and Mary which 
obliged people to keep horses or geldings 
in conformity with the scheme for national 
defence, was recapitulated at length, and 
obedience within three months enjoined on 
penalty of fine. 
The Queen evidently considered the laws 
she found on the statute book all that were 
necessary to ensure attention to the interests 
of horse-breeding ; for she refrained for many 
years from fresh legislation, contenting her- 
self with Royal Proclamations in which she 
prescribed limits of time for her subjects to 
supply themselves with horses according to 
* See Ponies Past and Present, pp. 5-6. 
