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win over 100 marks in twenty-four hours 
“at cards, dice, or wagering on horse races,” 
to make over the surplus to the kirk for 
the benefit of the poor. 
Apart from the fostering care James I. 
bestowed upon the Turf, the only pro- 
ceedings that require mention are: his 
Proclamation issued in 1608, which notified 
that the laws against the export of horses 
were not being obeyed, and would thence- 
forward be enforced; and his repeal in 1624 
of Henry VIII.’s law obliging every person 
whose wife wore ‘any French hood or 
bonnet of velvet” to keep a stallion. He 
also repealed 32 Henry VIII., so far as it 
applied to Cornwall (21 Jac. I., c. 28), even 
as Queen Elizabeth had relieved some 
Eastern and Midland counties from opera- 
tion of that law, in view of their unsuitability 
to breed heavy horses. 
CHARLES I. (1625, Behd. 1649). 
Charles I. inherited, to some extent, his 
father’s taste for the Turf, and combined 
therewith a love of the manége, due to 
his own accomplished horsemanship. The 
interest in racing was now so general, and 
the inducement to breed light and swift 
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