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to fuch excefs as to injure the fortunes of the no- 
bility. The famous George Earl of Cumberland is 
recorded to have wafted more of his eftate than 
any of his anceftors; and chiefly by his extreme 
love to horfe-races, tiltings, and other expenfive 
diverfions. It is probable that the parfimonious 
Queen did not approve of it; for races are not 
among the diverfions exhibited at Kennelworih by 
her favorite Leicefter. In the following reign, were 
places allotted for the fport: Croydon in the South, 
and Garterly in York/bire, were celebrated courfes. 
Cambden alfo fays, that in 1607 there were races 
near York, and the prize was a little golden bell. 
Not that we deny this diverfion to be known in 
thefe kingdoms in earlier times; we only affert a 
different mode of it, gentlemen being then their 
own jockies, and riding their own horfes. Lord 
Herbert of Cherbury enumerates it among the {ports 
that gallant philofopher thought unworthy of a 
man of honor. ‘* The exercife, (fays he) I do 
“* not approve of, is running of horfes, there being 
“much cheating in that kind; neither do I fee 
“why a brave man fhould delight in a creature 
“¢ whofe chief ufe is to help him to run away *.” 
The increafe of our inhabitants, and the extent 
* The Life of Edward Lord Herbert of Cherbury, pub- 
lifhed by Mr. Walpole, p. aie 
Jarvis Markham, who wrote on the management of horfes 
1599, mentions running horfes; but thofe were only defigned 
for matches between gentleman and gentleman. 
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