. Frank Forester's horse and horsemanship of the United States and British provinces of North America [microform]. Horses; Race horses; Chevaux; Chevaux de course. sc that T, with stencc; 18, even is inade 3t is in- ! of Ills is their history rpose to novelist 'or show, s minute e nierel} )\v not. iier with de Mont- 1 barons, rdianship ed at all with all ike horec occasion, y a secret le set his r, offering r that the 37 iter hini- jdo away eed of his the tricks E\ULY VALUK OF TIIK KN0M8II IIOKSi;, 85 of di'iilers had increased to such an ext(>nt, that a special pro- chnnalitin was issued,
. Frank Forester's horse and horsemanship of the United States and British provinces of North America [microform]. Horses; Race horses; Chevaux; Chevaux de course. sc that T, with stencc; 18, even is inade 3t is in- ! of Ills is their history rpose to novelist 'or show, s minute e nierel} )\v not. iier with de Mont- 1 barons, rdianship ed at all with all ike horec occasion, y a secret le set his r, offering r that the 37 iter hini- jdo away eed of his the tricks E\ULY VALUK OF TIIK KN0M8II IIOKSi;, 85 of di'iilers had increased to such an ext(>nt, that a special pro- chnnalitin was issued, rei^ulatiiig the jtrice of animals of various kinds, and iixing a maximum value. Like all otiicr siunptiiary laws and prohibitory statutes ail'ecting to rej^ulate trade, this ]irochimation ])roved wholly useless and fell dead. It is curious, liowever, as provinij the great increase in the value of horses, eince the preceding reign, and "showing what were, four hun- dred and fifty years ago, and what are still, the chief breeding districts. It was ordered to be ]>ublished in the counties of Lin- coln and Canil)ridge, and in the north and east ridings nf York. The price was restricted to that determined by former sover- ; Exportation of horses was strictly forbidden, especially to Scotland, as a kingdom with which England was constantly at war; and it is remarkable, that, even in the time of Eliza- beth, it was feiony to export a horse to Scotland. These prohibitions, how contrary soever to recent and more enlightened views as to the injurious effects of such restrictions on the freedom of trade, distinctly jjrove two things. First, that the j)eople and nionarchs of England had now become fully awake to the value of race and oreed in horses ; and, second, that the superior quality of Eiiglish horses was thus early ac- knowh;dged altroad, and that the demand for them was sup- posed to be greater than the superfluity. " Wo can now," I quote again from M
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