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J. B.] Sir George Marshal of Cole Park, a-quarry to King James First,
had no more manners or humanity than to have his body buried under
this tombe. The Welsh did King Athelstan homage at the city of
Hereford, and covenanted yearly payment of 20li. gold, of silver 300,
oxen 2,500, besides hunting dogges and hawkes. He dyed anno Domini
941, and was buried with many trophies at Malmesbury. His lawes are
extant to this day among the lawes of other Saxon kings.
PART II.-CHAPTER XV.
THE RACE.
HENRY Earle of Pembroke [1570-1601] instituted Salisbury Race;* which
hath since continued very famous, and beneficiall to the city. He
gave ..... pounds to the corporation of Sarum to provide every yeare,
in the first Thursday after Mid-Lent Sunday, a silver bell [see note
below], of ...... value; which, about 1630, was turned into a silver
cup of the same value. This race is of two sorts: the greater,
fourteen miles, beginnes at Whitesheet and ends on Harnham-hill, which
is very seldom runn, not once perhaps in twenty yeares. The shorter
begins at a place called the Start, at the end of the edge of the
north downe of the farme of Broad Chalke, and ends at the standing at
the hare-warren, built by William Earle of Pembroke, and is four miles
from the Start.
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*[In the civic archives of Salisbury, under the date of 1585, is the
following memorandum:- "These two years, in March, there was a race
run with horses at the farthest three miles from Sarum, at the which
were divers noble personages, and the Earl of Cumberland won the
golden bell, which was valued at 501.
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