![SALISBURY RACE MEETING. Document on vellum, 28 March 1654, an indenture between the mayor and council of the city of New Sarum [i.e. Salisbury] and Sir Edward Baynton, for the establishment of a prize fund to the sum of £320 to provide a silver-gilt cup to the value of £18 for an annual horse race on Salisbury Plain to be run on the Thursday after mid-Lent Sunday, in English, 47 lines on one membrane, 415 x 625mm, scalloped upper edge (some spotting, rubbing to folds), remnant of seal on vellum tag, in archival mount (unexamined out of mount), brown calf folding case.](https://www.christies.com/img/LotImages/2012/CSK/2012_CSK_04354_0224_000(salisbury_race_meeting_document_on_vellum_28_march_1654_an_indenture_b122557).jpg?w=1)
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SALISBURY RACE MEETING. Document on vellum, 28 March 1654, an indenture between the mayor and council of the city of New Sarum [i.e. Salisbury] and Sir Edward Baynton, for the establishment of a prize fund to the sum of £320 to provide a silver-gilt cup to the value of £18 for an annual horse race on Salisbury Plain to be run on the Thursday after mid-Lent Sunday, in English, 47 lines on one membrane, 415 x 625mm, scalloped upper edge (some spotting, rubbing to folds), remnant of seal on vellum tag, in archival mount (unexamined out of mount), brown calf folding case.
The £320 is to be provided in part from the sale of a golden bell, a golden 'snaffle' and prize funds set up at various times by the 2nd and 3rd Earls of Pembroke, the 3rd Earl of Essex and others; the jockeys are to pay stakes of 20 shillings. The City is also to provide a starter, three musket men who are to mark the mile posts and two finishers. The indenture is printed in an appendix to Henry Hatcher's History of Salisbury (1843).
The £320 is to be provided in part from the sale of a golden bell, a golden 'snaffle' and prize funds set up at various times by the 2nd and 3rd Earls of Pembroke, the 3rd Earl of Essex and others; the jockeys are to pay stakes of 20 shillings. The City is also to provide a starter, three musket men who are to mark the mile posts and two finishers. The indenture is printed in an appendix to Henry Hatcher's History of Salisbury (1843).