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Jun 19: Holinshed's OUR ENGLISH DOGS

Freaks of the Dog Fad in England

A writer of Elizabethan times said that no other country had as
many dogs as England. Once Henry VII ordered all mastiffs
to be hung because they "durst presume to fight against the
lion," England's regal beast.

Read: Holinshed's OUR ENGLISH DOGS .......   Vol. 35, pp. 350-356