xlviii An Epistle to the Duchess of Newcastle 



ciently testified by all or most of the chiefest of them, living 

 and dying in his Grace's service, which is an argument that 

 they thought themselves as happy therein, as the world could 

 make them ; nor of his well-chosen pleasures, which were 

 principally horses of all sorts, but more particularly horses 

 of manage ; 1 his study and art of the true use of the sword ; 

 his magnificent buildings. These are his chiefest delights, 

 wherein his Grace spared for no cost nor charge, which are suffi- 

 ciently manifested to the world ; for other delights, as those 

 of running horses, hawking, hunting, etc., his Grace used 

 them merely for society's sake, and out of a generous and 

 obliging nature to please others, though his knowledge in 

 them excelled, as well as in the other. And yet, notwith- 

 standing these this large and vast expenses, before his Grace 

 was called to the court, he increased his revenue by way of 

 purchase to a great value ; and when he was called to the 

 court, he was then free from debts, and, as I have heard, 

 some thousands of pounds in his purse. These particulars, 

 and as many more of this kind as would swell a volume, 

 I could enumerate to your Grace ; but that they are so well 

 known to your Grace, it would be a presumption in me, rather 

 than a service, to give your Grace that trouble ; and therefore 

 I humbly forbear, and proceed, according to my intention, to 

 give your Grace a faithful account of your Grace's commands, 

 as becomes, may it please your Grace, your Grace's most 

 humble and most obedient servant, 



John Rolleston. 



l Horses trained in the riding-school. Manage is from the French manage, the train- 

 ing of a horse in a riding-school ; Italian maneggiare, to handle, train, from Latin mantts. 

 In Book II of these Memoirs the Duchess speaks of her husband buying horses ' to 

 exercise the art of manage, which he is a great lover and master of '. ' They vault 

 from hunters to the managed steed ', says Young, and Scott even speaks of a ' managed 

 hawk '. Orlando, when complaining of his brother's neglect, says : ' His horses are 

 bred better ; for, besides that they are fair with their feeding, they are taught their 

 manage, and to that end riders dearly hired.' — As You Like It, I, i, 11-3. Lady Hot- 

 spur also tells her husband that she has heard him in his sleep ' speak terms of manage 

 to thy bounding steed.' — 1 Henry IV, II, iii, 52. 



