394 RIDING 



1565 The fowre chiefyst offices belongyng to Horsemanshippe. That is 

 to saye. The office of the Breeder, of the Rider, of the Keper, and of the Ferrer. 

 In the firste parte whereof is declared the order of breding of horses. In the 

 seconde howe to breake them, and to make theym horses of seruyce. Con- 

 teyninge the whole arte of Ridynge lately set forth, and nowe newly corrected 

 and amended of manye faultes escaped in the fyrste printynge, as well touchyng 

 the bittes as otherwyse. Thirdly, howe to dyet them, as well when they reste 

 as when they trauell by the way. Fourthly, to what diseases they be subiect, 

 together with the causes of such diseases, the sygnes howe to knowe them,, 

 and finally howe to cure the same. Whyche bookes are not onely paynfully 

 collected out of a number of aucthours, but also orderly dysposed and applyed 

 to the vse of thys our coutrie. By Thomas Blundevile. 4to, London, 1565-6 ;; 

 4to, 1580 ; 410, 1597 ; 4to, 1609. 



1584 The Art of Riding, set foorthe in a breefe treatise, with a due inter- 

 pretation of certeine places alledged out of Xenophon and Gryson, verie expert 

 and excellent Horssemen : Wherein also the true use of the hand by the said- 

 Grysons rules and precepts is specialise touched : and how the Author of this- 

 present worke hath put the same in practice, also what profit men maie reape 

 thereby : without the knowledge whereof all the residue of the order of Riding 

 is but vaine. Lastlie, is added a short discourse of the Chaine or Canezzan, 

 the Trench, and the Martingale. (By John Astley.) 410, London. 



1585 Schoole of. Horsemanship, wherein is discovered what skill and 

 knowledge is required in a good horseman, and also how to reform any restive 

 Horse ; briefly touching the knowledge of the Breeder, Sadler, Smith, and the 

 horse-leach, with a strange and rare invention how to make a new Racke, and 

 how to teach a horse to lie upon his belly until the Rider take his Ba'cke. By 

 Christopher Clifford. 410, London. 



1591 De Arte Equestri Germanice. By Joh. Creutsberger. Vienna, 1591. 

 Opera di mescalzia, doue si contiene tutte 1'infermita de' caualli, cosi interiori,. 

 come esteriori, et gli segni da cognoscere, et le cure con potioni, et untioni, et 

 sanguigne per essi caualli. By M. Filippo Scaccho da Tagliacosso. 4to, 

 Rome. 



1593 A Discovrse of Horsemanshippe. Wherein the breeding and ryding 

 of Horses for seruice, in a breefe manner, is more methodically sette downe 

 then hath been heretofore. With a more easie and direct course for the 

 ignorant, to attaine to the same arte or knowledge. Also the manner to chuse, 

 trayne, ryde and dyet, both Hunting-horses and Running-horses : with all the 

 secretes thereto belonging discovered. An art neuer heretofore written by any 

 Authour. Printed by T. C. for Richard Smith. (By Gervase Markham. ) 410, 

 London. 



[Hazlitt, never having seen a copy of this work, suggests that it is 

 Astley's work of 1584 with a new title, on the ground that the running 

 headings of the latter are the same as Markham's title, and the collation 

 is the same. The works, however, are entirely distinct. Moreover, 

 Markham's is printed in black-letter, while Astley's is in roman. 

 characters.] 



