38 HISTORY OF THE 



d'Espernon, published in Paris, a work contain- 

 ing chiefly the precepts he derived from his 

 master, Pignatelli, of Naples, a pupil of Gri- 

 sone. 



Michaell Baret produced an Hipponomie, or 

 the Vineyard of horsemanship, &c." written in a 

 quaint scholastic form, and well worth the pe- 

 rusal of the curious in these matters. It is 

 divided into three books, the first dedicated to 

 King James, the second to Thomas Dove, 

 bishop of Peterborough, and the third, which* 

 applies the precepts of the two first to hunting 

 and running horses, to Sir Francis Payer. The 

 author treats his subject logically, and some- 

 times in the form of syllogisms, as in the fol- 

 lowing : — ** Nothing that doth tend to violence 

 doth worke according to the true art of horse- 

 manship ; but all hard cavisans, bittes, and 

 snafiies doe tend to violence : ergo, no hard 

 cavisans, bittes, and snaffles doe tend to the 

 true art of horsemanship." He prefers a good 

 and lasting, to a speedy race horse. 



1624. — Antoine Pluvinel published ''Maneige 

 Royale, ou Ton pouvait remarquer le defaut et 

 la perfection du chevalier en tous les exercices 

 de cet art digne des Princes, fait et practique 

 en I'instruction du Roy (Louis XIII) par An- 

 toine Pluvinel, son Ecuyer Principal, Conseiller 



