OF HORSEMANSHIP. ^s 



mofl jealoufy and ftri^lnefs, this colour being always 

 confidered as the imperial badge, and confccrated to 

 fovereignty. The popes aflumed ir, and gave in- 

 du^genciei to bifliops * and princes to ufe it. 



Tlie king of Naples at this day pays an annual Tief 

 of a JVljite Horfe to the fee of Rome, as an acknowledg- 

 naent for the kingdom which he holds of the pope. 

 When John of France was taken prifoner at the battle 

 of Poi(5liers, and conducted into England by Edward 

 the Black Prince, he landed at Southwark, and was 

 met by a prodigious concourfe of people. Edward, 

 from the moment in which the king became his pri- 

 foner, had treated him with fuch refpe<5l and defe- 

 rence, as to convince him, that, though a captive, he 

 was ftill a king: accordingly, when he was to make 

 a public entry into London, Edward took care that he 

 Ihould appear as fuch. The prifoner was clad in royal 

 robes, and mounted on a white ileed, diilinguiihed for 

 its beauty and lize, while the conqueror rode by his 

 fide, in a meaner attire, and carried by a black palfrey. 

 To this we may add another inftance equally flrong. 

 When the emperor Charles IV. paid a vifit to his coufin, 

 Charles V, king of France, in the year 1377, the latter 

 was fo jealous of his dignity and fuperiority in his own 

 kingdom, that to ftifle the fraalleft appearance of 



* Hinc magni muneris loco, Ticinenfi Ep. Joh. & Honorins III. — 

 Ut album eqiium cooper turn eq^'.jtaret, in ramis palmarum, i^ fecmdd feria, 

 pjl pafcha. Vid. Diifrefiie in GlofT. — Ex bulla titriufque pontijicis, Vid. 

 Joh. Rofin. Antiq. Rom. lib. x, cap. 29, 



equality, , 



