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■equality, he obliged the emperor and his fon to make 

 their entry upon two black horfes, while he, as the only 

 fovereign, rode between them upon one of the oppofite 

 colour. Many other proofs, both before and fince this 

 peripd, are not wanting. Charles VII. called the Victorious, 

 made his public entry into Paris, mounted on a IVbite 

 liorfe, without caparifons (tout nudj. Margaret, daugh- 

 ter of James of Scotland, when fhe came to be married 

 to the Dauphin, fon of Charles, rode into Tours as 

 Dauphine, .upon a JVhhe liorfe, her attendants all being 

 mounted upon horfes of diiTerent colours. St. Louis 

 alfo is reprefented in the antiquities * of the French 

 monarchy, mounted upon a -white horfe ; and the 

 king of Yemene in Arabia, weekly makes a folemn 

 proccffion, always riding upon that occafion upon a 

 ^nit ehoxio. '\. 



In confequence of the veneration in which thefe fa- 

 cred uhhe horfes were held, the Saxon, or, to fpeak 

 more properly, the German princes, and chiefs, adopt- 

 ed the ijohite horfe, and bore it in their Standards. It 

 was the enfign of Hengifl and Horfa, and among other 

 ancient families, the illullrious prince who wears the 

 crown of the. Britifli dominions, bears it in his arms, 

 as duke of Brunfwick : and whoever confiders the 

 Saxon white horfe, as a judicious antiquary % remarks, 

 as it is placed in the Brunfwick fhield, wild, running 



* Montfaucon, p. 217, 220, vol. iii. 

 "l" Voyages Franfois. 



X Vide Obfervations on the Vale of White Horfe in Berks, by 

 F. Wife, 17^2. 



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