178 THE HISTORY AND ART 



It may not, perhaps, be unentertaining to the 

 reader, to perufe the following lift of horfes, as it 

 will give him a notion of the times, and fet before 

 him the different forts then in ufe among the nobility 

 and others. The extra6t is taken from a manufcript, 

 now in the poiTeffion of his Grace the Duke of Nor- 

 thumberland, and lately printed, under the title of 

 " The Regulations and Eftablifhment of the Houfhold 

 " of Algernon Percy, the Fifth Earl of Northumberland^ 

 " Begun anna I s I 2 . London, printed i 768." 



It begins, *' This is the ordre of the chequir rout 

 " of the nombre of all the horfys of my lordis and 

 " my ladys, that are apoynted to be in the charge of 

 ''• the hous yerely, as to fay : gentill hors, palfreys, 

 " hobys, naggis, cloth-fek hors, male-hors. Firft, 

 " gentill hors, to^ Hand in my lordis liable, fix. Item, 

 " palfreys of my ladys, to wit, one for my lady, and 

 *' two for her gentill-women, and ©one for her cham- 

 " berer. Four hobys and naggis for my lordis oone 

 " faddill, viz. oone for my lorde to ride, oone to lede 

 •' for my lorde, and oone to flay at home for my 

 « lorde. 



" Item, chariot hors to ftond in my lordis flable 

 " yerely. Seven great trottynge hors to draw in the 

 *• chariott, and a nagg for the chariott man to ride ;: 

 " eight. Again, hors for lorde Percy, his lordfhips- 

 " fon and heir. A grete doble trottynge hors for my 

 " lorde Percy to travel on in winter. Item, a gret do- 

 »* ble trottynge hors, called a Curtal, for his lordlhip 



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