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Falkirk in 1298, and whose values and colours are given in docu- 

 ments printed by Bain 1 , the proportion of colours is as follows : 

 One dun horse with star in forehead, one pied white charger, 

 one fawn hackney with star in forehead and three white feet, 

 one rough Hard hackney, two grey horses, three powis pommele 

 (one horse, two hackneys) ; nine ferrand pommele comprising 

 one charger, three horses, five hackneys; nine black comprising 

 three chargers (one with four white feet), five horses (one of 

 which had a star and four white feet, another three white feet), 

 and one black bauzan hackney; two sorrel comprising one 

 bauzan horse, and one sorrel hackney with a star; nineteen 

 bays comprising one brown bay charger, one brown bay hackney, 

 one dark bay horse, one bay bauzan horse, three bay chargers 

 (one with a white hind foot), six bay horses and six bay hackneys. 

 Of the nine chargers three were black, four bay, one ferrand 

 pommele (iron grey), and only one white pied, but no dun or 

 sorrel. Of the twenty-two horses not described as chargers or 

 hackneys eight were bays of various shades, one sorrel, five 

 black, one dun, and six greys of different shades ; of the seven- 

 teen hackneys there were seven bay, one sorrel, one black, eight 

 grey of different shades and one fawn with star in the forehead 

 and three white feet. The black supply the largest proportion 

 of chargers and 'horses,' and the smallest of hackneys, which 

 shows that they were the heaviest horses. Bay with less than 

 half of the whole, has nearly half the chargers, and more than 

 one-third of the hackneys, whereas black only furnished one- 

 ninth ; grey out of a total of fifteen supplied one charger, six 

 horses, and eight hackneys. Grey thus, though less than one- 

 third of the whole, supplies nearly half the hackneys. It will 

 be noticed that eight of the nine chargers are dark-coloured. 



When we come to the values of the horses we find that the 

 bay charger with a white hind foot was worth 100 marks, a 

 black charger 60 marks, the white pied also 60 marks, and a 

 ferrand pommele charger 45 marks. The prices of 'horses' 

 ranged from 70 marks (a black with star in forehead and three 

 white feet) down to 5 marks ; hackneys range from 20 marks 



1 Calendar of Documents relating to Scotland (Edinburgh, 1884), Vol. n. 

 pp. 257-8. 



