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recreace themfeives with Hunting Direr and ocher wild Beafts, Horles were 

 always had in high Eitimation and Honour ; and thofe that would out- run 

 the Wind, and made the beft fpeed afcer the Chacc were moft enecmed, fo 

 that there could be no pleafure in Hunting, if rhey had no Horfes to car- 

 ry them after their Game ; and what a brave fight is it to fee in a Field an 

 hundred or more Hiinting-Horfes riding and running this way or that way 

 a^rer the timorous Deer or fearful Hare ; therefore (he Horfe, as he was 

 made for indnllfinus Labour, fo he is fit to maintain ar.d procure the Piea- 

 fures and Delights of a Prince or any Noble man. 



And moreover in War, the Courage and Service of a Horfe is daily now 

 feen, and too well knoivn : He will, as if he were animated by the found of 

 Drums and Trumpets, prefently rufli into the Battel, and tske delight to 

 charge the Enemy; he is all fire, and full of mettle and ftiry. And thus 

 we lee that a Horfe is not only convenient for daily Occifions of tlie Huf- 

 bandmen, of Travellers, and divers others, but in Princes CcHjrts he is 

 highly elteemed, for Htmting, for Race?, and other Paft^raes; a;^d alfo in 

 the Wars, his daily Service is fufficientlv known, being a Beaft of a mag- 

 nanimous and undaunted Courage, fo that the Horfe is naturally made 

 for Profit and Pleafure ; for Labotir and D.^light ; for Peace and War ; for 

 Hunting ; for Triumphs, and all Gallant Occi^fions, 



It is pity then that a brave Florfe, well Limb'd and Spirited, falling fick 

 in any inward Difeafe, or outward accidental infirmity, as Sprains, Difloca- 

 tion ofBones, Spavins, and hundreds more Difeafes, fhould be fpniled in 

 fuffering the Diftafe to grow on him until it be incurable, or in applying 

 Remedies unfic for the Malady; whereby many a Horfe becomes maimed, 

 and for want of Cure, utterly difabled for any Service. 



Therefore my Advice and CounfeJ i?, fas I faid beforej that if any Gen- 

 tlemen whatfoever, (hall have their Horfes either by outward Accident?, as 

 Sprains, pricking in the Feet, and the like, or inward Surlcitf, Glanderf, 

 Colds and Heats, by intemperate and extraordinary Riding, fall fick, or 

 become through the aforefaid. Infirmities any ways difabled for Service, 

 they fhould not depend upon their own Experience or Judgment, but 

 iliould wifely confider with themfeives, and conlult with the Farrier, rea- 

 foning together, and comparing their Opinions concerning the Caufes and 

 Cures of fuch Difeafes as are incident to their Horfes, that fo by this mean?, 

 by the height of Difcourfe and Rcafon they may come to a certain and in- 

 fallible Knowledge of the Horfes Difeafes and Infirmities, and having dili- 

 gently fearched out the Caufes thereof, they may know likewife to Cure 

 the fame: For you fhall meet with many illiterate Farriers, who arc not 

 Book-learned, and therefore have no more Knowledge than Horfes them.- 

 felves, but are fubjed, through their Ignorance, to run into many grofs 

 Errors ; fo that through their Negligence and aforefaid Ignorance, mi- 



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