1 1 €^]^e l^untf ns^]^orfe. 



Horfe and T«ri^before him. He is fo lazy and ne- 

 gligent in his w/ilk,^ that he will jtumhle on Carpet^ 

 groHnd. His TrtJf is like that of a Gow , his Gallo]^ 

 Jow, and with much eafe to himfelf. But he is for 

 the moft part/iwi^)', and nervous^ excellently winded^ 

 and good for a Cottrfe^ if he be not over-weighted^ 



The Momtain-Barbs are accounted the bell, be- 

 caufethey are the ftrongeft and largeft. They be- 

 long to the w4//<«r^ffj, who value them as muchthem- 

 felves, as they are priz'd by any other Nations, and 

 therefore they will not part with them to any Per- 

 fonsexceptto the Pr/««of ?/7f Band to which they 

 belong ^ whp can at any time, at his pleafure, com- 

 mand therafor his own ufe. But for the other more 

 ordinary fort, they are to be met with pretty com- 

 mon, in the hands of feveralof our Nobility and Gen- 

 try^ or if you fend into Languedoc and Provence in 

 France^ they may be there bought for forty or fifty 

 P iflols 2L Hovk- Or if you will fend into Barbary^ 

 you may have one for Thirty Pomdsy or thereabouts 

 But here too tbe charges and journey will be great \ 

 tor though from Tnnis to Marfelles in France be no 

 great Voyage, yet from Marfelles to CalUis by Land 

 meafures the length of all France^ and from thence 

 they are fhipt for England^ 



The next thing of courfe to be treated of, is the 

 choice of your A/'^r^/, and thefitteft Mare to breed 

 out of, according to the Duke of Newcafile's opinion, 

 is one that has been bred of an EngUflj Mare^ and a 

 S?4///o«of cither of thefe Races; but if fuch a Mare 

 be not to be got, then make choice of a right bred 

 Englifh Mare by Sire and Dam^ that is well fore-hand- 

 td^ well underlaid^ and ftrong ]nit together in general j 

 and in particular, fee that (he hnvca /^^« Heady wide 

 Noflrilsy open Chml^ a big Wcafand, and the Windpipe 



firaight ind loofe^^nd chufe her about five or /a; year 



old. 



