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him. Furthermore there would be made a fair Loft, wherein 

 to lay hay, and convenient lodging chambers for your Grooms, 

 whofe ncarnefs, together with their care and vigiiancy riiight 

 prevent many dangers and inconveniences which may accrue 

 unto your Horfes by night. Alfo let a neat Saddle-houfe be 

 contrived with Bings for Provender, and in it PrefTes, wliereia 

 to lay up the Saddles, Bridles, and all other furniture apper- 

 taining to Horfes, and an AqH&du.^ wherewith to bring water 

 to the Stable. And laftly, other Stalls would be ereded remote, 

 wherein upon occafion to ferve theiick from the found. Many- 

 other accoutrements there are belonging to a perfed Stable, as 

 partitions with boards, polls, and bars, with pins driven into 

 every poft, whereon to hang Bridles and the like j Ihelvss alfo 

 faftned to the wall ferving for many ules, to place necelfaries 

 upon, &c. which being known to all men, will be needlefs for 

 me here to repeat. 



But you may perad venture flartle at paving, rather than 

 planking your flore, preferring planks as warmer, and much 

 better than flint or a pitched flore can be •, as alfo for that it is 

 a new thing, little pradifed, and feldom heard. 



But give me leave ( I pray ) a little to inform your under- 

 ilanding in this one point, by which means your judgement may- 

 fortune to be much bettered. Firll therefore whereas novelty 

 may be obje(ftcd, I fhall moft eaiily aflbyl that point, even from 

 the felf-fame ground in the civil Law, which I inferred in the 

 conclulion of the precedent Chapter, viz^. That things found 

 to be prejudicial ought to be inhibited, although they might 

 be thought needful, and good in foreknown trnies. For that 

 paving of ilables is better than planking them j I have reafons 

 faving of not a few wherewith to fatisfie a reafonable man. Firft, it is 

 ^ ^ch£t- ^'"'''^ "^°^^ durable andlafting, fuppofing the flore to be ^\x.c\i- 

 SrVjan"^^ by an expert workman : Secondly, it lefs charges by much, 

 y)lanKing. and therefore in that point better : Thirdly, for a Horfe to 

 'a. ftand continually upon a pitched flore, itemboldneth his feet 



2. and treading the more •, Fourthly,it is the moft excellent thing 



3. that may be for Colts, who are unlhod \ for it hardneth their 

 .^. hoofs, foas bycuflom they will be as bold to go upon ftones, 



rocky, and hard ways, as Horfe§ that are ftiod : neither will a 

 pitched flore fufler the hoof to go abroad in manner of an Oy- 



fler; 



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