To the leader, 



ever you (hall find this \* inferted in the end of any 

 cure, I have fet the fame there, to let you know that Re- 

 ceipt to be undoubted, and approved for good and cer- 

 tain,beingby my felf often pradifed and u(cd. And thofe' 

 receits that have not the mark, are fuch cares which I did 

 procure from fundry able Ferriers, whereof I have had 

 no trial or experience at all, for want of time and means ^ 

 and therefore dare not avouch or cry them up for Ma- 

 thematical, albeit they do appear unto me to be pro- 

 bably good, but by reafon I have not tried them, I would 

 not adventure a T^robatHm^ or ecce upon them. Never- 

 thele(s if God permit me to reprint, I doubt not but by 

 that time to give them for approved and warrantable, 

 and to add many more unto them which I have already 

 by me, which I do forbear to publiQi at this p relent, al- 

 beit I do know many of them to be as probably good as 

 anyofthofe. 



In otlier Chapters I go clean through the whole Al- 

 phabet,accdrding to the method uled in the fourth Chap- 

 ter 5 and therefore let this abftrad fuffice for the prefent. 

 And fbrafhiuch as I have difcourfed the former things of 

 breeding, &c, in my firft Book 5 yet my iniention was 

 not at the firft to trench (bdeep into that fubjedl, but to 

 fhew principally the herrkrs Craft and Art, out of an 

 earneft defire I have to excite and ftir up our young 

 Gentlemen to aflume fbme knowledge of a Myftery (b 

 nccellary for them to apprehend, or at leaft-wile to have 

 a glimpfe of^ confidering how rare a thing it is to find 

 a skilful Ferrier among our rural or Country Smiths. 

 For if the Nobility and Gentry of this our !fle of Great 

 l^ritai/i did truly know how honourable, and how com- 

 mendable Horfe-man(hip were, and how much they are 

 efteemed and admired, who are the true profefTours 

 thereof, they would labour more than they now do, to 

 breed and have good Horfes : but it much troubleth me 



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