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LECTURE ON HORSEMANSHIP, 



Addrefled to the Ladies. 



AMONG all the various writers on the art of 

 horfemanfhip, notwithflanding, fide-faddles have been 

 known and in life in England more then fix hundred 

 years ago, even in Richard's time, for in the reign of 

 this prince fide-faddles were iirft known here, as 

 it will appear from the following anecdote, by a 

 W^arwick hiftorian, in which he fays. 



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" And in his days alfo began the deteflable cuftom 

 of wearing long pointed flioes, faftened with 

 ^^ chains of filver, and fometimes gold, up to the 

 *^ knees, likewife noble ladies then ufed high heads, 

 ^' and robes with long trains, and feats or fide»faddles 

 " on their horfes, by the example of the refpedlablc 

 " queen Anne, daughter of the king of Bohemia, 

 *^ who firfh introduced this cufhom in this kingdom: 

 *^ for before, women of every rank rode as men do, 

 ^^ with their legs aftride their horfes.'* 



Thus fays our Warwick hiftorian, fo that fide 

 faddles appear to have been ufed many cen- 

 turies ago, and that formerly the female fex took tl-ue 

 fafhion of riding like men, for which they are repre- 

 hended 



