iv LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS. 



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The Duke of Newcastle on Horseback at Bolsover. ... ... ... ... 47 



From the print by Diepenbeke, in His Grace's famous treatise on Horsemanship (in the British Museum) 



Louis XIII. on Horseback ... ... ... 5 1 



Under tin- tuition of M. lie Pluvinel, who is the man on the right holding a riding-whip and talking to M. Le 

 Grand. In the middle is the young King riding, with his mounted courtiers watching him from over the wall. 

 From the print liy De Passe in ' L'instruclion du Koy en 1'exercise de moiUer ;X cheval par Messire Antoine 

 ilr I'luvinel. Kscuyer Principal de Sa Majesu- Imprimi a Paris au depens de Crispin de Pas le vieux i 

 I'lrrcht, 1625" (in the British Museum). 



The First Grand Stand at Newmarket, built in the reign of James I. ... 53 



From an old print. 



The First Duke of Buckingham ... ... ... 56 



From a drawing by Jane E. Cook after the portrait by kubens in the Albertina Collection 



A Spanish Horse of the Early Seventeenth Century ... ... ... ... 58 



From the print in the British Museum, published by P. Galle, after J. Stradanus. 



Thomas Howard, Earl of Arundel (1586 1646)... ... ... ... ... 60 



From the portrait by Van Dyck in the collection of the Duke of Norfolk, reproduced for Mr. Lionel Gust. 



Horse of Flemish breed used in England in the middle of the Seventeenth Century 68 



From the original drawing by Van Oyck in the British Museum, sketched as a study for the horse of Charles I. 



The Equestrian Statue of Charles I. at Charing Cross ... ... ... ... 69 



Cast in brass by I^e Soeur in 1633, " bigger than a great horse by a foot," and modelled under the advice of 

 " His Majesty's riders of great horses." The pedestal was designed by Sir Christopher Wren, and the whole 

 erected in 1674-5. Spoken of as "the sacred brass " in Waller's well-known lines, and mentioned by Andrew 

 M.irvell. Le Soeur was a Huguenot pupil of Giovanni di Bologna. The horse was sold by Parliament to 

 John Rivett. a brazier, who kept it in a vault until the Restoration, and the order for its construction (by 

 Wrston, Karl of Portland), is in the Private Record Office. 



Thomas, Lord Fairfax ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... 74 



General "f the Parliamentary forces in the Civil War. From the engraving in the British Museum by 

 W. Faithorne. 



Lord Arlington 16 1 8 1685) ... ... ... ... ... ... ... 78 



Tin- scar on his face was received when fighting on the Royalist side in a skirmish at Andover. From an 

 engraving in the British Museum after Sir Peter I.ely. 



Louise de Querouaille ... ... ... ... ... ... ... 79 



Created Duchess of Portsmouth by Charlej II., mother of the Duke of Richmond. From the painting in 

 1682 by Pierre Mignaril in the National Portrait Gallery. (By permission of Walker and Boutall.) 



Tom Thynne of Longleat ... ... ... ... ... ... ... 82 



From the print in the British Museum. 



Tom Killigrew ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... 83 



From the picture by Van Dyck in the Royal Collection at Windsor. 



James, Duke of Monmouth (1649 1685) ... ... ... ... ... 85 



Son of Charles II. Beheaded after Sedgemoor. From the painting by William Wissing in the National 

 Portrait Gallery. (By permission of Walker and Boutall.) 



George Monk, Duke of Albemarle ... ... ... ... ... ... 87 



After the miniature by Samuel Cooper in the Royal Collection at Windsor. 



Barbara Villiers ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... 89 



Wife of Roger Palmer, Karl of Castlemaine, created Duchess of Cleveland by Charles II. (1640 1709). 

 From the painting after Sir Peter Lely in the National Portrait Gallery. (By permission of Walker and 

 Boutall.) 



Charles II. 1630 1685) ... ... ... ... ... ... ... g 2 



From whose reign Racing may be said to date as a regularly constituted sport. From the painting by John 

 Greenhill in the National Portrait Gallery. (By permission of Walker and Boutall.) 



The I,ast Race run before Charles II. ... ... ... ... ... ... 94 



From the etching after Francis Barlow. 



Nell Gwynne ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... gj 



After the original Painting by Sir Peter Lcly. Photographed by Walker. 



George Villiers, Second Duke of Buckingham (1627 1687) ... ... ... 100 



From the painting by Sir Peter I-ely in the National Portrait Gallery. (By permission of Walker and Boutall.) 



A Type of imported Eastern Horse (The Wellesley Arabian) ... ... ... 102 



From the engraving in the British Museum by J. Scott, after the picture by B. Marshall. 



Philip, Lord Wharton ... ... ... ... lo , 



From the painting by Van Dyck in the Hermitage Gallery, reproduced for Mr. Lionel Cust. 



Anthony Ashley Cooper, First Earl of Shaftesbury (162 1 1683) ... ... ... 105 



" Unbribed, unsought, the wretched to redreii, 



Swift of despatch, and easy of access." 

 From the engraving in the British Museum by R. White, published in 1680. 



Bay Bolton (17051735) ... ... 106 



Bred by Sir Matthew Pierson. of Yorkshire. From the print in the British Museum by R. Houston published 

 in 1750. after the picture by James Seymour. 



