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Bearbaiting in the Fourteenth Century ... ... ... ... ... 15 



From tin- illuminated Psalter written for Sir Geoffrey Louttrell. who died in 1345. After his death it belonged 

 to Lord Howard in Dizain-til 's reign, and then became part of the l.ulwurih Castle Collection. 



Gambling by the Roadside in the Early Fourteenth Century ... ... ... 15 



From the collection of Kuyal manuscripts in the British Museum, (a B. vii.) 



Richard II. (1367-1400) ... 17 



1 imn the panel, by an unkiioun .iriist, in the National Portrait Gallery. From a photo by Walker UK) 

 Uoutall. 



Irish Hobby of the Fourteenth Century ... ... ... ... ... 18 



Art MacMurchada. the Irish chieftain, is riding his white hnrsc down the lull-id.- to meet the F.nglishmen Ion 

 much larger horses) on the other bank of the rivrr. Krum the illustr.ited metrical history of Richard 11., by 

 Creion. Now No. 1319 in the llarleian Collection of Manuscripts, British Museum. 



The Knight's Horse (fourteenth century) ... ... ... ... ... 18 



From the Ellesmere Manuscript of Chaucer's Canterbury Tales. 



The Sporting Monk with his Hounds (fourteenth century) ... ... ... 19 



From the Ellesmere Manuscript of Chaucer's Canterbury Tales. 



The Court of Queen Margaret and Henry VI. ... ... ... ... 20 



From the Life of St. F.dmund," written by Lydgale about the middle of the fifteenth century. Now in the 

 British Museum (MSS. llarl., 2278). 



Florentine Pageant Horses ... ... ... ... ... ... ... 21 



From the Picture Chronicle of Florentine History in the Fifteenth Century, by Finiguerra, presented to the 

 British Museum by John Kuskin. 



The "Small" German Horse at the ond of the Fifteenth Century ... ... ... 22 



From the original etching by Albert Durer, in the British Museum. 



Turkish Horse imported into Germany at the end of the Fifteenth Century ... 23 



From the <lry|x>im etching by the Master of the Amsterdam Cabinet," also known as the " Master of the 

 llausbuch," who was probably a native >.t the Khinelaiids near Mainu. in 1480. 



The Wife of Bath ... 24 



Showing n woman's dress for riding astride in the fourteenth century. From the F.llcsmere Manuscript of 

 Chaucer s Canterbury Tales. 



Henry VIII. (1491 1547,. From the portrait by Holbein ... ... ... 25 



Horses of Henry VIII. at the Field of the Cloth of Gold 27 



From the engraving in the possession of the Society uf Antiquaries, by Basire. after the contemporary paint- 

 ing ai Hampton Court, \\lnch was probably done on the spot, and may have been the work of John Crust, of 

 Vincent Volpe, or of Andrew Wright, but was not by Holbein. 



Charles V. on Horseback ... ... ... ... ... ... ... 28 



From a pen and ink drawing by Rul>ens in the Louvre. 



Robert Dudley, Farl of Leicester (1531 1588) ... ... ... ... 31 



Lieutenant-General of the Army raised in Kngland to resist Spanish invasion. From the original painting 

 by an unknown artist in the National Portrait Gallery. (By permission of Walker and Boulall. i 



George Clifford, Third Earl of Cumberland ( 1558 16051... 33 



As the Queen's Champion, he always wore Queen Elizabeth's glove in his hat. He greatly distinguished him- 

 self in the fight against the Armada, and made eleven voyages at his own expense. From the painting, U) 

 1588. by an unknown artist in the National Portrait Gallery. (By permission of Walker and Boutall.) 



Robert Devereux, Second Earl of Essex ( 1 567 1601) ... ... ... ... 35 



Master of the Horse in 1587. From the picture, in 1597, by an unknown artist in the National Portrait Gallery. 

 (By permission of Walker and Boutall.) 



Sir Walter Hungerford, of Farley Castle, Heytesbury, with his Hound and his " Great 



Horse" ' 37 



From the portrait in the possession of Sir R. Hungerford Pollen. Bart., at Rodlxjurne. Malmesbury. on Mluch 

 is inscribed : "Sir Walter Hungerford Knight had in Queene Elizabeth's tyme the second of her Raine 

 for foure yere together a baye horse a blacke greyhounde a lanerett. This offer was for foure yere 

 together to all Eynglande not above his betters he that shoulde showe the best horse for a man of armes a 

 greyhounde for a hare a haucke for the reyver to wine III hundred poundes that was a hunderythe ix>undes 

 apese. Also he had a gerfalcon (or the herne in Her Majesty's tyme that he kept XVIII yere and offered thr 

 lyke to five for a hundred poumle and were refused for all." 



Sir Walter Hungerford and his Hawk ... ... ... ... ... 39 



From an old print in the British Museum. 



Queen Elizabeth (1533 1603) ... ... ... 41 



From the painting attributed to I 'ederigo Zuccaro in the National Portrait Gallery. (By permission of Walker 

 and Boutall.) 



Queen Elizabeth's Coach ... ... ... ... 43 



From the print by Houfnagel. in Civitates Orbis Terrarum." 1572. 



Skeleton of a Horse seen from the side ... 45 



From the engraving by Stubbs. From " The Anatomy of the Horse," by George Stubbs, 1766. 



