II. 



THE HORSE IX ENGLAND TO THE BEGINNING OK THE SEVENTEENTH CENTURY. 



" llli ardua cervix 



Argutumque caput, brevis alvus, oU-si(|iie terga, 

 Luxuriatque toris animosum pertus. Hoiu-sti 

 Spadires glaucique, color deterrimus albis 

 Et gilvo . . . 



] >ensa juba. et dextro jactata recumbit in armo. 

 At duplex agitur per lumbos spina, ravat<|uu 

 Tellurem et solido graviter sonat ungula cornu." 



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k COINCIDENCES are always interesting, 

 and I shall not perhaps be accused of ton 

 much prehistoric antiquarianism if I point out 

 that the gold and silver coins used by the inhabi- 

 tants of Newmarket Heath, at the time of the 

 Roman occupation of Britain, were stamped with 

 the figure of a horse. On the obverse occur 

 various inscriptions such as ECKN., 1C., and 

 others, which first led the ingenious Sir Thomas 

 Browne (of " Religio Medici ") to the discovery 

 that they had been made by the Iceni. I have 

 reproduced one of these coins struck by Cunobelin 



in the First Century, which gives pictorial confirmation of the testimony of Julius 

 Caesar. In these early effigies the trained eye of Sir Walter Gilbey has also dis- 

 covered " cardinal points in common with " the Shires, Clydesdales, and Suffolks of the 

 present day. When I have added that it was these Iceni whom Boadicea led with 

 their allies, the Trinobantes, to a battle against the invaders which seems to have 

 resulted in the extermination of the tribe, I shall have produced all the evidence 



Coin of the Iceni, in the 



First Century A. D. 



