THE HORSE IN ENGLAND TO BEGINNING OF SEVENTEENTH CENTURY. 23 



were turned out together by various owners into the pastures after harvest. 

 Anxiety about the breed was evidently rousing a healthy state of public opinion. 

 By 1509 there are already faint results observable. Among the household effects of 



The Eastern Horse, imported into Germany in the late I-'ifteenth Century. 



By Ike Matter of the Amitcntam Cabinet. 



Henry VIII. for that year are "Coursers, young horses, hunting geldings, hobies, 

 Barbary horses, stallions, geldings, mail (the ' mail ' or ' male ' horse was used to carry 

 baggage), bottles, pack, Besage, robe, and stalking horses." From three years 

 afterwards another interesting catalogue has come to us in the " Regulations and 



