THE HORSE IN ENGLAND TO BEGINNING OF SEVENTEENTH CENTUM. 33 



The type of horse which Charles V. rode may be seen from the sketch by Rubens 

 which I reproduce. Much ceremony was observed at the French court on their 

 arrival, and the British ambassador is careful to report full details in a special des- 

 patch. About this time from Italy, the land of the manege, was brought over one 



George Clifford, Earl of Cumberland. 

 Prom I/it picture in Iht National Portrait Gallery. 



Regnatello to teach the courtiers horsemanship, with two assistants and Hemnibale 

 (as the Duke of Newcastle spells him) for a farrier or veterinary surgeon. The young 

 King seems to have wisely confined his legislation to a confirmation of the best edicts 

 of his predecessor, with one exception ; for it was in his day that horse-stealing was 

 first made a capital offence, with the further proviso that " all and singular person 



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