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animals, big-boned aiul full-bodied, that the cavalry of the: Ironsides was recruited, 

 which rode clown even the fiery squadrons of Prince Rupert at Marston Moor and 

 Naseby. Ploughing and heavy draught were nearly always done by oxen. Ponies 

 from Wales and Dartmoor, or Galloways from Ireland, were usually employed as 



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packhorses. Even the Royal importations from Italy were of the larger breed, more 

 serviceable in pageantry than in contests of speed, and better looking in the canvases 

 of \ an Dyck than on the course at Newmarket. Shakespeare describes (in " Venus 

 and Adonis") the nobleman's horse of his time with what must have been the 



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