86 THE HORSE. 



Paring and Shoeing for Interfering. — "Those 

 horses that interfere, are most commonly higher on 

 the outside than on the inside ; and therefore the 

 outside would be the more taken off with the butter, 

 to the intent that the inside may be somewhat higher 

 (if it will be) than the outside ; and then make him 

 a shoe fit for his foot, which would be thicker on the 

 inside than on the outside ; and let that shoe never 

 have any calkin ; for that would make the horse to 

 tread awry, and the sooner to interfere ; and let it be 

 pierced in such sort, as you can see in the figure, 

 hereafter expressed. But to be sure, first cause the 

 horse to be ridden before you, and mark well where 

 he toucheth most, and there remedy the shoe, by 

 making it the straighter in that place." 



" The planch or pancelet (bar) shoe, maketh a good 

 foot and evil leg ; because it maketh the foot to grow 

 beyond the measure of the leg. Notwithstanding, 

 for a weak heel, it is marvellous good, and will last 

 longer than any shoe, and has been borrowed from 

 the moite (mule) that has weak heels and frushes, 

 and is good to keep them from stones and gravel." 



In enumerating the varieties and fancy shoes of 

 his day, Blundeville quotes that form having the 

 toes turned upward, apparently the French oblique 

 shoe which Mr. Goodwin has taken under his especial 

 protection. Our ancient writer, strongly commends 

 the welted shoe, originally German, on the ground of 

 his having used such, in a journey of above five hun- 

 dred miles ' right out/ over a mountainous and stony 

 country, without the necessity of a remove, or driving 

 a nail. He agrees with Fiaschi, on the inutility and 



