MATTHEJr OF PARIS. 289 



Anglo-Saxon calendar, and for the month of May there 

 is shown a nobleman hawking on horse-back, the feet of 

 the steed being carefully shod, like those of a hawking 

 equestrian of the 14th century, whose portrait willbe re- 

 ferred to shortly. 



Matthew of Paris speaks of horses both shod and un- 

 shod, and is angry with an archbishop who demanded 

 shoes for unshod horses.' 



In the ' Chronicon Monasterii de Abingdon,' a docu- 

 ment probably of the loth or nth century, under the 

 head of rents due to the hostillar is the following entry : 

 ' Hi sunt redditus quos habet hostilarius, ad Jerramenia 

 equorum, ad usum monachorum, pauperum, peregrin- 

 orum, emenda.'^ 



In the 'Speculum Saxonica' (lib. ii. art. 12), it is 

 mentioned that shoes were only applied to the fore-feet. 

 ' Four handsfull of corn shall be given to each horse 

 during the day and night, and the horses shall be shod on 

 the fore-feet (in anteriorilms pedibus equi suffer rentur)^. 

 In the 'Jus Feudale Saxon.' (cap. 34, pt. 15) it is 

 ordained, ' Their horses ought only to be shod on the 

 fore-feet, and not on the hind-feet. '^ 



It would seem that the Anglo-Saxons experienced the 

 same inconvenience from frost that we now do, for we read 

 that in 832, the year began with excessive rains, and a frost 

 succeeded, which was so sudden and intense, that the iced 

 roads were nearly impassable by horses.'* 



Horses were shod in Scotland, in all probability, at as 

 early a period as in England, though perhaps not regularly. 



' Fosl-roke. Op. cit. "" De Consuetudinibus Abbendoniae. 



^ Du Cange. Glossarium. "* Annales Ruberi, p. ';6. 



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