38o HORSE-SHOES AND HORSE-SHOEING. 



been in use for very many centuries, and was derived, no 

 doubt, from the ' faber ferrarius,' who not only worked 

 generally in iron, but also shod the horses. In old French 

 records it is not uncommon to find Jerrie?- and martsclial 

 employed to designate the shoer. 



In the list of the slain at the battle of Bannockburn, 

 fought between the English and Scottish armies on 25th 

 June, 13 1 8, in which the first was defeated and the 

 national independence of Scotland established, we find 

 on the English side, among the knights and knight 

 bannerets, the name of William Le Mareschal, and 

 among the prisoners in the hands of the Scots, the knight 

 Anselm de Mareschal and Thomas de Ferrers.' These 

 individuals, however, may not have been in any way 

 connected, but by name, with the shoers of horses. 



It is curious, notwithstanding, to find the two designa- 

 tions combined so late as the i6th century, and applied to 

 the healer of equine maladies. For instance, in an account 

 of Q-ueen Elizabeth's expenses from 1559 to 1569, there 

 is an entry for ' Curinge and Dressinge of the Queen's 

 Horses ; ' and among other sums disbursed by ' John 

 Tamworthe, Esquire, one of Her Majesties grooms,' and 

 which were to be refunded to him, it is written : ' Also he 

 is allowed for money paide to Martin Hollyman, Marshall 

 Ferrer, and others, for curinge and dressinge of the 

 Q-ueen's Majesties coursers, horses, and geldings, at divers 

 tymes, within the tyme of this accompt, as in the said 

 book doth appere, ^6^ lo.y. 4*:/.'^ 



' Trivet's Annals. Hall's edit. vol. ii. p. 14. Oxford, 17 12. 

 ' J. Nichols. The Progresses and Public Processions of Queen 

 Elizabeth, vol. i.p. 269. London, 1823. 



