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CHAPTER IX. 



SHOEING IN ENGLAND AFTER THE NORMAN CONftUEST, EUSTATHIUS. 

 REVIVAL OF VETERINARY SCIENCE. JORDANUS RUFFUS. PETRUS 

 DE CRESCENTIUS. LAURENTIUS RUSIUS. SHOD OXEN. SHOEING 

 FORGES. COUNTING THE HORSE-SHOES AND HOB-NAILS. LIBER ftUO- 

 TIDIANUS. THE DEXTRARIUS AND HOBBY. HAWKING. STRATAGEM 

 OF REVERSING SHOES. ROBERT BRUCE AND DUKE CHRISTOPHER OF 

 WURTEMBERG. VALUE OF SHOES AND NAILS FOR HORSES IN 



ENGLAND IN THE I3TH AND I4TH CENTURIES. COAL. THE RE- 

 VOLT OF THE DUKE OF LANCASTER. TUTBURY CASTLE AND THE 

 RIVER DOVE. CURIOUS DISCOVERY OF TREASURE AND HORSE- 

 SHOES. FROISSART. WARS OF KINGS EDWARD II. AND III. GLOU- 

 CESTER CORPORATION SEAL. STATUS OF THE FARRIER. DIFFERENT 

 BREEDS OF HORSES. GROOVED IMPORTED SHOES. THE DAYS 



OF CHIVALRY. FAMILY COATS OF ARMS. LOMBARDY AND FLEM- 

 ISH HORSES. THE CHATELAINE OF WARRENNE. HAMERICOURT. 

 FARRIERY IN SCOTLAND. AN UNJUST LAW. STATUTES OF EDWARD 

 VI. HENRY VIII. AND SHOEING WITH FELT, CURIOUS CUSTOMS 

 AND EXTRAVAGANCE. GOLD AND SILVER SHOES. FARRIERS. CjESAR 

 FIASCHI. DIVERSITY OF SHOES. GERMAN WRITERS. CARLO RUINI. 



After the Norman invasion of England, the shoeing 

 of horses, and indeed everything relating to that noble 

 animal, received much attention. Instead of being an 

 obscure art, and apparently but rarely resorted to among 

 the Anglo-Saxons, the Norman knights brought with 

 them from the continent their marechals of high rank, 

 and their esteem for chivalry, which, without horses, could 

 scarcely have existed. The advantages arising from the 



