SHOEING IVITH FELT. 



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wards wife of Henry VIII.), and Arthur, Prince of Wales, 

 the floor being of marble, and a tournament taking place 

 on it, the horses were shod with felt.' 



For the reign of Henry VIII. we have an excellent 

 representation of shod horses in what is known as the 

 ' tournament roll,' or descriptive illustrations of the 

 ' Solemn Justs held at Westminster,' on the 5th February, 

 15 10, in the ist year of that king, in honour of Queen 

 Katharine. Every horse in the long procession has its 

 feet armed in the most unmistakable manner.^ The one 

 we select (fig. 158) exhibits this characteristic; and it will be 



fig. 158 

 observed that the shoes are yet very clumsy, and have the 

 calkins and nail-heads very large, to afford a firm grasp of 

 the ground. The nails appear to be four on each side of 

 the shoe. 



' Notes and Queries. 2nd Series, vol. ix. p. 394. 

 " This procession has been engraved in the Vetusta Monumenta, 

 vol. i. 



