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the Horse had in his gift, among many others belong- 

 ing to his office, that of a Serjeant-Farrier at is. id. 

 per diem, and three Yeomen-Farriers at 6d. And numer- 

 ous instances of the newly revived name are to be dis- 

 covered in writings of this and later ages. Chapman, in 

 his translation of the ' Iliad,' has it : 



So took she chamber with her son, the God of Ferrary. 



And Heywood, in the 'Troia Brittanica' (1609), writes: 



And thus resolv'd, to Lemnos she doth hie. 

 Where Vulcan works in heavenly Ferrarie. 



The value of shoeing yet held a high place in eques- 

 trianism and among equestrians, and much im.portance 

 was attached to shoes, either as relics, or for purposes of 

 display. We have already seen to what an extent this 

 was carried at Okeham ; it was also in vogue elsewhere, 

 and often gave rise to strange customs which continued 

 to a late period. For instance, in the Preston Pilot for 

 1834, it is mentioned 'that a large assembly congregated 

 for the purpose of witnessing the renewing of the horse- 

 shoe at the Horse-shoe corner, Lancaster, when the old 

 shoe was taken up and a new one put down, with 1834 

 engraved on it. Those who assembled to witness the 

 ceremony were entertained with nut-brown ale, &c. ; after- 

 wards they had a merry chairing, and then retired. In the 

 evening they were again entertained with a good substantial 

 supper. This custom is supposed to have originated at 

 the time John O'Gaunt (third son of Edward I.) came 

 into the town upon a noble charger, which lost its shoe at 

 this place. The shoe was taken up and fixed in the mid- 

 dle of the street, and has ever since been replaced with a 



