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chivalry often rose to as fantastic heights as in this extrava- 

 gant display of James Hayes. For instance, when Alex- 

 ander III. of Scotland repaired to London, attended by a 

 hundred knights, at the time of the coronation of Edward 

 I., the whole party, as soon as they had alighted, let loose 

 their steeds, all most richly caparisoned, to be scrambled 

 for by the multitude. This was probably new to the Eng- 

 lish chivalry, and no doubt startled them not a little : five, 

 however, of the English nobles immediately followed the 

 example set them. 



In the 1 6th century we have a complete treatise — the 

 first, on shoeing, from the pen of Caesar Fiaschi,' a mas- 

 terly production of its kind, and in which no less than 

 35 chapters are devoted to this subject. From the care 

 with which they are written, the sound sense that pervades 

 many of them, the faculty of observation, and the great 

 number of shoes devised to meet certain wants, we con- 

 clude that this artist was no ordinary workman, but an 

 enthusiast in hippology — a man of talent, and a scholar. 

 His masterly production forms the basis of nearly all the 

 treatises subsequently written on horse-shoeing. The space 

 at our disposal permits but a very limited notice of its con- 

 tents. The first chapter, which serves as an introduction, 

 makes known that ' there are found to-day very few good 



' Traite de la Maniere de Bien Emboucher, Manier, et Ferrer les 

 Clievauxj avec las figures de Mors de Bride, Tours et Manienients et 

 Fers qui y sont propres. Dedie au Roi Henri II. Paris, 1564. This 

 is the French translation of the Italian work. There were also pub- 

 lished in Italy, in this century, the 'Trattato di Mascalcia ' of Filippo 

 Sacro de Logliacozzo (Venice, 1553) ; and the 'Gloria del Cavallo ' of 

 Caracciolo (1J67). In France, shortly after Fiaschi's work appeared, 

 Claudio Corte published 'L'Ecuyer' (Lyons, 1573). 



