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and Bad of all Nations ; but that the Barbes were 

 the Gentlemen of Horse-kind, and Spanish Horses 

 the Princes. Which answer did infinitely please the 

 Spaniards : And it is very trne, That Horses ai^e 

 so as I said.'' 



After giving incidents and recording and des- 

 cribing the accomplishments and points of some of the 

 favourite horses he kept at Antwerp, his grace con- 

 tinues : *' As poor as I was in those days, I made 

 shift to buy, at several times, four Barbes, five 

 Spanish Horses, and many Dutch Horses,* all the 

 most Excellent Horses that could be ; and amone 

 them a Grey Leaping-Horse, the most beautiful that 

 I ever saw; and who went exceeding High and Just 

 in Leaps, without any Help at all ; as also upon the 

 Ground and Terra a Terra, beyond all other Horses ; 

 and he did look as if he had been above the Rate 

 of Horse-kind. The Duke of Guise hearing of him, 

 Two Gentlemen, a French-Rider, and an Englishman, 

 wrote to me. That if I would part with him, the 

 Duke of Guise would give me 600 Pistolls for him ; 

 but he was Dead three days before I receiv'd their 

 Letter ; and had he Liv'd, I would not have taken 



* " My Lord finding his Company and Charge very great, ahhough 

 he sent several of his servants back again into England, and having 

 no means left to maintain him, was forced to seek for Credit ; where 

 at last he got so much as would in part relieve his necessities ; and 

 whereas heretofore he had been contented, for want of a Coach, to 

 make use of a Waggon, when his occasions drew him abroad, he was 

 now able (with the credit he had got) to buy a Coach and nine Horses 

 of an Holsatian breed ; for which Horses he paid ;/^i6o, and was after- 

 wards offer'd for one of them an hundred Pistols at Paris, but he refused 

 the money, and presented seven of them to Her Majesty the Oueen- 

 Mother of England, and kept two for his own use." — Life, by Margaret, 

 Duchess of Newcastle. 



