inne.] THE ARABIAN. 191 



Passing by the duke's allusions to the Hungarian, 

 Polish, Swedish, and Turkish horses (" the most 

 beautiful in the world "), we finally arrive at his grace's 

 comments upon the English horse, which is " the best 

 Horse in the whole World for All Uses whatsoever, 

 from the Cart to the Mannage ; and some are as 

 Beautiful Horses as can be any where, for they are 

 Bred out of all the Horses of all Nations," The 

 famous horse fairs were those of Malton, Ripon, Lenton, 

 Rowel, Harborow, Melton, Northampton, and Pank- 

 ridge.* " I am very Ignorant of the West-Country, 

 where my Lord Pauletts Ancestors had a good Breed 

 of Horses ; and by Chance, now and then my Lord 

 of Pembroke did Breed, but I never heard of any 

 Rare Horse of his Race. In Worcestershire, and in 

 the Vale of Esam, there is good Strong Cart- Horses ; 

 in Cornwall there is good Naggs, and in Wales ex- 

 cellent good Ones ; but in Scotland the Gallowayes 

 are the Best Naggs of them all." 



Prior to the Civil War, the duke tells us there were 

 many good breeds in England, which were ruined 

 during the Commonwealth, but that since the Restora- 



1637, to Lord Deputy Wentworth, says {inter alia) that an ambassador 

 had just arrived from the Emperor of Morocco with certain vakiable 

 presents for the king, including " four Barbary horses." Wentworth in 

 reply expressed hopes that good might come of the embassy, that he 

 might have an opportunity of sending to Sallee " a little barque to bring 

 me back a Barbary horse or two." — " Letters and Despatches," vol. ii. 

 pp. 129, 138. It is impossible to distinguish the characteristic peculiarities 

 of the so-called Barbs and Arabian horses in vogue at this time. There 

 is no precise authority on the question. Doubtless they were all com- 

 monly classed as " Spanish," and of Eastern blood. 



* The fame of these fairs is Latinized by Drunken Barnaby in his 

 " Journeys." 



