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hundery the pouiides apese. Also he had 

 a gerfalcon for the heme in Her Majesty's 

 tyme, that he kept XVIII. yere ; and offered 

 the lyke to flye for a hundred pounde, and 

 were refused for all." 



This offer of Sir Walter's gives us the 

 right to assume that the type here repre- 

 sented was the one acknowledged at the 

 date to be that most approved in the 

 English Great Horse ; whilst the special 

 function of that horse was, still, to carry 

 "a man of armes." It can be seen that — 

 though the hair, both of the mane and legs, 

 has been manipulated to suit the fashion — 

 the tail still shows the characteristic abun- 

 dance. Sir Walter -Hungerford's horse is 

 certainly of the type of Albert Durer's Great 

 White Horse, though it shows more evidence 

 of spirit and high action. 



Instructive particulars concerning the 

 horses of this period are to be found in a 

 curious little black letter volume, entitled, 

 The Art of Ryding and Breaking Create 

 Horses, written by Thomas Blundeville of 

 Newton Flotman in Norfolk, and published 

 in 1566 ; a second edition of which, " newlie 

 corrected and amended of manie faults 

 escaped in the first printing " was issued in 

 1580 ; the latter including chapters on breed- 



