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the famous Spanish Armada fiasco, says 

 contemptuously of the cavalry of Spain : 

 *' Their horsemen also serving on horseback 

 with launces or any other weapon they think 

 very well armed with some kind of head- 

 piece, a collar, and a deformed light bellied 

 beast." The introduction of coaches at 

 this time, and the encouragement of racing 

 at a somewhat later period also tended to 

 encourage the breeding of lighter horses in 

 England. 



JAMES I. 



We now take leave of our Elizabethan 

 instructors and come to records relating to 

 a generation later. In the Herbert MS., 

 published as vol. xx. of the Montgomery- 

 shire collection, we find on page 148 an 

 estimate of the cost of horsing an expedi- 

 tion which was being fitted out to enforce 

 the claims of the Prince Palatine, son-in-law 

 to James I., to the Crown of Bohemia. 

 This estimate was laid before the Privy 

 Council on January 1 3th, 1 620. Ten thousand 

 men were to be despatched from England ; 

 it was calculated that the baggage of this 

 army would weigh 1,150 tons, to transport 

 which as many carts each carrying one ton, 

 would be needed, and for each waggon eight 



