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cart horses. It was further estimated that 

 for the conveyance of the officers, the sick 

 and the wounded, 380 waggons would be 

 wanted, and that three horses must be pro- 

 vided for each of these vehicles. The scheme 

 laid before the Privy Council proposed that 

 part, at least, of the 10,412 cart horses thus 

 required should be taken up where they 

 could be hired by the day '' in the Low 

 Countries or where they may best be hadde. 

 They with the carters to drive and keep 

 them." The hire was estimated at 2s. per 

 diem, while the cost of the horses, if bouo-ht 

 outright, "with harness and furniture," would, 

 it was anticipated, be £<^ apiece. The 

 framers of this estimate appended thereto 

 a note or recommendation which reflects the 

 comparative merits of English and foreign 

 carthorses at the time, " We think it neces- 

 sary that, besides, 200 strong cart horses 

 such as cannot be hired should be boueht or 



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continually kept for the use of the ordnance 

 and munition." The cost of these Strong or 

 Great Horses was put down at ^15 per head 

 — the modern equivalent of that seemingly 

 modest sum being perhaps ^100 — and the 

 lieutenants and deputy-lieutenants of counties 

 throughout England were to be required to 

 certify what proportion of horses fit for this 



