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Amongst such works may be mentioned The Art of 

 Hunting, by William Twici, written, originally in 

 Norman French, about the year 1307, by the hunts- 

 man to King Edward II. ; the treatise on hunting 

 in the Boke of St Albans, i486; and Turbervile's 

 Booke of Hunting, 1575, a second edition of which 

 appeared in 161 1. 



Amongst the earliest books on equitation by 

 Eng-lish writers we find Blundevile's Foure 

 chief yst offices belonging to Horsemanship, 1565 ; 

 Astley's Art of Riding, 1584 ; Clifford's School 

 of Horsemanship, 1585; Gervase Markham's 

 Discourse of Horsemanshippe, 1593; and his 

 Cavelarie, or the English Horseman, 1607, the 

 last-named writer being also the author of several 

 other works of a somewhat wider scope, such as 

 the treatise on horses in his Country Content- 

 ments, 1 6 1 1 ; Markham's Maister Piece, 1 6 1 5 ; 

 and his Faithful Farrier, 1635, all of which 

 passed through several editions, and were very 

 popular in their day. De Grey's Compleat 

 Horseman, 1639, many times reprinted, was 

 another popular book in its day. In Charles the 

 Second's time (1683) there appeared rather a 

 notable work on the Anatomy of the Horse, by 

 Andrew Snape, farrier to his Majesty — sufficiently 

 esteemed to be translated into French, and to pass 

 through three or four editions. Nearly a century 

 later, An Anatomical Description of the Bones in 

 the Foot of the Horse, by James Clark, of 

 Edinburo-h (1770), and the same author's Observa- 

 tions on the Shoeing of Horses, attracted consider- 



