Cavalarice. Or the English horseman: contayning all the art of horsemanship, asmuch as is necessary for any man to vnderstand, whether hee be horse-breeder, horse-ryder, horse-hunter, horse-runner, horse-ambler, horse-farrier, horse-keeper, coachman, smith, or sadler. Together, with the discouery of the subtil trade or mystery of hors-coursers, and an explanation of the excellency of a horses vnderstanding / [Gervase Markham].

  • Markham, Gervase, 1568?-1637.
Date:
[1616]-1617
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Credit: Cavalarice. Or the English horseman: contayning all the art of horsemanship, asmuch as is necessary for any man to vnderstand, whether hee be horse-breeder, horse-ryder, horse-hunter, horse-runner, horse-ambler, horse-farrier, horse-keeper, coachman, smith, or sadler. Together, with the discouery of the subtil trade or mystery of hors-coursers, and an explanation of the excellency of a horses vnderstanding / [Gervase Markham]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Oates in the fheafe, the ouerchawing of wheate 5 Gar¬ bage (which is wheate earcs and the draw chopt al¬ together) and now and then barly in the chaffe:or ijf your foales grow arie in their bodies,and cofiiue,thcn now a»d then afheafe ofRie amongd them. This ma- ner of feeding will not onely make them acquainted with the feuerall tafte and vie of meates,but alfo breed fuch familiaritie betwixt them and their keepers, that they will be much more domedicall and tame then o- therwifethey would be,whichisagreatbencfite,both tothe^reeder, and alfo to him which fhall be the ri¬ der; but in any wife let not their keepers handle or ftroke them too much, for that will but hinder their growth, becaufe for the mod part, all foure-footed ' bcafts do take diflike in their infancie to be much han- dled.The houfesorcrodehouelswhich you preferue for winter fhelter for your foales,would be faire paued- with pibbleboulder,or fome other kind of (mall done, and therwithall dayly kept cleane from myre or dung: from my re, that by foft treading the hoofes of your foales growe not weake and tender: and from dungy lead (landing therupon it burnc& dric vp their hoofes making them fhort and brittle. But if naturally you pcrceiue anyofyour foals to hatie tender hoofes, then you iballfeck by medicinable means to recouerthem, as by annointing them with the vpper fword or skin of fatbacon,ore!sby taking the eares of Garlicke, Swines greafe^Goates greafe,.andBrimdone mixt to* gith-er, and annointing their hoofes therewith, or by rubbingthe cronets of their hoofes with Tarre and Hogees greafemixttogither, and fuch like, ofwhicl* Iwill fpeake more in my booke ofdifcafes, E 5, CHAT. 14