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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A19369	The art of riding conteining diuerse necessarie instructions, demonstrations, helps, and corrections apperteining to horssemanship, not herettofore expressed by anie other author: written at large in the Italian toong, by Maister Claudio Corte, a man most excellent in this art. Here brieflie reduced into certeine English discourses to the benefit of gentlemen and others desirous of such knowledge.; Cavallarizzo. English	Corte, Claudio.; Bedingfield, Thomas, d. 1613.	1584 (1584)	STC 5797; ESTC S100322	49,081	122

THE Art of Riding conteining diuerse necessarie instructions demonstrations helps and corrections apperteining to horssemanship not heretofore expressed by anie other Author Written at large in the Italian toong by Maister Claudio Corte a man most excellent in this Art Here brieflie reduced into certeine English discourses to the benefit of Gentlemen and others desirous of such knowledge Imprinted at London by H. Denham 1584. To the right worshipfull Maister Henrie Mackwilliam one of hir Maiesties Gentlemen Pensioners SIr I had rather you misliked my labour than mistrusted my good will And therefore being often pressed with your desires I haue heere brieflie collected the rules of horssemanship according to Claudio Corte in his second booke I haue not Englished the author at large nor medled with his manifold digressions neither haue I spoken of all things conteined in the said second booke but onelie those that concerne the making of horsses for seruice I haue also left that part vntouched which intreateth of bitting the horsses bicause the same hath beene long since verie substantiallie handled by Maister Blundeuile And surelie albeit in this hir Maiesties most prosperous and peaceable reigne the Gentlemen of this land haue studied to make horsses more for pleasure than seruice yet who so shall truelie consider to what end horssemanship tendeth must needs knowe that the principall vse of horsses is to trauell by the waie serue in the war whatsoeuer your horsse learneth more is rather for pompe or pleasure than honor or vse Yet doo I thinke it allowable and therewith commendable that some horsses cheeflie of Princes great personages hauing store should be instructed in those singularities and exquisite motions for pleasure as well to delight the lookers on and make proofe of the riders excellencie as also thereby to shew the capacitie of the beasts By these few words you can conceiue the substance of my labour which I haue taken in hand rather to content you than acquit my selfe with commendation For although some men suppose it an easie thing to reduce the conceipt of anie author into an other language yet am I assured it behooueth him not onelie to haue an exact vnderstanding in that toong wherein the author writeth but also apt words and fit phrases in his owne to expresse the same Which is also the more hard if the matter be demonstratiue and artificiall as this is conteining diuers particular termes in our English not to be expressed It seemeth therfore that whosoeuer shall either by waie of translation or abbreuiation set downe the conceipt of this author it behooueth him to be fullie informed of his meaning and well exercised in the Art of Riding in both which I must confesse either absolute ignorance or simple knowledge In respect whereof I praie you represse this booke when you haue perused it or else preserue it at your owne perill From the Court at Greenewich this 18. of Maie 1584. Your poore freend and fellow in armes T. Bedingfield To the right worshipfull my verie louing companions and fellowes in Armes hir Maiesties Gentlemen Pensioners MAnie bookes haue beene excellently well written by Italians concerning horsmanship a fit studie for Gentlemen to bestow some time and trauell in Which hath mooued me diuers times to wish that some one able to performe it would take in hand to translate into English some part of those workes for common benefit thereby to encourage our Gentlemen to practise horsemanship not onelie for the seruice of their countrie if need so require but also for their owne exercise as an ornament of greatest commendation in men of their profession Among others whome I somtime mooued to vndertake this labour I entreated of late my verie friend M. Thomas Bedingfield our fellow and companion in Armes to affoord his paines in the reducing of these few precepts gathered out of a larger volume written by Claudio Corte into our English toong Who hauing with all courtesie satisfied therin my request and finding the worke verie well worthie the printing I could not in anie wise consent it should be suppressed but haue presumed as you see by my friends leaue to cause it to be published to make a briefe dedication therof vnto you aboue others as Gentlemen best able to iudge of it as also for the benefit of those which haue any gentlemanlie disposition to attaine to perfection in horssemanship And for M. Bedingfield I need vse no further speach nor make any particular mention of those commendable partes which we all know to abound in him but onelie wish him that imploiment I thinke he is worthie of For the matter now in hand I referre you to the worke it selfe which I hope you will thinke well worth your labour in the perusing of it and rest of my opinion that hereafter in short time by experience we shall find verie manie of our countriemen much profited thereby From the Court at Richmund this first of June 1584. Your affectionat freend and companion in Armes H. Mackwilliam To the Reader SIth contrarie to my desire and expectation this tretise of horsemanship is happened into the Printers hand I haue thought good to remember the readers that albeit Xenophon Grison Claudio and others men most excellent haue prescribed sundrie rules and meanes how to handle horsses ride them with good grace and seemelines yet if the same be not confirmed by vse and practise it prooueth vnprofitable to none auaile at all I wish therfore that all Gentlemen others desirous of that knowlege should not onelie read but also exercise the rules in this booke prescribed For as in all other sciences demonstratiue so heerein vse and experience surmounteth all conceipt contemplation which is apparentlie perceiued in those that haue therevnto applied themselues And surelie I suppose be it spoken without offense of time past that this art hath neuer beene I meane within this realme of that perfection it now is neither were the horssemen of former ages equall or comparable to some now liuing sith they wanting both demonstrations and skilfull instructors could not by possible meanes atteine therevnto For before M. Blundeuile I find not anie that haue written in our toong neither were the teachers of that time of much knowledge Where now cheefly within hir Maiesties most prosperous reigne incouraged by the valorous disposition of so excellent a Prince diuers haue aduentured to write many vertuous Gentlemen with singular commendation atteine to great knowledge Ouerlong it were to reaccount the names of all Noblemen and Gentlemen that in this age haue aspired to singular skill in horsmanship which I impute cheeflie to the imitation of great personages I wish therfore that they and al other Gentlemen should both for priuat exercise publike respect applie themselues to the studie and practise of this art following the example of that honorable person the Earle of Leicester who among manie other vertuous qualities both of mind body hath indeuored to atteine so great