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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A06916	A discource of horsmanshippe Wherein the breeding and ryding of horses for seruice, in a breefe manner is more methodically sette downe then hath been heeretofore. With a more easie and direct course for the ignorant, to attaine to the same arte or knowledge. Also the manner to chuse, trayne, ryde and dyet, both hunting-horses, and running-horses: with all the secretes thereto belonging discouered. An arte neuer heeretofore written by any authour.	Markham, Gervase, 1568?-1637.	1593 (1593)	STC 17346; ESTC S107909	59,189	84

A DISCOVRCE OF Horsmanshippe Wherein the breeding and ryding of Horses for seruice in a breefe manner is more 〈…〉 sette downe then hath been heeretofore With a more-easie and direct course for the ignorant to attaine to the same arte or knowledge Also the manner to chuse trayne ryde and dyet both Hunting-horses and Running-horses with all the secretes thereto belonging discouered An arte neuer heeretofore written by any Authour Bramo assai poco spero nulla chiegio AT LONDON Printed by I. C. for Richard Smith and are to be sold at his shoppe at the West-doore of Poules Anno. Dom. 1593. To the Right worshipfull and his singuler good Father Ma. Robert Markham of Cotham in the County of Nottingham Esquire I Haue Syr in this Treatise of Horsemanship gathered together my liues experience most humbly offering the same to your patronage as a woorke nothing at all worthie your reviewing but carrying the name of Horsmanship which you haue alwaies fauoured I rather presume of kinde acceptation If I haue erred none better then your selfe can correct me if my worke be perfect there is no mans aplaus can better please me How euer it be yours it must be and I myselfe for euer will be Your obedient sonne Ieruis Markham To the Gentlemen Readers THE winde Gentlemen standing in the mouth of my Caue hath blowne my loose papers into the world and canonized mee as foolish in Poules Church-yard as Sybilla was wise in Cuma I haue written of a subiect which many more then most excellent in the same arte haue intreated If therefore theyr perfections shall withdraw your eyes from my labour imagine it to be but a Parentisis intruding it selfe amongst theyr workes And when you haue ouer-read it you shal find it to detract nothing but as a ready Hand-mayde endeuour to bring theyr pleasures to effect and discouer that which hetherto hath beene obscured If therefore I shall find grace in your sights my thanks shall be that thys my Treatise shall teach you howe to preserue your Horses from tyring which otherwise in the midst of your ple●sures woulde gyue ouer shamefully I. M. CHAP. 1. Of breeding of Horsses IT is but ignorance and selfe will the vnwedded Parents of that vgly monster error which hath blinded our English Heroes from regarding in these latter times that most excellent prayse worthy gyft the bréeding ryding and trayning vppe of Horsse● which in all ages hath béene most commendable because of all things most commodio●s and of beastes in nature to man the neerest The dead cynders of which famous quality if my young experience yet in the Midwifes armes scar●● readie for his 〈◊〉 swathing cloutes may reuiue againe in the pri●ate mindes of those that shall viewe my la●our I shall holde my paine an eternall pleasure and my selfe fully 〈◊〉 〈…〉 being falne The second for the wintering of your Mares and Foales The third for your Colts beeing weaned and drawne from theyr Dammes For the first I would haue it a ley ground with high rydges and d●epe furrowes and if it may be full of great Mole-hils that your Foales by scoping galloping thereon shall be brought to such nimblenesse strength and true footemanship that they shall not only haue a most excellent braue trotte but also during theyr lyues not being strayned too young they shalbe frée from that foule vice of stumbling Thys ground I wish should lye open of the East that the morning Sunne may rise thereon which dooth not onelie reuiue and bring a lust to your Foales but also addes such a strength to theyr backes and such a firme knitting of theyr ioynts that they shall be more ready for the Rider at thrée yeeres old then others bredde contrarily at 〈◊〉 For the watring place in thys Close I would haue it some Pond which is fedde eyther by some fresh spring or some running Riuer so as your fence stande betweene the Riuer and your Mares my reason is because it is the nature and property of Mares to couet to foale eyther in the water or as néere as they can possibly gette This beeing made the two ends standing North and South that the open sides may lye of the East and West I woulde haue made within Rackes of such height that your Foales may with ease reach them and vnder them Maungers to throw now and then into Chaffe Corne or garbidge which no doubt will bring your Foales to beare most gallant fore-heads sith it onely raiseth vp a good crest and also make them puissaunt and harde Horses for seruice On the toppe of this house or shelter I woulde haue layd ouer-layer of wood in manner of a houell that theron may 〈…〉 stackt your Hay and 〈◊〉 p●ouision eyther light Corne or wilde Oates in the straw which is the onely thing that euer I haue found by 〈◊〉 or reading as a chiefe 〈◊〉 for Foales 〈…〉 Riuer or fresh Ponde for watering if there be shelter of Trees or bushes it much auaileth neuerthelesse at some end of it wo●lde I haue eyther a close houell or house built with Racke and Manger whereto in the winter they may at theyr willes repayre and find both Hay and garbidge the doore being alwaies open to passe in and out ●t Lastly for the fertilnesse of the soyle I would haue it a ritch blacke moulde so it be not forced by man●●re for I assure you by proofe it is better to breede of a ●arrayne stonie grounde then of such a grounde as is mannured euery yeere for the grasse thereof is 〈◊〉 sauerie nor wholsome And thus much for the choyce of your groundes to breede vpon Nowe it may be obiected 〈…〉 by some that I wronged my selfe in chusing of high groundes sith they be neither to fruitfull of grasse nor so conuenient for water as lower grounds be But my 〈…〉 is hee that bréedes vppon low grounds that he fruitfull and full of ranck grasse and kéepes his Mares onely for 〈◊〉 and not for worke shall find by proofe as I haue d●one that in the winter season when they shall come to 〈…〉 most of his rare Mares especially those which go●●●er shall hazard to die of the rotte which will as soone in●ect Horses and Mares as Shéepe if they be not wrought where contrary vpon high hard grounds they shal be frée from that infection When you haue therefore your 〈…〉 and vsed as I haue before written it then 〈◊〉 that you stock it with Mares which for their strayne collour and comelie sh●●pe will be profitable to breede vpon Theyr straynes by which I meane theyr kindes or generations I woulde haue from a plaine English breede of the Dam-side theyr Si●rs being either Neapolitan Coursers Spanish Ienets Turkes or Barbaries the nature and propertie of all which Horses Grison hath writ effectually For the collours of your Mares I woulde haue them eyther broune daple bayes fayre daple grayes or bryght whyte lyards for theyr shapes thus of stature tall but not monstrous a fierie eye a