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A53074	A new method, and extraordinary invention, to dress horses, and work them according to nature as also, to perfect nature by the subtility of art, which was never found out, but by ... William Cavendishe ...	Newcastle, William Cavendish, Duke of, 1592-1676.	1667 (1667)	Wing N887; ESTC R18531	135,086	431

have Read his Book you can Do what he Teacheth No truly and yet not the Book 's Fault but Yours in being so Partial to your Self as to think you can do Any Thing at the first Sight without Practice or Study which would be a Miracle I never saw or any Body shall ever see In the same Manner if a Lutenist should Write a Rare Book Can you Expect that as soon as you have Read it you can Play on the Lute because it may be you can Jangle the Strings But you say You can Ride Truly just as you Jangle the Lute-Strings and no otherwise You have learnt in Italy and France that 's something indeed So many Crowns a Month and the Horse did not Throw you and that is all Mr. Spenser the Best Schollar in all the Academy where he Learned and a fine Gentleman who had been Two Years there when he came to Ride one of my Horses he could not make him Go His Brother-in-Law being present said to me My Lord you must Excuse him he hath not Ridd a great while But Mr. Spenser said with a great Oath Brother you are Deceived for I know now I could never Ride God knows how many Young Gallants comn newly out of Academies English French Irish and Dutch Gentlemen that were Famed for good Horse-men and truly no Piece of a Horse-man and Ridd the Wofullest that could be and so did before me some Masters of Academies And once two French-men Riding God knows very meanly were strangely Laught at and that very Worthily by two other French Riders that stood by But sayes One I can Ride a Ready Horse wherein he is Deceived for a Ready Horse is the Hardest of all to Ride because the Least motion is an Absolute Command unto him and an Ignorant gives him such Counter-times as he puts him quite Out Mr. Germain a Fine Gentleman and the Best Scholler Du Plessis had in all his Academy knew well the Difficulty of Riding a Ready Horse For to Perswade him to Ride one of Mine which he would not Do I told him If you will but Sit Still I warrant you the Horse will go Well with you But a Man said he with a great Oath cannot Sit Still Which was said Knowingly and like a Horse-man for to Sit Still belongs only to a Great Master Another because he hath Ridd a Hundred Miles in a Day which a Post-Boy can do thinks Himself a Horse-man or Because he can Run a Match with his Groom or Leap a Ditch or a Hedg in Hunting and Hold by the Main he thinks he is a Horse-man but his Hunts-Boy doth as much And my Lord Mayor when he goes to Weigh Butter sits a Legg of either side the Horse very Gravely An excellent Horse-man And I have seen many Wenches Ride Astride and Gallop and Run their Horses that could I think hardly Ride a Horse Well in the Mannage Are they not in All Trades bound Apprentices Seven and Nine Years and Many Bunglers of them too And in Higher Professions Twenty and Thirty Years is not too much before they are Great Masters in any One of them And though Horse-manship be the Hardest of All yet Many a Gentleman will Ride the First Day as well as the Greatest Master but he is Deceived as well as those that think to Buy with their Money any Quality For if Good Qualities could be Purchased with Money every Rich Citizen would be a Fine Gentleman Of which Opinion that French Cavalier was not who told me commending my Method Par Dieu Il est bien hardi qui monte devant vous that is He is very Bold that dares Ride before you And to the same Purpose Signor del Campo an Italian Rider at Bruxels after he had seen my Horses said Il faut tirer la Planche that is The Bridge must be Drawn up for no Horse-man so Good as You can come After There is no Horse-man but shall Make my Horses go for his Use either in a Single Combat or in the Wars better than he shall any bodies Horses else and that 's Sufficient for to make them go in Perfection in all Ayres as I can were too much and too great a Miracle But let My Method be what it will since every Man doth what he can if any Pleases himself with his Own Opinions though he Dislikes My Way never so much and should Censure a thing he Understands not and say That the Mannage is a Foolish thing It shall not Displease me at all OBSERVATIONS OF HORSES OF THE SPANISH HORSE YOu must Know that of All Horses in the World of what Nation soever they be Spanish Horses are the Wisest far the Wisest and strangely Wise beyond any Mans Imagination but I must Tell you they are not the Easlier Drest for that Because they Observe too much with their Eyes and their Memories are too Good and so Conclude with their Judgments too soon without the Man Reckoning without their Host whereas they should Follow and Obey his Hand and Heel and that not by Roat neither but by Art which is an Habit got by many Lessons Methodically Taught If he be Well Chosen I assure you He is the Noblest Horse in the World First There is no Horse so Curiously Shaped all over from Head to Croup He is the most Beautiful that can be For he is not so Thin and Lady-like as the Barb nor so Gross as the Neapolitan but between Both. He is of great Spirit and of great Courage and Docil Hath the Proudest Walk the Proudest Trot and Best Action in his Trot the Loftiest Gallop the Swiftest Careers and is the Lovingest and Gentlest Horse and Fittest for a KING in a Day of TRIUMPH to Shew himself to his People or in the Head of an Army of any Horse in the World Therefore no Horse so fit to Breed on as a Spanish Horse either for the Mannage the War Ambling for the Pad Hunting or for Running-Horses Conquerour was of a Spanish Horse Shotten-Herring was of a Spanish Horse Butler was of a Spanish Horse and Peacock was of a Spanish Mare And These Beatt all the Horses in their Time so much as No Horse ever Ran near them I say He is Absolutely the best Stallion in the World for all those several things I have formerly Named if you do Wisely appropriate such Mares to him as shall be fit for such Uses as you would have your Breed and so he is fit for all Breeds but to Breed Cart-Horses The King of Spain hath many Races but his Best is at Cordoua in Andalozia where he hath above Three Hundred Mares and Colts as my Lord Cottington told me and besides those of his Majesty there are other most Excellent Races not only of Noblemen but also of Private Gentlemen For the Prices the Earl of Claringdon now Lord Chancellor of England told Me That when he was Embassador in Spain Sir Benjamin Wright a Merchant there that Loves Horses sold a Couple of

of the greatest Quality of that Nation did me the favour to see my Horses and the Prince of Conde himself with several Noble-men and Officers was pleased to take the pains to goe twice to my Mannage And though the French think That all the Horse-manship in the World is in France yet one of them and he a very great Man in his Country was heard say directing his Speech to me Par Dieu Monsieur il est bien hardi qui monte devant vous And another said at another time Il n'y a plus de Segnieur comme vous en Angleterre Among many great Persons of which the vast Country of Germany affords abundance who for the most part delight to travel the Landgrave of Hesse did not only do me the honour to Visit me and see my Horses but being return'd to his Country was pleased to shew by a very kind Letter That he had not forgotten me nor the Love he had observed I have for Horses being pleased to promise He would send me two of his own Breed but soon after he was Kill'd in the Warrs the King of Swede made with the King of Poland As poor as I was in those dayes I made shift to buy at several times four Barbes five Spanish-Horses and many Dutch-Horses all the most Excellent Horses that could be and among them a Grey Leaping-Horse the most beautiful that ever I saw and who went exceeding High and Just in Leaps without any Help at all as also upon the Ground and Terra a Terra beyond all other Horses and he did look as if he had been above the Rate of Horse-kind The Duke of Guise hearing of him Two Gentlemen a French-Rider and an Englishman wrote to me That if I would part with him the Duke of Guise would give me 600. Pistolls for him but he was Dead three dayes before I receiv'd their Letter and had he Liv'd I would not have taken any Money for him for he was above Price And besides I was then too great a Beggar to think to be made Rich by the Sale of a Horse I have bestow'd many Thousands of Pounds in Horses and have given many but never was a good Horse-Courser Selling being none of my Professions The KING Himself who is an Excellent Judge both of Men and Business of Things of Use and of Recreation of Necessity and of Ornament did like that Horse very well And having had the Honour when I was His Governour to be the first that Sate Him on Horse-back and did instruct Him in the Art of Horse-manship it is a great Satisfaction to me to make mention here of the Joy I had then to see That His Majesty made my Horses goe better than any Italian or French-Riders who had often Rid them could do And to hear Him say That there are very few that Know Horses Which was Knowingly said and wisely judg'd of His Majesty It being very certain That all Men undertake to Ride them but very few Know them or can tell what they are good for It would fill a Volume to repeat all the Commendations that were given to Horses and to Horse-manship by several worthy Gentlemen of all Nations High and Low-Dutch Italians English French Spaniards Polacks and Swedes in my own private Riding-House at Antwerp which though very large was often so full that my Esquier Capt. Mazin had hardly Room to Ride But these few already spoken of will serve very well instead of all And after I have given an Account That I have divided this whole Book in four Parts and every Part in many Sections and Paragraphs wherein I never intended to observe any exact Method I beseech my Readers to take in good part That I have however set down as clearly as I could without the Help of any other Logick but what Nature hath taught me all the Observations about Horses and Horse-manship which I have made by a long and chargeable though I must needs say very pleasant and satisfactory Experience And so Farewell THE NEW METHOD AND Extraordinary Invention TO DRESS HORSES THE FIRST PART Of the several Authors that have Written of Horse-manship both Italians French and English THis Noble Art was first begun and Invented in Italy and all the French and other Nations went thither to learn the seate of Horse-manship being at Naples The first that ever Writ of it was Frederick Grison a Neapolitan and truly he Writ like a Horse-man and a great Master in the Art for those times Henry the Eighth sent for two Italians that were his Schollars to come to him into England and of one of them came all our Alexanders and their Schollars fill'd the Kingdom with Horse-men Sir Philip Sidney brought an Italian Rider one Signior Romano to teach his Nephew William Lord Herbert afterwards Earl of Pembrook and the same Sir Philip Sidney brought also over an other Italian Rider call'd Signior Prospero The old Earle of Leicester sent for an Excellent Rider out of Italy call'd Signior Claudio Curtio who writ a Book of Horse-manship and is quoted by several Italian Writers but I think that very much of his Book is stolen out of Grison Laurentius Cussius is another Author none of the best with Horrible Bitts Then there is Cesar Fieske who hath writ a Book much out of Grison too where he meddles with Musick There is another Book of Horse-manship call'd Gloria del Cavallo with long discourses and much out of Grison There is another Italian Book of Horse-manship call'd Cavallo Frenato de Pietro Antonio a Neapolitan much stolen out of Grison But his Book consists most of Bitts to little purpose though they seem to be Great Curiosities But the most Famous man that ever was in Italy was at Naples a Neapolitan call'd Signior Pignatel but he never Writ Monsieur La Broue Rid under him five years Monsieur De Pluvinel nine years And Monsieur St. Anthoine many years The Liberty which is the best for Bitts at this Day we call A La Pignatel These three aforementioned French-men that Rid under Signior Pignatel fill'd France with French Horse-men which before were fill'd with Italians Monsieur La Broue I believe was the First that ever Writ of Horse-manship in the French Language and the first French-man that ever Writ in that Art His Book is very Tedious many Words for little Matter and his first Book is absolutely all Stolen out of Grison and his second Book from Pignatell's Lessons But La Broue to seem wiser than he was and to make up a Book divides a Circle into so many parts to bring a Horse to a whole Circle that it confounds a Horse more and is harder for him than to Work him upon a whole Circle at first And for Broue's third Book of Bitts there is no great Matter in it As for Pluvinel no doubt but he was a Good Horse-man but his Invention of the Three Pillars of which his Book Pretends to be an absolute Method is no

Little Spanish Horses for a Great Price And he sayes and many others Confirm it for a great Truth That Three Hundred and Four Hundred Pistols for a Horse is a common Price and Rate at Madrid And the Marquess of Seralvo told me That a Spanish Horse called Il Bravo sent to the Arch-Duke Leopold his Master was held Worth as much as a Manner of a Thousand Crowns a Year and that he hath known Horses at Seven Hundred Eight Hundred and a Thousand Pistols A Gentleman told me that he knew a Cavalier in Spain who offered another Three Hundred Pistols but to let him Ride his Horse one Afternoon and the Owner had Reason to Refuse it for it was to go to the Juego de Toros where he might have been Killed many of the Finest Horses in the World being Killed at that Sport which is the greatst Pity that can be You see that a Spanish Horse is Dear Ware and then Reckon his Journey from Andalozia to Bilbo or St. Sebastien which is the next Port for England and is Four Hundred Miles at least and a Horse cannot Travel above Ten Miles a day with your Groom and your Farrier at least besides the Casualty of Lameness Sickness and Death so that if he come Safe to you yet he will be a very Dear Horse I assure you And These are great Truths of the Spanish Horse Of the BARB THe Barb is next to the Spanish Horse for Wisdom but not neer so Wise and that makes him much Easier to be Drest Besides he is of a Gentle Nature Docil Nervous and Leight He is as Fine a Horse as can be but somewhat Slender and a little Lady-like and is so Lazy and Negligent in his Walk as he will Stumble in a Bowling-Green he Trots like a Cow and Gallops Low and no Action in any of those Actions But commonly he is Sinewy and Nervous and hath a clean Strength is excellently Winded and good at Length to Endure great Travel and very Apt to Learn and Easie to be Drest being for the most part of a good Disposition excellent Apprehension Judgment and Memory and when he is Searcht and Wakened no Horse in the World goes Better in the Mannage in all Ayres whatsoever and Rarely upon the Ground in all Kinds The Mountain-Barbs they say are the Best I believe they are the Largest but for my part I rather desire a Midling Horse or a Less Horse which are Cheap enough in Barbery as I have been Informed both by many Gentlemen and many Merchants for they say that in Barbery you may Buy a very Fine Barb for Twenty Twenty Five or Thirty Pounds at the most but then your Journey is somewhat Great not by Sea for from Tunis to Marselles in France is no great Voyage but from Marselles to Calais by Land you go all the Length of France and at Calais they are Shipt for England You must have an excellent Esquier a Farrier and one Groom and Hire other Grooms as you Go but take heed That those Mean Rogues Run not Away with some of your Horses and because there is no Trusting of them your English Farrier and your English Groom must alwayes Lie in the Stable and none of those Fellows but the Gentleman of your Horse which ought to be a Good Horse-man must order that Carefully If you would go another Way to work and a Shorter Voyage then send into Languedoc and Provence where many Gentlemen Buy Barbs of two three and four Years old at Marselles and Keep them two or three Years and then Sell them which Barbs you may Buy for Forty or Fifty Pistols a Piece and as Fine Horses as can be But he whom you Send must be very Skilful to chuse Well and to take heed that They be Right Barbs For I have Heard that many in those Countries about Marselles when many Barbs come out of Barbery thrust in Colts of their own Breed amongst them for Barbs and so Sell them When I was at Paris there came Twenty Five Barbs as they said nothing but Skin and Bones and they were Sold for Twenty Five Pistols a Horse My Lord Viscount Mountague bought Nine as I Remember for I was with him and helpt to Chuse some for him and one of them did Win Many Matches But truly if I had had a Million I would not have Bought one of them for they were very Ordinary Horses Nor do I think they were Right Barbs neither by their Shape nor Price but Bred in some Islands there-abouts for if a Man be at Great Charges I would either have an Extraordinary Horse or None I had lately a Letter from a Horse-man at Paris a French-Man that gives me Intelligence of Horses That a Merchant at Paris had two Barbs the Finest that ever he saw Six Years old a piece but not Drest at all and held them at Two Hundred Pistols a piece By which you may see that Right Barbs and Fine ones are very Dear as all Good Things are The Barb is not so Fit a Horse for a Stallion for the Mannage as for Running-Horses for he Gets Long and Loose Horses therefore do not Breed of him for the Mannage except he be a Short Horse from the Head to the Croup strong Ramase and Racoursy and of a Superfluity of Spirit which few Barbs have and therefore Breed of a Spanish Horse with Choise English Mares and if you have a Delicate well-chosen Dutch Mare or two that makes an excellent Composition for the Mannage I am of Opinion and Believe that there never came out of Barbery The best Horses that Country affords not but that they may be had But the Case is this Those that bring Barbs out of Barbery are either French Horse-Coursers that Trade in Barbery or Merchants To begin with the Horse-Coursers They alwayes Buy those Horses that are Cheapest for their Advantage For if they Bought of Great Prices it would not quit Cost and so they Buy the Worst and Meanest of Barbs And as for the Merchants They want Skill Besides they will Buy the Cheapest too for their Advantage because they know not Well how to put off Horses of Price and so they Buy but the Worst and Meanest of Barbs which makes me Believe absolutely that the Best Barbs do not come Over For did not I see dayly at Antwerp the Horse-Coursers of Brabant and Flanders that go into England every Year to Buy Horses that they bring Over the Meanest and Worst Horses and Geldings that are in the Kingdom and meerly to Buy at Easie Rates that they may put them Off with Advantage For if they should Buy in England Horses of One Hundred One Hundred and Fifty and Two Hundred Pounds a Horse which Price hath been Given both at Malten and Pankrich Fayres those Great Prices would not go off there where Money is so Scarce and so they would be Undone and therefore they Buy of Small Prices Of The ENGLISH HORSE THe English Horse is Less Wise than