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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A18998	The schoole of horsmanship VVherein is discouered vvhat skill and knowledge is required in a good horseman, practised by perfect experience. And also how to reforme anie restie horse, of what nature and disposition so euer. Briefely touching the knowledge of the breeder, sadler, smith, and the horseleach. With a strange and rare inuention how to make a new kinde of racke, and how to teach a horse to lie vpon his bellie vntill the rider take his backe. By Christ. Clifford, Gent.	Clifford, Christopher.	1585 (1585)	STC 5415; ESTC S105109	130,605	210

that you acquaint him therewith first on his pase before you offer it him on his trot or galloppe for by rash bedlem and brainsicke hastinesse not onelie horses are disordered and marred but mightie armies also haue béene thereby ouerthrown and vtterly confounded Note also that when your horse hath done his lesson in this sorte walke him halfe an houre at the least in the selfe rings and path vppon a soft pase obseruing the same order in pasing that you did when you trotted him Kingdon But how and when shall I teach my horse to gallop these foresaid mannaging rings Clifford When he is throughlie acquainted with this lesson vpon his trot then shall you when you haue trotted him once about giue him the other turne vpon his galloppe This being done you shall ride to your other ring vppon a trot and enter the same with a swifter trot than you did before making him turne once vpon the same and at the second gallop as before Thus shall you chaunge from hand to hand as often as you shall thinke requisite And when he shal be verie perfect in this lesson then may you put him to do it all vppon his gallop noting that as he is perfect in the large ring you cause him to treade out an other paire of rings of two pases lesse compasse than your first Thus shall you diminish the largenesse of your ring by little and little till you haue made him turne in so narrow roome as is possible for him to do so that you will take good heede that you chaunge not your horse from his mannaging rings of tenne pases about in largenesse and thirtie pases one from an other till such time as he can manage in the same perfectlie lightlie and readilie so pleasauntly and willingly that you and he shall séeme as though you both had but one minde and when your horse is in this sorte verie perfect I woulde haue you walke him out right vppon a trot two or thrée miles without giuing him anie of these foresaid turnes and then at the next time you ride him giue him this lesson againe yea I haue euer vsed after my horse began to be perfect in these managing rings to offer him the same but once in eight or tenne daies and to ride him a little euerie other daie to exercise and acquaint him with trauel by which meanes I did not onlie keep my horse in strength sound and well disposed but also that he did his lessons a great deal● more willing when I put him to do them for continuall beating your horse vpon one lesson shall too too much confound and disorder him after such time as hée can do it willingly and perfectly as is before said Kingdon Then you wil haue me when my horse can once manage in these large rings that then I shall bring him by lesse and lesse roome by a litle at once as I find him willing and apte to take the same which I must néedes graunt to be a verie good waie for that I shall hereby neither disorder nor straine my horses back and loines nor in anie sorte distemper his mouth but I pray you is there no other waie to teach my horse to turne but this Clifford Yes there is a most vile waie to teach a horse to turne in a furrowe or ditch made of purpose which I vsed by the space of tenne yeares in riding sir Ihon Pollardes horses of Deuon shire sir Richard Greenuiles sir Thomas Scots of Kent and Maister Ba●narde Drakes in all which time I could neuer make anie horse but that he would enterfure when he came to trauell but for the space of twelue yeares that I haue obserued this order here by me taught I haue not onely kept anie young horse from enterfuring but also I haue made diuers olde horses whose backes and loines haue béene almost marred by sodaine and short stopping them vpon naughtie ground when they are extreame hot at which time you must note that your horse wants one quarter of the strength that he had when he was colde and also by causing him to beate his coruet and by learning him a womanlie or ta●●ata goats leape or else by bounding aloft with all foure as they terme it which thing howe vnfit it is for anie horse of seruice or trauel I commend me to all those which are sou●●iours or riders of experience who I am sure will confesse this not to be my opinion but the thing which I haue well tried of which I woulde haue you to haue a speciall care that as seldome as maie be you driue your horse into any such heats And if at anie time it chance thereby that your horse will not willingly do that that you woulde haue him but that he will be stubborne and do his lessons out of all order then I woulde wish you to walke him with a man on his backe in the same place by the space of one houre at the least where you giue him his lesson by meanes whereof you shall throughlie acquaint your horse therewith and besides that you shall kéepe his legges exercised till he be thorow colde you shall also preuent the danger of marring your horse by putting him in the stable where hée must stand still without exercise which thing I doe vtterlie disallowe for that experience hath taught me to my cost and shame when I was yong that this is the onlie waie as hath béene aforesaid vtterlie to marre your horse but by following the foresaide order to exercise him when hée is in anie such extreame heate I haue founde it a great deale better and a more sure way to preserue him than to bring him to the stable although I had there two men to rub him with litter inough vnder him and warme clothes to couer him all which things shall not halfe so well preuent the making your horse stiffe in his legs or the humors that shal be then dissolued by the means of extreme heate frō hauing leasure or place in the bodie thus exercised to congeale through idlenes This gentle reader I know well inough doth not belong to the riders office yet do I accompt him farre vnworthie of the name authoritie either of rider kéeper or owner that is ignorant how to vse his horse when he is ridden in anie sorte whatsoeuer whether it be to trauell him or to giue him his lessons running gallopping or moderatelie to exercise him This by the waie of communication but to our purp●● there is an other waie to teach your horse to turne in this sorte dig the earth out of the foresaide narrow rings and make them thrée foote déeper in the middle than on the out sides and caste all your foresaide earth cleane without your rings and this shall be a verie good place to manage your horse in at anie time and to teach him to turne And when you will learn● your horse to turne verie narrowe and brauely then enter into one of these foresaid

roote in his forehead is sufficient to heale anie horse if you dresse him in this sort at the first beginning of his disease without purging or burning him but if it be olde you must both purge and burne him as hath béene before taught I haue founde some horses that haue had this disease in one of their legges and by euill dressing and long delaying the humours haue had so great recourse that when I haue healed his legge as is before taught in one place it hath broken out in an other which horse I haue cured in this sorte I haue first cut a slit of an inch long through the skinne of his bellie vnder the middle thereof and rased the skinne round about with a cornet from the flesh so farre as I coulde reach with the same Then haue I put in a roll of leather with a hole in the middle And in like manner haue I made an issue vnder the point of the shoulder of the gréeued legge which two issues with that on his forehead I haue let runne continually til such time as he was healed presently after that I had made the two last issues I haue burned all his legge with long strikes from his bodie euen downe to the houfes distant no more one from an other but the breadth of an inch and take héede that your yrou when you will burne anie horse in this sorte be not vpon the edge no thicker than the breadth of a strawe and note that in burning anie horse that you beginne alwaies aboue and drawe your hand downeward with the haire and that you burne him so déepe that you sée the skinne looke browne In this sorte haue I cured a horse in Paris of the Marshall Birons that all the best horseleaches that they coulde get had burned him purged him dieted him practised their medicines and hanged there sorcerie writings or inchantments about his neck thus did they torment the poore beast for the space of one whole yeare in suche sorte that it woulde haue gréeued anie mannes heart to haue séene him yea and when they had giuen him ouer ● and tolde the Marshall that it was vnpossible to cure him hée willed mée to commaunde him to be carried out of the Cittie and be killed But then I vndertooke my selfe to cure him with no small enuie of all the dogge leaches of Paris who often times did saie behinde my backe that when I hadde healed that horse they would loose their heades But GOD to whome all glorie is due so blessed me that I healed him within the space of sixe moneths which thing I did greately estéeme for my credites sake yea I was so carefull I woulde neuer let anie man dresse him although I had two farriers at my commaundement who woulde verie willingly haue dressed him if I woulde but my horse béeing cured perfectly of this disease the dogge leaches beganne to triumph saying though you haue cured him yet you can not make his legge so small as it was but I also stopped their mouthes for I made his legge so small as euer it was in this sorte héere following I laide a plaister vppon his legge made of wine Lées and wheate flower and rolled it with a long roll of thrée fingers broade of eight or tenne foote long made of soft Cotten In this sorte did I make his legge small in the space of foure moneths During this cure I neuer failed my iourney and trauelled the foresaide horse at my pleasure without anie trouble or hinderaunce saue that I made his groome to carrie his roll and plaister in a little sacke made for that purpose and also an oxe bladder full of wine Lees with the which I dressed him presently as soone as I came to my lodging and so taking it awaie the next morning I made the kéeper to rub his leg clean with this medicine haue I healed diuers horses that haue had great legs but two of the most notablest that euer I cured in England were the one at M. Barnard Drakes in Deuon shire The other was at Maister Henrie Pooles in Gloucester shire The horse of Maister Barnard Drakes after that he had béene tormented by cutting burning and mangling him he had turned him out to pasture for a iade to get colts by reason of his great leg for that it was so stiffe that he could not bow it This Maister Barnard Drake can well remember for that it is not aboue tenne yeares past And the horse that I he●●ed of Maister Henrie Pooles Sir Iohn Tracie and Maister Throckmorton knoweth well of this cure for that I did it in their houses where I detained the horse with me aboue thrée quarters of a yeare where diuers were of the opinion that I should neuer cure him yet I was not thereby discouraged but the more they did doubt the more diligent was I and within the space before saide I healed him beyond all expectation This is not much aboue six yeres past and the horse is yet liuing which is to be séene without anie lamenesse or blemish in his legge but after that I had made all the rest of his legge small that remained in the splint place vnder his knee where his man had first dressed or medecined him and other horseleaches which had him in hand before left him with a bunch almost as bigge as an egge and as hard as anie splint or spauen but I driue that awaie with this seare cloth héere vnder written Take of virgin Wax half a pound of Myrhe one pounde of Reasins a pounde of Galbanum halfe a pounde of Costus sixe ounces of Armoniacke sixe ounces of Swines greace or Hogs morte two poundes put your Hogs greace first in an earthen pot and hauing placed it in a broade cauldron ful of water then make a soft fire vnder it to the ende that your water may boile and when you perceiue your Swines greace almost melted then shall you putte in all your other simples saue the Costus and when you perceiue them to be al molten which wil aske fiue or sixe houres boiling at the least then your Costus which is a white roote being beaten into powder you shall adde to the foresaide thinges after it is taken from the fire and mingle them well together with the same sticke or instrument that you stirred it withall the whiles that the foresaide thinges are a melting the● make a plaister thereof vpon a peece of shéepes leather something bigger than the sore note that one of these plaisters will serue thirtie daies wi●h a verie little refreshing the same sometimes but you muste take it off euerie daie once● and rubbe his legge verie well for feare least it itch which may cause your horse to beate and stampe with his foote bite and te●re in suche sorte as if shall cause the swelling to increase Also you must take great héede that you roll not nor tie his legge too straight for by letting him stand too straight tied sire houres it may