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A51971	The perfect horseman, or, The experienced secrets of Mr. Markham's fifty years practice shewing how a man may come to be a general horseman, by the knowledge of these seven offices, viz. the breeder, feeder, ambler, rider, keeper, buyer, farrier / and now published by Lancelot Thetford, practitioner in the same art for the space of forty years.	Markham, Gervase, 1568?-1637.; Thetford, Lancelot.	1656 (1656)	Wing M671; ESTC R20972	71,548	192

it in water from a pottle to a quart then strain it and to that water put a pint of Urine and a pint of Muskadine of Aniseeds Licoras Cominseeds Long Pepper in pouder of each an ounce twenty Raisins of the Sun stoned and brused and of Sugercandy two ounces let all these symmer on the fire and not boyl till they be incorporate then take i● off and to one halfe therof which is a suffiacient drench put a quarter of a pound of sweet butter and four spoonfuls of sallet-oyle then being luke-warm give the horse a third part of the drench and after it a new laid egge then another third part and after it another egge then lastly all the rest of the drink Then ride him pretty roundly after it for near an houre and let him fast another houre keep warme and feed as at other timer At noon give him a mash and the next day give him the other half For a desperate dry cough Take a pint of burnt Sack Sallet oyle and red wine vinegar of both a quarter of a pint of Fenegrick Turmerick ●ong peper and Licoras of each a spoonfull in powder and give it the horse half at the one nostril and half at another and doe this twice week and ride him after it and let him fast two houres and keep his head and breast warm For the ordinary water you may give him for a fortnight let it have good store of sliced English Licoras steept into it For a cold long setled Take three heads of Garlick and rost them in the embers then mix them with three spoonfulls of Tarre as much powder sugar and halfe a pound of hogges grease then with Aniseeds Licoras Elicampane Fenegreek and Cominseeds make it into paste and give as much at once as a Ducks egge For a dry Cough or wasted Lungs Take Elicampace the flower of Brimstone Licoras Fenell seed Linseed of each an ounce searc't syrop of Elicampane an ounce and of clarified hony a pound work the powders and these together and to a pint of sweet wine put two ounces of these and give it the horse morning and evening ride him after it and let him fast an hour after riding give no cold water but with exercise A Cordiall powder for any ordinary cold and to prepare a horse before travell to refresh him in travell and to preserve him from mischief after travel Take of English Licoras Elicampane roots of each an ounce of Sugercandy an ounce and a halfe beat them to fine powder and searce them Keep the powder in a box and when you have occasion to use it if it be for a cold then give half an ounce in a pint of Sack if it be in travell then give it in sweet wine or strong Ale but if in Ale then take a quart and give it both before travell and in your Inne or at home immediately after travell To break a festred cold to dry up glanders and to heal the ulcer or canker in the nose Take a pint of verdjuice and put to it so much strong mustard made with wine Vinegar as will make it strong and keen thereof then take an ounce of roche Allom in powder and when you give this to the horse as you fil the horn so with a knife or spoon put some of the Allom into the horn and so give it the horse part at both nostrils but especialy that nostrill which runneth most then ride him a little after it and set up warm and give no cold water without exercise Thus do divers mornings For the Glanders Take Cominseeds Grains and Fenegreek in powder of each halfe an ounce of Diahexaple a quarter of an ounce beat this in a mortar with a quarter of a pint of verdjuice three spoonfuls of Sallet oyl and two spoon●tl of Aquavitae then put al together to a quart of old Ale with a good slice of sweet butter and set it on the fire till it be ready to boyl then being luke warm give it the horse part at the mouth and part at both nostrils then ride him pretty roundly for an hour and set up warm let him fast an hour and if you perceive sickness to grow give him a pint of new milk To stay the glanders for a time being incurable Take the green bark of Elder and beat it in a mortar and strain it till you have a pint thereof then put that juice to a pint of old Ale and warm it on the fire with a good lump of sweet butter and a nounce of sugarcandy and so give the horse ride him after it let him fast an hour and keep warm Do thus divers mornings For decayed or stopped Lungs which we call Broken wind Take halfe a pint of Coltsfoot water or the syrop of Coltsfoot but in the syrop it will best dissolve and put into it a dram of Balsamum Sulphuris and give it the Horse in the morning fasting then ride him a little after it be sure to keep warm and give no cold water without exercise Do thus every other morning giving it one morning at the mouth and another at the nostrils till you find amendment A scouring when others will not work Take of sweet Butter a quarter of a pound half so much Castle Sope and halfe an ounce of Aloes beat them together then add of Hempseed two spoonfulls of rosin half a spoonfull of sugarcandy an ounce all bruised ●ine work it into a paste and give it the horse in balls immediatly after his heat or when you have warmed him and stirred up the grease and foulness within him OUTWARD SORRANCES The Signes of outward Sorrances OUtward Sorrances are discerned when any member or part in an horse is disfigured or evill affected by the loss of true shape disability in motion the increase or decrease of number and quantity the disproportion of place or the separating of things knit and united And these accidents have divers names as Imposthumes Ulcers or wounds when they are in fleshy parts Excretions or Fractures on and in the bones Ruptures in the veins convulsions in the sinews and Excoriations upon the skin The first is known by outward swellings rotten or bloody sores the next by utter disability in the member or else plain halting The next by Wens and Knots both soft and hard the next by gordgings and haltings and the last by scurf and leprosie Now forasmuch as the greatest part of Sotrances and especially those which are most hid and obscure are found our by halting I will shew you the severall manner of haltings and what they signifie If the horse halt before and lift not up his leg but in a manner traileth it after the other it sheweth a new hurt on the top of the shoulder If he cast his leg outward or go Bakerlike and not bend the knee it is either an old hurt on the top of the shoulder or if new then it is a shoulder-plat or rending betwixt the shoulder and the body if

in turning short he favour his foot if griping his withers he complain if he halt more when he is ridden then led the offence is on the top of the shoulder If standing in the stable thrust forth his foot and favour it then search his foot and if in that be found no prick no dry founder no surbat then it is in the mid part of the shoulder or the coffin joynt If halting he bow down his head to the ground and step short and thick then it is in the forepart of the shoulder at the breast If in handling his elbow hard he twitch up his foot suddenly from the ground the offence is there If on his shank bones in their severall places be splents excressions windgalls or Maleanders and they sore they will occasion halting as any other outward Sorrance upon any other member Heat on the Crownet shews pain in the Coffin joynt In halting before to trip on the Toe shews pain in the heel to favour the Toe shews payn in the Toe to halt more on uneven ground then one the even shews pain in the feet and in going from you and comming to you may be discerned whether the outward or inward quarter but to clear all doubts the Pincers will shew any pain in the foot whatsoever If your horse halt behind and in halting go sidelong and not in an even line the grief is in the hip and yet but new or in the Fillets and may be new or old If it be old in the hip the hip will fall and then no cure If in halting he tread onely on his hinder Toe and no offence in the foot then the pain is in the stiffell If in halting he bend not his hough or ham and no outward Sorrance yet the pain is there If he halt through any offence in his leg from the ham to the pastern outward Sorrance or swelling will shew it and so likewise for the other parts below it For soar Eyes dim Eyes and Moon eyes Take Lapis Calaminaris halfe an ounce and heat it red hot and quenchin it a quarter of a pint of Plantane water or white wine do this eight or nine times then beat it to powder and put it to the water then add half a dram of Aloes and a scruple of Camphire in powder and let them dissolve drop this into the eye Another for eyes of like nature Take a pint of snow water and dissolve into it three or four drams of white Vitrioll and with it wash the horses eyes three or four times a day and it helpeth For a white Film or Skin over the Eye Take the root of the black Sallow and burn it to ashes then put to it a like quantity of Sugar and grated Ginger finely searc'd blow this into the eye morning and evening For any sorenses in the eyes as Pearl Pin or Web or Bruise Take a new laid egge and rost it very hard then cleave it in sunder longwise and take out the yelk then fill the empty holes with white vitriole finely beaten and close the egge again then rost it the second time till the vitriole be molten Lastly beat the egge shell and all in a mortar and strain it and with that moisture dress the eye If in stead of the vitriole you fill the holes with Myrrh finely searc'd and hang the egge up that it may drop and with that moisture dress the eye it is every way as good onely it is a little stronger For foul eyes sore eyes or sight almost lost There be some that for this great offence in the eye put in two fine small rowels long-wise in the temples of the head just behind the eyes But for mine own part I not much fancy it because I fear it breeds more evil humor then it brings away besides soreness and disgrace therefore in this cure my practise is thus Take Tacchamahaca Mastick Rosin and Pitch of each like quantity and being molten with flax of the colour of the horse lay it as a defensive on each side his temples as big as a twenty shillings piece then underneath his eyes upon the cheek bone with a round Iron burn three or four holes and anoint them with sweet butter then take a handfull of Seladine and wash it clean in white wine but let it touch no water then bruise it and strain it and to the quantity of juyce put the third part of womans milk and a pretty quantity of white Sugarcandy searc'd thorow a piece of Lawn and with a feather quill or otherwise drop it into the sore ey morning and evening Thus do for the worst of sore eys but if the offence be not extream then you may forbear both the defensitive the burning and the rowels and onely use the medicine The Master Medicine for a back sinew-strain or any strain shrinking or numbness of sinews Take a fat sucking Mastive whelp fley it and howell it then stop the body as full as it can hold with gray snails and black snails then rost it at a reasonable fire when it begins to warm bast it with six ounces of the oyl of Spike made yellow with Saffron and six ounces of the oyle of Wax then save the droppings and what moysture soever falls from it whilst any drop will fall and keep it in a Gallipot With this anoint the strain and work it invery hot holding a bar of Iron before it and thus do both morning and evening till a mendment Another in nature of a charge for a back sinnew-strain Take five quarts of Ale and a quarter of a peck of Glovers specks and boyl them till it come to a quart then apply it hot to the grief and remove it not for five or six days For a strain in any yart new or old Take of sheeps suet a pound of sheeps dung two handfull chopt hay an handfull Wheat bran a pint sweet Sope a quarter of a pound boyl all these in a quart of strong Beer and a quart of the grounds of strong Ale till it come to a thick pultiss then take it from the fire and col it with halfe a pint of wine vinegar and a quarter of a pint of Aquavitae then apply this very hot to the grief and give him moderate exercise For a strain or sinew-bruise Take Comin-seeds and bruise it gross then boyl it with the oyle of Camomile and put to it so much yellow Wax'as will bring it to Cerrot and spread it on either Cloth or Leather and hot apply it to the grief For old strains or cold cramps Take Aquavitae Oyl de Bay Oyl of Swallow● Bolearmonie Boars grease black Sope of each half a pound boyl them till the Aquavitae be incorporate then take of Camomile Rue red Sage and Misseldine of each an handful dry them and bring them to powder then mix it with the oyntment and bring all to a gentle salve With this anoynt the grief and hold an hot barre of Iron before it chafing it in

with new milk from the Cow For Scratches held incurable First let him blood in the shackle veins the spur veins and the ●ore toe veins onely letting it be three days between the bleeding of the one Toe and the other then with an hair-cloth rub the sores til they be raw and bleed then take a quart of old urine and a quart of strong brine and put to them halfe a pound of Allum and boyl it to a quart With this hot wash the sores wel then take the sperm of Froggs in March and put it into an earthen pot and in a week it will look like oyl then take both the oyl and the round things which you shal see in the sperm and spreading it on a cloath bind it to the soars and do this divers times For any Splent Spaven Curb Ringbone or Excression First clip away the hair as far as the excression goeth and a little more then take a piece of Allumd Leather made as big as the place you have bared and fitted to the ●ame proportion then take a little Shooe-makers Wax and spread it round about the very edge or verge of the same leaving all the inward part empty and not touched with the Wax Then take the herb Speargrass or Spearwort which hath the vertue to raise blisters and bruising it lay some thereof upon the Leather in the empty place and bind it fast thereon suffering it so to lye 〈◊〉 if it be in the Spring or Summer time when the herb hath its full strength near half a day but if it be in winter then it is not a miss to renew the strength of the herb if you add to it a drop or two of the oyl of Origanum and let it lie half a day fully and be sure to tie up the horses head for fear of biting it away When you take away the herb rub the place well and anoynt it with Train-oyl warm or else lay on a Diminium plaister Another for a foul Splint Take Nerve oyl one ounce Cantharides the weight of sixpence and as much of the oyle of Vipers boyl them lightly then with this anoint the Splint cross the hair and heat it in with a hot Iron then tie up the horses head to the Rack for 24 hours then squeeze out the corruption and do this twice o● thrice For a Splint and to dry up windgalls First heat the Sorrance with an hot pressing Iron then vent it in severall places with your Fleam then take a spoonfull of salt half a spoonfull of nerve oyl a peny weight of verdigrease and the white of an egg beat all to a salve and dipping flax hurds therein apply it to the grief For Pains M●les and Rats-tails First take away all the scabs and make the sore raw then with strong mustard made with wine vinegar anoint them all over and do this every night The next morning take half a pound of green Copperas and boyl it in a pottle of running water with an handfull of sage and so much hyssop a quarter of a pound of Allume and as much strong mustard and with this bath the sore twice or thrice a day For Malander or Selander Take the oyl of bay an ounce half so much sugar and a good quantity of the oyl o● froth which cometh from green broom stalks being laid in the fire mix it wel and with this anoynt the soars and it kills and dryes them up For the Swift-cut and to heal all wounds Take a pint of white Wine and put to it two or three spoonfulls of honey and stirr them and boyl them to a salve then take it from the fire and put to it halfe so much Turpentine as there was honey and stirre all together With this salve somwhat hot anoint the soars twice or thrice a day and it is a most speedy healer For any Maunge or Scab in a clean fed Horse First let blood then take a quart of old Urine or Vinegar and break into it a quarter of a pound of good Tobacco then set it on a fire of embers and not boyl and so let it stew all night with this water wash the infected places whether it be in the Mane or otherwise and it helpeth For any Maungie or universall Leprosie in a foul surfeited Horse First let blood in the neck-vein and take a way good store then curry off all the scurf and take verdjuce and vinegar a pint cow-piss a pint train oyle a pint old urine a pint put to them an handful of wild Tansie an handful of Bay salt a quarter of a pound of brimstone as much Alome two ounces of verdigrease and four ounces of Bolarmonie boyl all well together With this very hot wash the horse well and if you put to it the quantity of a pint of blood you take away it is not amiss do this twice or thrice For a Canker foul Ulcer Leprosie and to make hair grow Take a quart of Tar and on the fire put to it half a pound of Bores grease an ounce of Copperat a quarter of a pound of Saltpeter two ounces of wax a quart of honey a quarter of a pound of Rozme two ounces of verdigrease a quart of Lynseed oyl and seeth them till half be consumed then strain it keep it in a close pot Then when you will use it take of it warm and apply it to the soar it doth both heal draw and make hair grow For a Fistula or Pol-evill Take Euforbium with Mastick mix them together then seeth them well with French Sope and make a tent and put it into the Fistula and it will consume the evill moisture For a foul Farcy Take Tar and fresh Hogs grease of each half a pound Hemlock an handfull Arsesmart three handfull and as many Nettles boyl these in a pottle of old Urine and apply it very hot to the swelling but touch it not with your hand for it is too sharp Lastly take a pint of white wine vinegar a quarter of an ounce of verdigrease and a little bundle of Hyssop beat them in a mortar and boyl it to an half pint then with Balls of flax put it luke-warm into both his ears and stich the tips together then tye his head up to the Rack for two hours Do thus twice For a most desperate Farcy Take the herb called Clay-clayes which is a weed growing by the water side having a great broad round leaf and is green on the upper side and white on the neather Rew of each a like quantity beat them and strain them then to a pint of that juice put of Housleek a handful half a pint of Aquavitae and two good spoonfull of pepper beaten and fearc'd Of this liquor take a pint and give it the horse to drink then with round balls of flax dipt in the same stop up both his ears then with the strained bruisings of all the herbs rub the soars and stop the holes if there be any hollowness do thus

so as there may be nothing but the clean Beans to these oats and beans you shall break two or three shives of bread clean chipt and give all to the horse and so leave him for two or three hours At evening before you dress him give him the like quantity of oates beans and bread and when he hath eaten them bridle him dress and cloathe him for you shall neither saddle or air him forth because this evening after his heat the horse being foul and the scouring yet working in his body he may not receive any cold water at all After he is drest and hath stood two hours on his bridle then take three pints of clean sifted oats and wash them in strong Ale and give them to the horse for this will inwardly cool him as if he had drunk water After he hath eaten his washt meat and rested upon it a little space you shall at his feeding times which hath been spoken of before with oats and spelt Beans or Oats and bread or all together or each severall and simple of it self according to the appetite and liking of the horse feed him that night in plentifull manner and leave a knob of hay in his rack when ye go to bed The next day very early first feed then dress cloath saddle air water and bring home as at other times onely have a more carefull eye to his emptying and see how his grease and foulness wasteth At his feeding times feed as was last shewed you onely but little hay and keep your heating days and the preparation the day before as was before shewed without omission or addition Thus you shall spend the second fortnight in which your horse having received 4 heats horsman like given him and four scourings there is no doubt but his body will be drawn inwardly clean you shall then the third fortnight order him according to the Rules following The third fortnights feeding This third fortnight you shall make his bread finer then it was formerly as thus The second Bread You shall take two pecks of clean Beans and two pecks of fine Wheat grind them on the black stones searce them through a fine Raunge and knead it up with Barm and great store of lightning working it in all points and baking it in the same sort as was shewed you in the former bread With this bread having the crust cut clean away and being old as before shewed with spelt Beans and clean sifted Oats feed your horse this fortnight as you did the former observe his dressings airings feedings heatings and preparation as in the former fortnight onely with these differences First you shall not give your Heats so violently as before but with a little more pleasure as thus If the first heat have violence the second shall have ease and indeed none to overstrain him or to make his body sore Next you shall not after his heats give him any more of the former scouring but instead thereof instantly upon the end of the heat after the horse is a little cooled and cloathed up and in the same place where you rub him give him a Ball as big as an hens egg of that Confection which is mentioned in the office of the Farrier and goeth by this title The true manner of making those Cordial Balls which cure any violent cold or glanders which c The Fourth and last fortnights feeding The fourth and last fortnight you shall make your bread much finer then either of the former The last and best Bread Take three pecks of fine Wheat and one peck of Beans grind them on the black stones and boult them through the finest boulter you can get then knead it up with sweet Ale Barm and new strong Ale and the Barm beaten together and the whites of twenty or thirty eggs but in any wise no water at all but in stead thereof some small quantity of new milk then work it up bake it and order it as the former With this bread having the crust cut clean away and with Oats well ●unned beaten and rubbed between your hands then new winnowed sifted and drest with the purest spelt Beans and some fine Chiltern Wheat with any simple or any compound feed your horse at his feeding times as in the fortnight last mentioned You shall keep your heating days the first week or fortnight as you did the former fortnight but the last week you shall forbear one heat and not give any five days before the match day onely you shall give him strong and long airings You shall not need this fortnight to give him any scouring at all If this fortnight morning and evening you burn the best Frankinsence in your stable you shall find it exceeding wholsom for the Horse and he will take wonderfull delight therein In this fortnight when you give the Horse any washt meat wash it in the whites of eggs or Muskadine for that is more wholsom and less pursie This fortnight give the horse no hay but what he taketh out of your hand after his heats and that in little quantity and clear dusted The last week of this fortnight if the horse be a foule feeder you must use the Muzzell continually but if he be a clean Feeder then three days before the match is sufficient The morning the day before your match feed well both before and after airing and water as at other times before noon and after noon scant his portion of meat a little before and after evening airing feed as at noon and water as at other times but be sure to come home before sun-set Late at night feed as you did in the evening Now I do not set you down what meat to feed withall because you must be ruled according to the Horses stomack and what best he liketh of that give him a pretty pittance whether simple or compounded onely as neer as you can forbear bread and beans This day you shall coule your horse shoo him and do all extraordinary things of ornament about him provided there be nothing to give offence or hinder him in feeding resting emptying or any other naturall or beneficiall action For I have heard some Horsmen say That when they had shod their Horses with light shooes and none other actions of ornament about them the night before the course that their horses have taken such speciall notice thereof that they have refused both to eat lie down or empty But you must understand that those horses must be old and long experienced in this exercise or otherwise find distast at these actions as uneasiness in shooes heat and closness in the muzzell disorderly platting or folding tails and the like or they cannot reach these subtile apprehensions For mine own part touching the nice and strait plaiting up of horses tails in the manner of Sakers or Docks with tape or ribban which is now in generall use howsoever the ornament may appear great to the eye yet I do not much affect it because I know if