Selected quad for the lemma: kingdom_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
kingdom_n	case_n	great_a	king_n	2,323	5	3.6428	3	false

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A02060	The compleat horseman and expert ferrier In two bookes. The first, shewing the best manner of breeding good horses, with their choyce, nature, riding and dyeting ... The second, directing the most exact and approved manner how to know and cure all maladies and diseases in horses ... dedicated to his most Excellent Majestie, by Thomas de Gray Esquire.	De Grey, Thomas.; Marshall, William, fl. 1617-1650, engraver.	1639 (1639)	STC 12205; ESTC S106703	378,871	394

and above all this the Colt will by his running abroad with the Mare become so salvage and wilde as that if any infirmity should happen to seize upon it it s own unrulinesse will be so great that the cure may thereby become the more difficile for to speake truely infinite have been and daily are the numbers of Colts yea and those many times rightly bred which have miscarried and perished in this nature I doe therefore conclude and as a friend to my Country averre that the ablest way to breed up the best and most serviceable Horses is as I have before inculcated after this methode and none other and therefore I am bold to advise all noble Gentlemen who are lovers of good Horses and of this mystery to make triall and to put these my rudiments in execution and he will never I doe well assure me hereafter either alter or swerve from them for of this kinde of breeding I have had more then forty yeares good experience during which time I intimated these my grounds to a Knight an intimate friend of mine who was a great lover of good Horses and as great a Breeder as a lover of them and very well versed in Horse-man-ship who hearing my reasons and throughly digesting them approved of them so well as that he fell to follow these my instructions and esteeming them sufficient would never be brought from them after he affirming no way comparable to this for he found by plaine demonstration that whereas in former times in breeding as commonly he did ten or twelve Colts yearly when they came to Backing Riding and proofe of those ten or twelve he thought himselfe well appayed and his labour and cost well bestowed if two or three at the most proved right and to his minde whereas ever after in ten Colts thus bred and reared up hardly any one missed which proved not right and to his good liking and this manner of breeding made him more in love with this mystery then ever before reason dictating it so well unto him For most certain it is when the Stallion and Mare are both right and have all their true attributes and the time season and manner of breeding with all circumstances thereunto belonging punctually and in every point duly observed it will be a hard matter for the Colt to prove ill but if otherwise then marvell not if the Colt answer not your expectation according to the Greeke Adage which saith 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Iade Sire Iade Colt Wherefore if upon tryall it shall appeare to you that you have hitherto been to seek of the true grounds and of the originall causes why you have not bred so many good Horses as you have desired doe not then wonder that The cause of your errour and of so great a mischiefe hath stolne upon and deceived you for the great decay of good Horses together with those infinite errors in breeding and Horse-man-ship that increase that is being in so vile a manner of base Iades have so swarmed in this kingdome as that a lamentable case to be related of one rightly bred we now adayes have a thousand Iades to the great dishonour disprofit and weakning both of King and Country And what is the reason I shall in a word tell you It is impossible for a man to bring his work to its wished perfection who never knew the true grounds of his principles CHAP. IV. Of the Marks Colours and Shapes of Horses THe next thing befitting our subject is to speake albeit briefly of the Colours Marks and perfect Shapes of Horses Wherein I will first deliver other mens opinions and lastly mine owne Some there be who hold that Colours Marks and Shapes are little materiall to make up a perfect Horse which I will not contradict for my meaning is not to traduce or controule any man but this I will say that if a good horse have these properties adherent to his goodnesse then is he questionlesse in much better esteem for if beauty be added to his other inward vertues then is he like to the Nightingale in the beginning of Aprill heard and hearkened unto more praise-worthy and better prized For a horse who if he be good and serviceable well metled bold and hardy of a gentle condition of a round and comely trot and pace lightly and well borne obedient mouthed sure on foot tough strong and easie will I say not such a horse be well esteemed But if together with these good properties there shall be added good colour true marks and perfect shape which causeth him to appeare most beautifull to all beholders will not these endowments set him the better forth and cause him to be the better esteemed of every man desired and much more money offered for him nay shall not you whose the horse is be come unto be sued unto have letters sent you from sundry friends and will not your selfe prize him at a higher rate than otherwise you would have done yes assuredly and hereof I make no question True it is and I must confesse no lesse that a horse may be very good and performe his function very well who hath neither good colour true marks or perfect shape neverthelesse these extrinsecall vertues are more frequently to be found and better observed to be in good horses in whom are colour markes and shape than in horses which are otherwise Wherefore because these things are termed exteriour vertues and therefore takes its object from the eye onely I will conjoyne them altogether in this my discourse and shew you what hath been and is the opinion of both ancient and moderne Writers Virgil in his Georgickes handling most accurately sundry points of husbandry among other things in his third book of Georgicks describeth the horse as well his breeding and his severall sorts of imployments as his colour shape and markes yea and that in most exquisite manner And thus he beginneth Let the Males goe Without restraint to venery and so By timely breeds preserve a perfect kind Their first age best all wretched mortals finde After diseases and old age doe come Labour and death's inexorable doome There still will be whose bodies with thy will Thou would'st wish chang'd Therefore repaire them still And lest thy kinde quite lost thou finde too late Prevent the losse and yearely p●opagate And such a choice you must in Horses make By him whom you for Stallion meane to take As hope of all the race elect with care Even from a tender Fole such Colts as are Of generous race straight when at first they 'r fol'd Walke proudly their soft joynts scarce knit and bold Dare leade the way into the rivers enter And dare themselves on unknowne seas to venture Not frighted with vaine noyses lofty neck'd Short headed slender belly'd and bro●d back'd Broad and full brested let his colour be Browne-bay or gray white proves not commonly Nor flesh-colour when warres alarums sound His nostrils gather and breath fire no ground Can hold his

W. M. scul THE COMPLEAT HORSEMAN AND EXPERT FERRIER In two Bookes The first shewing the best manner of breeding go Horses with their choyce nature riding and dyeting as well Running as Hunting and how the Rider ought to behave himselfe in Breaking and Riding of Colts as also teaching the Groome and Keeper his true office touching the Horses and Colts committed to his charge and prescribing the best manner how a perfect Stable ought to be scituated and made not hitherto so fully described by any The second directing the most exact and approved manner h● to know and cure all maladies and diseases in Horses a worke contain● the secrets and best skill belonging either to Ferrier or Horse-Leech● the Cures placed Alphabetically with many hundreds of medicines never before imprinted in any Author Published at the earnest request of sundry Noble and worthy Gentle● for the generall good and benefit of the whole Kingdome And dedicated to his most Excellent Majestie By Thomas de Gray Esquire LONDON Printed by Thomas Harper and are to be sold by Lawrence Chapman his Shop at Chancery lane end next Holborne 1639. TO THE MOST HIGH AND MIGHTY MONARCH CHARLES BY THE GRACE OF GOD KING OF GREAT BRJTAINE FRANCE AND IRELAND DEFENDER OF THE FAITH c. SIR YOu are justly placed in a glorious sphere elevated in a most conspicuous altitude above other inferiour and subordinate Orbes from whence as a soveraign Arbiter you behold and judge of our Motions as they either relish of worth or demerit and like the Sunne impartially dispense the propitious beames of your favour as well to the humblest plant as the tallest Cedar As I am a recent and fresh existent example of your life-tendring influence for when depressed and trampled upon by the insolency of an unkinde-adversary that raised me up to tread upon an equall Basis with him who lately had designed me for his foot-stoole An admirable example of Clemency and Iustice eminent vertues and truely inherent in your most Royall bosome for which with all humility I bow and thankfulnesse acknowledge infinitely honouring them so conspicuous in your Majesty and by you so frequently exercised Thus restor'd I come charg'd with a Booke which I most humbly prostrate at your feete because I feare it is not conscious of so much worth as to merit a kisse from your sacred hand It is the Embrion of my study travels experience and practise and cannot arrive to forme and perfection without the reflection of your Majesties favour It brings with it a front not altogether inglorious of Horsmanship and Ferriery the first not incompetent with the most illustrious title and Heroick Spirit the second not unworthy the knowledge yea the practise of the most accomplish'd Gentleman I know this Treatise cannot hold proportion with so elated a patronage as that of your Majesty although it were inform'd with a farre nobler Genius yet for all this infinite disproportion the Dedication of it unto your sacred Majesty will not appeare much improper for first I received the ability to prosecute it from your Grace and favour so that deriving its being from you it belongs of right unto you and must have recourse unto your Majestie for its safety and protection Secondly it is the off-spring of my age and cannot but leave a fatall participation in its Parents infirmity and therefore especially in these censorious times cannot possibly subsist without your Royall protection Lastly as you have taken the rationall creatures of this your tripartite Kingdome into your titular care so have you not excluded the irrationall albeit in a different condition much lesse the Horse whose Generosity and use have given him the precedency in your Majesties esteeme before all other bruit species so that this Booke which beautifies his shape encreases his courage delivers rudiments for his menage prescribes cures for his diseases and in all enables and advances his race and bravery hopes to finde your Majesties hand extended and open to receive it The worke concernes the Common-wealth in generall and if accepted and perused with as much zeale and care as I have us'd in the publishing of it I presume it will not be found empty of profit My many yeares have given me the priviledge to have seene and knowne this kingdome rich both in the number and quality of her Horses and it would infinitely grieve me that I now live to see her reduc'd to so deplorable an indignity but that I am confident I shall see her restor'd to her precedent glory and opulency by your Majesty and now that I have assum'd the boldnesse to inculcate her poverty my zeale and respect to my Country transports me yet a little further to discover the causes of it together with the redresses and remedies First those Forrests Parks Commons Fennes Moores and other marrish and waste grounds which paid yearely so rich a tribute of young able and serviceable Horses to the universall use of this Kingdome are at this time disafforrested dispark't taken in drain'd laid dry and converted to other but much different uses so that those brave breeds and races of Horses are much extenuated or altogether intermitted Then the Gelders who in every shire so confidently and frequently exercise their faculty in a most unlawfull manner and spay yong Fillies by which meanes they become barren the breeds of Horses discontinued and the Common-wealth highly prejudic'd and unfurnish'd for instance I can and will upon occasion produce a Gelder who spayes more then a hundred Fillies For redresse of the first your Majesty may be pleased to command that those Statutes which were enacted for the breeding of Horses may be speedily and exactly put in execution For the second that you will likewise please by your Proclamation to inhibit all Gelders that unlawfull and prejudiciall exercise of their profession then shall your Majesty see the noxious and exorbitant disease meet with a sudden and easie cure and the whole Kingdome derive a sensible and inestimable benefit from it Now it rests that I make an humble Apologie for my boldnesse which indeed would be a matter of trouble and difficulty for me to accomplish did I not know your Majestie to be a Prince infinitely tendring the good and welfare of your Kingdome so that this treating of a businesse not inconsequent I despaire not of obtaining your Royall pardon but promise my selfe from your benignity and clemency a gratious acceptance of that I have most zealously delivered Your Majesties most humble and faithfull Subject THOMAS DE GRAY TO THE RIGHT HONORABLE IAMES MARQVESSE HAMILTON EARLE OF ARRAN AND CAMBRIDGE BARON OF EVEN Aberbroth and Ennerdale Master of the Horse to his Maiestie Knight of the Honorable order of the Garter and one of his Majesties most honorable privy Councell My Lord TO have presented this peece of Horse-manship to his Majestie by any other hand then Yours had beene very improper as well in regard of the place your Lordship beares as of my respects