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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

A NEW METHOD AND Extraordinary Invention TO DRESS HORSES AND WORK Them according to NATVRE AS ALSO To Perfect Nature by the Subtilty of Art Which was never found out but by THE Thrice Noble High and Puissant PRINCE William Cavendishe Duke Marquess and Earl of Newcastle Earl of Ogle Viscount Mansfield and Baron of Bolsover of Ogle of Bertram Bothal and Hepple Gentleman of His Majesties Bed-chamber One of His Majesties most Honourable Privy-Councel Knight of the most Noble Order of the Garter His Majesties Lieutenant of the County and Town of Nottingham and Justice in Ayre Trent-North Who had the honour to be Governour to our most Glorious King and Gracious Soveraign in His Youth when He was Prince of Wales and soon after was made Captain General of all the Provinces beyond the River of Trent and other Parts of the Kingdom of England with Power by a special Commission to make Knights LONDON Printed by Tho. Milbourn in the Year 1667. To His most Sacred MAJESTY Charles the Second By the Grace of God King of Great Britain France and Ireland Defender of the Faith c. May it please Your Majesty MY First Book of Horse-manship Printed in French had the honour of Your Patronage and I presume again to Dedicate this Second in English to Your Majesty who being not only the greatest Monarch in Christendome but a King that loves Justice and Truth can best judge of Books which contain I dare say the perfect and only Truth of Horse-manship My Duty and particular Affection to Your Person are sufficient Motives to me to consecrate not Books only but my self and mine and all that belongs to us to Your Majesties service But besides that Your Favours to me are so many and so great That what I am and have ought justly to be sacrificed to Your Will and Pleasure as Yours wherein I joy more than if it was mine Your Wisdom Sir Valour and Conduct makes all Your Neighbours confess That Your Majesty is the most Glorious King that ever Reign'd And that God will prosper You in all Your great Actions and give Your Majesty an happy and long Reign to the joy and comfort of all Your Loyal Subjects is both heartily Wish'd and fervently Pray'd for by Your Majesties most Obedient Creature William Newcastle TO THE READERS HAving past the greatest part of my long Exile at Antwerp one of the finest Cities in the World whose Inhabitants are deservedly Famous for their extraordinary Civilities to Strangers of which I must acknowledge to have receiv'd a great many from them I did during that time Publish in French a Book of Horse-manship and having again since my Return to my Native Country had much leisure in my solitary Country Life to recollect my Thoughts and try new Experiments about that Art I now for the more particular Satisfaction of my Country-men Print this second Book in English which being neither a Translation of the first nor an absolutely necessary Addition to it may be of use by it self without the other as the other hath been hitherto and is still without this but both together will questionless do best I cannot mention Antwerp upon the score of my Book but I must also take notice of the Honour I have receiv'd there from many Noble great Persons who did me the favour to see my Mannage and of the things they was pleased to say upon occasion of what they saw there which will be in lieu of Encomiums in the behalf of Horses and of Horse-manship very proper in this place When I had the honour to wait on Don John of Austria at Antwerp brought to him by my Lord of Bristol his Highness was pleas'd to use me extreme Civilly and to ask both then and at several other times for my Book of Horse-manship before it was Printed and to receive it with great Satisfaction when I presented his Highness with One But he did not see my Horses which in above 20. Coaches all the Spaniards of his Court went to my Mannage to see with many Noble-Men of Flanders as the Duke of Ascot and others before whom I Rid my self three Horses and my Esquier five Being return'd to Don John He ask'd them Whether my Horses was as Rare as their Reputation was Great To which they answer'd That my Horses was such that they wanted nothing of Reasonable Creatures but Speaking And the Marquess of Seralvo Master of the Horse to his Highness and Governour of the Castle of Antwerp told his Highness That he had ask'd me What Horses I lik'd best And that I had answer'd There were Good and Bad of all Nations but that the Barbes were the Gentlemen of Horse-kind and Spanish-Horses the Princes Which Answer did infinitely please the Spaniards And it is very true That Horses are so as I said The Marquess of Carasena was so civilly earnest to see me Ride that he was pleas'd to say It would be a great Satisfaction to him to see me on Horse-back though the Horse should but Walk And seeing that no Excuses would serve though I did use many I was contented to satisfie his so obliging a Curiosity and told him I would obey his Commands though I thought I should hardly be able to Sit in the Saddle Two dayes after he came to my Mannage and I Rid first a Spanish-Horse called Le Superbe of a Light-Bay a beautiful Horse and though Hard to be Rid yet when he was Hitt Right he was the Readiest Horse in the World He went in Corvets forward backward sidewayes on both Hands made the Cross perfectly upon his Voltoes and did Change upon his Voltoes so Just without breaking Time that no Musitian could keep Time better and went Terra a Terra Perfectly The second Horse I Rid was another Spanish Horse call'd Le Genty and was Rightly named so for he was the finest Shap'd Horse that ever I saw and the neatest A Brown-Bay with a White-Star in his Forehead No Horse ever went Terra a Terra like him so just and so easie And for the Piroyte in his Length so just and so swift that the Standers by could hardly see the Rider's Face when he went And truly when he had done I was so Dizzey that I could hardly Sit in the Saddle He went also so exactly in Corvets forwards as no Horse can goe better and yet he had no great Strength whence it appears That a Horse of Agility Lightness Spirit Well-temper'd and of a good Disposition is much better than a Horse that hath only Strength And that a most mighty and great Dutch-Brewer's Horse wanting Spirit and Agility can never goe well in the Mannage The third and last Horse I Rid then was a Barbe that went a Metz-Ayre very High both Forward and upon his Voltoes and Terra a Terra And when I had done Riding the Marquess of Carasena seem'd to be very well satisfied and some Spaniards that were with him cross'd themselves and cried Miraculo Many French Gentlemen and Persons

Geld all in Holland for Coaches and to keep the Trade sending Five Thousand every Year into France and diverse other Places that you can hardly get a Stone-Horse worth any thing their Colts at two Years old Springs their Mares and then they Geld them so Avarice spoyls their Breed A Town will Joyn and give above Two Hundred Pounds for a Stallion but then he Covers all the Mares that belong to that Town like a Town-Bull OF THE ALMAIN or GERMAN HORSE THose that Write That they are like Flanders Horses are much Deceived they mean the common Country Cart-Horse But let me Inform them there are few Princes in Germany but have Excellent Races and Breeds of Horses and their Stallions are alwayes either Coursers of Naples Spanish Horses Turks in Abundance and Barbs and Breeding of these Stallions their Mares come to be very Fine like their Sires and very Pure Breeds I had one no Neapolitan in the World like him for Shape Stature Colour Strength Agility and Good Nature He would make Thirty two Capriols the Highest that ever I saw and the Justest without any Help in the World and then upon the Ground to Gallop and Change and go Terra a Terra it was another Action than ever any other Horse did being in some Manner above the Rate of Horse-Kind This was a German Horse but his Sire was a Courser of Naples I had once two Horses of the Count of Oldenburg's most Excellent Breed as Fine Horses as ever I saw and One was the Hopefullest that could be seen That Prince was Pleased to Present those Horses to me and said If I Liked them not he would send me Others which was like a Prince and most Generous The Prince of West-Friesland did also Send me a very Fine Horse Of The COVRSER of NAPLES I Have not seen Many of them but La Broue in his Book sayes That the Race was mightily Decayed and that was almost a Hundred Years ago And Pluvinel in his Book sayes also That we have not now such Neapolitans as we have had for all the Races are Bastarded and Spoyled The Arch-Duke Leopold when he Governed the Countries of Flanders Brabant c. sent into Italy for Eight or Ten Coursers whilst I was at Antwerp which Cost him above Three Hundred Pounds a Horse Journey and all They were Great vast Horses with Huge Heads and Thick Necks Heavy with no Spirit in the World nor any Strength Dull heavy Jades fitter for a Brewers-Cart than the Saddle And the Marquess De Carasene a Spaniard that Governs all those Countries a little Man but both Witty and Wise an Excellent Souldier both for Conduct and Courage and a Good Horse-Man which Few Spaniards are and my very Noble Friend told me That the last Warrs in Naples hath Ruined the King of Spain's Race of Horses in that Kingdom but that they Began now to Repair it and that he Hoped within Fourteen Years it may be Established as formerly it hath been Thus you see Things do not Stand at a Stay for what hath been Formerly is not so now as in the Neapolitan and in all the rest of the Races of Italy which are Decayed The Duke of Florence hath the Best Race at this Time in those Parts OF THE TVRKISH HORSE I Have seen very Few of them but Two Merchants brought Three Turkish Horses to Antwerp very Fine Horses but Oddly Shaped their Heads were very Fine but like a Camels Head They had Excellent Eyes and Thin Necks excellently Risen somewhat great Bodies the Croup like a Mules Leggs not Great but marvellous Sinewy good Pastorns and good Hooffs and their Backs risen somewhat like a Camel I had a Groom a Heavy English Clown whom I set Upon them and they made no more of him than if he had been as Leight as a Feather They appeared not so Fit for the Mannage as for to Run a Course which I believe they would have Scoured they Trotted very Well and no Ambling at all The Horses about Constantinople Mr. Blundevil sayes Are very ill-favoured-Jades but he was mightily Deceived with his Old Authors For I have Spoken with many Gentlemen that have been There as likewise with diverse Merchants that came from Thence who all Agree That there are There the most Beautifull-Horses in the World saying That in Soyl-Time there are many Hundred Teddered and so Shift Places when they have Eaten that Bare Every Horse hath a Man to Look to him and every Man a little Tent to Lie in and they say That it is one of the most Glorious Sights to see those Horses that can be and the most Beautiful Horses in the World And certainly they are Brave Horses The Price of One of these Horses is about a Hundred or a Hundred and Fifty Pounds a Horse and there is great Difficulty to get a Pass for the Grand Signor is very Strict in not Suffering any of his Horses to Go out of his Territories When that Difficulty is Over there is Another which is If you have not a Turk or Two for your Convoy they will be Taken from you by the Way There is also the Difficulty of a Long Journey and the Danger of Sickness or Laming For you must come Thorow Germany which is a Long Way and you must have very Careful Men to Conduct them a good Groom an Expert Farrier and by no Means to suffer any to Shoo them but Him for when they perceive there is a Fine Horse they will Hire a Farrier to Prick him or Spoyl him that they may have him Which is Practiced dayly OF THE ARABIAN HORSE HE is Nurst with Camels-Milk there are the strangest Reports in the World of those Horses for I have been Told by many Gentlemen of Credit and by Many-many Merchants That the Price of Right Arabians is One Thousand Two Thousand and Three Thousand Pounds a Horse an Intollerable and an Incredible Price and that the Arabs are as Careful and Diligent in Keeping the Genealogies of their Horses as any Princes can be in Keeping any of their own Pedigrees They Keep the Genealogies of their Horses with Medalls And when any of their Sons come to be Men then their Fathers give them Two Sutes of Armes with Two Cymeters and one of these Horses and Prayes to God to Bless them That is every ones Portion and his Horse Lyes alwayes in the Next Room to him I believe not Above Staires They Talk they will Ride Fourscore Miles in a Day and never Draw the Bridle When I was Young I could have Bought a Nagg for Ten Pound that would have done as much very Easily I never saw any but one of These Horses which Mr. John Markham a Merchant brought Over and said He was a Right Arabian He was a Bay but a Little Horse and no Rarity for Shape for I have seen Many English Horses farr Finer Mr. Markham Sold him to KING JAMES for Five Hundred Pounds and being Trained up for a Course when he came