The fower chiefyst offices belongyng to horsemanshippe that is to saye. The office of the breeder, of the rider, of the keper, and of the ferrer. In the firste parte wherof is declared the order of breding of horses. In the seconde howe to breake them, and to make theym horses of seruyce, conteyninge the whole art of ridynge lately set forth, and nowe newly corrected and amended of manye faultes escaped in the fyrste printynge, as well touchyng the bittes as other wyse. Thirdely howe to dyet them, aswell when they reste as when they trauell by the way. Fourthly to what diseases they be subiecte, together with the causes of such diseases, the sygnes howe to knowe them, and finally howe to cure the same. Whyche bookes are not onely paynfully collected out of a nomber of aucthours, but also orderly dysposed and applyed to the vse of thys oure cou[n]trey. By Tho. Blundeuill of Newton Flotman in Norff.
Blundeville, Thomas, fl. 1561., Grisone, Federico. Ordini di cavalcare.

¶Of the musroll and the martingale. Cap. xiiii.

TO these foresayde kyndes of helpes and cor∣rections, I thinke that Grison woulde haue also added the musroll & the martingale, but that they semed perchaunce vnto him extra∣ordinarye thinges, and not meete to be vsed, but at cer∣taine times, and speciallye the Martingale. Whiche though it was first inuented by Euangelista, an excel∣lent rider, and a great horsemaister of Millan, not only to make the horse to haue a steddye heade, but also to make him light before in his aduauncyng, and in hys goyng to gather his bodye round together: yet Grison semeth not greatly to allow it: albeit he sayeth, it maye be vsed, when the horse is verye heauy before, and mar∣ueylouslye Page  [unnumbered] vnstaid of head, neyther would he haue the horse to weare it aboue .xv. dayes together at the most. Thinkyng it in dede, a great deale better, to bryng the horse from suche faultes, by such meanes, as are by him hereafter taught. But he praiseth much the musroll, saying that if the horse do naturallye keepe his mouthe close together, that then it can not hurt him: but if he holde it open, then it doth not only helpe him, but also cor∣rect him of that fault in suche sorte, as after that he hath bene vsed a litle thervn∣to, it wyll make him steddy, both of mouth, heade, and necke, and to reane as he should do.