The gentleman's recreation in four parts, viz. hunting, hawking, fowling, fishing : wherein these generous exercises are largely treated of, and the terms of art for hunting and hawking more amply enlarged than heretofore : whereto is prefixt a large sculpture, giving easie directions for blowing the horn, and other sculptures inserted proper to each recreation : with an abstract at the end of each subject of such laws as relate to the same.
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The gentleman's recreation in four parts, viz. hunting, hawking, fowling, fishing : wherein these generous exercises are largely treated of, and the terms of art for hunting and hawking more amply enlarged than heretofore : whereto is prefixt a large sculpture, giving easie directions for blowing the horn, and other sculptures inserted proper to each recreation : with an abstract at the end of each subject of such laws as relate to the same.
Author
Cox, Nicholas, fl. 1673-1721.
Publication
London :: Printed, and are to be sold by Jos. Phillips ... and Hen. Rodes ...,
1686.
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Subject terms
Hunting -- England -- Early works to 1800.
Fishing -- England -- Early works to 1800.
Fowling -- England -- Early works to 1800.
Falconry -- England -- Early works to 1800.
Game laws -- England.
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"The gentleman's recreation in four parts, viz. hunting, hawking, fowling, fishing : wherein these generous exercises are largely treated of, and the terms of art for hunting and hawking more amply enlarged than heretofore : whereto is prefixt a large sculpture, giving easie directions for blowing the horn, and other sculptures inserted proper to each recreation : with an abstract at the end of each subject of such laws as relate to the same." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A34843.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed May 7, 2024.
Pages
The Table for the HUNTING-HORSE, Being an Appendix to the First Part.
OF Hunting-Horses in general, their excellency, and the necessity and benefit of the Art of Keeping
Page 1
Of Breeding; the choice of a Stallion, and Mares, with some general Remarks on Marks and Colours
8
Of the Age a Hunter should be of, before he be put to Hun∣ting: Of the Stable, and Groom, and of the Horses first taking up from Grass, in order to his further dieting
24
How to order the Hunter for the first Fortnight
34
Of the second Fortnights Diet, and of his first Hunting, and what Chases are most proper to Train him
50
Of the Horses third Fortnights Keeping, and first Tho∣rough-sweating
64
Of making a Hunting-Match, its advantages and disadvan∣tages
70
Of the ordering the Hunter for a Match or Plate
77
Of the means to judge of your Horses state of Body, and of curing all Casualties that may happen after Matching
87
Of Riding a Hunting-Match, or Heats for a Plate, and the advantages belonging to each
91
FINIS.
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