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.

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Title: 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.
Author: Markham, Gervase, 1568?-1637.
Publication: London :: Printed for Humphrey Moseley ...,; 1656.
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Subject terms: Horses.; Horses -- Diseases.; Horsemanship.
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His Tayle▪

Lastly, for the setting on of his Tayl, where there is a good Buttock, the tail can never stand ill▪ and where there is an evill buttock there the tail can never stand well: for i•• ought to stand broad, high, flat and couche•• a little inward.

Thus I have shewed you the true shapes and true deformities, you may in your choice please your own fancies.