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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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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Markham, Gervase, 1568?-1637.
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London :: Printed for Humphrey Moseley ...,
1656.
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Horses.
Horses -- Diseases.
Horsemanship.
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"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." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A51971.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed June 12, 2024.

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For Laxativeness, or extream Loosness.

Take a quart of red Wine, and on th fire put into it an ounce and an halfe Bolarmonie in powder, and two ounces a an half of the conserve of Sloes, mix th•••• together, after take it from the fire, a put to it a spoonfull or two of the powd

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of Cynamon, brew all together, and give it the horse: but let him fast two hours after it, and let him eat no washed meat: Hay is wholsome, so is Bread and Oats, if they be well mixt with Beans or Wheat, but not otherwise.

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