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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The Master Medicine for a back sinew∣strain, or any strain, shrinking, or numbness of sinews.

Take a fat sucking Mastive whelp, fley it and howell it, then stop the body as full as it can hold with gray snails and black snails, then rost it at a reasonable fire; when it be∣gins to warm, bast it with six ounces of the

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oyl of Spike made yellow with Saffron, and six ounces of the oyle of Wax: then save the droppings, and what moysture soever falls from it whilst any drop will fall, and keep it in a Gallipot.

With this anoint the strain, and work it in∣very hot, holding a bar of Iron before it; and thus do both morning and evening till a mendment:

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