Some especiall Precepts.
If he be a choice horse let him stand on lit∣ter both night and day, yet change oft and keep the planchers clean. If he be otherwise, then use your own discretion.
If you intend to travell or journey in
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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- 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 morning, then give no hay, or but little the night before; if you journey in the after∣noon, then give no hay, or but little in the morning.
If your horse sweat by exercise, take off the sweat (before you rub him) with the Glassing-knife, which is either a piece of a broken sword-blade, or a piece of a broken Syth, for this will make a clean, a smooth, and a shining coat.
In journeying ride moderately the first hour or two, but after according to your oc∣cassions:
Water before you come to your Inne, if you can possibly; but if you cannot, then give warm water in the Inne, after the Horse hath fed, and is fully cooled within, and out∣wardly dried.
Trotters oyl is an excellent oyntment, be∣ing applied very warm, and well chafed into your horses limbs and sinews, to nimble and help stifness and lameness. And Dogs grease is better, therefore never want one of them in your stable.