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.
Author
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 6, 2024.

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Page 120

His Breast.

From his Head look down to his Breast, and see that it be broad, out-swelling, and a∣dorned with many features: for that shews strength and indurance. The little breast is uncomely, and shewes weakness, the narrow breast is apt to stumble, fall, and enterfeire before: the breast that is hidden inward, and wanteth the beauty and division of many feathers, shewes a weak armed heart, and a breast that is unwilling and unfit for any violent toyl or strong labour.

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