Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1889-03-08

best Horses that Country affords; not
but that they may be had: But the Case
Is this: Those that bring Barbs out of
Barbery, are either French Horse-Cours-
ers that Trade in Barbery, or Merchants.
ITO begin with the Horse-Coursers,
They always Buy those Horses that are
Cheapest for their Advantage For :,
they Bought of Great Prices, it rould
not quit Cost, aud so they Buy the
Worst, and Meanest, of narbs, And 40
for the Merchants, They want Skill:
Besides, they Will Buy the Cheapest too,
for their Advantage, because they know
moi. Well, how to put off Horses of Price
and so they Buy but the Worst and
Meanest of Barbs which makes me Be-
lieve absolutely, that the Best Barbs do
not come Over; For, did not see daily
at Antwerp the Horse-Coursers of Bra
bant and Flanders, that go into England
every Year to Buy Horses, that they
bring over the Meanest and Worst Horses
and Geldings that are in the Kingdom
and merely to Buy thesd Rates that they
may put them off with Advantage? For.
If they should Buy in England Horses of
One Hundred, One Hundred and Fifty,
and Two Hundred Pounds a Horse, which
Price hath been Given both at Melton
and Pankrich Fayres, those Great Prices
would not go off there, where Money is
so Scarce; and so they would be Undone !;
aud therefore they Buy of Small Prices.
"OF THE ENGLISH HORSE.
"The English Horse is Less Wise than
the Barb, Fearful and Skittish, for the
most part: and Dogged and Rebellious to
the Manage, and not commonly so Apt
to Learn; But those they call English
Horses are so compounded of Horses of
all Countries that they always Participate
something of their Sires; and so, that
may somewhat alter the Case.
"Certainly English Horses are the Best
Horses in the whole World for All Uses
whatsoever, from the Cart to the Man
mage, and some are as Beautiful Horses
as can be anywhere, for they are Bred
out of all the Horse of all Nations But
if you would Buy for the Manage at
Fairs, you must go to Rowell Fair, Har-
borrow Fair, and Melton Fair, to North
ampton and Leicester-shire but North
ampton, they say, is the Best.
You must Buy such Horses as they
Sell, for the Cart and Coach, which are
the best for the Manage: Do not think
to Buy Delicate Shapt Horses, like the
Spanish Horse, Barb, or Turk; but they
are Handsomer Horses than commonly
Dutch Horses are; Chuse a Short trust
Horse, with Good Feet and Legs, full of
Spirit and Action, and Lively; and if he
Leap of himself, so much the Better. If
your Horse-man hath Skill to Buy you
such, they cannot do Amiss for the Man
mage, and will prove most Admirable
Horses, both in all Ayres, and upon the
Ground, but would not breed of them
by no means.
At Molten Fair, for the most part.
they are young Stone-IIorses, and some
Geldings, but filter for the Paid. and
Hunting, than for the Manage; Rippon
Fair is but the Remnant of Molten Fair,
and commonly but Geldings and Mays ;
those Fairs are in Yorkshire: Lenton
Fair is in Nottingham-shire, and is a
great Fair of all Sorts of Horses, but es-
pecially Geldings and Mays. Filter for
the Paid, and Galloping, than for the
Manage; you may also find some Stone
Horses there.
sin Staflord-shire there is a great Fair
at Pankridge; but it is, for the most part.
of Colts, and Young Horses, though
sometimes (by chance there are also
others. The other Fairs in the Northern
Parts, which are many. are not Worth
naming.
IL am very Ignorant of the West
country, where my Lord Paulett's Ances
tors had good Breed of Horses and by
Chance, now and then my Lord of Penn.
broke did Breed, but never heard of any
Rare Horses of his Race.
sin Worcestershire and in the Vale OF
Esam, there is good Strong Cart-Horses
in Cornwall there is good Mays, and il
Wales excellent good Ones; but in Scot
land the Gallawayes are the Best Mays OF
them all.
''There were, afore the Wars, many
good Races in England, but they are al
now Ruined; and the many new Breed
ers of Horses come up presently after the
Wars, are | doubt none of the Best
for, believe, their stations were not
very Pure. because the men that did
Govern in Those Days, were not so Curl
Gus as the Great Lords. and Great Gentry
were Heretofore, neither would they be-
at the Cost; and besides, they have not
knowledge of Horses as in other
Countries: For, though Every man Pre-.
tends to it, yet, | assure you, there are
very Few that Know Horses, rs | have
heard the KING say: Since whose
RESTAURATION, the Probability OF
getting Good Breeds again, is very Great
"For English Mares, there are None like
them in the World to Breed on but then
you must Chuse them fit for such Horses
as you would Breed: As for Example
If you would Breed for the Manage, the
Mares must have Fine Fore-hands, but
not too Long Necks; Fine Heads, ant
well lung On; and their Necks rightly
Turn'd; Broad Brests, Good Eyes; anC
Great Bodies, that the Foals may have
the more Room to Lay in. They must
have Good Hoofs, short and bending Pas
tOrns, and are to be Short from the HeaC
to the Group, and Stuffy. This Shape fits
the Manage Best; and if your Mares be
thus Chosen, il makes no matterr whI
Color they are of, nor what Marks they
have, nor what Tails and Names, so they
be full of Strength, and a superfluity OF
Spirit, and not above Six or Seven Year.
Old. But must Tell you, That if you
had Two or Three fine Dutch Mares
Shaped as formerly told you, it make;
fine Composition with Spanish Horse
for the Manage, and a Spanish Horse
with such English Mares as | have Told
you Now, are not only for the Manage
but in manner for all Uses.
'If YOU would have Mares to Breed