Horse-shoes and horse-shoeing : their origin, history, uses, and abuses . e greatest value they couldprocure, and they had very high tourneying saddleswithout foresaltiers. They were covered with caparisonswrought in embroidery with their armorial blasons. Theywere armed with breast-plates with good armour of thiniron pieces, and upon the plate they had rich wardcoatsbearing their blasons. Each had a helmet upon his Miroir des Nobles de la Hesbaye. The Valley of the Meuse, byDudley Costello. ^ De Bellis Leodunsibus, cap. 41. THE GREAT HORSE. 433 bacinet witli a handsome crest; and several lord
Horse-shoes and horse-shoeing : their origin, history, uses, and abuses . e greatest value they couldprocure, and they had very high tourneying saddleswithout foresaltiers. They were covered with caparisonswrought in embroidery with their armorial blasons. Theywere armed with breast-plates with good armour of thiniron pieces, and upon the plate they had rich wardcoatsbearing their blasons. Each had a helmet upon his Miroir des Nobles de la Hesbaye. The Valley of the Meuse, byDudley Costello. ^ De Bellis Leodunsibus, cap. 41. THE GREAT HORSE. 433 bacinet witli a handsome crest; and several lords, knights,and others had beneath the drapery of their caparisonsringed mail for their horses. And in a manuscriptwork entitled the Guerre des Awans et des Warons,recording the party wars among the people of Liege atthis time, the horse-shoe is described as large fer a chevalot, a talons moult crochus. The great horse, the arms and armour, and thelarge shoes with high calkins, are well depicted in theGerman knight painted by Lucas Cranach in the 15thcentury (fig. 157).. 434 HORSE-SHOES AND HORSE-SHOEING. In Scotland, it might be inferred that horses for ridingpurposes were generally shod, though those for draughtwere not ordinarily so, if we may judge from an actpassed in 1487. An Act of Parliament was passedin 1481, which made the smith who pricked a horsesfoot while shoeing it liable to furnish another until thecripple was cured, or if it died, to pay its value. This,in many respects unjust, law was procured by the Dukeof Albany and his brother, the Earl of Mar. It is difficult,if not impossible, to discover how much the unfortunatefarrier was likely to lose if the animal he had accidentallylamed happened to die, as the value of horses appears tohave fluctuated considerably in Scotland for three cen-turies. In 1283, for instance, a burgesss steed was valuedat one pound; in 1329, a couriers horse was supposed tobe worth five shillings; and in 1424, a colt, or horsesmore than t
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