. Breeder and sportsman. Horses. 12 THE BREEDER AND SPORTSMAN [Saturday, August 1, 1914. A LITTLE BIT OF HACKNEY HISTORY. Without delving too deeply into the history of the Hackneyâfor the breed in Britain has many well- versed studentsâit may not be out of place at the outset of this article to trace the origin of the word which has so long been affixed to our premier ride and drive breedâa breed which at the moment is doing better colonizing work than any other type of horse that has its origin in the British Isles. , "Nag" is the oldest surviving phrase for our pris- tine, active
. Breeder and sportsman. Horses. 12 THE BREEDER AND SPORTSMAN [Saturday, August 1, 1914. A LITTLE BIT OF HACKNEY HISTORY. Without delving too deeply into the history of the Hackneyâfor the breed in Britain has many well- versed studentsâit may not be out of place at the outset of this article to trace the origin of the word which has so long been affixed to our premier ride and drive breedâa breed which at the moment is doing better colonizing work than any other type of horse that has its origin in the British Isles. , "Nag" is the oldest surviving phrase for our pris- tine, active riding horse, a word surely derived from the Anglo-Saxon "hnegan," to neigh. When the Romans came to England they introduced their term "haquenee," or "hacquenee," the French word de- rived from the Latin "; The word "haque- nee" was adopted into the English tongue as early as 1303, for in the writings of Robert Mannynge, com- monly called "Robert de Brunne," from the fact of his having been a monk at Bourne, in Lincolnshire, a rider is spoken of as being mounted on his ' hak- ; In the "Vision of Piers Plowman," written about 1350, the word comes out again in the line "hakneyes hadde thei to ; Chaucer, too, spells the word "hackneye" and "hacknay," and all our old writers used the word in connection with the describing of a riding horse rather than a war horse. As early as 1170 the trotting "hackneye" was de- scribed as one of the things belonging to the man- ners and customs of ancient England. By 1400 the breed was firmly established as a trotting type of horse in Eastern Anglia. The wife of Sir John Pas- ton, who lived at Heylesden, near Norwich, and whose correspondence has been preserved in book form, wrote to her husband in 1465 that three trot- ters had been bought for him at St. Faith's Fair, "right fair horses and well ;
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