Horse-shoes and horse-shoeing : their origin, history, uses, and abuses . sed high fromthe ground by many steps, and paved with black squarestones like marble; while the horses, to prevent sliding,were shod with felt or flocks (the Latin words are feltrosive tomento), after which the ladies danced all night. It is supposed that in the Guildhall of London, on theoccasion of the marriage of Katharine of Aragon (after- Ktimet. History of England, vol. ii. p. 17- SHOEING IFITH FELT. 437 wards wife of Henry VIII.), and Arthur, Prince of Wales,the floor being of marble, and a tournament taking place
Horse-shoes and horse-shoeing : their origin, history, uses, and abuses . sed high fromthe ground by many steps, and paved with black squarestones like marble; while the horses, to prevent sliding,were shod with felt or flocks (the Latin words are feltrosive tomento), after which the ladies danced all night. It is supposed that in the Guildhall of London, on theoccasion of the marriage of Katharine of Aragon (after- Ktimet. History of England, vol. ii. p. 17- SHOEING IFITH FELT. 437 wards wife of Henry VIII.), and Arthur, Prince of Wales,the floor being of marble, and a tournament taking placeon it, the horses were shod with felt. For the reign of Henry VIII. we have an excellentrepresentation of shod horses in what is known as the tournament roll, or descriptive illustrations of the Solemn Justs held at Westminster, on the 5th February,1510, in the ist year of that king, in honour of QueenKatharine. Every horse in the long procession has itsfeet armed in the most unmistakable manner.^ The onewe select (fig. 158) exhibits this characteristic; and it will be. observed that the shoes are yet very clumsy, and have thecalkins and nail-heads very large, to aftbrd a firm grasp ofthe ground. The nails appear to be four on each side ofthe shoe. Notes and Queries. 2nd Series, vol. ix. p. 394. This procession has been engraved i;i ihe Vetusta Monumenta,vol. i. 438 HORSE-SHOES AND HORSE-SHOEING. From specimens I have examined belonging to thisperiod, it might be concluded that the weight of the shoescontinued gradually to increase, while the sizes and formsoccur in greater variety. Heavy armour and the tilting-lance had not yet gone out of fashion, as the projectingnail-heads and calkins sufficiently indicate. Some curiousspecimens of shoes can be seen on the feet of the woodenhorses in the armour-gallery of the Tower of London;these, I understand, belong to Henry reign. It is somewhat astonishing that no toe-clips to preventdisplacement of the shoes have yet appeared.
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