Horse-shoes and horse-shoeing : their origin, history, uses, and abuses . make the following extract: Item, qe Mareschal preignent pur ferure des chivalx,cest assavoir, pur fer de viii clowes, ii deniers; et demeyns, i denier obole; et pur remover, obole. That the designation was general wherever the Nor-mans had established themselves in England, is provedby the accompanying drawing (fig. 144) from the brassmatrix of a curious sealnow in the possessionof Mrs Wooler, ofDarlington, and whichwas found at Piers-bridge, near that farrier displays ahorse-shoe, heavy andclumsy, and piercedwit
Horse-shoes and horse-shoeing : their origin, history, uses, and abuses . make the following extract: Item, qe Mareschal preignent pur ferure des chivalx,cest assavoir, pur fer de viii clowes, ii deniers; et demeyns, i denier obole; et pur remover, obole. That the designation was general wherever the Nor-mans had established themselves in England, is provedby the accompanying drawing (fig. 144) from the brassmatrix of a curious sealnow in the possessionof Mrs Wooler, ofDarlington, and whichwas found at Piers-bridge, near that farrier displays ahorse-shoe, heavy andclumsy, and piercedwith six almost squareholes, as well as a shoe- fig. 144 ing hammer and two nails, as a badge of his craft, thelegend around them being S. Radul, Marcchal d IEvechied Dureme—which signifies that it was the seal of Ralph,farrier to the bishopric of Durham. The word mareschal remained in vogue in Englandlong after the Norman French had ceased to be the popu-lar or Court language,though it generally gave place to far-rier, ferrier, or ferrator, a designation which had also. 38o HORSE-SHOES AND HORSE-SHOEING. been in use for very many centuries, and was derived, nodoubt, from the faber ferrarius, who not only workedgenerally in iron, but also shod the horses. In old Frenchrecords it is not uncommon to ^ndjerrier and maresc/ialemployed to designate the shoer. In the list of the slain at the battle of Bannockburn,fought between the English and Scottish armies on 23thJune, 1318, in which the first was defeated and thenational independence of Scotland established, we findon the English side, among the knights and knightbannerets, the name of William Le Mareschal, andamong the prisoners in the hands of the Scots, the knightAnselm de Mareschal and Thomas de Ferrers. Theseindividuals, however, may not have been in any wayconnected, but by name, with the shoers of horses. It is curious, notwithstanding, to find the two designa-tions combined so late as the i6th century, and applied tothe he
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