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HORSES PAST AND PRESENT


[Illustration: SADDLE AND PILLION.

(From "The Procession of the Flitch of Bacon," by THOMAS STOTHARD,
R.A.)]




                                 HORSES
                            PAST AND PRESENT

                                   BY
                        SIR WALTER GILBEY, BART.

                              ILLUSTRATED

                           VINTON & Co., LTD.
                   9, NEW BRIDGE STREET, LONDON, E.C.

                                  1900




CONTENTS.


                                    PAGE

 Introduction                          1

 Before the Conquest                   2

 William the Conqueror                 5

 William Rufus                         7

 Henry I.                              7

 Henry II.                             8

 Richard I.                            9

 John                                 10

 Edward II.                           11

 Edward III.                          12

 Richard II.                          15

 Henry VII.                           17

 Henry VIII.                          18

 Edward VI. and Queen Mary            22

 Elizabeth                            24

 James I.                             30

 Charles I.                           33

 The Commonwealth                     36

 Charles II.                          38

 William III.                         41

 Queen Anne                           