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 II 0 R S E M A 'N S II I P: 
 
 CONTAINING ACCOUNTS OF 
 
 ACCIDENTAL ENTERIMENTS, 
 
 AND 
 
 EXPERIM ENT \ L ACCI DEN TS, 
 
 IKCKSSFUL AND UNSUCCESSFUL: 
 
 COMMUNICATED BY VARIOUS CORRESPONDENTS 
 
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 GEOFFREY GAMBADO, ESO. 
 
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 1 UTHOR OF THE ACADEMT FOR GROAN HORSEMEN* 
 
 
 I L c ■ vtA'AL '• MLRKOF, AND ANSWERS 
 
 u:r LvE' t (*. >>\ Tr: accomplish: d genius. 
 
 AXD NOW FIRST PUBLISHED, 
 
 BY THE EDITOR OF THE ACADEMY FOR 
 
 GROWN HORSEMEN. 
 
 ILLUSTRATED WITH CUTS BY THE MOST 
 EMINENT ARTISTS. 
 
 LONDON: 
 
 *. :> FOR W. DICKINSON, NO. 24 , OLD BOND OR: E . 5. 
 212, HICK HOLBORN; AND J. ARCHER, AND . 'VII • 
 DAME STREET, DUBLIN. 
 
 MDCCXCl. 
 


 ANNALS 
 
 O F 
 
 HO RS E MA NS HIP: 
 
 CONTAINING ACCOUNTS OF 
 
 ACCIDENTAL EXPERIMENTS, 
 
 AND 
 
 EXPERIMENTAL ACCIDENTS, 
 
 BOTH SUCCESSFUL AND UNSUCCESSFUL: 
 
 COMMUNICATED BY VARIOUS CORRESPONDENTS 
 
 T O 
 
 GEOFFREY GAMBADO, ESQ. 
 
 AUTHOR OF THE ACADEMY FOR GROIV N HORSEMEN* 
 
 TOGETHER WITH 
 
 MOST INSTRUCTIVE REMARKS THEREON, AND ANSWERS 
 THERETO, BY THAT ACCOMPLISHED GENIUS. 
 
 AND NOW FIRST PUBLISHED, 
 
 BY THE EDITOR OF THE ACADEMY FOR 
 
 GROWN PIORSEMEN. 
 
 ILLUSTRATED WITH CUTS BY THE MOST 
 EMINENT ARTISTS. 
 
 LONDON: 
 
 PRINTED FOR W. DICKINSON, NO. 24 , OLD BOND STREET ; S. HOOPER, 
 NO. 212, HIGH HOLBORN; AND J. ARCHER, AND R. WHITE, 
 
 DAME STREET, DUBLIN. 
 
 MDCCXCI. 
 
The EDITOR to the READER. 
 
 T HE Public is in high luck to obtain any 
 thing more that comes from the pen of Geof¬ 
 frey Gambado. A former publication has nearly 
 immortalized him, and I truft the prefent will do it 
 completely. It is true this work is chiefly compofed 
 of Letters addreft to him, but his remarks and 
 replies are added to them; and had it not been 
 for Geoffrey, fuch letters had never made their 
 appearance ; perhaps never been written, What 
 had been fuch a lofs to the community! I will 
 venture to affirm that few, very few, have heard 
 of fuch extraordinary cafes, fuch novel ideas, 
 and fuch obvious and falutary advice as are 
 contained in the following pages. Were I to 
 
 mention 
 
IV 
 
 THE EDITOR TO 
 
 mention the odd place in which I found the MSS. 
 copy of this work, it might create laughter— 
 
 I V. 
 
 “ A paffion hateful to my purpofes 
 
 For having the fafety of man’s neck in my eye 
 at this prefent writing, I think it no laughing 
 matter $ and (hall therefore deem it fufficient to 
 fay, I have found it, and have now the fatis- 
 fadtion of laying it before the world. 
 
 A paltry publication has lately made its ap¬ 
 pearance, on the fame conftrudfion as this. It 
 is a periodical thing, entitled The Annals of 
 Agriculture, and will, I dare fay, be of much 
 ufe in the chandlers fhops, This too, like 
 Geoffrey’s edifying colledfion of letters, treats on 
 propagation, cultivation, prefervation, the good 
 of the nation, &c. &c. But when we once 
 confider for a moment the different objects the 
 authors claim our attention in behalf of—-Should 
 even a potatoe enter the lifts with a poney, my 
 blood rifes-—my choler is excited. 
 
 Talk 
 
V 
 
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 THE READER, V 
 
 Talk of propagation! Would the blockheads 
 have us hefitate between a horfe chefnut, and a 
 chefnut horfe! Common fenfe forbids it (parti-' 
 cularly as it is to be the fafhionable colour in har- 
 nefe this time five years) $ and as for prefervation—- 
 Which lhould humanity firft extend her arm to 
 fave ? A cabbage or a cockney—-A captain or a 
 cauliflower? For thefe reafons I lament feeing,* 
 monthly, the names of feveral relpe&able friends 
 of mine, affixed to a work of fuch fubordinate con- 
 fideration. Had they fpent as much time in riding 
 upon turnips, as they have in writing upon them, 
 they might ere now have belonged to the firft 
 hunts in the country, and moft fafhionable clubs in 
 town. But I fear the filk purfe and the fows ear 
 are but too applicable to moft of them* 
 
 In the ladies, however, Geoffrey will undoubt¬ 
 edly find warm advocates. Thofe lovely creatures, 
 who delight fo much in the propagation of their 
 own beautiful fpecies, will ever fupport the Ani¬ 
 mal Syftem in preference to the Vegetable $ nor 
 
 B - wafte 
 
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1 
 
 vi THE EDITOR TO 
 
 wafte their precious time and confideration on a 
 carrot, which may be fc much better employed 
 in furnifhing a cradle. 
 
 And whilft the frantic farmers that furnifh their 
 fluff for the Annals of Agriculture, fhall be 
 puzzling their brains to preferve a ragged flock of 
 fheep from the rot, the fair fex fhall be more 
 nobly employed in the prefervation of beauty, and 
 what is more puzzling, though we daily fee it 
 attempted—the prefervation of even The Human 
 Face Divine, itfelf. 
 
 Emboldened by thefe confiderations, that the 
 Annals of Horfemanfhip will fpeedily drive the 
 Annals of Agriculture out of the houfe of every 
 man and woman of tafle and feeling, I do not 
 hefitate to forefee. From his anfwers to fome of 
 the following letters it appears, that Mr. Gambado 
 was fomewhat irritable, as in a poftfcript, page 
 he rather fnubs his correfpondent for afking his 
 advice. It fhould likewife feem that he was at 
 this time rather fliort of cafh, for he appears to 
 
 have 
 
THE READER. 
 
 • • 
 Vll 
 
 have given advice for a fee $ and once, if I recoi¬ 
 led, treats of bad fhillings. This, indeed, might 
 a little four his natural difpofition, which I have 
 reafon to believe, from his phyliognomy, was 
 placid and amiable. I am told he feldom rode 
 himfelf , and the only time he went fix miles on 
 horfeback, he wore a pair of Diaculum drawers. 
 That fuch an author Ihould be no rider may 
 appear marvellous at firft, but, on reflection, we 
 muft acknowledge that we daily find people {peak¬ 
 ing and writing on what they know nothing at all 
 about. Herein Geoffrey exceeds all I ever heard 
 of: for fiach a book of knowledge as his Academy 
 for Grown Horfemen, never yet made an appear¬ 
 ance in the world. 
 
 The Editor, therefore, of The Academy for 
 Grown Horfemen has now to congratulate the 
 public on the difcovery of another work from the 
 pen of the much-admired Geoffrey Gambado j a 
 work that contains fome of the mo ft ufeful and 
 extraordinary experiments, perhaps, ever made in 
 
 Horfemanfhip: 
 
THE EDITOR TO 
 
 viii 
 
 Horfemanfhip: feveral curious cuftoms and opi¬ 
 nions of ingenious gentlemen, little known to the 
 world, and fome colle&ed from very choice, but 
 remote publications; together with (what will be 
 no doubt efteemed invaluable), Geoffrey’s mofl 
 ingenious fuggeftions, and prefcriptions towards 
 the removal of every difficulty and danger inciden¬ 
 tal to that moil noble art: his anfwers to fome 
 queries put to him, and his criticifms on others 
 that were un-anfwerable. 
 
 By the putting forth of this work the public muft 
 be let into much ufeful knowledge. The many 
 practical attempts and atchievements herein record¬ 
 ed prove, beyond a doubt, that fuch things have 
 been; and having been, that in all probability fuch 
 things are. And even thofe experiments that have 
 not been attended, hitherto, with perfeft fuccefs, 
 may yet, like balloons, turn out to the moft valu¬ 
 able account, when taken into hand by more 
 fkilful philofophers. The Editor here begs Leave 
 to remark, that the Diaculum Drawers above- 
 
 mentioned 
 
I 
 
 THE READER. ix 
 
 mentioned, are the only fabrics of the kind he 
 ever heard of, and verily believes they are hither¬ 
 to non-defcript. He has fome reafon to think 
 they are yet extant (and fhould they be, they 
 are worthy the fearch of the Dilettanti) 5 for a fort 
 of flannel breeches, apparently prepared in the 
 fame manner, but much damaged by time, 
 were laft week offered to the Leverian Mu feu m, 
 but are faid, for delicate reafons, to have been 
 rejedled by the proprietor as unfit for exhibition. 
 What falfe delicacy! when the man pefters us 
 every day with a non-defcript in the papers ; feme 
 old flunking fiih, that never could be of fervice to 
 man, woman, or bead! whereas the drawers, like 
 the North-weft paffage, if they could be once 
 difcovered, might prove hereafter of the greateft 
 fundamental confequence to mankind at large^ the 
 Venetians only excepted, 
 
 THE EDITOR. 
 
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 L-OND ON,Fubii£li’d March.25; 174 * 1 , oy "W.DICK1N S ON NV :<4 Old. Bond Street . 
 
( xiii ) 
 
 GEOFFRET GAMBADO 
 
 TO THE READER. 
 
 I FLATTER myfelf the following compilation 
 will not prove unwelcome to the Public ; it 
 blends information with amufement, and confirms 
 how* general is the thirfl for knowledge in the pre¬ 
 lent times, which is not to be idly checked by the 
 lofs of a limb or a life. The adventurers of tin 
 age are divided into two clafles— per mare , per 
 terras —of which latter delcription are my corre- 
 fpondents. Thefe of the former, fancy they dii- 
 cover much, by being at fea for months together 
 without fight of land—by the wanting wine and wa¬ 
 ter,and getting neither—but at length efpying fome- 
 thing like an ifland unknown ; it is perhaps more 
 
 D like 
 
( Xlii ) 
 
 
 2 * 
 
 GEOFFRET GAMBADO 
 
 TO THE READER. 
 
 I FLATTER myfelf the following compilation 
 will not prove unwelcome to the Public ; it 
 blends information with amufement, and confirms 
 how general is the thirft for knowledge in the pre- 
 fent times, which is not to be idly checked by the 
 lofs of a limb or a life. The adventurers of this 
 age are divided into two clafles —per mare , per 
 terras —of which latter defcription are my corre- 
 fpondents. Thefe of the former, fancy they diF 
 cover much, by being at fea for months together 
 without fight of land—by the wanting wine and wa¬ 
 ter, and getting neither—butat length efpying fome- 
 thing like an ifland unknown ; it is perhaps more 
 
 D like 
 
XlV 
 
 GEOFFREY GAMBADO TO 
 
 like an owzle than any one laid down in the charts. 
 They do actually difcover, however, that the na¬ 
 tives will not let them go alhore, and that they 
 muft return as wife as they came. They difcover 
 that they have little left to eat, and lefs to drink ; 
 that they muft live by fucking each others fhirts 
 for half a year, arrive miraculoufly at home, and 
 write a book about it. 
 
 My Correfpondents are of a different ftamp ; 
 they difcover that there is much left unfound out 
 at home, and feem to be meritorioufly employed 
 in confequence. Going abroad, with them, I take 
 to be only going out of the houfe and feeing the 
 world, a laudable ride of a dozen miles. This 
 opinion of feeing the world tempts me to digrefe 
 a little. My apothecary, a man of knowledge 
 and judgment, but who, no more than myfelf, had 
 ever been above fix miles from home, being 
 obliged to vifit a patient at the diftance of twenty, 
 adhially returned in amazement, and allured me, 
 he could not have thought the world was fo big. 
 
 Thefe 
 
THE READER* 
 
 xv 
 
 Thefe were his very words—and was not it mighty 
 natural ? 
 
 To fhew how much of the natural he had in 
 him, I cannot refrain from adding, that, having 
 paft a turnpike or two, for the firft time, in this 
 excurfion, he was in raptures at the piety of the 
 people thereabouts 5 for he told me, that they had 
 the Belief and the Ten Commandments painted 
 upon blue boards at every gate—though he paft 
 through and could not read them, having left his 
 fpecftacles at home* 
 
 Pardon, gentle Reader, this digrefllon, which 
 has informed you of an anecdote rather extraordi¬ 
 nary. If you do not believe it, and lliould find 
 out the fubje£f, who was himfelf the narrator $ 
 don’t venture to tell him fo—He is a paflionate 
 man, rather inclined to let blood, and may per¬ 
 haps, if you commit yourfelf to him, put you to 
 death. 
 
 To return to bufinefs—The letters I have re¬ 
 ceived have required a clever arrangement; and I 
 
 thought 
 
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XVI 
 
 GEOFFREY GAMBADO TO 
 
 thought it better to add my anfwers, or remarks, 
 immediately to each, than to huddle the letters 
 
 4 1 
 
 into one part, and the anfwers into a fecond. 
 Cuts were alio thought neceflary towards the 
 clearing up of fome of the moft blind defcriptions 
 of awkward fituations and queer accidents which, 
 I confefs, are, here and there, but lamely made out 
 by the writers. I wi(h my delineator may have 
 fucceeded in thofe I fet him to. Several I have 
 received, inclofed in letters from the fufferers, or 
 experimental philofophers themfelves, many of 
 which are frightfully defcriptive. 
 
 I requeft my Readers will be more attentive to 
 what is contained in the following pages, than they 
 were to my Hiftory of Cruppers, this being of a much 
 more ferious tendency—and a publication that for 
 its falutary or wholfome advice ought to be printed 
 for brafs Some of the letters, indeed, border 
 
 * Left the Printer fliould forget his erratum , I muft fuggeft, that 
 Mr. G. could never mean for but in brafs. 
 
 Mr. G. mentions his Hiftory of Cruppers—a work new to my ears— 
 but I fhall be diligent in my fearcn after it. 
 
 on 
 
THE READER* xvii 
 
 on frivolity, and fome even on folly; but as they 
 may divert, though they will not inftru£t, I fhall 
 not omit them, for bread, though taftelefs, makes 
 a favory difb go down the better. And that this 
 book may go down, I mean with the Town, now, 
 and to Pofterity by and by, when it has ferved its 
 time and my turn here (for I expert fome fame 
 from it), is the very earned: wifh of, courteous 
 Reader, your very faithful humble Servant, 
 
 G. Gambado 8 
 
 
LETTER the FIRST. 
 
 Mr. Gambado ! 
 
 I Return you my mod hearty thanks for the 
 very falutary advice you fent me laft month, 
 from which I have derived much improvement, 
 and fhould have acknowledged fooner, had I 
 made fufficient trial of the fine machine you re¬ 
 commended in luch warm terms. My Hobby, as I 
 told you before, is an admirable animal, and finely- 
 calculated for a penfive man, like myfelf, to take 
 the air upon. It was a pity he was fo prone to tum¬ 
 ble, and that too, in ftony roads the mod 5 for he 
 was otherwife bordering on perfection. So I fent 
 for a carpenter, on the receipt of your recipe, and 
 had a large Puzzle of Oak made for him, after 
 
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ANNALS OF HORSEMANSHIP. 
 
 the pattern of thole worn by the Squire s Pointer} 
 and I have found it anfwer prodigioufiy. 
 
 I have had nothing like a bad fall lately, ex¬ 
 cept one day in cantering over a ploughed field, 
 where, upon a blunder, the machine entered the 
 ground with fuch force as to introduce a portion 
 of the Hobby’s head along with it. We came 
 clean over, and for fome time I thought my 
 Hobby’s neck was broke. I did not mind it my- 
 felf, but I fhall take care in future always to gal¬ 
 lop on the hard road, and then fuch another ca- 
 taftrophe cannot enfue. 
 
 I am. Sir, 
 
 Your very obfequious humble Servant, 
 
 Eye, Suffolk. 
 
 Caleb Cassock, 
 
 P. S. I forgot to tell you my Parifhioners flare at me a 
 good deal. The Machine has an odd appearance, I own; but 
 not altogether unpi&urefque. I got the Drawing-mafter of 
 Mr. Birch’s fchool to fend you a fketch of me. It is efteemed 
 a likenefs. That of the Hobby is rather flattering. 
 
 I have 
 
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 ji :'u •• i *.ii • ■■ d.c Squue s Pointers; 
 
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 i t i a bad fall lately, cx- 
 
 • ■ ploughed field, 
 
 > .'-..u , i .yn a blur.de , rb ■- h,rv- entered the 
 ground with fuch force s introduce i porti 
 >t the Hobby’s head alone; with it. We came 
 
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 clean over, and for fome time I thought my 
 Hobby’s neck was broke. 1 did not mind it my- 
 felf, but 1 Trial! take care in future always to gal¬ 
 lop on the hard road, and then fuch another ca~ 
 taftrophe cannot enfue. 
 
 I am, Sir, 
 
 Your very obfequious humble Servant, 
 
 Caleb Cassock. 
 
 Eye, Suffolk. 
 
 P, S. I forgot to tell you my Parifliioncrs flare at me a 
 iyxxl deal. The Machine has an odd appearance, I own ; but 
 not altogether unpi&urefque. I got the Drawing-mafler of 
 o Birch’s fchool to fend you a (ketch of me. It is efleemed 
 a likendv That of the Hobby is rather flattering. 
 
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 I have feat you /Fetch of my IV* /ie for Dog and 
 
 HorR% :d a fct v ; zling a ChmFm. 
 
 C. C. 
 
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 nd 
 
 I am happy to hr- ' . • - s ■■ 
 
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 ngrmR ■ ■■ ••• ntu . • v -Ro io good a 
 
 hor reman, and undei/tands a; •> /el], that, by 
 
 producing his name I fhaf get a patent for 
 
 which cannot R < ; for who has the horfe 
 
 h . t he ■■ : ml; down ? 
 
 Of; V .. ■ Itiun f :.t «f‘,| p «.-p * yp.v/i 
 
 oatn) every tv 
 
 Though Dr . F , v. i , . 
 
 has the modefty to allure ue 
 
 Rown; yet even he has not the eVoutery to lav . v - 
 
 tumble down! 
 
 1 received the {ketches r ’ the Puzzles for Dogs and H 
 ; hold it fit an etchhv /hould ht made of them. 
 
 • . don of thofe who n< vv 
 
 D -- ; •vmv» for puzzling Chr;ft m * .••, dropt out 
 
 F of 
 

ANNALS OF HORSEMANSHIP. 
 
 3 
 
 I have fent you alfo a /ketch of my Puzzle for Dog and 
 Horfe, and a fcheme for puzzling a Chriftian. 
 
 C. C, 
 
 MY REMARKS. 
 
 I am happy to find the Puzzle has anfwered fo well; and 
 I doubt not, now it has been tried and approved by fuch a 
 right-headed, Reverend Gentleman, one who is alfo fo good a 
 horfeman, and underftands all the matter fo well, that, by 
 producing his name, I fhall be able to get a patent for it, 
 which cannot but prove very lucrative; for who has the horfe 
 that he will fwear will never tumble down ? 
 
 This I believe would be a queftion that would pofe (upon 
 oath) every man on horfeback in Hyde Park on a Sunday. 
 
 Though Dr. Shaw himfelf, who is a great traveller indeed, 
 has the modefiy to allure us, that the Barbary horfes never lie 
 down; yet even he has not the effrontery to fay that chey never 
 tumble down! 
 
 I received the /ketches of the Puzzles for Dogs and Horfes; 
 and hold it fit an etching fhould be made of them, for the 
 information of thofe who never faw fuch machines. 
 
 The fchemes for puzzling Chriftians, I fuppofe, dropt out 
 
 F of 
 
4 ANNALS OF HORSEMANSHIP. 
 
 of the letter, for I never got it. There are, however, fo many 
 fchemes of that fort already about town, that it is no lofs, I dare 
 fay. G. G. 
 
 My Correfpondent, I believe, did not diflike fitting for his 
 pi&ure—there appears fuch an amiable fmirk in his counte¬ 
 nance, and he fays too it is efteemed a likenefs. 
 
 Note to Letter the Firji. 
 
 Although this Puzzle for a Chriftian, as he calls it, was dropt, I can 
 conceive its being of ufe, if put upon one of thofe long flory-tellers who 
 catch Hold of your button, and thruft their nofe and mouth in your face, 
 when perhaps it is highly neceflary to keep them at arms length. In the 
 adjoining Plate, therefore, are delineated not only the Canini and Equef- 
 trian, but alfo the Chriftian Puzzle. 
 
 LETTER 
 
( 5 ) 
 
 LETTER the SECOND, 
 
 S I R, 
 
 Y OUR fame having reached us here, I fet 
 down with pleafure to write to a man who 
 I am certain will have an equal pleafure in fatisfy- 
 ing the doubts that now occupy my mind. I 
 would proceed and ftate every difficulty I find in 
 the treatment and guidance of a horfe, to which 
 animal I confefs I am rather an alien, although 
 
 J o 
 
 I have happily attained (yefterday it was) my 
 thirty-fifth year. I was bred to a bufinefs that 
 debarred me from an amufement for which I feem 
 formed by nature, being, Sir, very ffiort in the fork, 
 and what our wits call duck legged, and all my 
 weight lying atop: and it was not till I emerged, 
 as I may fay, from the counting houle, that I could 
 make a trial of my abilities as a horleman. I 
 
 really 
 
6 ANNALS OF HORSEMANSHIP. 
 
 really think I am going on well, that I am in a 
 ftate of daily amendment and progreffive improve¬ 
 ment. The queftions I have to put to you Sir 
 are fo fhort and fimple that I will not divert 
 your attention from them a bit longer, but put 
 them down as they arife—they require nothing 
 but an anfwer. 
 
 QJJ E R I E S. 
 
 1. What part of my horfe muft I lay hold of to help 
 me up, for his mane is cut off? 
 
 2. If he will turn to the left when I want to go to the 
 right, how can I help it ? 
 
 3. If he flips his girths, and the crupper is of no ufe, what 
 will fupply its place ? 
 
 4. Should he tumble down by day-light, whether you think 
 he would in the dark ? 
 
 5. What a breail-plate is ? We have heard of it here, but 
 our Sadler does not know how to make one. The Adjutant of 
 the Militia fays it is a fort of armour, to prevent the horfe hurtino- 
 
 1 C* 
 
 himiclf by running againft a waggon or a wall. But I fay it 
 can’t be ; becaufe the horfe’s head fliould be armed, as that 
 
 would 
 
ANNALS OF HORSEMANSHIP. 
 
 7 
 
 would hit the wall firfl, and prevent his breaft receiving 
 any damage. * Pray folve this by return of poll, as many 
 betts are depending on it at our next Club. 
 
 6. How can I keep a horfe cheap ? 
 
 7. What is my beft way to fell a bad horfe, if I don’t 
 like him ? 
 
 Thefe are a few of the trifling queftions I fhall 
 beg leave to trouble you with from time to time: 
 and as it will be extremely eafy, and, I dare fay, 
 agreable to you, to anfwer them, I fhall make no 
 apology but with my affurance that I am. Sir, 
 
 Your devoted and very humble Servant, 
 
 Samuel Fillagree. 
 
 G . Gcwibado , Efq. 
 
 This fellow, with his affurance, appeared to be fuch a 
 puppy, I could not anfwer him for fome months ; indeed 
 his queries rather pofed me ; but his lees came in faft, and 
 I was fain to folve them as well as I could. 
 
 The firft I left to his better judgment, only fuggefting 
 that the ear of the horfe and the pommel of the faddle 
 
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 were 
 
8 ANNALS OF HORSEMANSHIP. 
 
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 Were all that offered themfelves in lieu of a mane, if his 
 horfe had none. 
 
 The fecond I could hot afiift him in. 
 
 The folly of the third raifed my choler, and involving 
 with it the fifth, I had not patience to enter on either of 
 them ; fo I fear the betts at the Club are not yet decided. 
 
 The fourth and fixth were extremely eafy to be anfwered| 
 I never met with two queries more fo. But the feventh, Ikil- 
 ful as I am, I confefs I could not reply to, to my Correfpond- 
 ent’s fatisfa&ion : and I fhall be much bound to any of my 
 Readers, who will tell me, how the bufinefs therein ftated 
 is to be brought about; being ever open to convidtion, and 
 not yet too old to learn. 
 
 G. G. 
 
 LETTER the THIRD, 
 
 From a Half-way Houfe between Cambridge and Newmarket. 
 
 SIR, March 26, 1789. 
 
 RAVING long been earneftly engaged in the 
 ftudy of mathematical fcience, and being 
 fond of riding, two purfuits ufually thought incom¬ 
 patible, I have been enabled, by means of this fin- 
 
 gular 
 
ANNALS OF HORSEMANSHIP. 9 
 
 gular union, to ftrike out fome important difco- 
 veries in both branches. The mathematical im¬ 
 provements in riding will, I hope, deferve a place 
 in the Annals of Horfemanftiip: my equeftrian dis¬ 
 coveries in mathematics you mult permit me to 
 referve for the Ladies Diary. 
 
 My love for equeftrian agitation is, I believe, 
 more general than that of any other perfon ; for 
 whatever fatisfaeftion may be ufually experienced 
 by riders while they continue on the backs of their 
 horfes, I have never yet met with or been in¬ 
 formed of one, who received any fenfible delight 
 from the circumftance of being violently projected 
 from the faddle. But here, Sir, from my paflionate 
 fondnefs for the mathematics, I enjoy a manifeft 
 advantage. From the concuflions, repercuflions, 
 and every other kind of compound motion which 
 can be generated confiftently with the due fupport 
 of the centre of gravity, I enjoy, I will venture to 
 fay, at leaft as much fatisfadlion as any other 
 rider : and at the time of being thrown off, or,- in 
 
 more 
 
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,o ANNALS OF HORSEMANSHIP. 
 
 Vt 0 
 
 more proper language, proje&ed from the horfe, t 
 experience a peculiar delight in recollecting that, 
 by the univerfal laws of projectiles, I muft, in my 
 flight through the air, defcribe that beautiful conic 
 feCtion, a parabola. 
 
 After fome accidents of this nature, I have been 
 fortunate enough, notwithftanding the violent 
 re-aCtion of the ground in confequence of the 
 ftrong aCtion of my fkull againft it, to preferve 
 my fenfe fufficiently to be able to afcertain the curve 
 fo generated by my body to defcribe it on paper, 
 and demonftrate its peculiar properties: and am not 
 without hope, if I can meet with horfes not too 
 fure-footed, by frequent experiments, to determine 
 what kind of parabola it is fafeft to defcribe $ 
 which problem will, I apprehend, be found very 
 ferviceable in praCtice, at the City Hunt in Eafter 
 week, and during the celebration of Epfom races. 
 
 Not long ago, by a particular convulfion of the 
 animal from which I was fo fortunate as to fall, I 
 was very irregularly thrown to the earth, but had 
 
 the 
 
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 the fatisfaCtion afterwards to difcover that the 
 curve defcribed in my fall was a fegment of a very 
 eccentric ellipfe, of which the faddle was one 
 focus $ and that it was nearly, if not exactly, the 
 fame with the path of the comet now expected to 
 return. And once, by a fuccuffation ftill more 
 anomalous, I was happy enough to defcribe a new 
 curve, which I found to poffefs fome very amazing 
 properties $ and I hope effectually to immortalize 
 my own name, by calling it Lemma's firfl Hippo - 
 piptic % curve . 
 
 The firft equeftrian problem that I ever fet my» 
 felf to difcover was this; u When by pulling the 
 reins you prevent a horfe from falling, where is 
 the fulcrum or prop ?—and how is the horfe ? s 
 centre of gravity prevented from being thrown 
 beyond the bafe of his legs ?” I will not trouble 
 you now with the particulars of this difficult in- 
 
 * Hippopiptic expreffes the mode of the curve’s generation in falling 
 from a horfe : — from Hippos , a horfe, and pipto y to fall. I call it firjl, 
 becaufe I hope by the fame means to difcover more hereafter. 
 
 H veftigation; 
 
12 ANNALS OF HORSEMANSHIP. 
 
 \ 
 
 veftigation j but fha.ll only lay, that it turned out 
 greatly to the honour of demipique faddles; which, 
 accordingly, in the ^Mathematical Elements of 
 Riding, that I mean hereafter to publifh, I fhall 
 recommend very ftrongly in a Corollary. 
 
 A learned Student in Mathematics has long 
 publifhed his ability and defire to conftruft breeches 
 upon geometrical principles 
 
 Mr. Nunn is certainly ingenious, and his 
 breeches, a few falient angles excepted, admirable } 
 but the artift who fhould make bridles, faddles, 
 and other equeftrian paraphernalia, by the rules 
 
 of pure mathematics, would render a much more 
 praife-worthy fervice to the Public. For if the 
 
 * Mr. Nunn’s advertifement is as follows: 
 
 “ BREECHES-MAKING improved by GEOMETRY.” 
 
 “ Thomas Nunn, Breeches-maker, No. 29, Wigmore-ftreet, Caven- 
 difh-fquare, has invented a fyftem on a mathematical principle, by which 
 difficulties are folved, and errors corre&ed : its ufefulnefs for cafe and 
 neatnefs in fitting, is incomparable, and is the only perfect rule for that 
 work ever difcovered. Several hundreds (noblemen, gentlemen, and 
 
 others) who have had proof of its utility, allow it to excel all they 
 ever made trial of.” 
 
ANNALS OF HORSEMANSHIP. 13 
 
 ffimfy leather of breeches require geometrical cut¬ 
 ting, how much more neceflary mu ft it be to the 
 tough hide which forms the bridle ? and to what 
 purpofe will the geometry in the breeches operate, 
 if the faddle, by which they are to be fupported, 
 and vdiofe fuperfices they are to touch in as many 
 points as poflible, be formed ungeometrically ? But 
 I forbear to expatiate on a matter as plain as an 
 axiom of Euclid; trufting, that whoever can 
 perceive the utility of geometrical breeches, will 
 readily argue, a fortiori , to the abfolute neceftity 
 of geometrical faddles and bridles. 
 
 Purfuing my principles, I have demonftrated 
 what is the right line to be drawn by the mathe¬ 
 matical rider in every difficult fituation. In amend¬ 
 ing a horfe’s back, at what angle to extend the 
 moveable leg, while the fixed one is refted in the 
 ftirrup : in leaping, how to regulate the ofcillation, 
 or balancing, of the body, by attending carefully 
 to that fundamental point which is your centre 
 of motion : in ftarting, how tp difpofe of the 
 
 fuperfluous 
 
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 ANNALS OF HORSEMANSHIP. 
 
 fuperfiuous momentum, and thereby to preferve in 
 full force the attraction of cohefion between rump 
 and faddle : in rearing, at what angle, formed by 
 the horfe’s back with the plane of the horizon^ it 
 is molt advifable to Aide down over his tail ; 
 which, I maintain, is the only expedient that can 
 be praCtifed with a mathematical certainty of 
 being fafe : thefe, and many other important fe- 
 crets, I am ready, at any time when called upon, 
 to communicate. One I cannot even now with¬ 
 hold, which is this : that there is no good or truly 
 geometrical riding, unlefs the legs be extended 
 perfeClly in ftraight lines, fo as to form tangents 
 to the cylindrical furface of the horfe’s body: in 
 a word, to refemble, as much as poflible, a pair of 
 compares fet aftride upon a telefcope ; which I 
 conceive to be the perfeCt model of mathematical 
 riding. 
 
 But befides this application of pure geometry, 
 it has often ftruck me, that too little ufe is made, 
 in riding, of the principles of mixed mathematics. 
 
 Confider 
 
ANNALS OF HORSEMANSHIP. i- 
 
 Confider, Mr. Gambado, the fix mechanical powers! 
 the lever , the wheel and axle , the pulley , the inclined 
 plane , the wedge , and the fcrew ; and reflet with 
 what advantage all thefe may be applied to the 
 ufes of Horfemanfhip. By means of a lever , 
 having an elevated fulcrum raifed on the pommel 
 of the faddle, an entire flop might be put to che 
 practice of falling; except where the practi¬ 
 tioner fhould voluntarily take a tumble, for the 
 exprefs purpole of ftudying the Parabola, or Hip- 
 popiptic Curve. The wheel and axle is already 
 applied in the ufe of horles, though not in any 
 branch of Horfemanfhip, except the driving of 
 poft-chaifes; but is alfo found fo efficacious in 
 preventing falls, that where a horfe has been ufed 
 to that affiftance, it is not reckoned fafe to ride 
 him without. The application of the wedge might, 
 undoubtedly, very materially improve the art of 
 figging. The fcrew might, with advantage, be 
 applied to the direction of the horfes head with 
 more exaftnefs, and confequently enable the rider 
 
 I 
 
 to 
 
16 ANNALS OF HORSEMANSHIP. 
 
 to guide his courfe with mathematical accuracy. 
 The inclined plane might happily be introduced to 
 facilitate the backward Aide of the rider at the 
 time of rearing, as above mentioned. And a 
 fyftem of pullies , in the nature of Mr. Smeaton’s, 
 by giving the rider a force equal to the action of 
 many thoufand pounds weight, might for ever put 
 an end to the dangerous vice of running away. 
 
 By the ufe of the principles of aftronomy, I 
 have invented a mode of taking the exa£f altitude 
 of any horfe, at two oblervations $ and am at pre- 
 fent at work on a Hippodromometer to afcertain 
 the velocity of his courfe in the very a£t of 
 riding. 
 
 o 
 
 But while I boaft, and, I truft, with reafon, of 
 thefe difcoveries, I muft candidly confefs that a 
 rigorous attention to theory has fometimes be¬ 
 trayed me into pra&ical errors. When my horfe 
 has been pulling earneftly one way, my own in- 
 
 * From Hippos a horfe, dromos a courfe, and metrein to meafure. 
 
 tention 
 
ANNALS OF HORSEMANSHIP. 
 
 17 
 
 tention being at the fame time to go another, I 
 have pulled ftrongly at right angles to the line of 
 his courfe 5 expecting, from the laws of compound 
 motion, that we fhould then proceed, neither in 
 the line of his effort nor of my pull, but in an 
 intermediate one, which would be the diagonal of 
 the parallelogram, of which our forces were as the 
 fides; but have always found that this method 
 produced a rotatory inftead of a redlilinear motion. 
 When a horfe has run away, I have, to avoid the 
 wafte of force in my own arms, calculated the ne- 
 ceffary diminution of it in his legs ; but, unfortu¬ 
 nately, eftimating it as the fquares of the diftances 
 multiplied into the times, I was frequently dallied 
 againft walls, pitched over gates, and plunged into 
 ponds, before I difcovered that it is not as the 
 fquares of the times, but merely as the times. I 
 mention thefe circumftances by way of caution to 
 
 other theorifts 5 not being at all difcouraged my- 
 
 \ 
 
 felf by fuch trifling failures, and hoping, by your 
 afliftance, to convince the world that no man can 
 
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 i8 ANNALS OF HORSEMANSHIP. 
 
 ever become a perfeft rider, unlefs he has firft 
 made mathematics his hobby-horfe. You will 
 pardon this innocent play of words on a fubje£t 
 fo ferious, and believe me to be, Sir, with great 
 efteem. 
 
 Yours, See. 
 
 Habakkuk Angle. 
 
 LETTER the FOURTH. 
 
 To Mr. G. Gambado. 
 
 S I R, 
 
 I Want your advice, and hope you will give it 
 me, concerning a horfe I have lately bought, 
 and which does not carry me at all in the fame 
 way he did the man I bought him of. Being re¬ 
 commended to a Dealer in Moorfields (who I 
 rather think is no honefter than he ought to be), 
 I went to him, and defired to look into his liable, 
 and fo he took me in $ with a long whip in his 
 hand, which he faid was to wake the horjfes that 
 
 might 
 
ANNALS OF HORSEMANSHIP. 19 
 
 inight perhaps be afieep, as they were but juft 
 arrived from a long journey, coming frefh from 
 the breeders in the North. There were fome 
 fine looking geldings, I thought, and I pitched 
 upon one that I thought would fuit me} and fo 
 he was faddled, and I defired the Dealer to mount 
 him, and he did, and a very fine figure the geld¬ 
 ing cut y and fo the people in the ftreet faid ; and 
 a decent man, in a fcratch wig, faid, the man 
 that rode him knew how to make the molt of 
 him 5 and fo I bought him. But he goes in a 
 different manner with me, for inftead of his 
 capering like a Trooper, he hangs down his head 
 and tail, and neither whip nor fpur can get him 
 out of a fnail’s gallop. And I want to know 
 whether by law I mu ft keep him, as he is not 
 certainly the horfe I took him for; and there¬ 
 fore I ought to have my money again. 
 
 The Limner in our lane was with me when 
 I bought him, and has taken a pifture of him 
 as he was with the Dealer on his back, and 
 
 K another 
 
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 ANNALS OF HORSEMANSHIP. 
 
 another as he now goes with me upon his back ; 
 by which you will fee the difference, and judge 
 better how to advife me upon it. 
 
 I am, Sir, your humble Servant, 
 
 Tobias Higgins. 
 
 Lavender Row, Shoreditch. 
 
 Pleafe to diredt to Mr. 7". H. Back-maker; or it may go 
 to my Namefake, the Turncock. 
 
 Reply to Letter the Fourth . 
 
 S I R, 
 
 U PON a ftridt examination of the two pictures 
 by the Limner in your lane, I am clear 
 you are in poffeffion of the identical horfe you 
 intended to purchafe, although he does not exhibit 
 quite fo much agility under you, or make fo 
 
 tearing a figure as when mounted by Mr. - 
 
 who I am well acquainted with, and who, you may 
 depend upon, is as honeft a man as any that deals in 
 horfe flefh. You could have no right to return 
 the horfe if he went no better than one with his 
 
 legs 
 
is / fot: t ’ »ta/\'e/ 1 'MO&C < 
 
 
 
 
 

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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 another .is he now w h u- upon hi* hack; 
 
 'M « . an 4k ... 
 
 jud^C 
 
 better bow to * > *. 
 
 Servant, -3 
 
 ' i \s Higgins. 
 
 Latixi 
 
 
 Pirn 
 
 
 
 Turncock. 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 w of *iw tot. [tchim 
 • «i r in \our iane, 1 am clear , 
 
 ■ • of the identical hurit \«mi 
 
 Snoijh 
 
 
 
 »>•••., and oho, you may 15 II 
 
 
 
 • .1. t vou, .tr make f " . 
 | •• to n-<'ut**d by Mr 
 
 h‘ .\c no noht to return 
 
 the boric H >i ** «» Wttrr than one with his «• • 
 
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 legs tied. You ftand in the predicament of Lord 
 P——, who gave twenty guineas for Punch, and 
 when he found he could not make him fpeak, 
 profecuted the Puppet-fhew-man; but my Lord 
 
 Chief Juftice adjudged the man to keep his money, 
 and my Lord, his Punch, although he could not 
 get a word out of him. 
 
 My opinion is, Sir, as you a(k it: that the 
 decent man in the fcratch wig made a very fenfible 
 
 remark, when he obferved, that my friend Mr.-- 
 
 knew how to make the moft of a horfe, and I am 
 fatisfied that you, Sir, know with equal facility, 
 how to make the leaf! of one. 
 
 I am, Sir, your humble Servant, 
 
 G. Gambado. 
 
 P. S. I am forry to add, my Maid tells me, that two flail- 
 lings out of your five were very bad ones. 
 
 LETTER 
 
( 22 ) 
 
 LETTER the FIFTH. 
 
 To G. Gambado, Efq . 
 
 s I R, 
 
 S I confider you, both from your fituation 
 
 JL A. and eminence in the fcience of Horfemanlhip, 
 as the fuperior and patron of all Riding Mailers, 
 permit me, an humble member of that honourable 
 
 profeflion* to requeft your countenance in my 
 
 endeavours to diffufe the noble and ufeful accorn-* 
 plifhment over the whole kingdom. 
 
 It is well known that many of his Majefty’s 
 faithful fubje&s, whofe occupations oblige them 
 daily to figure as Equeftrians; fo far from having 
 been inftru&ed in the art of Riding, are totally 
 ignorant that any fuch art, or rather fcience, exifts. 
 For the benefit of thefe, I propofe publifiling a 
 Treatife on Horfemanfliip, confined to the lower 
 dalles of life. 
 
 The 
 

 <jua.n *i:m Mn-rvTU*’ ab ru 
 

 • I K, 
 
 A s I e*«<:iAw « * *m l* »a«n vour fituation 
 
 ’ 'ing Mailers, 
 
 < many of his Majc'K’s 
 I, <a nations obkge 
 
 * «i* •, t > ‘ar »>"•» having ; 
 
 i .* •¥, •»« totally 
 vtxre, exilb. 
 
 * *. . publiflvng a 
 
 * \. ■**•*». to the lower 
 
* 
 
 / 
 
 Qj^rrirtfo <wuzJce/ &tey £ea<t& 
 
 QUANTUM' MIT TAT US AB ILLO HE C TORE . 
 tSfDOlfffPubljlh'd J 9 ■ WDICKINSON N?2 4 Old Bond Street. 
 
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ANNALS OF HORSEMANSHIP. 
 
 23 
 
 The firft part I fhall dedicate to the inftru&ion 
 of that very numerous and brilliant fraternity, called 
 London Riders, or Bagfters; who cut, or rather (as 
 my Lord Chefterfield will have it) make fo fmart 
 a figure in a country town; for thefe gentlemen, I 
 propofe to point out and demonftrate, from irrefra¬ 
 gable principles, the handfomeft manner of riding 
 behind their bags, with the genteeleft method of 
 rolling, ftrapping, and carrying their great coats. 
 In a fhort digreflion, and a few marginal notes, I 
 intend to drop fome hints, inftru£ting butchers in 
 the finarteft fafhion of carrying a tray, whether 
 loaded or empty. 
 
 I fhall likewife rifcjue a few thoughts relpefting 
 the theory and practice of the art of riding before 
 a lady on a double horfe, vulgarly termed a la 
 gormagon , with fome neceffary inftru&ions thereon ; 
 a due attention to which matters has more than 
 once tranfplanted a coachman from his box, or a 
 footman from behind the coach, and placed him 
 in the carriage by the fide of his Miftrefs. 
 
 L I pro« 
 
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 ANNALS OF HORSEMANSHIP. 
 
 I propofe alfo to devote part of my labours to 
 the fervice of the fair fex, in compofing a fet of 
 
 cafy rules for riding gracefully between a pair of 
 
 \ 
 
 panniers, and fupporting a butter balket in the mod 
 elegant ftile; a thorough pofieffion of thele at¬ 
 tractions may draw the attention of the fox-hunt¬ 
 ing Squires, and poflibly raife the Lady poflefling 
 them, to the dignity of Spoufe to his Worlhip the 
 Juftice. 
 
 That nothing may be wanting, I propofe to 
 appropriate a few pages to the art of fitting po¬ 
 litely in carriages, with the mod becoming attitudes 
 adopted to each vehicle. Among others, the politeft 
 manner of airing, tn famille in a gig, accompanied 
 with a hufband and three children • and, as there is 
 no fituation wherein art cannot be advantageoufly 
 
 employed, I lhall give a few precepts for the mod 
 
 % • 
 
 advantageous difplay of the perfon on a hay, pea, or 
 dull; cart. For the ufe of both fexes, I had alfo 
 digeftcd a few hints and directions, pointing out the 
 mod folemn and affe&ing manner cf riding in a cart 
 
 up 
 
 
ANNALS OF HORSEMANSHIP. 25 
 
 up Holborn Hill, from Newgate to Tyburn ; but 
 the late adoption of the New Drop has made them, 
 in a great meafure, ufelefs in London j they may 
 however be ferviceable to perfons under fimilar 
 circumftances in country towns. As foon as I 
 have put my work together, I fhall beg your 
 opinion of it; being, Sir, 
 
 Your humble Admirer, and moft obedient Servant, 
 
 James La CpvQupe. 
 
 The above Work, if well executed, promifes to make a 
 
 very pretty Supplement to mine. 
 
 G . Gambado* 
 
 LETTER the SIXTH. 
 
 S I R, 
 
 B EING informed that you are now at home, and 
 defirous of giving every information in your 
 power to thofe who may ftand in need of it, refp edg¬ 
 ing their Horfes, I beg leave to fubmit my caie to 
 
 you 9 
 
 1 
 
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 ANNALS OF HORSEMANSHIP. 
 
 you •, which, confidering how fond I am ot the 
 chace, you muft admit to be a lamentable one. 
 Relying however, Sir, as I do, on your Philanthropy 
 (I fhould more properly fay Philippigv), and that 
 zeal in the caufe which has fo long charaQerifed 
 you, I make no doubt but the fmall difficulties I 
 now labour under will be foon fur mounted. 
 
 You muft know, Sir, I am very fond or hunting, 
 and live in as fine a fcenting country as any in the 
 kingdom. The foil is pretty ftiff, the leaps large 
 and frequent, and a great deal of timber to get over. 
 Now, Sir, my brown horfe is a very capital hunter $ 
 and though he is flow, and I cannot abfolutely ride 
 over the hounds (indeed the country is fo enclofed, 
 that I do not fee fo much of them as I could wiflf), 
 yet, in the end, he generally brings me in before the 
 huntfman goes home with the dogs , fo, thus far, 
 I have no reafon to complain. Now, Sir, my brown 
 horfe is a noble leaper, and never gave me a fall in 
 his life in that way $ but he has got an awkward trick 
 (though he clears every thing with his fore legs in 
 
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 capital ftile), of leaving the other two on the wrong 
 fide of the fence ; and if the gate or ftile happens 
 t • lx in a found ftate, it is a work of time and 
 • edr to get his hind legs over. He clears a 
 iUch find v indeed, with two feet, hut the other 
 conftantly fall in ; that it gives me a ft range pain 
 in my back, very like what is called a Lumbago j 
 am .adds you kindly ftand my friend, and inftruCt 
 me how I am to bring thefe hind legs after me, 
 I fear I ftiall never get rid of it. If you pleafe, . 
 you may ride him a hunting yourle’f try r 
 will pleafe to appoint, and you dial! b >, i\ 
 welcome. You will then be better enabled to give 
 nw vour advice 5 you can't have a proper conception 
 of the jerks he will give you, without trying him. 
 
 I am, Sir, with due refpe£t, 
 
 Your very humble Servant, 
 
 ■I Nic. Nutmeg, Clerk. 
 
 Hindurclay, near Bot esdale, 
 
 Suffolk. 
 
 P. S. I hope what I have enclofed is genteel. 
 
 Mr' Geoffrey Gambado . 
 
 M 
 
 LETTER 
 
ANNALS OF HORSEMANSHIP. 
 
 2 7 
 
 capital ftile), of leaving the other two on the wrong 
 fide of the fence and if the gate or ftile happens 
 to be in a found ftate, it is a work of time and 
 trouble to get his hind legs over. He clears a 
 ditch finely indeed, with two feet, but the others 
 conftantly fall in ; that it gives me a ftrange pain' 
 in my back, very like what is called a Lumbago; 
 and unlefs you kindly ftand my friend, and inftru£t 
 me how I am to bring thefe hind legs after me, 
 I fear I final! never get rid of it. If you pleafe, Sir, 
 you may ride him a hunting yourfelf any day you 
 will pleafe to appoint, and you fhall be heartily 
 welcome. You will then be better enabled to give 
 
 o 
 
 me your advice 5 you can’t have a proper conception 
 of the jerks he will give you, without trying him. 
 
 I am, Sir, with due reipe£t, 
 
 Your very humble Servant, 
 
 Nic. Nutmeg, Clerk. 
 
 Hinderclay, near Botesdale, 
 
 Suffolk. 
 
 P. S. I hope what I have enclofed is genteel. 
 
 Mr. Geoffrey Gambado . 
 
 M 
 
 LETTER 
 
28 
 
 ANNALS OF HORSEMANSHIP. 
 
 The ANSWER. 
 
 REVEREND SIR, 
 
 Y OUR brown horfe being fo good a hunter, 
 
 and, as you obferve, having fo fine a notion 
 
 \ 
 
 of leaping, I fliould be happy if I could be of any 
 fervice in aflifting you to make his two hind legs 
 
 follow the others; but, as you obferve, they feem 
 
 , * * / 
 
 fo very perverfe and obftinate, that I cherifh but 
 fmall hopes of prevailing upon them. 
 
 I have look’d, and found many fuch cafes, but 
 no cure. However, in examining my papers, I 
 have found out fomething that may prove of fervice 
 to you, in your very lamentable cafe. 
 
 An Hoftler (or Ofteler, for fo I believe it is 
 ufually written, though I find in the moft learned 
 Dictionary in our language, which explains fome 
 thoufands of words more than Johnfon, that it 
 is vulgarly and improperly written Oflteler, for 
 
 Otfteler, 
 
•X 
 
 c 
 
ANN \ HORSEMANSHIP. 
 
 Orftder, q» k ^ and this, it rnuft be 
 
 Tmu hi, mm- ■ iv* the \ rue word), an Otfteier 
 
 n h' mt- • ? me, that j< is a common tncl- 
 
 M . B tgfters, or l .on?!*: ? Rider-';, wlv u 
 
 generou 
 
 for a wicked boy > o-, , 
 
 he turns out of th ?! * p? p. ? tnch or 
 
 - ,?i ' k * • • • \ •. u. h he ihftantlv brinos 
 
 * t> 
 
 down u j. * *? * /he <«» > * , holds it; fa ft, kicking at 
 
 the fame time at Rich a rate as to diflodge the 
 Bagman that beftrides him. (The annexed Plat : 
 will (hew how the ftsck fhould be placed). Here, 
 Sir, is a horfe that lilts up his hind legs v,hth-. ■ 
 moving his fore ones; and juit the reverie, ... 
 may fay, of yours ; and, perhaps, the hint w 
 acceptable. Suppofe, then, when yovul on. 
 flowai over a gate or a ftile in his old was', v 
 fori; legs only, you were to difmoui.v, 
 your whip, or ftick, properly m,.j, ■ . nd 
 
 then mount again; the. pi nv : , 1 <; little 
 
 mot or* wid let him or. hi » mmples in a 
 
 hurry, 
 

ANNALS OF HORSEMANSHIP. 29 
 
 Otfteler, query Oat-ftealer, and this, it muft be 
 allow’d, appears to be the true word), an Otfteler 
 then has informed me, that it is a common trick 
 play’d upon Bagfters, or London Riders, when 
 they are not generous to the fervants in the Inn, 
 for a wicked boy or two to watch one of them, as 
 he turns out of the gateway, and to pop a bufh or 
 ftick under his horfe’s tail, which he inftantly brings 
 down upon the ftick, and holds it faft, kicking at 
 the fame time at fuch a rate as to diflodge the 
 Bagman that beftrides him. (The annexed Plate 
 will ftiew how the ftick fhould be placed). Here, 
 Sir, is a horfe that lifts up his hind legs without 
 moving his fore ones; and juft the reverfe, as I 
 may fay, of yours ; and, perhaps, the hint may be 
 acceptable. Suppofe, then, when your horfe has 
 flown over a gate or a ftile in his old way, with his 
 fore legs only, you were to diftnount, and clap 
 your whip, or ftick, properly under his tail, and 
 then mount again , the putting him in a little 
 motion will fet him on his kicking principles in a 
 
 hurry, 
 
3 0 ANNALS OF HORSEMANSHIP. 
 
 hurry, and its ten to one but, by this means, you 
 get his hind legs to follow the others. You will be 
 able, perhaps, to extricate your Hick from its place 
 of confinement, when you are up and over (if you 
 an’t down); but Ihould you not, it is but fixpence 
 gone. I fend you this as a mere furmife; perhaps 
 it may anfwer, perhaps not. 
 
 I thank you for your offer, which is a very kmd 
 one, but I beg to be excufed accepting it •, all 
 my anibitio'n being to add to the theory, with as 
 little practice as poffible. 
 
 I am, Rev. Sir, your molt humble Servant, 
 
 G. Gambado. 
 
 Rev. Nic. Nutmeg , Hinder clay, Suffolk. 
 
 N. B. What you enclofed was perfe&ly genteel, and 
 agreeable too* 
 
 Note. 
 
 Mr. Gambado fhews more good writing, at leaft more knowledge of 
 what good writing ihould be, in the beginning of the above Anfwer, 
 than in any of his Letters. The judicious Reader will obferve that the 
 Anfwer at firit is an echo of the Letter it replies to. This is approach¬ 
 ing to excellence ; it is bordering on the abilities of a Statefman; for fo 
 
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ANNALS OF HORSEMANSHIP. 
 
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 the Minifler’s addrefs re-echoes the fpeech from the Throne. Geoffrey’s 
 parts appear furely calculated for more places than one; and I do not 
 fcruple to think it pofhble, that, with a proper education, he might have 
 been on the Treafury Bench; and a very pretty Statefman, I dare fay, he 
 would have made. 
 
 Note . 
 
 The Dictionary above alluded to, is a very deep work : inftead of its 
 containing more words by thoufands only than are in Johnfon—Johnfon 
 does not give us ten words that are in it—nor does it contain much above 
 ten words that are in Johnfon. No family fhould be without it, efpeci- 
 ally fuch as have plenty of young Mailers and Miffes in them; for it 
 will at once fatisfy any little doubts in their unfledg’d underflandings, 
 and let them into all the natural, but vulgar tricks and expreflions that 
 they ought to avoid. This admirable Dictionary is entitled a Claflical 
 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue. 
 
 Note . 
 
 If Lord Aboyne fhould lofe his Creft, which I don’t fee how he can 
 well do, I would advife him to adopt this print of Mr. Nutmeg’s hunter, 
 to which his Lordfhip’s motto is finely applicable. 
 
 “ St ant cetera tigno .” 
 
 N 
 
 LETTER 
 
( 32 ) 
 
 LETTER the SEVENTH. 
 
 To G. Gambado. Efq, 
 
 S I R, 
 
 H EARING much of your knowledge in horfes, 
 I beg leave to afk your advice in a bufinefs 
 wherein my delicacy as a Gentleman is deeply 
 concern’d, and flatter myfelf that you will fenfibly 
 feel for my fituation, my future fortune in life in 
 a great meafure depending on your decifion. I 
 have the happinefs to be well received by a young 
 
 Lady of fortune in this town, who rides out every 
 
 * k / 
 
 morning, and has had the goodnefs to permit me to 
 join her for fome days paft. I flatter myfelf I am 
 belov’d j but, Sir, the horfe I ride is my Father’s, 
 and he will not allow me to part with him : and 
 this horfe, Sir, has an infirmity of fuch an extreme 
 indelicate nature, that our interviews are broke o£F 
 
 every five minutes, and my dear Mifs S_will 
 
 perhaps 
 
ruLCHERiMus alter. Altera qttas Orieks kabuit praslata puellis 
 
 LOKBon. Publi£b’d,Marcb 25 T 
 
 W.DICKINSON N?24 Old Bond Street. 
 
 Ovid 
 

 \NNAIf F HORSEMANSHIP. 
 
 33 
 
 ftt-haps away \*i > fame ocher Gownfman 
 is m * ' ently mounted. 
 
 *' u ire not mention, in plain terms, the 
 1 «*.:ng t * g of my horfe ; but, perhaps * » 
 
 » n > cy’s Di&ior v , j ou ma> h k 
 undc\ the article of ' ' * * ^ 
 
 me a recipe f< 
 
 mydc\rp» ' a 7 e *n*J fcveral c\pe- 
 
 nnients^ bar h . % d unlefs you Hand my 
 
 friend, I lhall go detracted. 
 
 Info ium Regina juies rr.ov :r? do A r em. 
 
 1 am, my dear Sir, 
 
 V \ a g r cat fufs, Your* meat I . 
 
 George Gul>i owi 
 
 St. John's Coll, ambriocs. 
 
 P.S. Regina I. not her name, Jon ma^oe t:... V n 
 I be allow'd to fa , I a:n very anxious i< . \ r> r* ii»» 
 
 wer, as (he ri 
 
 V avert nJ*m. 
 
 Farrier, who forwarded irodlv fortK ^ • to Mr. Gilly¬ 
 flower 
 
ANNALS OF HORSEMANSHIP. 
 
 33 
 
 perhaps ride away with fome other Gownfinan 
 who is more decently mounted. 
 
 I really, Sir, dare not mention, in plain terms, the 
 (hocking failing of my horie ; but, perhaps, if you 
 look into Bailey’s Dictionary, you may find it out 
 under the article of Wind. Be pleas’d, Sir, to fend 
 me a recipe for this horrid infirmity, or I may lofe 
 my dear girl for ever. I have tried feveral expe¬ 
 riments, but all in vain ; and unlefs you (land my 
 friend, I (hall go diftraCted. 
 
 Infandum Regina jubes renovare dolor em. 
 
 I am, my dear Sir, 
 
 In a great fufs, Your’s moft truly, 
 George Gillyflower. 
 
 St. John’s Coll. Cambridge. 
 
 P . S* Regina is not her name, don’t imagine that. May 
 I be allow’d to fay, I am very anxious for an immediate 
 anfwer, as fhe rides out again on Friday next. 
 
 Memorandum . 
 
 In confequence of the above, I fent the cafe to my 
 Farrier, who forwarded directly fome powders to Mr. Gilly- 
 
 flower 
 
34 
 
 ANNALS OF HORSEMANSHIP. 
 
 flower with the following Note. The efficacy being fo 
 certain, the trifling indelicacy of the prefcription muft be 
 excufed. 
 
 Honoured Sir, 
 
 By advice from Mr. Gambado of your horfe’s complaint, 
 I have fent you a powder fo ftrong, that if adminifter’d 
 night and morning in his corn, will be bold to fay no horfe 
 in England {hall ever fart again after Thurfday next. .Shall 
 be very thankful for your Honour’s cuftom in the fame way 
 in future, and your Lady’s too, if agreeable; being, 
 Honoured Sir, 
 
 * 
 
 Your Servant to command, 
 
 Jo. Wood. 
 
 At my Houfe at Chefhunt every day. Horfes fhod agreeable to 
 nature and according to art. 
 
 G. Gillyflower, Efq . St. Johns Coll. Cambridge . 
 
 Additional Memorandum . 
 
 I thought it neceflary to employ my Draughtfman, to 
 delineate an interview, between a Gentleman and Lady 
 enamour’d of each other, mounted on horfes, labouring 
 under the infirmity mentioned in the above letter. The 
 attitude of the animals, at thefe times, is admirably Angu¬ 
 lar ; and has fuch an effedt on the Rider, as always to attradt 
 his eyes towards the tail, to fee what is the matter. Indeed 
 
 the 
 
ANNALS OF HORSEMANSHIP. 
 
 35 
 
 the back becomes fomewhat like that of a camel, until all 
 is ventilated. I have feen fo many things of this kind, that 
 I am concern’d for the young Lady’s feelings, on this occa- 
 lion, knowing they mud: be great. But dill, thofe feelings, 
 well delineated, might have as line an effect as Le Brun’s 
 Pallions.—I fear, however, my friend Wood, and his prefcrip- 
 tions, will be in difgrace ; for a day or two ago, the learned 
 
 Dr.—-of St. John’s College (the fame to which Mr. 
 
 Gillyflower belongs), call’d on me for an ointment, to make 
 the hair grow on his horfe’s tail; and talking about Mr. 
 
 Gillyflower’s horfe, he faid he knew him ; that he had bought 
 
 * , 
 
 him out of the Duke of Norfolk’s Stud. I then told the 
 Do&or of the awkward infirmity he had ; upon which, he 
 faid, he was not a bit furpriz’d, for the horfe was got by 
 Phlegon, and Phlegon was one of the Sun’s horfes he drove 
 in his chariot ; and that Phlegon and the other three were 
 all got by the winds * ; fo that no Wood in the kingdom 
 would be able to get his windy tricks out of him. 
 
 Mr. Gillyflower being a fcholar, might have known as 
 much, methinks. 
 
 G. G. 
 
 * Naturum (obferved the Dobtor) expellas furea tamen ufque recurret. 
 
 O LET I’ER 
 
( 36 ) 
 
 \ 
 
 LETTER the EIGHTH. 
 
 To the Editor of the Annals of Horfemanjhip. 
 Mr. Gambado, 
 
 I AM a tradefman, in the middling way, and keeps 
 a fhop in Holborn, where you may be furnifhed 
 with the beft hofe, of all forts, at the loweft prices; 
 but being determined to pay every one their own, 
 without fwindling, cannot afford to keep a one horfe 
 fhay, or a gigg; and yet having a wife and daughter 
 grown up to woman’s eftate, I could w T ifh, for 
 quietnefs fake, to give them an airing to Highgate, 
 Hampftead, orHornfey, on a Sunday, like the reft of 
 my neighbours; but this I cannot cleverly do on a 
 fingle horfe, which is all I keeps. I was therefore 
 thinking, that as you knows all about thefe here 
 things, you might tell me of fome kind of faddle, 
 whereby it might be done, for we are all of us little, 
 and very flight. I therefore takes the liberty of 
 
 axing 
 
ANNALS OF HORSEMANSHIP. 
 
 37 
 
 axing your advice, and am ready to make you the 
 compliment of a pair of beft boot ftockings for it. 
 
 I think it is a lhame the Society of Arts do not 
 advertife a premium for finding out fome oeconomical 
 fcheme of this nature. Inftead of which, at this 
 very time, you have a parcel of fellows who go about 
 teaching folks to ride on three horles at once, when 
 as how there are very few, in a moderate line, that 
 can afford to keep half a one. 
 
 I am, yours, &c. 
 
 Timothy Leg. 
 
 P, S . I have fome notion the Legs are related to the Gam¬ 
 bados. I know we are a-kin to the Boots. 
 
 The ANSWER. 
 
 Mr. Leg, 
 
 I F you can purchafe a very long-back’d horfe, the 
 thing you require is very practicable, and by one 
 common, and two fide faddles, you may all ride in file, 
 or one behind the other $ one lady facing to her 
 
 right, 
 
3 8 ANNALS OF HORSEMANSHIP. 
 
 right, the other to her left. But if your horfe is of 
 the fhort punchy kind, you may manage the matter 
 nearly in rank, or all in a row, by means of two 
 appendages like panniers. 
 
 Thus, I think, I can accommodate anybody, who 
 has more than two to be convey’d, and is either 
 pofleft of a long, or a fhort-back’d horfe. 
 
 I make no doubt but you are conne&ed fome 
 way or other with us, I therefore have fent you al! 
 the whole fome advice I could. And as there is no 
 contenting all, I hope, at lead, the Legs will be fatis- 
 fied, whoever elfe may grumble. 
 
 I am your Friend and Kinfman, 
 
 G. Gambado. 
 
 Your boot dockings will be very acceptable, as I have a 
 touch of the gout in my knees. 
 
 LETTER 
 
38 ANNALS OF HORSEMANSHIP. 
 
 x -ht, the other to her left Hat if your horfe is cf 
 the (h- t punchy kina \ . i nay manage the matter 
 c.«r!y in rank, or all . a row, by means of two 
 appendages like pannier*. 
 
 Thus, I think, I can accommodate anybody, who 
 has more than two to be convey’d, and is either 
 pofleft of a long, or a fhort-back’d horfe. 
 
 I rrake no doubt but you arc conne&ed fome 
 way or other with us, I therefore have fent you al! 
 the wholef me advice I could. And as there is no 
 contenting a I, 1 hope, at leaft, the Legs will be fatis- 
 fied, whoever elfe may grumble. 
 
 % I am your Friend and Kinfman, 
 
 G. Gambado. 
 
 Your boot ftocktH£* wi'J be very acceptable, af I hare a 
 
 touch of the gout in my knee*. 
 
 
 
 LETTER 
 
)NDON,Publilh’d March 2 b ;*1791,byW.DfCl 
 
( 39 ) 
 
 LETTER the NINTH. 
 
 To G. Gambado, Efq . 
 
 Mr. GAMBADO, 
 
 T HE following very lingular affair happening 
 in my prefence yefterday, I take the earlieft 
 opportunity of informing you of it: in hopes, if 
 any other accounts of it Ihould reach you, my ftory 
 may be heard firft. I was juft come out of my 
 parilh church, where I had, indilfolubly I fuppofe, 
 united one John Mudd, to one Elizabeth Middle- 
 ditch. I was detain’d fome time in the belfry, 
 reprimanding my Clerk for fuffering a tribe of 
 filthy dogs to be parading the aide during the 
 nuptial ceremony; when, on my entering the 
 
 church-yard, I defcried John, rather too fweet upon 
 
 » 1 
 
 Elizabeth, and conducting her among the tomb- 
 ftones, under the large apple-trees. I inftantly fallied 
 to rout them, which, as I was effecting, I heard a noife 
 
 P of 
 
4° 
 
 ANNALS OF HORSEMANSHIP. 
 
 of a tremendous kind, and looking up, faw (its a 
 fa£f) a fierce-looking man, mounted on a horfe of 
 great magnitude, prancing in the middle of an 
 apple-tree. He fhowered down the pippins like 
 hail upon us, and, as I faw he was about to defcend, 
 I, for fear of the worft, took to my heels, and was 
 home, I believe, in a fhorter time by fome minutes 
 than I was the Sunday before, when there was a 
 danger of a turbot’s being overdreft. The parifh 
 have taken it up ; and, I underftand, ftoriesof the 
 turbot are handed about, to hurt me with the 
 Bifhop; and this laft bufinefs of the apple-tree, is 
 turn’d into very fliameful fcandal. But the above 
 is truth, I am ready to affirm. I have fince heard, 
 that the figure and horfe came to the earth, and 
 flying over the church-yard wall, were feen no 
 more. I have put fome of the pippins in brandy 
 (not for eating), as no doubt they will fetch a high 
 price when this ftory is publickly known. I am 
 told alfo, that after my taking to flight, John and 
 his Mate return’d under the apple-tree, no more 
 
 difmay’d 
 
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 ANNALS OF HORSEMANSHIP. 4 r 
 
 difmay’d than if they had feen a common man a 
 horfeback. 
 
 ^ _ * 
 
 I am, Sir, moft afluredly yours, 
 
 G. Tackem. 
 
 Whether this was fomewhat preternatural or no, I cannot 
 determine. I am a good deal dagger’d in my belief, and 
 dare not, at prefent, make publick my opinions. But I 
 fhould be glad to hear yours. I have, however, determin’d 
 to have the apple-trees down. 
 
 MY OBSERVATIONS. 
 
 / 
 
 This is very hard upon the apple-trees, and harder upon 
 thofe that make pies from them. The dory certainly feem’d 
 furprizing at fird ; and being, I confefs, a little fuperdi- 
 tious, I fufpedted my Divine was none of the over-righteous, 
 and that either a fpirit, or his confcience, frighted him. 
 But the matter was foon clear’d up, by the receipt of the 
 following letter, which came to my hands about five day* 
 after die other. 
 
 Mr. Sir, 
 
 I forgot your name, and fo got a friend to direct this to 
 you. I am told you are a ufeful man, that you publifh all 
 
 you 
 
42 
 
 ANNALS OF HORSEMANSHIP. 
 
 you receive, and believe all you publifh, Now, if you can 
 fwallow this, you will any thing ; though I’ll be d-—d if it 
 is not true. Laft Thurfday our hounds ftarted a hare fo fud- 
 denly, whilft we were chatting and lolling carelefsly, that, 
 by G—, my horfe, ,who pulls like the devil, was off with me 
 in a jiffey. As ill luck would have it, the curb broke, and 
 he ran ftraight on for the cliffs above the Scar. I was in a 
 hell of a flew, but ftuck faft, and pull’d, and haul’d, to try 
 to turn him, but to no purpofe ; for he made a fort of a flay 
 towards the cliff, and down we both went, by G—d. As 
 good luck would have it, we came plump into a large apple- 
 tree, in a church-yard, where we fwung for fome time, but 
 the boughs gave way, and brought us fafe and found to land. 
 I tipp’d my nag over a broken place in the wall, and foon found 
 the hounds again. But the fined: thing of all was, when we 
 firfl: lit in the apple-tree, up bounced a fine girl from under¬ 
 neath ; and a moment after, ecod! did Pudding-fleeves 
 himfelf, in full regimentals; I gave him a tantara, and the 
 Do&or ran like a hare. You may infert this if you pleafe, 
 and as it’s a fad, you may tack my name to it; being, 
 
 Your humble Servant, 
 
 Henry Bougle, Jun. 
 
 Huntscrag, 
 
 Northumberland. 
 
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 ANNALS OF HORSEMANSHIP. 
 
 - \ 
 
 OBSERVATIONS, 
 
 The above extraordinary affair appeared firft in the pub- 
 lick paper at Newcaftle, and was afterwards copied into 
 thofe in London; the anecdote of the Clergyman excepted, 
 I own I did not give credit to it, until I received the above 
 letters, which put it beyond all doubt. For one of my cor- 
 refpondents was the perfon himfelf who made the extraor*. 
 dinary defcent; and the Dodtor, who vouches for it, I 
 fhould imagine, had as lieve it had never happened. 
 
 It is indeed worthy a place in thefe Annals, as a very 
 lingular accident; but I know not what knowledge is to be 
 derived from it, except, that a down leap is not fo very 
 dangerous, provided you have an apple-tree to leap into : 
 at the fame time, fuch a tree affords but bad fhelter for an 
 amour, at leaft at the foot of a fteep cliff, as the Dodtor 
 muff admit. 
 
 G. G. 
 
 LETTER 
 
I 
 
 * a 
 
 ( 44 ) 
 
 LETTER the TENTH. 
 
 S I R, 
 
 P ERMIT me, through the channel of the 
 Penny Poll, to addrels you on a fubjedl I do 
 not entirely underlland; and which you, no doubt, 
 from the eminence of your name, are a moll com¬ 
 plete mailer of. I have bought a grey gelding 
 lately, which I never had leen out of the liable, 
 but he look’d a very grand figure in a Hall, and 
 they allured me he was found : fo, Sir, I bought 
 him, and the next day mounted and rode him to 
 Chifwick. The horfe, Sir, I prefumed went oddly; 
 and I got the holller of the King of Bohemia to 
 get up inllead of me, and let me fee him go. He 
 went extremely well with his fore legs, jull 
 clearing the ground; but he lifted up his hind 
 ones as if he was dancing, or drunk: it is the moll 
 
 fantallic 
 
 
 
ANNALS OF HORSEMANSHIP. 
 
 45 
 
 fantaftic way of going I ever faw $ and I fent, and 
 laid I Ihouid return him : the gentleman faid no— 
 that a horfe could not go too much above his 
 ground ; and if it was with his hind legs, it was 
 better he Ihouid do fo, than trip before and behind 
 too. 
 
 I wifh to know your opinion upon this: whether 
 I mu ft take him, or not. I am the joke of the 
 road wherever I go, and the blackguards advife 
 me to ride him tail foremoft. I don’t love a joke, 
 efpecially wherein concern’d myfelf; and rather 
 than have another cut upon me, I fhall cut riding 
 entirely, and fell this palfrey of mine to the pro¬ 
 prietors of the Brentford Fly. It is a pity, Sir, 
 that there is not room in the Leverian, or any other 
 Mufeum, to exhibit the extraordinary motions of 
 Bipeds and Quadrupeds ; which, I think, are often 
 more wonderful than their ftru£ture. Had there 
 been fuch a convenience, I could have fold my 
 horfe for a hundred guineas, as a fhew; and pro¬ 
 vided for a damn’d old Uncle of mine, that is 
 
 always 
 
 
46 ANNALS OF HORSEMANSHIP. 
 
 always in my way. Awaiting your anfwer, 
 
 I am, Sir, 
 
 Your moft refpe&fui Servant, 
 
 R. Morecraft, jun. 
 
 Seething Lane, 
 
 London. 
 
 IV. B. Having juft mentioned what I could fell my horfe 
 for, under particular circumftances; I muft beg you, at the 
 fame time, to underftand, that he is at your fervice for five 
 guineas. 
 
 G. Gambado . Efq. 
 
 Memoranda?)! to Letter the ‘Tenth. 
 
 I remember anfvvering this flippant young gentleman. 
 But I could neither make him comprehend, that his horfe 
 was afflicted with a double portion of the String Halt, or 
 that he was to give me a fee for my trouble. So our corre- 
 fpondence clofed. But the horfe is actually to be feen going, 
 four times a day, in the Greenwich, not the Brentford, Fly, 
 with a dog on his back ; and fo very rare and uncouth is his 
 method of handling his hind legs, that I have never feen fo 
 extraordinary an inftance of excellence in canine equitation. 
 
 G. G. 
 
 N.B. The 
 
ANNALS OF HORSEMANSHIP. 
 
 47 
 
 N . B. The Public to be told, I am not to be trifled with. 
 This young gentleman never wanted my advice, I dare fay ; 
 put me to fome expence in letters, about a damn’d horfe. 
 
 which he had better have given to his Uncle at once, for his 
 own riding. I don’t love a joke myfelf. 
 
 LETTER the ELEVENTH. 
 
 To Mr. Geoffrey Gambado. 
 
 SIR, 
 
 HE following Extract of a Letter from New- 
 
 i market fell into my hands lately, near 
 Chefter. It contains an account of fo extraordinary 
 and fevere a race, and exhibits fuch an inftance of 
 bottom in three horfes, as can fcarcely be parellel’d 
 in the annals of racing. I hope it comes under the 
 defcription that will gain it admittance into your 
 publication. I have made much enquiry at New¬ 
 market about it, and can only make out, that the 
 Oldeft Jockies fuppofe it to be a letter from the 
 
 R 
 
 Duke 
 
4 8 ANNALS OF HORSEMANSHIP. 
 
 Duke of Wharton to Sir William More, in 
 Chcfhire, who was his confederate on the turf. 
 
 I am, Sir, 
 
 Your very humble Servant, 
 
 John Hayman. 
 
 LETTER the TWELFTH. 
 
 Extraci of a Letter from Newmarket . 
 
 Thursday. 
 
 CC HpniS Da y following horfes ftarted for 
 A the King’s Plate: Lord Godolphin’s b. H. 
 Shakefpear, by his Arabian, out of a True Blue 
 Mare; Lord Portmore’s b. H. Looby, by Bright’s 
 Arabian, out of a Partner Mare; Mr. Panton’s 
 chef. H. Partner, by the Lonfdale Arabian, out of 
 a filler to Bonny Black. The betts were a to i, the 
 field againft Shakefpear. 
 
 i ft. Heat. Shakefpear took the lead, and fup- 
 
 ported 
 
ANNALS OF HORSEMANSHIP. 
 
 49 
 
 ported it at his ufual deep rate, thro’ the furzes, to 
 the. top of Choakjade, with Looby in his quarters all 
 the way ; but, in coming down the hill, he ran up to 
 him, and they difputed the lead every inch, to the three 
 mile poft, where Looby gain’d about half a length, 
 and kept it, till they came over-againft the Well Gap; 
 but before they reach’d the diftance poll, it was impof- 
 fible to difcern which was firft, and they ran in fo 
 clofe together, that it could not be decided which 
 won. Partner laid by, pull’d up, and walk’d in. 
 
 2d. Heat. Partner made all the play for the firft 
 two miles; and Looby, perceiving that Shakefpear 
 did not intend to call upon him, begun to be very 
 bufy along the ditch, and gave him fo much trouble 
 upon the flat, that juft as they enter’d the cords, 
 they were both at laps, and ran it every yard in; 
 but Looby being diftreft by the feverity of this, and 
 the firft heat, was forc’d to fubmit to his adverfary, 
 though with great honor, by half a neck. This 
 rais’d the odds to 3 to 1 Shakefpear did not win; 
 which were accepted by the judicious part of the 
 
 turf. 
 
ANNALS OF HORSEMANSHIP, 
 
 5 ° 
 
 turf, who relied on the Godolphin blood, and the 
 honefty of the True Blues. Shakefpear went away 
 brilkly the 3d Heat, clofely purfu’d by Partner, 
 while Looby lay too far behind, to profels difputing 
 this heat, as he had bravely done the two firft. They 
 were now in the third mile, and Partner had never 
 attempted to take the lead} for, as he was conlcious 
 he had the foot, though not the ftoutnefs of Shake- 
 Ipear, he intended to referve his pulh as long as 
 poflible y but Shakefpear being aware of that, and 
 trufting to his bottom, began to make running as he 
 croft the ruts, and difplay’d all his power upon the 
 flat, with good refolution: but could not conquer his 
 adverfary, till the riling ground from the diftance to 
 the winning poll, by means of his fuperior ftrength, 
 declar’d the conteft in his favour, by half a length, 
 hard run. This brought the betts to even money, 
 Shakefpear againft the field. 
 
 The 4th Heat they all jump’d off at fcore, and 
 ran the firft two miles as if they intended to tear one 
 another to pieces; they then llackened their pace, 
 
 and 
 
ANNALS OF HORSEMANSHIP. 
 
 5 1 
 
 •and came gently together to the flat, when they ran 
 at the top of their fpeed above half a mile, in which 
 they prevail’d by turns; whilft new wagers echoed 
 from the Betting Gap and cords every moment. And 
 now Shakefpear having indulg’d a little pull, in order 
 to have fomething in hand at coming in, was thrown 
 two lengths behind, and the other two continued 
 clofe together, ftuck and cut every yard, when he 
 made a loofe, as his laft effort, and catch’d them 
 within twenty yards of the ending port, dead run, and 
 their riders almoft exhaufted $ when Partner broke 
 down, and Looby yielded the victory, fcarcely by 
 half the head, and with it his life, for he died imme¬ 
 diately after the heat. 
 
 “ The weather is extremely fine, abundance of 
 good company, and the battle was fo equal, that the 
 vanquifh’d difdain’d to mourn, and the vi&or refus’d 
 to triumph. 
 
 Entered for the Mare's Plate to-morrow . 
 
 Juliet, full filler to Shakefpear. 
 
 Cordelia, by Cyprus, out of Bonny Black. 
 
 S Violante 
 
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 ANNALS OF HORSEMANSHIP, 
 
 Violante, by Bay Bolton, out of a Snake Mare. 
 
 Camilla, by the Curwen b. Barb, out of Roxana’s dam, 
 
 Rofalinde, by Childers, out of Brockels by Betty. 
 
 And my chef. Mare, Arethufa. 
 
 ic The chief betts at prefent are $ even money 
 my mare and Juliet againft the field. They are all 
 in fine condition, and it will undoubtedly be a 
 fmoking heat, for I ihall order my mare to go off 
 at fcore, and run it every yard 3 you know {lie’ll 
 come through without a pull. As foon as the 
 battle is over, I’ll fend you an account of the 
 vi£Iory by Tom, and am extremely forry that 
 your indifpofition detains you from your favourite 
 diverfion, the turf. 
 
 “ Hannibal is fallen lame, and your horfe will 
 win hollow on Saturday. Vi£lim has paid forfeit 
 to my young horfe, and I have match’d him with 
 Pluto for a thoufand.” 
 
 OBSER- 
 
ANNALS OF HORSEMANSHIP. 
 
 S3 
 
 OBSERVATION. 
 
 This was a race indeed, and worthy recording in my 
 Annals. Many thanks to the Correfpondent who commu¬ 
 nicated it. 
 
 G. G. 
 
 LETTER the THIRTEENTH. 
 
 To G. Gambado, Efq . 
 
 GOOD SIR, 
 
 I AM in great hafte, having a great quicknefs of 
 pulfe, and my bed being now warming; but 
 cannot get into it without informing you how faft 
 I came home from Market to-night, and upon my 
 old Mare too, who was always unkind before as 
 to going. But fo it happened. The old Mare, 
 that I could never get to go above three miles an 
 hour, as foon as ever I was up, fet off, and the 
 devil could not flop her till fhe got home—ten 
 miles in about 58 minutes. I’m in a Iweat yet. 
 
 But 
 
ANNALS OF HORSEMANSHIP. 
 
 54 ' 
 
 But I have found out her motive, and now the 
 Public may make ufe of it—I had bought a couple 
 of lobfters to carry home, had their claws tied up, 
 and put one in each of my great coat pockets— 
 Well, the old gentleman in my right pocket (a 
 cunning one, I warrant him) fomehow or another 
 contrived to difengage his hands, and no doubt 
 foon applied them to the old Mare’s fide, and, I 
 imagine, had got faft hold of a rib by the time I 
 reach’d the ift mile-ftone$ for fhe was mad I 
 
 thought, and my hat and wig were gone in a 
 
 « 
 
 twinkle—(a wig made by the man who advertifes 
 they never fly off the ears—a rafcal—wigs may 
 now be univerfally complained of). However, 
 when I got oft, and had taken a little breath, I 
 
 i 
 
 went into the kitchen to unload, but mift one of 
 my lobfters; fo I run back into the ftable, and 
 there was the hero hanging at the old Mare’s fide : 
 (he’d had enough of it, and fo ftood quiet. I eat 
 the foldier to-day, and had like to have died of 
 laughing the whole time. Now, don’t you: think 
 
 a lobfter 
 

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 i791 bv W DICK. SO * N'il 0)i;Bond Strwt 
 
i* 
 
 ■ (H J! C R SEM ANSHIP. 
 
 motive, and now the 
 
 had bought a couple 
 
 eir claws tied up, 
 :oat pockets— 
 
 Well, the old gentleman m my right pocket (a 
 cunmner one. I warrant him) lomehow or another 
 
 2r» 7 
 
 contrived to difengage his hands, and no doubt 
 foon applied them to the old Mare’s fide, and, I 
 imagine, had got fall hold of a rib by the time I 
 reach’d the ift mile-ftone; for fhe was mad I 
 thought, and my hat and wig were gone in a 
 twinkle—(a wig made by the man who advertifes 
 they never fly oif the ears—a rafeal—wigs may 
 now be univerfally complained of). However, 
 when I £ot oil, and had taken a little breath, I 
 went into the kitchen to unload, but milt one of 
 mv lobliers ; fo I run back into the liable, and 
 there -was the hero hanging at the old Mare’s Side: 
 lhe’d had enough of it, 1 quiet. I eat 
 
 the foldier to-day, and had like to have died of 
 laughing the whole tin.,:. Now, don’t you:think 
 
 a 1 obiter 
 

ANNALS OF HORSEMANSHIP. 
 
 a lobfter might turn to account where a horfe is a 
 little dull or fo—mind me—if one of thefe fellows 
 is not worth more than a dozen pair of Mr. 
 
 * •*’ -- v 
 
 Moore’s bell fpurs—I’m a Dutchman—for 1 have 
 wore out a dozen upon the aforefaid mare in the 
 courfe of the fifteen laft years. Its eafily done, 
 only putting no handcuffs on them, and they’ll 
 foon go to work and do your bufinefs. Pray, Sir, 
 don’t you think they might be of ufe to the light 
 dragoons ? 
 
 I thought myfelf bound to inform you of this, 
 as hoping it would prove a great national difco- 
 very: I mean to keep lobfters on purpofe, for its 
 cheaper than buying a horfe inftead of my old 
 mare; and I can go falter with one of them in my 
 pocket than I could port. When my boys come 
 home from fchool, to hunt in the foreft, I mean 
 
 to treat each of them with a crawfifh for his poney, 
 
 * 
 
 and then, I think, we (hall head the field. 
 
 I am, Sir, yours, ever in hafte. 
 
 T 
 
 Peter Puffin. 
 LETTER 
 
( 56 ) 
 
 LETTER the FOURTEENTH. 
 
 , i 
 
 Mr. Gambado, 
 
 »« 
 
 • ' 
 
 I HAVE juft received the inclofed letter. As it 
 
 feems worthy publication, I beg you would 
 
 , * ' « 
 
 infert it in the Annals of Horfemanlhip, which I 
 hear you are going to bring out. 
 
 I am your humble Servant, 
 
 R. Tatt ERSHALL. 
 
 SIR, 
 
 • ^. * 
 
 AS I cannot conveniently attend in perfon at 
 
 your celebrated Repofitory at London, and beino- 
 in great want of fuch a kind of horfe, as I 
 fhall fpecify below, and as 1 prefume in your own 
 Stud you have more than one, fuch once viclo- 
 rious Steed on the Turf, though fuperannuated 
 
 for 
 
 A # 
 
 •4 
 
ANNALS OF HORSEMANSHIP. 
 
 57 
 
 for the Race, yet capable of eafy Road exerciie 
 (and the Writer here pretends to be as good 
 an Horfe-mafter as any in the Univerfe), I con¬ 
 fide on your fuppos’d candour to excufe this 
 liberty, after much debating in my mind, to write 
 immediately to yourfelf (having heard laft fum- 
 mer Mr. Score, a Flint-merchant, fpeak much to 
 your praife, who dines, he faid, often at your 
 Ordinary). I hope, therefore, you will indulge a 
 Stranger’s requeft, as moft probably you may 
 have fuch a Steed (in your own Stud) to dilpofe 
 of$ which will be efteemed a lingular favour to 
 your unknown, at prefent, though 
 
 Very humble Servant, 
 
 • • - • 
 
 Samuel Langley, (D.D.) 
 
 • ' • 
 
 Wanted an Horfe, M. or G. of ftze and ftrength, that 
 has figured on the Turf, that will be fold cheap, as being 
 in years, but not paft gentle road ufe, perfe&ly quiet and 
 temperate, whofe paces are fmooth and eafy to the Rider, 
 and free from all vice. 
 
 P. S. If 
 
58 ANNALS OF HORSEMANSHIP. 
 
 • • * 4 - 
 P. s. If an Horfe be recommended, I had rather he had 
 
 covered, if he will be ridden on the road in company with 
 
 a Mare, and be quiet as a Gelding. But I fhall not 
 
 approve of one, either blind, lame, or broken-winded. 
 
 Stiffnefs at ftarting I fhall not regard it, nor his Age, 
 
 though in his Teens, if his conftitution be good, and he can 
 
 feed well, and yet go well, and fafely to the Rider. 
 
 A line (and I pray fuch compliments may be fpeedily 
 
 vouchfafed me) of the Size, Age, Pedigree, Colour, and his 
 
 Performances, with his lowed: Price, will be immediately 
 
 attended to. If I approve of the account, and the terms, 
 
 1 fhall fend to buy and ride him down. The diftance is 
 
 about 142 miles (meafured), which he may perform, in 
 
 3 or 4 days, as you fhall advife. 
 
 ■*. " * . *■ 
 
 The Rev. Dr • Langley , 
 
 Checkley, May, 14, 1789. 
 
 Chechley , near Cheadle, StafferdJJjire. 
 
 LETTER 
 
# 
 
 ( 59 ) 
 
 ‘ 0 L 
 
 LETTER the FIFTEENTH. 
 
 i • . . • . 
 
 To Mr. G AMBADO. 
 
 SIR, 
 
 I HAVE loilg lamented that Riding (hould be 
 attended with fuch expence ; and fee no reafon 
 why many articles attending it, which coft money, 
 might not as well be difpenfed with as not. If a 
 Gentleman, when his Bills are brought in, is 
 fomewhat put to it, to pay for Hay and Corn 
 (which, by the bye, are necefiaryj or his Horfes 
 would be no better than Jack-Affes), why fhould 
 he be fo very extravagant in the article of Lea¬ 
 ther ? Your Gentleman now-a-days, muft have to 
 his bridle, two head flails, and two reins; to 
 his faddle, two flaps on each fide, two girths, a 
 crupper or a breaft-plate—perhaps both, not for¬ 
 getting a martingale, with its appendages. I have 
 
 U a£lually 
 
t 
 
 t 
 
 60 ANNALS OF HORSEMANSHIP. 
 
 actually feen a young Cockader, about town, 
 
 • • 
 
 with a breaft plate on his horfe, that threw his 
 faddle forwards, merely to be tally 5 whilft his 
 Companion’s nag, who flipt his girths, had a 
 crupper on like a Dragoon’s. But, Sir, thele 
 Chaps are not confined to their expenditure in 
 
 leather—Only obferve the buckles and ftuds, 
 
 ♦ ' \ * 
 
 • * 
 
 that ornament their trappings—Not a bridle, 
 but would furnifh a dozen of knives and forks— 
 nor a faddle that has not a tea-kettle and lamp 
 upon it. 
 
 Our Forefathers never rode in this way, and 
 I am happy that I forefee a Revolution is at hand. 
 
 It is needlefs to reprobate fuch expence, as the 
 Sadler’s bill probably brings in the punifhment 
 along with it. 
 
 Whether Adam, or Cain, or Abel ever rode, it 
 does not appear; but they had Horfes, and Dogs, 
 and Foxes, and Hares j and why are we not to 
 fuppofe that they went a hunting, and had as 
 good fport as we have (nay, better : for they had 
 
 no 
 
\ 
 
 \ 
 
 
 
 
 Lost DON, Publtlh'-i V. -h 
 
 %. STj 4 OW Bon, v-m. 
 
. ) >ung Cockader, about town, 
 
 i»Uu c i i his horfe, that threw his 
 !• = merely to be tatty} whillt his 
 
 Companion’s nag, who tlipt his girths, had a 
 crupper on like a Dragoon’s. But, Sir, thefe 
 Chaps are not confined to their expenditure in 
 leather—Only obferve the buckles and ftuds, 
 <t ornament their trappings—Not a bridle, 
 ulu furmfh a dozen of knives and fork ,— 
 nor a laddie that has not a tea-kuth aa.i lamp 
 . upon it. 
 
 Our lir ;, .cr ' Lins way, and 
 
 l am happy that 1 forefet a Revolution is at hand. 
 
 It is needlefs to reprobate fuch expence, as the 
 Sadler’s bill brings in the punilhment 
 
 akm^ with k 
 
 • • i < , or v . , • r Abel evei rode, it 
 
 vh • >< . ; • u • ,a ihc\ had Hc.rf *.d Dogs, 
 
 arid Kom , and Hares; a; •• we not to 
 
 .et'i that they vent and had as 
 
 good • as we have , i for they had 
 
London, PublifhYl March 25 
 
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I 
 
 ANNALS OF HORSEMANSHIP. 61 
 
 * • 
 
 no Huntfmen)? They muft, however, have rode 
 without faddles, it is pretty clear. 
 
 I do not find that thefe fuperfiuities were held 
 in much efteem in the time of the Romans. Ra¬ 
 phael, in his pi&ure of Attila, at Rome, has 
 treated us with a Hun or two, riding after the 
 fafhion of their country, I fuppofe. The devil a 
 bit of a bridle have they—nothing but a ftrap 
 round their Horfes neck, which they hold at each 
 end with their hands. Nor are their Nags of the 
 quieteft either, but feem to be Ihowing their agility 
 and caprioles to the beft advantage. By no means 
 fuch Palfreys as either I, or you Mr. Gambado, 
 would like to beftride without a bridle, and a 
 good plain faddle too. 
 
 One Stanurtius (a very learned old Author), 
 tells us, that in his time, the Wild Iriih (I don't 
 underftand how he diftinguilhes the Wild Irilh) 
 ufed to ride in a ftrange way, but you muft admit 
 they had no bridles. 
 
 <£ Tubarum 
 
 
6 a ANNALS OF HORSEMANSHIP. 
 
 •. 1 
 
 “ Tubaram fetas, aut equorum auriculas feniftra appre- 
 hendant; atque dum equi obftipis capitibus quieti fe incli- 
 nant, equites, etiam loricis aut fagis ami£ti, mera corporis 
 agilitate fe efferunt, divaricatriq! cruribus ephippia occu¬ 
 pant.” 
 
 Which may be thus turn’d into Englifh— 
 
 £< They feize their Horfes manes, or their ears, with their 
 left hand, and. whilfl; their Horfes were thus kept fteady, 
 the Riders, even if covered with their cuiraffes or fagums, 
 exerting a wonderful agility of body, fpring aftride into the 
 fad die.” 
 
 By this it appears to be very lucky, that cropping 
 Horfes, was not then the fafhion, or they would 
 have had but little command of them. The Wild 
 Irifh now, I am told, have reverfed the mode, and 
 
 i • 
 
 taken up the tail inftead of the poor ears, which are 
 negle&ed. 
 
 The Tartars of this day, Mr. Gambado, have no 
 faddles, but ride upon a Beef Steak, or a flice of 
 Horfe-flefh: which, by that means, becomes fufti- 
 ciently done for them to eat, by the time they have 
 
 finilh’d 
 

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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ANN O < HORSEMANSHIP. 63 
 
 finifh’d tr\'» v, What a delicious fucceda- 
 neum fo: . h anfwers two purpofes at once. 
 
 It d Uidlv t a .mfwers a fecond, it is, of galling 
 
 you confoundedly. 
 
 I have dropt a hint of a Revolution — and I ex¬ 
 pert one. Let the Huns look to it$ a fuccefsful 
 experiment of riding in their way, has lately been 
 made in my country ; but whether from motives of 
 oeconomy, curiofity, or emulation, I am yet to learn. 
 
 Mr. John Mann, a moft eminent Taylor of Bury 
 St. Edmunds, was one day obferved to mount his 
 horle (which flood at the door of a G entleman's 
 houfe in the neighbourhood) w’v n the bitt was out 
 of his mouth, and, in tl at mar c d 
 
 tov\ards home. My Informant followed him from 
 curiofity ; and, from what he could oblerve, law no 
 alteration it his t-c pt that he reel’d a little 
 
 at times, a cimimHanrn exceedb Mnl; dd 
 although he had three 1 ms m make to the right, 
 and two to the left, to thread the needle through 
 fome Mackerel carts on the road, and a Water to 
 
 X pafs; 
 

 
 
ANNALS OF HORSEMANSHIP, 63 
 
 finifh’d their airing. What a delicious fucceda- 
 neum for a faddle; it anfwers two purpofes at once. 
 If a faddle ever anfwers a fecond, it is, of galling 
 you confoundedly. 
 
 I have dropt a hint of a Revolution—and I ex- 
 pe£l one. Let the Huns look to it; a fuccefsful 
 experiment of riding in their way, has lately been 
 made in my country; but whether from motives of 
 oeconomy* curiofity, or emulation, I am yet to learn. 
 Mr. John Mann, a mod eminent Taylor of Bury 
 
 f 1 , 
 
 St. Edmunds, was one day obferved to mount his 
 horfe (which ftood at the door of a Gentleman’s 
 houfe in the neighbourhood) when the bitt was out 
 of his mouth, and, in that manner, to proceed rapidly 
 towards home. My Informant followed him from 
 curiofity ; and, from what he could obferve, faw no 
 alteration in his riding except that he reel’d a little 
 
 \ 5 
 
 at times, a circumftance exceedingly natural; and 
 although he had three turns to make to the right, 
 and two to the left, to thread the needle through 
 fome Mackerel carts on the road, and a Water to 
 
 X pafs; 
 
64 ANNALS OF HORSEMANSHIP. 
 
 pafs; (where, by the bye, he let his horfe flop too 
 long, and drink too much), yet he arrived fafe and 
 found at home. 
 
 Now confidering the five angles, the Mackerel 
 carts, and his not going over the bridge, which was 
 the right way; I queftion but fuch a performance 
 might have puzzled one of Attila’s fellows. 
 
 As bridles begin to lhake, fo I may well lay, 
 faddles totter. The Tartars mu ft not think them* 
 felves the only Moderns who ride without them. 
 It was but two years fince, at Afcot Heath, that the 
 thing was attempted and atchiev’d over the Gourfe 
 there. Two Gentlemen rode a match, and, won¬ 
 derful as it appeared to modern Britons, one was 
 feen to arrive at the ending Poll without his bridle, 
 and the other without his faddle. The latter Gen¬ 
 tleman had not even a Beef Steak to fit upon, 
 nothing but a pair of corderoys between him and 
 the Horfe’s back, the faddle following him behind 
 like a pillion. 
 
 By thefe proficiencies then let us hope, Sir, we 
 
 may 
 
 
ANNALS OF HORSEMANSHIP. 
 
 may knock off foon a very ufelefs portion of ex¬ 
 pence—overtake a Hun, and perhaps catch a Tartar. 
 
 I am. Sir, 
 
 Your obedient Servant, 
 
 John Hickathrift. 
 
 MY OBSERVATIONS. 
 
 The extraordinary performances of the Wild Irifh aftonifh 
 nobody. I had never heard of a Hun, when I read Mr. H.’s 
 Letter firft, and thought he meant a Hum. This may be a 
 pretty way of riding, for any thing I know ; but I am for a 
 bridle and faddle ; and fhall not grudge twenty pennyworth 
 of leather to make a martingale of, if it may fave fome of 
 my teeth. Vale John Hickathrift. 
 
 G. G. 
 
( 6 * ) 
 
 LETTER the SIXTEENTH. 
 
 Geoffrey Gambado 
 
 EDITOR OF VARIOUS LEARNED PERFORMANCES. 
 
 SIR, 
 
 OU have, no doubt, heard of a defcription of 
 
 Natural Philofophers, called Pigeon Fanciers, 
 who breed the bird of that name, and all its 
 varieties. I was once. Sir, a member of this com¬ 
 munity, till growing tir’d of Pouters, Tumblers, 
 Nuns, Croppers, Runts, &c. &c. I was refolved to 
 enlarge my ideas, by extending my refearches, and 
 abandoning the Biped, to obtain a clofer acquaint¬ 
 ance with the Quadruped, I became a Horfe Fan¬ 
 cier. Being fond of riding, and daily obferving, in 
 my airings to Brentford, a very great variety of 
 horfes, and a hill greater variety in their motions; 
 I fome years fince, fet about making a collection 
 
 of 
 
ANNALS OF HORSEMANSHIP. 67 
 
 of fuch as were Angular, and eccentric in their 
 fhapes and a&ions, and flatter myfelf no private 
 mufeum can have boafted of a more admirable 
 variety, than I have poflefled. I mean fome day or 
 other to clafs them, and by fo doing, think I 
 (hall be able to convince the Naturalifts, that, 
 from their form and performances, many horfes 
 are allied to the cow, and fome to the hog kind. 
 In the mean time, I fhall juft mention to you a 
 few varieties of this fame animal, which I have 
 had in my pofleffion; and which may, perhaps, 
 afford you an hour or two’s amufement and 
 reflexion. 
 
 I luckily pick’d up a Daifey-cutter, by his 
 throwing me down on the fmootheft part of the 
 grafs, in Hyde Park. I had heard of this de- 
 fcription of horfe frequently, but could not believe 
 the accounts of it, till I found it verified, by expe- 
 riencing his accomplifhments myfelf. It feems a 
 problem difficult to folve, how a horfe can put 
 forward his fore legs, without bending a joint of 
 
 Y them. 
 
68 
 
 ANNALS OF HORSEMANSHIP. 
 
 them, or, how he can meet with an impediment 
 to throw him down upon ground perfectly Imooth! 
 —but fo it is. The Daifey-cutter is admirably 
 eafy in his motion, and having once made the 
 experiment, upon, and from his back, I am per¬ 
 fectly fatisfied, and now keep him for my wife’s 
 own riding. 
 
 Of this variety, there is ftill a variety : this 
 horfe I likewife poflefs, and keep as a curiofity. 
 I imagine he mult come from fome diftant coun¬ 
 try, although he is nick’d after the Englilh fafhion; 
 for I cannot get any native to ride him twice.— 
 I have tried a Frenchman with no better fuccefs. 
 All declining a fecond attempt. This animal re- 
 fernbles the Daifey-cutter perfectly in the ufe of 
 his fore legs : but, inftead of carrying his head and 
 neck horizontally, like him, they are raifed fo high, 
 that his ears are in a perpendicular line with the 
 pommel of the faddle, and his eyes always fix’d on 
 the heavens. His fore parts, when in motion, by 
 this means, much refemble a double filh-hook, or 
 
f 7 h2/Jauy CaAfor ft/tSA'/uj AcvrAe&ed. 
 
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 A\ him .. i ’ " ‘ 'dc dcnornina- 
 
 The I' • ncr n a | * ' *t 
 
 wupht not ^ * 
 
 not , who ful ts aU the am - 
 
 foil m hi* kept in 1 
 
 fin*: imc r ■ »*d fcnfc r* 
 
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 itxncbody 
 

ANNALS OF HORSEMANSHIP. 
 
 69 
 
 an anchor, as thus ^ and I therefore 
 
 propofe to clafs him under one of thefe denomina¬ 
 tions. 
 
 The Threatener is another of this fpecies that 
 ought not to be forgot, and indeed he feldom is 
 by any one who has once poflefs’d him. By the 
 Threatener, Man himfelf, the Lord of the Crea¬ 
 tion, who fubdues all the animals that range the 
 foreft, is himfelf kept in fear and trepidation. 
 This ingenious animal has the fagacity at every 
 ftep to threaten the fracture of his rider’s neck $' 
 
 r 
 
 probably with a view to difcourage and even abo- 
 lilh the cuftom of riding in general: and at the 
 fame ime the good fenfe not to fall quite down, left 
 he fliould accidentally break his own. As amongft 
 pigeons, fo amongft hories, there are Tumblers. 
 The feat is, however, performed differently, and 
 varies confiderably in its effects on the performers. 
 As the pigeon executes this without any thing on 
 its back $ fo the horfe feldom atchieves it, without 
 
 fomebody 
 
70 ANNALS OF HORSEMANSHIP; 
 
 fomebody upon his. To the latter therefore we 
 mull gTve the greateft lhare of merit, who ventures 
 to perform upon a hard road what the other does 
 only in the air, without even a cloud to brulh 
 aorainft. The one preferring, it leems, the Milky, 
 and the other the Highway. 
 
 Amongft horfes I have never difcovered a Pouter $ 
 but I have had a fine Puffer *. The noife he made, 
 however, and particularly when at his bufinefs, was 
 not pleafant; and I let a neighbour have him 
 cheap, who had a good three-ftall mufeum, and a 
 very heavy vehicle to draw; fo that in all weathers 
 he might enjoy the entertainment of his very ex¬ 
 traordinary qualifications. 
 
 It is well known that there is a horfe that is a 
 Carrier, fo is there a pigeon likewife. But as it 
 
 * ' K 
 
 may not be known to every one, I mull inform 
 
 * The. Puffer, if properly kept on plenty of hay and water, and with 
 little exercife, will in a fhort time gratify his Keeper by changing into 
 another variety, which we call a Roarer. 
 
 you. 
 
* 
 
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 CAVAT LAP I DEM NON VI ,SED SyEPE CADENDO . 
 
 toNUON.Fiih: 
 
 sil March 2b\ 1791 by WI.DICKINSO N,N? 3401dBond Street. 
 
. A! S OF HORSEMANSHIP. 
 
 7' 
 
 
 * orn very long obfervation, I find 
 th< molt expeditious of the tv/o. 
 
 moment, Sir, in polTeffion of a horfe 
 i\ . , if I may fo cal! thefenfe of fmcll- 
 
 mo m -a**' : I do not perceive that he 
 
 often hu d ■ M ”^ l "* c 
 
 make* f* - ; ; gnat avidity; nay, <b 
 
 v f - . ; t.J a i s and 
 
 4 si th the utmoft 
 itiu >. • ! »:• a {jgrn-poft £ and it 
 
 retjui’* arms and legs to 
 
 prevrj r V. •> ocry alehoufe on the 
 
 i ' ij -vna me. * ■' • n are c ( id*, v. * J yu > of ^ ^ *~*Y 
 i:,_ • noil : st js a little a .vr v:. = b-. fare, 
 
 particularly it one ! 1 v J. ; qualification 
 
 , i , This variety I thall call The Setter, 
 
 : m- the faculties of the dog fo 
 : i , ?m- prononets to let down his load 
 
 *e\er entertainment tor man and horfe are to 
 !h found. I fhali not at present enter into more 
 ^ . ^ but poftpone my communications to 
 
 Z another 
 

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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 I 
 
ANNALS OF HORSEMANSHIP. ?l 
 
 you, Sir, that, from very long obfervation, I find 
 the pigeon is the moft expeditious of the two. 
 
 I am at this moment, Sir, in pofieffion of a horfe 
 that has aNofe, if I may fo call thefenfe of fmell- 
 ing in a high degree: I do not perceive that he 
 often hits upon game as the dog does, but he 
 makes for a ftable door with great avidity; nay, fo 
 certain is he of difeovering where victuals and 
 drink are to be had, that it is with the utmoft 
 difficulty I can get him to pafs a fign-poft $ and it 
 requires no fmall exertion of arms and legs to 
 prevent his running into every alehoufe on the 
 road with me. Thefe are evident figns of a very 
 fine nofe : it is a little inconvenient, to be fore, 
 particularly if one is in hafte $ but the qualification 
 is lingular. This variety I ffiall call The Setter, 
 both from his polieffing the faculties of the dog fo 
 called, and from his pronenefs to fet down his load 
 wherever entertainment for man and horfe are to 
 be found. I ffiall not at prefent enter into more 
 varieties, but poftpone my communications to 
 
 Z another 
 
7 2 
 
 ANNALS OF HORSEMANSHIP. 
 
 another opportunity: only having juft touch’d upon 
 the horfe with a Nofe, I muft inform you, that one 
 of my neighbours, an Attorney, tells me he has a 
 horfe that has no mouth. Although my flails are 
 all full, I fhall certainly purchafe this uncommon 
 animal, if he is to be had; as, from his formation, 
 the pofleffion of him can be attended with little or 
 no expence but the prime coft. 
 
 I am, Sir, 
 
 Your very humble Servant, 
 
 Benj. Buffon. 
 
 I 
 
 LETTER 
 
( 73 ) 
 
 LETTER the SEVENTEENTH. 
 
 To Mr. Gambado. 
 
 SIR* 
 
 I NTENDING the following account of a moft 
 extraordinary phenomenon that appeared in our 
 parilh two days fince, for the Philofophical Tranfc 
 actions ; I fhould not have lent it to you, but that 
 there was a horfe concern’d in it, and fo ftrange a 
 one, that I thought that if you were not inform’d 
 of it, you would be concern’d yourfelf. I have 
 drawn it up to the beft of my abilities. It is as fol¬ 
 lows : 
 
 On the morning of the 6th inftant, the weather 
 intenfely cold, the ground covered with ice or frozen 
 fnow, as I may fay, precifely at the hour of eight, 
 A.M. as Mary Jenkins (who lives as fervant at the 
 Fox and Crown public-houfe, juft on the brow of 
 
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 ANNALS OF HORSEMANSHIP. 
 
 Highgate Hill), a young woman about nineteen 
 years of age, of a frefti complexion and fanguine 
 habit, was lying awake in her bed (Reaumur’s Ther¬ 
 mometer then {landing at only and Fahrenheit’s 
 at ), (he heard a fhout of an uncommon kind $ 
 and running to the window, the following pheno¬ 
 menon prefented itfelf to her view. A man, dreft 
 much after the manner of the Englifh, but of a fierce 
 and terrifying afpe£l, feem’d to pals the Fox like 
 lightning, mounted on fomething like a horfe; but 
 fuch a one as (he had never before feen $ having the 
 head, neck, and fore-legs of thofe of this country; 
 faving that the legs were ftretch’d out and void of 
 motion ; he was furnifh’d with a pair of wings, and 
 his hind parts defended from his head obliquely to 
 the ground. She verily believes he had a forked 
 tail, but that hind-legs he had none. The man 
 fat very ftiflf and upright, and continued his (bouts 
 (which from what I can make out from the Girl’s 
 imitations of them much refembled the war-hoops 
 of the Indians), until he turned the corner by the 
 
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 Boarding-fchool, where fhe loft fight of him. But 
 he was again vifible to her naked eye at the foot of 
 the hill; when feme fleet falling, he wholly dif- 
 appeared. 
 
 The poor Girl, exceedingly terrified, awakened the 
 
 family, and was order’d to go to Dr.-, to take 
 
 oath of what (lie had feen ; which fhe did. 
 
 Being one of the firft who heard of it, I buftled 
 about, and got a good deal of information concern¬ 
 ing the progrefs of the phenomenon, and think I 
 can afcertain at about what rate he travelled. - 
 
 As the clock ftruck eight, Mary Jenkins faw him 
 on the brow of the hill. 
 
 Mamfelle Bellefeffe, the Teacher at the Boarding- 
 fchool, being call’d up before her time, and in a 
 fmall building which looks into the road juft at the 
 turn, her watch luckily by her fide, faw the ftrange 
 gentleman pafs, precifely at eight and three feconds. 
 She defcribes him differently from Mary Jenkins, 
 though they both agree in the wings. “ II me 
 
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 cc de Pfyche —fays Mamfelle de B. At eight and 
 fix feconds the Blind Beggar, by his computation, 
 heard him pals the Cheefe-cake Houfe. At eight 
 and eight feconds A.M. the man coming to fweep 
 the chimneys met him at the finger-poll. In a 
 fecond after, he knock’d down and went over Alice 
 Turner, the Saloup Woman ; and exaftly at eight 
 ten feconds, Mary Jenkins faw the laft of him. 
 Now calculating the feconds and the diftances be- 
 tween each fpot where he was leen, it is evident 
 he went at a prodigious rate. Childers would have 
 been a fool to him. But he had wings, indeed, 
 which perhaps may be more ufeful than hind-legs, 
 otherwife I could not have conceived it. 
 
 That there are horfes of this kind in nature 
 I make no doubt; as the Lords of the Admiralty 
 authorife us to believe it, by exhibiting two in the 
 front of their Houfe of Office at Whitehall. To 
 
 * Which I learn means—He feem’d to have the face of Cupid and 
 Pfy che’s wings. 
 
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ANNALS OF HORSEMANSHIP. 
 
 77 
 
 thefe horfes Mary Jenkinss feems to be nearly 
 allied ; and perhaps by enquiring at the Admiralty 
 we may be inform’d where they may be had. As 
 we lye on the great North Road, I Ihould fuppofe 
 this, that came through our town, might be what 
 they call a fea-horfe, and come from Lapland or 
 thereaways. 
 
 If you can throw any light on this wonderful 
 phenomenon, Sir, I hope you will make it public 
 for the good of the community. 
 
 I am. Sir, 
 
 Your humble Servant, 
 
 Highgate, Feb, 26th. 
 
 William Gorget, 
 
 Surgeon. 
 
 P. S. I can’t get it out of my head the pace the Gentle¬ 
 man went, confidering the interruption he met with from 
 riding over the Saloup Woman. 
 
 The Parifh Officers had a long meeting about this flrange 
 man that ffiew’d his face here. But I foon convinced ’em 
 he had not ftaid long enough in the pariffi to gain a fettle- 
 ment; and fo they are eafy. But there’s great debates in 
 
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 ANNALS OF HORSEMANSHIP. 
 
 the Veflry, and in the Coffee-houfe, and Mr. Figg’s fhop, 
 yet about it. 
 
 MY OBSERVATIONS. 
 
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 I WAS much daggered when I read this account firfl ; 
 but finding, on enquiry, that Mr. Gorget, the Surgeon, 
 was a Barber, I grew eafier, and was no more afraid of 
 the North Road than any other—I fhall however be a little 
 more cautious of the folks that lye on it. 
 
 After all the inveftigations that have been made about 
 the Phenomenon of Highgate Hill, and the fearch into all 
 books that treat of Witchcraft; Glanville, and Moore and 
 Wanley : and alter all the controverfy that has been 
 entered into by the unhappy inhabitants, which has thrown 
 that wretched parifh into more diftradtion than ever fell 
 to the fhare of St. Paul in Covent Garden ! No Vagrants 
 pad: on—-No Vagabonds taken up—No Turncocks to be 
 found—all the Water at a flop—all the Gin a-going— 
 How fatisfa&ory muft a glimmering of light be to thefe 
 unfortunate High'gates which may open their eyes a little, 
 and reftore that harmony amongft them, they have been 
 fo long unacquainted with. 
 
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ANNALS OF HORSEMANSHIP. 79 
 
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 Having received the following Letter a few days fince, 
 I beg leave to recommend it to the perufal of the Nobility 
 and Gentry of Highgate in general; but more particularly 
 to Alice Turner (the Saloup Woman, if fhe is ftill extant), 
 to the Chimney Sweeper, the Blind Beggar (fomebody 
 muft read it to him), Mamfelle Bellefefle, and Mary Jen¬ 
 kins ; being convinced, that if the ftrange perfonage they 
 faw was not Mr. James Jumps, it muft have been a Con¬ 
 jurer or Cupid, Pfyche or the Devil himfelf. 
 
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 LETTER 
 
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 LETTER the EIGHTEENTH. 
 
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 Jeffrey Gambado, Efq. 
 
 KIND SIR, 
 
 1 HAVE an extraordinary flory to tell you, that 
 happened to me t’other day as I was a bring- 
 ing two pair of flays to Mifs Philpot’s, at Kentifh- 
 town. I lives. Sir, at Finchley; and a-top of 
 Highgate Hill my horfe makes a kind of flip with 
 his hind feet, do you fee, for it was for all the 
 world like a bit of ice the whole road. I’d no¬ 
 thing for’t but to hold fafl round his neck, and to 
 fqueeze me elbows in to keep the flays fafe; and, 
 egod, off we fet, and never flopt till I got to the 
 bottom. He never moved a leg didn’t my horfe, 
 but Aided promifcuoufly, as I may fay, till he 
 overfate fomebody on the road; I was too flurri- 
 fome to fee who; and the firft body I fee ? d it 
 
 was 
 

 
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 Jeffrey Gambado, Ef^ 
 
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 * 10 me t’other day as I was a bring- 
 
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 i^ f bir, at f'tvhicy; and a~top ot 
 
 "lili my horfc makes i kind of flip with 
 1 feet, do you U , for it was for all the 
 
 * hit f»t r the whole road. I'd no- 
 
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 * >uf IK 1 oully, as I may fay, till he 
 
 o^erfatc l« • »t i m the road; I was too flurri- 
 
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 Was a poor mcti axing charity in a hat. My 
 hone muft have had a rare bit of bone in his back, 
 and I fit him as ftiff as buckram. 
 
 Your Honour’s obedient Servant, 
 
 James Jumps, 
 
 finis. 
 
 ERRATA. 
 
 To the Editor, page vi. line 18. Page blank, read, page 7. 
 
 Geoffrey Gambado to the Reader, p. xiii. line 11, for thefe, read , thole. 
 Page 11. line 10. for Lemma’s, read. Angle’s. 
 
 -20. line 1. for Query, read, Quere. 
 
 -42. line 17. for did, read, old. 
 
 Ibid, for Bougie, read. Beagle. 
 
 DIRECTIONS to the BINDER. 
 
 1. Apotheofis of Geoffrey Gambado —- To front the Title, 
 
 2. Gambado feeing the World — — — Page xiii 
 
 3. The Puzzle — — — — — — 2 
 
 4. —-for a Dog, Horfe, or Chriftian —• — 3 
 
 c. 
 
 How to make the mofl of him 
 
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 6. 
 
 -the lead: of him 
 
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 How to do things by Halves 
 
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 8. 
 
 Tricks upon Travellers — 
 
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 Love and Wind — — 
 
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 10. 
 
 Me, my Wife and Daughter 
 
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 11. 
 
 How to make the Mare to go 
 
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 How to prevent a Horfe flipping his Girths — 
 
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 How to ride without a Bridle 
 
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 The Daifey Cutter — — 
 
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 How to travel upon two Legs 
 
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