Identifier: horseshoeshors00flem (find matches)
Title: Horse-shoes and horse-shoeing : their origin, history, uses, and abuses
Year: 1869 (1860s)
Authors: Fleming, George, 1833-1901 Fairman Rogers Collection (University of Pennsylvania) PU
Subjects: Horseshoes Horseshoeing Horses CHR 1869
Publisher: London : Chapman and Hall
Contributing Library: University of Pennsylvania Libraries
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ng by the exactness with which theprice of these articles follows that of horse-shoes, we mightcertainly afhrm that if the latter stood at from 8.9. ^d. to8.y. the hundred, the former would be about is. 6d. thethousand. The general rise on the average of the lastforty years is not, indeed, quite so large as that of horse-shoes, though it is upwards of 100 per cent.; but it willbe remembered that the rate of horse-shoes for the lastten years is excessive, and the evidence insufficient. The annexed illustration, from the Louterell Psalter,represents a waggon-team ascending a terribly steep hill,the horses feet being shown as well armed with shoes andlarge-headed nails (fig. 149, next page). This drawing isof great interest in many respects, but particularly as dis-playing the mode of harnessing and driving draught horsesat this period, as well as the construction of the waggons. In the reign of Richard II. (1377-99), ^^om a bailiffsaccount of a manor in Surrey, it appears that the fore-
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THE STOTT: 409 feet of oxen used in ploughing, and heifers or stutts inharrowing, were shod at threepence each. It is necessary here to remark, that Richardson^ derivesthe word stott from the Anglo-Saxon stod-hors, and asapplied to oxen from the Swedish shit, Danish stud, asteer. The word has given rise to some discussion, ithaving been used for a very long time in Scotland as adesignation for a steer, heifer, or bullock, and the noticein the above is thought by the antiquarian who quotes it,to mean heifer. Of this, however, there may be con-siderable doubt; as the term has been constantly appliedin England to under-sized strong horses or cobs. Inthe Vision of Piers Plowman (1362?) it occurs in this sense: Grace of his goodnesse, gafPeers foure stottes. And Chaucer, in his Canterbury Pilgrims, says: This Reeve sat upon a right good slot. That was all pomelee (dappled) gray, and highte Scot, Signifying, I think, that the word came from beyond theTweed. Sir David Lyndsay also applies it

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