I.[Of the Horseman's Seat]1
II.[Of the Hand, and its Effects]10
III.[Of Disobedience in Horses, and the Means to correct it]19
IV.[Of the Trot]33
V.[Of the Stop]43
VI.[Of teaching a Horse to go backward]50
VII.[Of the uniting or putting a Horse together]54
VIII.[Of the Pillars]60
IX.[Of Aids and Corrections]64
X.[Of the Passage]75
XI.[Of working with the Head and Croupe to the Wall]79
XII.[Of Changes of the Hand, large and narrow, and of Voltes and Demi-voltes]82
XIII.[Of the Aids of the Body]92
XIV.[Of the Gallop]98
XV.[Of Passades]107
XVI.[Of Pesades]111
XVII.[Of the Mezair]115
XVIII.[Of Curvets]117
XIX.[Of Croupades and Balotades]129
XX.[Of Caprioles]132
XXI.[Of the Step and Leap]142

TO
SIDNEY MEDOWS, Esq;
The Following SHEETS,
Eminently due to Him from their Subject,
And not Less so
From the AUTHOR's sincere Regard
TO
His Person and Character,
Are Inscrib'd,
By his Faithful and Obedient Servant,
RICHARD BERENGER.


ERRATA.

Page 36. for Remingue read Ramingue. p. 38. dele and. p. 66. for in read it. p. 79. for Care read Ease. p. 80. for acting read aiding. p. 85. dele so. p. 116. for Lines read Times.


A
NEW SYSTEM
OF
HORSEMANSHIP.

CHAP. I.
Of the Horseman's Seat.

The Principles and Rules which have hitherto been given for the Horseman's Seat, are various, and even opposite, according as they have been adopted by different Masters, and taught in different Countries; almost each Master, in particular, and every Nation, having certain Rules and Notions of their own. Let us see, however, if Art can discover nothing to us that is certain and invariably true.