BY
SIR WALTER GILBEY, Bart.

ILLUSTRATED

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

1900

[CONTENTS.]

PAGE
[Introduction]1
[Before the Conquest]2
[William the Conqueror]5
[William Rufus]7
[Henry I.]7
[Henry II.]8
[Richard I.]9
[John]10
[Edward II.]11
[Edward III.]12
[Richard II.]15
[Henry VII.]17
[Henry VIII.]18
[Edward VI. and Queen Mary]22
[Elizabeth]24
[James I.]30
[Charles I.]33
[The Commonwealth]36
[Charles II.]38
[William III.]41
[Queen Anne]43
[George I.]46
[George II.]48
[George III.]52
[George IV.]59
[William IV.]60
[Her Majesty Queen Victoria]62
[Light Horses: Breed—Societies]88
[Heavy Horses: Breed—Societies]89

[ILLUSTRATIONS.]