[1297] W. J. Corbett, in Social England, II. p. 545.
[1298] Gen. A. L. Pitt-Rivers, Excavations in Cranborne Chase, 1887, etc., I. p. 84. Figure given on Plate XXVII.
[1299] E. Conybeare, Rom. Brit. 1903, p. 177 n. (authorities given). W. Ridgeway, The Origin and Influence of the Thoroughbred Horse, 1905, p. 504. Cf. T. McKenny Hughes, in Proc. Camb. Antiq. Soc., X. 1904, pp. 256-7.
[1300] J. Beckmann, Hist. of Inventions, Discoveries, and Origins, tr. W. Johnston, 4th edition, 1846, I. p. 443. Cf. Pliny, Nat. Hist., l. XI. c. 105.
[1301] Beckmann, l.c. This writer, and the authorities whom he quotes, deserve careful study. On the whole, Beckmann sums up somewhat against the theory that horses were usually shod in classical times. This conclusion is in practical agreement with that of Professor Hughes, loc. cit. See Aristotle, Hist. Animal. l. II. c. 2, § 6.
[1302] Catullus, Carm. xvii. ll. 25-6. Cf. Beckmann, I. p. 445.
[1303] P. Vinogradoff, Villainage in England, 1892, p. 15.
[1304] Rogers, Six Centuries, p. 76.
[1305] Le Dite de Hosebondrie, p. 13.
[1306] Boke of Husbandry, p. 16.