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Impeachments --- Berkshire, Charles Howard, --- Coventry, Thomas Coventry, --- Devonshire, William Cavendish, --- Dover, Henry Carey, --- Monmouth, Henry Carey, --- Warwick, Robert Rich, --- Capel of Hadham, Arthur Capel, --- Grey of Ruthin, Charles Longueville, --- Great Britain --- History

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This book, by a leading authority on early modern social and cultural history, examines in detail how an important English aristocrat managed his horses. At the same time, it discusses how horses and the uses to which they were put were a very significant social statement and a forceful assertion of status and the right to political power. Based on detailed original research in the archives of Chatsworth House, the book explores the breeding and rearing, the buying and selling, and the care and maintenance of horses, showing how these activities fitted in to the overall management of the earl's large estates. It outlines the uses of horses as the earl and his retinue travelled to and from family, the county assizes and quarter sessions, social visits and London for "the season" and to attend Court and Parliament. It also considers the use of horses in sport: hawking, hunting, racing and the other ways in which visitors were entertained. Overall, the book provides a great deal of detail on the management of horses in the period and also on the yearly cycle of activities of a typical aristocrat engaged in service, pleasure and power. PETER EDWARDS is an Emeritus Professor of Early Modern British Social History at the University of Roehampton. He has published numerous books including The Horse Trade of Tudor and Stuart England and Horse and Man in Early Modern England.

Aristocracy (Social class) --- Horses --- Equus caballus --- Farriery --- Hippology --- Horse --- Domestic animals --- Equus --- Livestock --- Pachyderms --- Hinnies --- Mules --- Aristocracy --- Aristocrats --- Upper class --- Nobility --- History --- Social aspects --- Devonshire, William Cavendish, --- Cavendish, --- Cavendish, William, --- Aristocratic lifestyle. --- Early modern England. --- First Earl of Devonshire. --- Horses. --- William Cavendish. --- aristocracy. --- aristocratic activities. --- aristocratic culture. --- early modern British history. --- estate management. --- hawking. --- historical estates. --- horsemanship. --- hunting. --- racing. --- social status. --- two-handed sword techniques.