Being commanded by his Excellency the Ld Marquis of New-Castle to publish the following articles for his new course ... Newcastle, William Cavendish, Duke of, 1592-1676. 1662 Approx. 5 KB of XML-encoded text transcribed from 1 1-bit group-IV TIFF page image. Text Creation Partnership, Ann Arbor, MI ; Oxford (UK) : 2008-09 (EEBO-TCP Phase 1). A90053 Wing N876 ESTC R42658 38875543 ocm 38875543 152308 This keyboarded and encoded edition of the work described above is co-owned by the institutions providing financial support to the Early English Books Online Text Creation Partnership. This Phase I text is available for reuse, according to the terms of Creative Commons 0 1.0 Universal . The text can be copied, modified, distributed and performed, even for commercial purposes, all without asking permission. Early English books online. (EEBO-TCP ; phase 1, no. A90053) Transcribed from: (Early English Books Online ; image set 152308) Images scanned from microfilm: (Early English books, 1641-1700 ; 2292:8) Being commanded by his Excellency the Ld Marquis of New-Castle to publish the following articles for his new course ... Newcastle, William Cavendish, Duke of, 1592-1676. Rolleston, John. 1 sheet ([1] p.). s.n., [Oxford : 1662] Title from first two lines of text. Place and date of publication from Wing (2nd ed.). Signed at end: Io: Rolleston. "26 may 1662 given to me by Hen: Hall the Vniuersity printer AWoode"--Ms. note at end of sheet. Reproduction of original in: Bodleian Library. Created by converting TCP files to TEI P5 using tcp2tei.xsl, TEI @ Oxford. Re-processed by University of Nebraska-Lincoln and Northwestern, with changes to facilitate morpho-syntactic tagging. Gap elements of known extent have been transformed into placeholder characters or elements to simplify the filling in of gaps by user contributors. EEBO-TCP is a partnership between the Universities of Michigan and Oxford and the publisher ProQuest to create accurately transcribed and encoded texts based on the image sets published by ProQuest via their Early English Books Online (EEBO) database (http://eebo.chadwyck.com). The general aim of EEBO-TCP is to encode one copy (usually the first edition) of every monographic English-language title published between 1473 and 1700 available in EEBO. EEBO-TCP aimed to produce large quantities of textual data within the usual project restraints of time and funding, and therefore chose to create diplomatic transcriptions (as opposed to critical editions) with light-touch, mainly structural encoding based on the Text Encoding Initiative (http://www.tei-c.org). The EEBO-TCP project was divided into two phases. The 25,363 texts created during Phase 1 of the project have been released into the public domain as of 1 January 2015. Anyone can now take and use these texts for their own purposes, but we respectfully request that due credit and attribution is given to their original source. Users should be aware of the process of creating the TCP texts, and therefore of any assumptions that can be made about the data. Text selection was based on the New Cambridge Bibliography of English Literature (NCBEL). If an author (or for an anonymous work, the title) appears in NCBEL, then their works are eligible for inclusion. Selection was intended to range over a wide variety of subject areas, to reflect the true nature of the print record of the period. In general, first editions of a works in English were prioritized, although there are a number of works in other languages, notably Latin and Welsh, included and sometimes a second or later edition of a work was chosen if there was a compelling reason to do so. Image sets were sent to external keying companies for transcription and basic encoding. Quality assurance was then carried out by editorial teams in Oxford and Michigan. 5% (or 5 pages, whichever is the greater) of each text was proofread for accuracy and those which did not meet QA standards were returned to the keyers to be redone. After proofreading, the encoding was enhanced and/or corrected and characters marked as illegible were corrected where possible up to a limit of 100 instances per text. Any remaining illegibles were encoded as s. Understanding these processes should make clear that, while the overall quality of TCP data is very good, some errors will remain and some readable characters will be marked as illegible. Users should bear in mind that in all likelihood such instances will never have been looked at by a TCP editor. The texts were encoded and linked to page images in accordance with level 4 of the TEI in Libraries guidelines. Copies of the texts have been issued variously as SGML (TCP schema; ASCII text with mnemonic sdata character entities); displayable XML (TCP schema; characters represented either as UTF-8 Unicode or text strings within braces); or lossless XML (TEI P5, characters represented either as UTF-8 Unicode or TEI g elements). Keying and markup guidelines are available at the Text Creation Partnership web site . eng Newcastle, William Cavendish, -- Duke of, 1592-1676. Horse racing -- England -- Early works to 1800. Broadsides -- London (England) -- 17th century. 2007-07 TCP Assigned for keying and markup 2007-07 Aptara Keyed and coded from ProQuest page images 2007-08 Mona Logarbo Sampled and proofread 2007-08 Mona Logarbo Text and markup reviewed and edited 2008-02 pfs Batch review (QC) and XML conversion BEing commanded by his EXCELLENCY the L d MARQUIS of NEW-CASTLE to publish the following Articles for his new Course , I am first to informe you , that the worke was begun so late , and is so great , viz : the plowing of five miles in length , and a considerable bredth , with the harrowing of it twice over , and sowing it with Hay-seed to sord it , that there will be no firme riding on it before the last of July , when my Lord intends to give a Cup of 5l l and the same he will do on the last of August and September , then ending the Course for this year : But the next year ( if God grant his EXCELLENCY life and health ) he means to begin it on the last of Aprill , continuing it on the last of each moneth till the last of September inclusively , Six moneths in all , giving each moneth a Cup of 5l. The ARTICLES . 1. The Horses are all to meet at Sparton-hill-top between eleven and twelve , where the Riders are to be justly weigh'd , the weight ten stone down-weight , by the weights ( as they call them ) of Aver-du-poyse : the Horses are to be bridled , sadled and shod . After the Riders are justly weighed by such a Gentleman as shall be desired to be a just Judge , not onely of the Riders weight , but also to judge impartially who comes first to the stoup ; another Gentleman must be appointed at the Twelve-score-stoup , to judge what Horse is rid out of distance , which is a main businesse : and a third must be desired to see them start faire . 2. The Horses must be led downe from Sparton-hill , to the starting-place ; and there must be three heats , the first heat to Sparton-hill , there to rub halfe an hour , and then the Judge is to give them warning to get up and start : but if in that halfe-houre they relieve their horses with any thing but faire water , or if they ride out of distance , or the riders want weight , they must lose the Cup ; only there is allow'd two pound for wasting . The second heat is to end where they begun last , and two Gentlemen must be desired to see , not onely who comes first to the stoup , but at the twelve-score-stoup , who rides out of distance , and who not : and 't were well to have a flag at the ending stoup of each heat to be let down as soone as the first horse is past the stoup for the Judges easyer discerning who rides within distance and who not : the riders must be weigh'd every heat , the reliefe is to be onely water , the Rub but halfe an houre , and then the Judge is to bid them mount . 3. There being three heats , he that wins the most heats wins the Cup , so he rides within distance , not otherwise , but that horse which is formost the last heat ; this will make them ride for it . The stakes are ten shillings an horse , and to be put into the hands of the Judges who are to deliver them to the second horse . 4. He that wins the Cup saves his own stake , the second horse shall have all the rest . 5. It is to be consider'd that if any Rider whip another Rider , or his horse on the face , or pull back anothers bridle ; he shall lose the Cup. 6. No by-stander must ride in with the Horses , to face , stop , or turne them over , or any other way to hinder them , but must ride aloofe from them . If any such fault be committed , I must implore the Gentry to help me in the Legall punishing of the offenders . His EXCELLENCY saith , that , seeing he makes this Course onely for the pleasure of the Gentry , he hopes they will take it in good part , he having no other end in it , except his Lordship 's owne contentment . But his Excellency addes , that he never yet knew any publike thing which was not found fault with , and that every where there be many teachers , for if people did not find fault with every thing , they would not be thought wise in any thing : but his Lordship is very confident he shall find nothing of this humour amongst those Noble Persons whom herein he desires to serve . And he commands me to tell you , that , though this be not the Law of the Medes and Persians , yet he will alter nothing in it . Every man may put in his horse , mare or gelding at his pleasure , 't is the Liberty of the Subject , and so his that sets up the Course . When any man doth the like , he may make the Law what he pleases . In the mean time his Lordship hopes this Course will please you all , since he has no other end in it . His EXCELLENCY further commands me to let you know , that his course or heats continues no longer then his Lordships good liking . Thus I have obey'd his EXCELLENCIE's commands IO : ROLLESTON .