PALFREY, is one of the better sort of horses used
by noblemen or others for state; and sometimes of
old taken for a horse fit for a woman to ride. Cam-
den says, that William Fauconberge held the manor of
Cukeny, in the county of Nottingham, in fergeantry,
by the service of shoeing the king's palfrey when the
king should come to Mansfield.