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PALFREY

Volume 8 · 61 words · 1778 Edition

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. Camden says, that William Fauconberge held the manor of Cokeny, in the county of Nottingham, in fereignty, by the service of shoeing the king's palfrey when the king should come to Mansfield.