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1473–5 in Cal. Proc. Chancery Queen Elizabeth (1827) I. p. ci (MED) William Bowman..hired xxx hakney horses for the conveiaunce of the ambassitours of Fraunce to the see coste.

1511 Pylgrymage Richarde Guylforde (Pynson) f. lvi^v The next daye Tewysday..we toke our sayd hakney horses and rode to vyncencia.

1607 E. Topsell Hist. Foure-footed Beastes 281 Caballus seemeth to be deriued from the Greeke word Caballes, which was a common name for ordinary Hackney-horsses.

1688 R. Holme Acad. Armory ii. vii. 150/1 Hackney, or Saddle Horses, are such as man useth to ride upon for the ease of his Body.

1712 R. Steele Spectator No. 509. ⁋8 Mr. Tobias Hobson..was the first in this island who let out hackney horses.

1891 Scotsman 14 Jan. 9/4 It was hackney carriages that were meant by the Act, but not hackney horses.

1948 Life 7 June 94/2 His father..was a prolific writer on horse shows and a great authority on the hackney horse.

1995 T. C. Barker & D. Gerhold Rise & Rise of Road Transport, 1700–1990 (new ed.) 41 Carriers had once had an important role in passenger transport,..hiring out hackney horses.

2014 East Anglian Daily Times (Nexis) 20 Nov. An oil portrait of a Hackney horse..sold for £21,440.