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supposed that the other was found too long for life, 

 oloi vvv Pporol slcn, and accordingly curtailed. But 

 Fetherston is really the right form ; for there were 

 originally two brothers, who divided the family pro- 

 perty between them, part of which (in Northumber- 

 land) lay low, and part (in Durham) lay high ; so the 

 two brothers agreed to distinguish themselves by add- 

 ing ' haugh ' for the ' low,' and ' halge ' for the ' high,' 

 to their name, according to the site of their domain. 

 Ultimately the lean kine swallowed up the fat ; in 

 other words, the property of both the ' haugh ' and 

 the ' halge ' branch merged in the representative of 

 the former, Sir Matthew, whose father, plain Mr. 

 Matthew, had been twice Mayor of Newcastle, and had 

 married a rich Miss Brown, and whose uncle, become 

 Sir Henry, wished both his property and his title to 

 be continued in his nephew. And so it was. Sir 

 Matthew's son, born at Uppark, December 22, 1754, 

 ' rose,' as we shall see, to be a sort of * gentleman- 

 jockey to the Prince of Wales,' just as Dr. Johnson's 

 young friend, Sir John Lade, became ' coachman ' to 

 the same Koyal Highness. Sir Matthew died in 1761, 

 and therefore had no chance of winning St. Leger, 

 Oaks, or Derby ; but he owned Sog, by Cade ; Hen- 

 ricus, by Othello (Black and All Black), &c. ; and he 

 bred Proserpine and her sister, by Henricus, &c., &c. 

 Uppark, in Sussex, had its race-meeting under the 

 auspices of the old Fetherstons, but of very brief 

 existence. 



