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Barb, and was as well known to sportsmen by 

 that name as he would have been had there 

 never been another Barb Horse of his colour in 

 the kingdom. He did not cover many mares ex- 

 cept Mr. Curwen's and Mr. Preham's. 



The Barb Mare (great great grandam of Miss 

 Layton) was a present from the Emperor of Moroc- 

 co to Lord Arlington, Secretary to King Charles 

 n, who sold her to Mr. Wilkinson. 



Mr. Compton's Barb, sire of Coquette, after- 

 wards became the property of Sir Charles Sedley, 

 Bart, and was then styled, '' the Sedley Grey 

 Arabian." He was also sire of Lord Bolingbroke's 

 Bistern, Sir E. Sedley 's Greyling, Spillikin and 

 Rouleau ; Mr. Strode's Rebus and Pudenda ; Mr. 

 Walker's Baby ; Lord Clermont's Toledo ; Mr. 

 Pultenay's Prude, &c. 



The Thoulouse Barb became the property of 

 Sir John Parsons of Ryegate, Surrey ; and was 

 afterwards sold to the Earl of Burlington ; he was 

 sire of the famous mare called the Ryegate mare, 

 which was the dam of Cinnamon, &c. he also got 

 Mr. Panton's Molly ; Sir William Blackett's Bag- 

 piper, and Blacklegs ; Mr. Thompson's Rosamond ; 

 and many others. 



The Marshall or Selaby Turk, (sire of the dam 

 of Wyndham) was the property of Mr. Marshall's 

 brother, stud groom to King William, Queen 

 Anne, and King George the First, which Turk, 

 after his brother's decease, became his own pro- 



