70 THE HOUSE OF AMERICA. 



16. Croft's Bay Barb was got by Chillaby, out of the Moonah Barb Mare. 



17. The Godolphin Arabian was imported by Mr. Coke, at whose death he- 

 became (together with Cade, Regulus, etc., then young) the property of Ld. 

 Godolphin. His first employment was that of a teaser to Hobgoblin, who, re- 

 fusing to cover Roxana, she was put to the Arabian, and from that cover pro- 

 duced Lath, the first of his get. He was also sire of Cade, Regulus, Blank, 

 etc., and what is considered very remarkable, as well as a strong proof of his 

 excellence as a stallion, there is not a superior horse now on the turf without a 

 cross of the Godolphin Arabian, neither has there been for several years past. 

 He was a brown bay, with no white, except on the off heel behind, and about 

 fifteen hands high (a pi ture of him is in the library at Gog Magog, Cambridge- 

 shire). It is not known to what particular race of the Arab breed, indeed it 

 has been asserted that he was a Barb. He died at Gog Magog in 1753, in or 

 about the 29th year of his age. The story of his playfellow, the black cat, 

 must not be omitted here, especially as an erroneous account has got abroad, 

 copied from the first introduction to the present work. Instead of his grieving 

 for the loss of the cat she survived him, though but for a short time; she sat 

 upon him after he was dead in the building erected for him, and followed him 

 to the place where he was buried under a gateway near the running stable; sat 

 upon him there till he was buried, then went away, and never was seen again, 

 till found dead in the hayloft. 



18. The Cullen Arabian was brought over by Mr. Nosco and was sire of Mr. 

 Warren's Camillas, Ld. Orford's Matron, Mr. Gorges' Sour Face, the dam of 

 Regulator, etc., etc. 



19. The Coomb Arabian (sometimes called the Pigot Arabian and sometimes 

 the Bolingbroke Grey Arabian) was the sire of Methodist, the dam of Crop, 

 etc., etc. 



20. The Compton Barb, more commonly called the Sedley Arabian, was sire 

 of Coquette, Greyling, etc. 



(ADDITIONS IN 1808 EDITION.) 



21. King James the First bought an Arabian of Mr Markham, a merchant, 

 for 500gs., said (but with little probability) to have been the first of the breed 

 ever seen in England. The Duke of Newcastle says, in his treatise on Horse- 

 manship, that he had seen the above Arabian, and describes him as a small 

 bay horse, and not of very excellent shape. 



22. Bloody Buttocks; nothing further can be traced from the papers of the 

 late Mr. Crofts than that he was a grey Arabian, with a red mark on his 

 hip. from whence he derived his name. 



23. The Vernon Arabian was a small chestnut horse. He covered at High- 

 flyer H 11, and was the sire of Alert, etc. Alert had good speed for a short 

 distance. 



24 & 25. The Wellesley Grey, and Chestnut Arabians (so called) were 

 brought from the East, but evidently not Arabians. The former was a horse 

 of good shape, with the size and substance of an English hunter. 



This list of twenty-seven different animals, which for the sake 

 of convenience I have numbered, was presented to the publio 



