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GENERAL GRANT'S ARABIAN STALLIONS, 



we see the same name given to lot 9 and lot 52, the former a twelve- 

 year-old mare, the latter a five-year-old horse, by which it is evident 

 that the stallion, and not the name of the lot in the inventory (as in a 

 modern Tattersall catalogue), was intended to be given. 'Browne 

 Newcastle' likewise precedes lot 6 and lot 22, the former a ' browne 

 bay mare without white, 6 yeares old, with a mare foale, ,£15 ;' and the 

 latter a 'browne bay mare without white, 7 yeares old, with a mare 

 foale, £22,.' The highest valuations in the catalogue were put upon 

 the produce of Rupert, an Arab stallion belonging to the Yilliers 

 ' race,' lots 53, 64, 66, and 69 in rotation, which are described as fol- 

 lows : ' One bright bay horse, witli a starr and a snip, 4 white feete, 

 black list downe the back, 4 yeares old, ^35. One browne bay [horse] 

 without white, 4 yeares old, ^35. One browne bay horse, 4 yeares old, 

 with a starre, ,£25. One bright bay horse with a black list, and one 

 white foote, ^25.' It is evident some of Sir John Fenwick's famous 

 Arabian ' race' were introduced into the royal racing stud, as I find lot 

 25 is entered thus: ' Sorrell Fennick [so spelt by the Duke of New- 

 castle in his Magnum Opus], one Sorrel mare with a blaze, 9 yeares 

 old, with a mare foale, £iS.' So also with the celebrated Arab stud 

 maintained at this time, and subsequently after the Restoration, at Wel- 

 beck Abbey by the Duke of Newcastle, as indicated by lots 2, 3, 6, 18, 

 22, 26, 59, 61, 96, 9S, and 99, from which we may infer (taken with other 

 corroboratory evidence) that the royal mares in King Charles's stud were 

 occasionally served by stallions belonging to those notable breeders in 

 the seventeenth century. Upon the whole, this inventory, though im- 

 perfectly and carelessly drawn up, proves that the principal, and prob- 

 ably the subordinate lots at the royal stud, immediately prior to the year 

 1643, were derived from and represented in the Arab blood, which was 

 deemed indispensable by the best breeders of those days. As to the 

 yearlings, the two-year-old and the three-year-old colts and fillies, from 

 lot 36 to lot 49, no reference is made to either sire or dam, the color, 

 marks, age, and valuation of each lot only being recorded. But lots 68 

 and 72 — the former a three-year-old gray colt, valued at twelve pounds, 

 the latter a three-year-old bay colt, valued at fifteen pounds — were got 

 by Frisell, a son of the Markham Arabian. (Frisell is also mentioned 

 as the stallion of lot 14 — 'a bright bay mare, with a streake, 12 yeares 

 old, with a horse foale, ,£22.') The other yearlings, two- and three- 

 year-old colts and fillies, from lot 73 to lot 95, are simply described and 

 valued, without any clue of their names or parentage being given. It 

 is unfortunate that these omissions should have occurred, particularly 



