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and Cadet, at Fontainebleau) and at the stud (as the 

 sire of the ' Egalite ' Duke of Orleans' Eouge, Vert, 

 and other French-bred animals which ran in England, 

 some of them at two years of age). So that Mr. 

 Brand was a member of the Jockey Club who deserved 

 well both of the English and the French supporters 

 of the Turf. 



Mr. Bublton, whose name is incorrectly given as 

 'Burton' in many ' Guides,' and whose membership 

 of the Jockey Club is established in many ways, espe- 

 cially by his signature appended to Jockey Club docu- 

 ments of 1767 and 1769, can be almost certainly 

 identified as the Philip Burlton, Esq., of Wickham 

 Mills, Essex, who was 'Inspector of Hospitals' in 

 Germany during the wars of his day, and is, no doubt, 

 he of whom Horace Walpole writes as ' my friend, Mr. 

 Burlton.' He married Frances Marston, a widow, 

 whose stepfather (Henry Parsons, brother of Alder- 

 man Humphrey Parsons, of London) left her the 

 property at Wickham Mills ; and identity of the per- 

 sons seems to be bewrayed by the appellations of 

 1 Wickham ' and ' Maid of the Mill,' given to a colt 

 and a filly both ' bred by Mr. Burlton,' and by the 

 * Burlton ' Arabian which stood at ' Wickham Mills,' 

 1767-9. He bred, owned, and ran Stella (by 

 Plunder), winner of the Oaks in 1784, and she was 

 the dam of Statira, the dam of Harpham Lass, dam 

 of the Tramp mare (imported into France in 1827), 

 that was the dam (in France) of Odine (by Tigris), 



