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(or Holme), Esq., of Carlisle, who bred the famous 

 Matchem, besides Brown Slipby, Bay Slipby, Brown 

 Starling, Bay Starling, &c, and whose horses were 

 sold in 1764 at York. To have bred Matchem is fame 

 enough for a member of the Jockey Club ; if, indeed, 

 the Mr. Holmes who bred the horse was the same 

 person as the signatory of the Jockey Club document 

 of 1758. 



Mr. Hutchinson is he who ran a brown filly by 

 Oroonoko for the Jockey Club Plate won by Mr. 

 Naylor's Sally in 1759 ; but nothing further can be 

 ascertained about him than that he was certainly not 

 the Mr. John Hutchinson (ex-stable-boy and then 

 * Esquire ') of Shipton, near York, and that he was 

 certainly not so great a Turfite as the latter. 



Mr. Jennison (or Jenison) , one of the Jockey Club 

 signatories in 1758, was Balph Jennison, Esq., of Wal- 

 worth, Durham, the last of that name among the pro- 

 prietors of (High) Walworth, and he seems to have been 

 connected with Messrs. {Jenison and Bobert) Shafto, 

 who are described as of Whitworth, Durham. He had 

 been Master of the Staghounds (Buckhounds) to King 

 George the Second, and M.P. for the Isle of Wight. 

 At his death, in 1758, his widow is said to have sold 

 Walworth to Alderman Stephenson of Newcastle, for 

 16,000/., and he to John Harrison, Esq., for a sum 

 not mentioned. Mr. Jennison owned Collier, by 

 Locust ; Begums, by Begulus ; Buffler, by Orion ; 

 Now or Never, by Cartouch ; Why Not (late Mr. 



