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4 of Arundel, Sussex.' At any rate, he published in 

 1727, after prodigious travelling, labour, and inquiry 

 (prosecuted chiefly, if memory may be relied upon, 

 according to his own account, among the clergy, the 

 natural repositories of the required information, as 

 we may presume from the fact that they were strictly 

 charged by statute of Henry the Eighth to interest 

 themselves in horse-breeding, and from the cases of 

 the Eev. Mr. Tarran, who was noted for his ' Black 

 Barb ' ; the Be v. Mr. Hewgill, who bred the famous 

 Priestess ; the Bev. Mr. Goodricke, who bred a mul- 

 titude of grand racehorses, won several St. Legers, 

 and is credibly reported to have had a hand in the 

 introduction of two-year-old racing; the Bev. 'Passon' 

 Harvey, who used to ride Young Vandyke to service, 

 they say, at Westminster Abbey, and hang on to his tail 

 in Tatter sail's yard; the Bev. 'Passon' Nanney-Wynn, 

 owner of the celebrated Signorina (by Champion) ; and 

 in more recent times the Bev. Mr. 'Launde' King, fellow 

 of Corpus Christi College, Oxford, and breeder, owner, 

 and runner of the famous mare Apology), the first 

 volume of a work which may be considered to have 

 been continued annually, though of course with vari- 

 ations of form, arrangement, size and name, down to 

 the present day, when it has become the incomparable 

 ' Weatherby ' — with so much variation of size, indeed, 

 that at last, in 1846, or about that year, it grew so 

 stout as to burst asunder into two parts, like as two 

 peas, and in those two parts, themselves increasing 



