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Vincent Twist. His insatiable passion for hazard was his ruin, and 

 Crockford is reported to have said of Sir St. Vincent that he never 

 knew his equal in fondness for play, or a more dangerous player. 

 Having entirely dissipated the Madingley property, he was obliged 

 to look out for some means of obtaining a living, and taking 

 advantage of his skill as a coachman, and aware of the profits to be 

 made on the Brighton Road by a well-appointed coach, he bought 

 the goodwill of the "Age" from Jack Willaw, and for years 

 drove it from Brighton to London and back. Coach travelling 

 had never been brought to such a pitch of perfection as it then 

 reached under Cotton's auspices. The " Age," however, could 

 not ultimately compete with the railway, and he had reluctantly to 

 give up his coach. During the last few years of his life he was so 

 completely paralysed that he had to be carried to his carriage, and 

 strapped to the seat. He died, unmarried, at Kensington Road, 

 London, on January 25, 1863, when the baronetcy became extinct. 



The Cotton 

 Family. 



The Brighton 

 Coach. 



As previously mentioned (Sir) John Carleton, by his marriage 

 with Lady Anne, widow of Sir John Cotton, Bart., in February, 

 1624-25, acquired Cheveley Park, with certain appurtenances 

 thereunto belonging. He was made a Deputy-Lieutenant of the 

 CO. Cambridge soon after, and created a baronet in 1627. In June, 

 1630, he was commissioned by Charles L to preserve the King's 

 game within the verge of Newmarket Palace — the verge at this 

 time embracing a circuit of twelve miles. By virtue of his office, 

 he received a warrant on the Exchequer for ;^2oo for repairing the 

 paling of " His Majesty's newly created warren called Wilbrahm 

 Bushes, between the towns of Newmarket and Shelford, in the 

 county of Cambridge, and for defraying other necessary charges 

 incident to the keeping of the said warren and game." By a 

 similar warrant, dated June, 1630, he was authorised to appoint 

 qualified persons once every year (when the season is) to take up 

 partridges in the counties of Suffolk, Essex, and Cambridge for 

 the store and increase of his Majesty's game about Newmarket ; 



Cheveley. 



Sir John 

 Carleton. 



Appointed 

 Second Master 



of the Game 

 at Newmarket 



by Charles I. 



