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merely to infer, tliat as I did not always think as 

 His Royal Highness and Mr. W. Lake did, with 

 their first naming my orders, I had sometimes ex- 

 pressed a contrary wish, from which I might be 

 thought refractory or contradictory : but I meant 

 not to hint at my riding Scota at Lewes, or Pe- 

 gasus at Newmarket, against Mr. W. Lake's or- 

 ders, for these facts I never made known to His 

 Royal Highness. 



It is much rumoured that Chifncy will be mas- 

 ter, and, in other words^ that he will ride as he 

 hkes, and that he is obstinate and opinionated. 

 I don't like to be thought thus undutiful. I lived 

 with Thomas Panton, Esq. four years, and left 

 his service to come into the Prince's service. At 

 the time of my living with Mr. Panton I rode 

 most of the Duke of Bedford's horses from J 787 

 to 1790, and Mr. Panton told me that the Duke 

 of Bedford was the very best pleased with my 

 riding his horses, as I always rode to a T, as his 

 Grace told me. 



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