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the way of native shorlliorns, and the great majority of 

 their pedigrees conclude with a dam by Ilubback, with- 

 out givin',' any pedigree to licf dim, yet we have not a 

 few memorable instances of the pedigrees of their stock 

 going beyond this. 



Assuming, then, that Durham shorthorns are an in- 

 digenous race, established timeout of mind in the locali- 

 ties mentioned, of which further evideuce will be ad- 

 duced, we have in the old-fashioned animal really a pure- 

 bred animal. And if, as often occurs at sales oi pro- 

 fessed improved shorthorns, the pedigrees do not go 

 back more than four or five descents, a purchaser 

 may feel safe as far as purity goes. I by no means, 

 however, recommend such pedigrees to persons begin- 

 ning breeding in earnest, but that, like the Co'.lings, 

 they should get "' the very best they can come at." 

 And with a little diligence they may obtain stock de- 

 scended in a right line through females from the best 

 animals the Ceilings possessed, as well as others de- 

 scended in the same way from the stocks of those who, 

 as we have seen, were even their predecessors, namely, 

 the Milbanks, Hutchinsons, and others. 



With a view to aiding them in their search, I shall 

 mention several extant descendants in a right line 

 through females of some of the CoUings' best known 

 cows, and also descendants of the same description from 

 the stocks of the other parties we have alluded to. I 

 take, in the first place, the descendants of those of the 

 Ceilings' cows, whose pedigrees go even beyond Hubback , 

 namely — 1, Favourite; 2, Princess; 3, Duchess; and 

 4, Fortune. And, first, with regard to the descendants 

 of Favourite or Lady Maynard, who may indisputably 

 be taken as " No. 1" when treating of shorthorn pedi- 

 gree. Favourite had of daughters, Young Strawberry, 

 Miss Lax, and Phoenix, Young Strawberry was by 

 Foljambe, thedamof "Lord Bolingbroke," who was sire, 

 by the O'Callaghan Galloway, of the bull "Son of 

 Bolingbroke," who by " Old Johanna" was the sire of 

 " Grandson of Bolingbroke,'' wherein we see the origin 

 of the Galloway cross or "alloy," hereafter to be dis- 

 cussed. Phoenix having had by Bolingbroke the 

 celebrated bull Favourite, had also by " Grandson of 

 Bolingbroke" the cow Lady, from whom chiefly are 

 descended the branch of shorthorns having " the alloy." 

 Phoenix also had, by her own son Favourite, Young 

 Phoenix, who by the same Favourite had the renowned 

 " Comet," the first, and for many years the only bull 

 sold for one thousand guineas. Of these two daughters 

 of Favourite, viz , Young Strawberry and Phoenix, I 

 am not aware of there being any right line descendant 

 through females ; and so proceed therefore to her other 

 daughter Miss Lax, who was, as well as Young Strawberry, 

 by Dalton Duke. From her descended, through females, 

 No. 4 at the Chilton sale, and through her many other 

 animals at the same sale, several of which went to Ire- 

 land. Lord Spencer, then Lord Althorp, bought Nos. 

 13 and 55, esteemed amongst the best. They were both 

 daughters, as we have seen, of No. 4. — No. 13 being 

 by St. Albans of the " Princess" family, and No. 55 by 

 Monarch of the " Favourite" family. 



During Lord Spencer's life, female descendants of 

 these cows were rarely if ever to be obtained. But by 

 the three sales of his stock at Wiseton they were dispersed. 

 The No. 13 line, belonging to Lord Spencer, seemed 

 at one time to have concentrated in Roguery by Mer- 

 cury who was a grand-daughter of No. 13. She, how- 

 ever, was very prolific, and had of cows, Zeal, Zinc, and 

 Zone, and of bulls Zadig, Zenith, and Zoroaster. Zeal, 

 a very fine cow, bought at the first Wiseton sale by Mr. 

 Wilkinson, of Lenton, had many descendants, both 

 while belonging to that gentleman, and previously 

 when belonging to Lord Spencer— Prophetess, Prudence, 

 Wiseton Lady, &c. The same, as to descendants, was the 



case with Zinc, who had Teturia, Metal, &c. It ap- 

 pears that it is through Zeal and Zinc that there are 

 descendants of No. 13 to be offered at the sale you 

 allude to. 



No. 55 had also many descendants who were brought 

 into the market at the Wiseton sales. Of these, Enigma 

 was purchased by Mr. Topham, and Florentiaby Lord 

 Ducic. From Enigma and Florentia there appears to 

 be, at the same sale, descendants of No. 55. 



The Princess Family. — The pedigrees given of 

 Princess are not only various, but conflicting. At the 

 sale of Sir H. V. Tempest's herd in 1813, she is said 

 t(? have been by Favourite, her dam by Favourite. 

 The same pedigree is given in the 1st volume of the 

 Herd Book published in 1822. The 3rd volume of the 

 same book, published in 183G, gives her pedigree, as 

 being by Favourite, dam by Favourite, g. d. by Hubback, 

 gr. g. d. by Snowdon's bull, — by Waistell's bull, — 

 by Masterman's bull, — by the Studley bull. This is 

 to be found in the pedigree of her grandson St. Albans 

 (1412). Again, where the pedigree of the bull Belve- 

 dere (1706) is ^iven in the same volume of the Herd 

 Book, she is said to have been by Favourite, dam by 

 Favourite, g. d. by Hubback, gr. g. d.by Snowdon's bull, 

 — by Masterman's bull, — by Hanibon's bull, — bought 

 by Mr. Hall, of Sedgefield, of Mr. Pickering. Princess 

 was, as we have always heard, an extraordinarily fine 

 cow, and the late Sir H. V. Tempest, of Wynyard, in the 

 county of Durham, who wr.s an admirable judge of the 

 points and excellences of the whole animal kingdom, 

 from a race-horse or short-horn down to a game cock, 

 resolved, it seems, on being her owner at any price. It 

 was never known what he gave Mr. R. Colling tor her, 

 secrecy on that head appearing to have been part of the 

 bargain ; but it has been said to have been as much as 700 

 guineas. Princess and her numerous descendants were 

 sold in 1813, after Sir Henry's death. The late Mr. J. 

 Wood, of Kimblesworth, bought one of her dau^hters, 

 Nell Gwynne, then in-calf to Wynyard, and she after- 

 wards produced St. Albans. We believe tbo pedigree of 

 St. Alban's, and consequently of Princess above alluded 

 to, to have been furnished by that gentleman, and we 

 are sure, from our thorough knowledge of him, with the 

 most perfect good faith. We cannot but suspect, how- 

 ever, that an error has crept into it, from a confusion of 

 the pedigrees of sires with those of dams — Waistell's 

 bull having been by Masterman's bull, Masterman's 

 bull by the Studley bull. At this sale Angelina, the 

 daughter of Anna Boleyn, another daughter of Princess, 

 was reserved ; and at a subsequent sale a daughter of 

 Angelina was bought by Mr. J. Stephenson, of White 

 House, Wolviston, a neighbouring tenant farmer. From 

 her descended Belvedere, who became the property of 

 Mr. T. Bates, by whom, we believe, the pedigree of 

 Belvedere, and consequently of Princess, was furnished. 

 We have heard Mr. Bates say, speaking of the pedigree 

 of Princess, that suc'q it certainly was, because her 

 dam was own sister to Mr. R. CoUing's white bull. 

 Yet, according to the pedigree of that bull, given in the 

 Herd Book, he would have been own brother to Princess. 

 Who shall decide when such doctors disagree ? We 

 feel, however, justified in assuming that Princess be- 

 lon;.',ed to the class of those descended of cows belonging 

 to the CoUings', which had a pedigree before they ob- 

 tained them, whether her first-recorded ancestress was 

 " bought by Mr. Pickering of Mr. Hall, of Sedgefield," 

 or was by " the Studley bull." Of whom they obtained 

 her, it is not we believe known. Nell Gwynne, Mr. J, 

 Wood's purchase, became, as we have said, the mother 

 of the well-known St. Albans; and Mr. Mason, of 

 Chilton, having; obtained of him St. Albans' services 

 for some time, he became thus, as we have seen, the sire 

 of No. 13 at the Chilton sale, the ancestress of Lord 



