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Spencer's Old Roguery, and Ler numerous progeny of 

 Z.'s. Nell Gwynne had but one heifer-calf having 

 descendants: this was by Ljyton (366). Mr. Wood 

 sold it to Mr. Trcnitbeck, of Blencoe, in Cumberland, 

 who had been his pupil. By Mr. Troutbeck this heifer 

 was christened 'Jnd Neil Gwynne. Of Nell Gwynne the 

 2nd many descendants in a right line of females have of 

 late years appeared in the market, and not a few have 

 attained show-yard honours. At one time, however, a 

 notion existed that Mr. Troutbeck had not been very 

 select in the choice of some of his bulls. 



From Angelina, the granddaughter of Princess, de- 

 scended Belvedere, obtained, as we have seen, by Mr. 

 Bates, from Mr. J. Stephenson, and to this cross 

 with his Duchesses Mr. Bates always attributed 

 the greatest advantages. Those who knew his worth 

 knew also his strong prejudices, one of which 

 was against the " alloy ;" and a strong suspicion 

 exists that Lawnsleeves ought to have had a place in 

 the pedigree of Belvedere ; but a bclitf having existed 

 that, according to the Herd Book pedigree. Lawn- 

 sleeves had the alloy in it, he was accidentally omitted. 

 Some years ago the writer, when on a visit at Elmore, 

 the well-known residence of the late George Baker, 

 Esq., the owner of Lawnsleeves, discovered, on refer- 

 ence to dates, that Lawnsleeves' dam could not have 

 been the daughter of the " alloy" George, but probably 

 by Mr. Mason's George, who was much nearer at hand, 

 that gentleman, moreover, being well known to Mr. 

 Baker. Had this been but sooner known, the discus- 

 sion need not have occurred. 



Mr. J. Stephenson still has right-line descendants 

 through females of Angelina, though he is not easily per- 

 suaded to part with them. 



Those which we have mentioned were considered for 

 many years the only right line female descendants of 

 Princess, but recently a new family has appeared from 

 Northamptonshire, claiming so to be, as to which we are 

 not prepared to speak authoritatively in the negative. 



The Duchess Family. — Mr Bates's Duchesses, 

 they may be called, being all of them, at one time, in his 

 possession, and being all christened by him Duchess, 

 with a numerical distinction. They descend from the 

 cow Duchess, bought by him at Mr. Charles Colling's 

 sale, in 1808, and whose pedigree was then given as 

 being by Comet, dam by Favourite, g. d. by Daisy bull, 

 gr. g. d. by Favourite, — by Hubback, — by James 

 Brown's red bull. We are not aware whether the cow 

 by Mr. J. Brown's red bull was purchased or bred by 

 him. Assuming the former to be the case, which we 

 believe, she belongs to the class of cows having pedi- 

 gree when he bought her, though of whom he did so 

 we are also ignorant. It is generally understood ihat 

 the Duchesses were not going the right way, when Mr. 

 Bates bethought him of introducing the Princess cross 

 through Belvedere. Hearing of his existence, and of his 

 being the property of Mr. J. Stephenson, he went to 

 Whitehouse to have a look at him, and, as we have 

 heard him say, the door of Belvedere's house being locked 

 in the absence of Mr. J. Stephenson from home, he had 

 Lis first inspection of him through a bole in the wall, 

 and the bull appearing just what he wanted, he too 

 seemed to have exclaimed Eureka ! eureka I Having ul- 

 timately succeeded, as we have said, in obtaining him 

 from Mr. J, Stephenson, from thence dated the fame 

 of the Duchesses. Since Mr. Bates's death they have 

 passed into many hands. 



The Fortune Family. — The first recorded an- 

 cestress of this family was obtained by the Collings, 

 from Mr. Maynard, as were Old Favourite and Young 

 Strawberry. The pedigree of Fortune is, that she was 

 by Balinghroke, h?i d!)m by Folj^mbe, g.d. by Hnbback, 



gr. g. d. bred by Maynard. She was the dam of many 

 cele!)rated animals, both male and female, namely B 

 (45), Irishman (329), Cripple (171), Trunnell (659), 

 St. John (572), Gaudy (p. 320), and Nell (p. 422). B 

 (45) was the ancestor of Portia (No. 2 at the Chilton 

 sale) who was the dam of Lady Sarah (No. 20), the 

 highest priced cow at that sale. No. 4 at the same sale 

 was a right line female descendant of Nell, and Nos. 35 

 and 51 were daughters of No. 4. There are still 

 right line female descendants of Nell, and we owe it to 

 that most distinguished breeder in another department, 

 Mr. Jonas Webb, to mention his name as being a 

 possessor of such descendants. 



The Daisy Family. — Of the Collinp;s' cows 

 from whom right line female descendants are existing to 

 this day, but which cows have no pedigree assigned 

 them previously to their being in the Collings' 

 possession, we believe there are but few. There 

 is one, however, well - ascertained family, which 

 must not be omitted, namely, that of Mr. C. 

 Colling's " Old Daisy." Her pedigree is — got 

 by Favourite, her diim by Punch, g. d. by Hubback. 

 She was own sister to the " Daisy bull," of whom 

 Mr. Bates always made especial mention when re- 

 counting the pedigree of his Duchesses, the Daisy bull 

 being one of their, in his opinion, most-valued ances- 

 tors. Of the right line female descendants through 

 females of Old Daisy, we remember to have seen two 

 or three at Mr. Jefferson's sale, at Fulford, near York, 

 last summer, which brought high prices, and there are 

 some, we see, at one of the sales this month — that of 

 the 21st. 



Of the right line descendants, through females, of cows 

 belonging to breeders of shorthorns antecedent to the 

 Collings, now exisiing, we have an instance in what 

 paay be termed 



The Milbank Family. — The Milbanks,of Barning- 

 ham, were amongst the very oldest recorded breeders of 

 shorthorns. One of their cows appears to have come 

 into the possession of Mr. Coates, and was by him 

 named " Milbank," from which there are existing right 

 line descendants through females at this day. At two 

 of the sales you allude to members of this family are to 

 be disposed of. 



The Sockburn Family. — Another family of 

 this description is "the Sockburns," originally be- 

 longing to the Messrs. Hutchinson, of Sockburn, one 

 of whom, as we have said, wrote a history of them. 

 Either while in their possession, or as we believe 

 subsequently, the last of the Sockburns having right line 

 descendants through females was put to Major (397), 

 a son of Lady, imbibing thus the " alloy." Notwith- 

 standing his antipathy to the "alloy," Mr. Bates became 

 the owner of one of her thus alloyed descendants—a 

 strong proof of its merits ; and from her he bred, using 

 Belvedere, and again one of his Dukes. From this cross 

 have descended animals of first-rate character at this 

 day, one or more having been purchased by Colonel 

 Towneley, and have distinguished themselves in the 

 show-yard. 



It must not be thought that in having confined my- 

 self to the pedigrees of those families of shorthorns 

 which can establish right line descent through females 

 from cows having pedigrees at the time the Collings 

 purchased them, and from cows belonging to their prede- 

 cessors as breeders, I in the least undervalue those 

 pedigrees which are computed merely from sires. It 

 was to establish and illustrate my argument, that Dur- 

 ham shorthorns of celebrity ivere in existence before 

 the Callings began their career as breeders, and that 

 there are at this day right line descendants through 

 females of the principal cows they bred from, and 



