226 WILD WHITE CATTLE. 
chase of Marwood, adjoining the great forest of 
Teesdale, belonged successively to the Baliols (after- 
wards raised to the Scottish throne), and subsequently 
to the Beauchamps and the Neyvills, Earls of Warwick. 
By the marriage of the daughter and co-heiress of 
Richard Nevill, Earl of Warwick, the King-maker, 
in 1471, with Richard Duke of Glo’ster, afterwards 
Richard II., it became the property and favourite 
residence of that prince until he ascended the throne ; 
at his death it reverted to the Crown. There can be 
little doubt that during the whole of this period wild 
cattle existed and were hunted here, for they still 
existed here 150 years later. Charles I., by a grant 
dated March 14, 1626, in consideration of a consider- 
able sum of money, granted to Samuel Cordwell and 
Henry Dingley, in trust for Sir Henry Vane, the 
reversion of Barnard Castle, with its parks, ‘“‘ together 
with all deer and wild cattle in the said parks.”* It is 
believed that wild cattle also existed at one time at 
Raby Castle, about six miles distant, the seat of the 
Duke of Cleveland. 
Bishop AucKLAND, DuRHAM, originally part of 
Weardale Forest, belonged to the Bishops of Durham, 
who kept wild cattle here before the Reformation. 
Leland describes it as “a faire parke by the castelle, 
having fallow deer, wilde bulles, and kin.” In 1338 
it was let to Sir R. de Maners, from which it may be 
inferred, says Raine,t that the deer and wild cattle, 
* Hutchinson, ‘‘ Hist. Durham,” vol. i. p. 245. 
+ “Historical Account of the Episcopal Palace of Auckland,” pp. 
77,79: 
