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not mentioned until afterwards, were then either few 
in number or none at all. ‘Wild kyne, with calves 
and bulles, &e., of all sortes, remayned in Auckland 
Parke, Sept. 24, 1627, the number thirty-two” 
(Raine, p. 77). 
In 1634 Sw Wm. Brereton, while a guest of Dr. 
Moreton, Bishop of Durham, at Bishoppe Auckland, 
thus described the cattle he saw: ‘A daintie stately 
parke ; wherein I saw wild bulls and kine which had 
two calves and rufiers; there are about twenty wild 
beasts all white ; will not endure yo” approach, butt 
if they be enraged or distressed, very violent and 
furious: their calves will bee wondrous fatt.’”* 
These cattle appear to have been all destroyed 
during the civil wars of Charles I.’s time. In the 
Parliamentary Survey of March 22, 1646-7, this park 
is described, and it is said “the deere and game— 
viz., fallow-deere and wilde bulls, or bisons—utterly 
destroyed, except two or three of the said bisons, and 
some few conies, in that part of the park called ‘ the 
Flaggs,’ under the said walls of the said castle or 
palace.” Stainwick Park, also in the county of 
Durham, the property of the Duke of Northumber- 
land, is believed at one time to have held a herd of 
wild white cattle, while there is good reason for sup- 
posing that other herds existed at Raby Castle, the 
* This description is quoted by Raine in his “ Historical Account of 
the Episcopal Castle or Palace of Auckland” (p. 79), from a MS. in the 
possession of Sir Philip Grey Egerton, entitled “The Second Yeare’s 
T'ravell throw Scotland and Ireland, 1635.” This MS. has been 
printed by Sir Philip Grey Egerton, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., vol. u. 
(1839), and also in the first volume of the Cheetham Society’s 
Publications, 1844. 
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