234 WILD WHITE CATTLE. 
forest, were then first incarcerated, as they were at 
Chartley and at Lyme.’ 
It is at least certain that this herd was in existence 
two centuries ago. In Mackenzie’s “ View of the 
County of Northumberland” (1825) there is the 
following note (vol. 1. p. 390) : 
“Tn a family account book, written by William ‘Taylor, steward of 
Chillingham, and now (1821) in the possession of his great-grandson, 
William Taylor, Esq., Hendon Grange, near Sunderland, is an outlay : 
* 1689, Dec. 5, pd Wm. Kadyll’s white calf ten shillings. 
*“ May 1692. Beastsin the Parke. My lorde’s 16 white wilde beasts, 
2 black steers and a guy,f 12 white, read and black ear’d, 5 blacke 
oxen and brown one, 2 oxen from Warke, from last a steer killed. 
* Aucust ’92. Ye guy had a calfe, and went to Upwarke with the 
twelve black and read-ear’d, two of the Warke, and the brown one at 
Chivton.” 
Many accounts of this herd have been published 
from time to time, amongst which we may refer to 
those of Pennant, Cully, Bewick, Lord Tanker- 
ville, Hindmarsh, and quite recently those of 
Mr. A. H. Cocks and the Rev. John Storer, all of 
whom have written from personal observation. 
The account given by the late Lord Tankerville 
(Ann. Nat. Hist.,” vol. 11.) commands perhaps the 
chiefest attention, since it comes from a former 
* Chatton, adjoining Chillingham, imparked by Edward I. in 1291- 
1292, contained “ wild animals,” presumably the same as those at 
Chillingham. 
+ This word, which is variously spelled ‘“ quhy,’’ “ whye,” “why,” 
“wye,”’ and “twy,”’ appears to be an abbreviation of “twynters” 
(two winters), and signifies a two-year-old heifer. In the Accounts of 
the Bursar of the Monastery of Durham, 1530-1534, commonly called 
“The Durham Household Book” (pp. 205, 301, 327), are the following 
entries :— 
“ Et in 2 twynters (whyes) et 2 twynters (whyes) emptis de Wil- 
heimo Bernarde@9s.. . . eels. eo One 
Et in 4 vaccis, vocatis whyes Saas de Wallet Bernarde, hoc 
MUO Osis se os) be os BE oa a ee meee 
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