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1859, and on the roth of November in that year the 
bull, the last of his race, was killed. 
Hocuron Tower, LANncAsHire, the park whereof 
once formed part of the forest of Bowland, had a very 
ancient herd of wild cattle, which has been extinct 
probably about two hundred years. 
Houtpenspy Park, NoORTHAMPTONSHIRE, was 
licensed to be imparked in 1578, and was much en- 
larged when James I. purchased the estate of Sir 
Christopher Hatton in 1607 (Pell Records, p. 80). 
During the Civil War Holdenby was seized, and 
granted by the Parliament to Thomas Lord Grey of 
Groby, who sold it to Adam Baynes, of Knowsthorp, 
Yorkshire, who in 1650 destroyed the park and pulled 
down the mansion. At the time of the sale, the 
park of 500 acres was stocked with upwards of 
two hundred deer of different kinds, worth £200, 
and eleven cows, and calves of wild cattle, worth 
£42.” Mr. Storer thinks they were introduced by 
James I. 
* KitmMoryY Housk, ARGYLLSHIRE. See BLAIR 
AtTHOLE, wheuce this herd was derived. 
LeicH Court, SoMERSETSHIRE.—This park, which 
once contained a herd of wild cattle, formerly belonged 
to the Augustinian Canons of Bristol, and was 
beautifully wooded. It is now the property of Sir 
William Miles, Bart., whose father in 1808 purchased 
it from the heirs of Lady Norton. Two years pre- 
viously—z.e., in 1806—the wild cattle there had 
become so savage that the owner was obliged to have 
* Baker, “ History of Northamptonshire,” vol. i. p. 197. 
