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from which we may infer that in Dr. Leigh’s 
day the bulls showed some indication of a mane. 
The descendants of this herd are not yet entirely 
extinct, although they have become quite domesti- 
cated ; for, on the death of the third baronet in 1765, 
when the baronetcy became extinct, the elder of his 
two daughters, co-heiresses, married Sir Harbord Har- 
bord (afterwards, in 1780, created first Lord Suffield), 
and inherited Middleton and the wild cattle, which 
were then removed to Gunton Park, Lord Suffield’s 
place in Norfolk. Here they were preserved for 
many years, but gradually declined, until on the 
death of the fourth Lord Suffield, in 1853, they ceased 
to exist there. In the meantime, however, some had 
been transferred to Blickling Hall, originally the 
property of the Hobarts, created Earls of Bucking- 
hamshire in 1746, and eventually inherited by the 
Hon. William Assheton Harbord (eldest son of the 
first Lord Suffield) on his marriage with one of the 
three daughters of the second Earl of Buckingham- 
shire, who died in 1793 without male issue. Others 
were sold about 1840 to Mr. Cator, of Woodbastwick 
Hall, near Norwich, but, being subsequently crossed 
with shorthorns, the character and colour of the sur- 
vivors have become much altered, although, as 
remarked by the Rev. Mr. Gilbert, who visited this 
herd in November, 1875, “there is a perpetual 
struggle at Woodbastwick to reproduce the original 
type: and this proves how much more firmly fixed is 
this in the blood than is that of any of the recently 
introduced crosses.” 
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