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ceased to exist, having been destroyed probably 
during the Parliamentary wars. 
In a MS. and anonymous ‘Description of Cumber- 
land,” dated 1675, and said to have been written by 
Edmund Sandford, a gentleman of good family in the 
county, the writer, describing Naworth Castle and 
the neighbourhood, says that around it formerly were 
‘pleasant woods and gardens; ground full of fallow 
dear feeding on all somer tyme; braue venison pasties, 
and great store of reed dear on the mountains, and 
white wild cattel with black ears only, on the moores; and 
black heath-cockes and brone more-cockes, and their 
pootes.””* 
* SOMERFORD PARK, CHESHIRE, the property of Sir 
Charles Shakerley, is situate near Congleton, in the 
heart of what was once Maxwell Forest.t An ancient 
herd of white cattle, resembling those at Chartley, 
but polled, still exists here; and these animals are 
considered to be the best surviving representatives 
of the hornless and tame variety of the original wild 
white breed. The colour is pure white; the ears, 
rims of the eyes, muzzle, and hoofs being quite black. 
Like all other old herds of the forest breed, they have 
a strong tendency to produce small black spots on 
the neck, sides, and legs, and this the proprietors 
admire and encourage ; many of them have therefore 
become more or less speckled. When Mr, Storer 
visited this herd in August, 1875, it numbered twenty 
head, It is to be regretted that no record or even 
* Jefferson, “ Hist. and Antiq. Carlisle” (1838), p. 361. 
+ Leland, “Itinerary,” vol. v. p. 87 (ed. Hearne). 
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