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Holinshed lias it, with " crisp and curled manes 

 like feirs leonis." Another writer of about the 

 same date stated that " thoct thir bullis were bred 

 in sindry boundis of the Colidin Wod, now be 

 continewal hunting and lust of insolent men, they 

 are destroyit in all parts of Scotland, and nane of 

 them left but alien erlie in Cumernald." Long 

 before this, however, FitzStephen had left it on 

 record that in his time wild bulls were to be found, 

 with other large game, in the great forests which 

 then surrounded that city. And in the fourteenth 

 century King Robert Bruce was nearly killed by 

 a wild bull "in the great Caledon Wood," as 

 Holinshed tells us, but was rescued by one of 

 his followers, "whom he endowed with great 

 possessions, and his lineage is to this day called of 

 the Turnbulls, because he overturned the beast, 

 and saved the King's life by such great prowess 

 and manhood/' Again, in 1466, at the feast which 

 was held to celebrate the "intronization" of 

 George Nevell Archbishop of York, we find six 

 wild bulls mentioned as forming part of the 

 extremely heterogeneous bill of fare provided for 

 the occasion. 



These few extracts are sufficient to show that 

 wild cattle have lived in Great Britain, at all 

 events for many centuries, and though the race 

 is undoubtedly dwindling, they are still to be 

 found in both England and Scotland inhabiting a 

 few large parks. 



Before giving any further account of these wild 



