68 SHORTHORN HERDS OF ENGLAND. 



of Sir Curtis Lampson's Kirklevington Duchess 5th, was bought 

 from Mrs. Fawcett ; at the same time came two of his progeny, 

 Waterloo Duchess 6th, and Grwynne Duchess 6th, the latter out of 

 an 8th Duke of York daughter of Amy Grwynne, sold for 240gs. at 

 Nunwick Hall sale. At the head of the herd is Baron York Bates, 

 a rich roan, bred at Scaleby Castle, of the Lady Bates branch of the 

 Barrington tribe. 



Messrs. W. and H. Morley's herd at Eastgate-in-Wea-dale, is 

 eighteen miles over the Border, within the County of Durham, and 

 would have been more correctly noticed amongst the herds of that 

 County, especially as the easiest way of reaching Eastgate is via 

 Darlington, or Bishop Auckland. The herd was founded at Sweet- 

 wells, about half-a-mile distant from its present home, by the father 

 of the Messrs. Morley in 1858, when Red Rosette was purchased 

 from Mr. Mitchell, of Cleasby, who had obtained her from the elder 

 Mr. John Booth. Her first heifer, Rose of the Vale, won first prize 

 in the cow class at the Stanhope and Wokingham Shows in 1863, 

 and 1861, and was the dam of Royal Knight 25032, sold to Mr. 

 Chirnside, in Northumberland, where he begot Castanet 3rd, and 

 Casket, whose descendants are now in the well known herds of 

 Messrs. Aylmer and Maxwell-Grumbleton. Another daughter was 

 Bellb Vue, sold to Mr. Vickers, which in due time was the grand- 

 dam of his Duke of Howl John, and likewise the family in Messrs. 

 Morley's hands have obtained a reputation for the excellence of its 

 bulls, and the only two females now possessed by them, descend from 

 the older sister, Rose of the Vale. The next female purchase, was 

 from Messrs. Atkinson in the shape of a roan heifer named Sprightly 

 3rd, a daughter of Col. Townley's prize bull Richard Coeur-de-Lion 

 13590, and Sprightly, own sister to Master of Annandale, a veiy 

 successful sire in Mr. Lambert's herd at Eli ington Hall : all her 

 descendants here, spring from her last calf, Sprightly Maid, by Royal 

 Arthur 29840, a son of Castanet, of the Fame tribe. 



For many years cows were sent over to Messrs. Atkinson's bulls 

 at Peepy, and sires from Broomley were also used in the earlier days. 

 Royal Arthur, and his grand-son British Baron 33213, a home bred 



