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But, if John Percy's white-headed heifer was 

 descended from imported cattle, the importations 

 must either have been very few, or in poor 

 demand, for there is no indication that the York- 

 shire cattle, unless those in the parks and their 

 tame cousins in the possession of one or two 

 families, were otherwise than black till three 

 centuries later. Besides, it was in Lincolnshire, 

 to which Dutchmen came to drain the fens, that 

 the Dutch cattle are first reported to have gained 

 a footing. In 1683 Gervaise Markhatn writes 1 : 

 "As touching the right Breed of Kine through 

 our Nation, it generally affordeth very good ones, 

 yet some Countries do far exceed other Countries, 

 as Cheshire, Lancashire, Yorkshire, and Derby- 

 shire, for black Kine ; Gloucestershire, Somer- 

 setshire, and some part of Wiltshire for red Kine ; 

 and Lincolnshire for pide Kine." 



Thirty-three years later Mortimer 2 tells us 

 where these Lincolnshire cattle had come from, 

 and also that cattle of the same kind had been 

 imported to Kent : " But the best sort of Cows 

 for the Pail, only that they are tender and need 

 very good keeping, are the long-legg'd, short- 

 horn'd Cow of the Z?#fc^-breed, which is to be 

 had in some places of Lincolnshire, but most used 

 in Kent:' 



Still another forty years later, Hale 3 refers to 



1 "The English House-Wife." 



2 " The Whole Art of Husbandry," 1716, p. 227. 



3 " Compleat Body of Husbandry," vol. iii. p. 35. 



