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"Survey of Staffordshire," for instance, some 

 enormous cattle with white faces and white backs 

 and under-lines, are figured as old Staffordshire 

 cattle. But perhaps the most valuable statement 

 of all is that to be found about Lord Scudamore 

 in Cooke's continuation to Duncumb's " Collec- 

 tions towards the History and Antiquities of the 

 County of Hereford." Scudamore, whose family 

 had been famous for generations for their horse- 

 manship and breed of horses, 1 was a friend of 

 George Villiers, Duke of Buckingham, and, when 

 the latter was assassinated in 1628, retired to his 

 estate at Holme Lacy and devoted himself to 

 agricultural improvements. His retirement was 

 twice interrupted, first in 1634 by his becoming 

 Ambassador in Paris for four years, and again 

 in 1643 by hi s being imprisoned for three years 

 for rebellion. He is credited with having intro- 

 duced the red-streak apple, and so turned Here- 

 ford into a county of orchards and cider ; and 

 also with having introduced the cattle from which 

 the present Herefords are descended. Cooke's 

 statement is as follows : " Francis Hereford, son of 

 Roger Hereford, a merchant of Dunkirk, married 

 in the Netherlands and left several children. 

 Roger Hereford, a younger son, also a merchant 

 at Dunkirk, becoming a naturalised subject, was 

 on three occasions chief magistrate of that city. 

 These gentlemen are traditionally credited with 



1 See " Dictionary of National Biography." 



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