IX 



THE DUTCH SUPREMACY 



WE have already shown that, in Mortimer's 

 time, 1716, there were Dutch cattle in Lincoln 

 and Kent, and that by Culley's time, 1794, they 

 had completely conquered the east coast from 

 Lincolnshire to the borders of Scotland. Un- 

 fortunately there were no Culleys to record their 

 progress in the midlands and the counties on 

 the west, but we can infer from the English 

 " Agricultural Surveys," published about the 

 junction of the eighteenth and nineteenth 

 centuries, that the Dutch conquest was almost 

 as complete in the west as in the east. 

 The impression conveyed by these surveys is 

 that from Lincolnshire westwards to Warwick 

 and Worcester, and from there up the western 

 side of the Pennine Chain as far as North 

 Lancashire and Westmoreland, the older in- 

 habitants had been swept out for many years. 

 Indeed, some of the writers of the surveys 

 thought the Dutch cattle around them were the 

 old native race. These circumstances, along with 

 the Herefordshire belief that Lord Scudamore 



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