266 A TREATISE ON HORSE-BREEDING. 



Unfortunately it does not say where the horses came from; 

 but as Baliol held the Douglas estates it would appear as 

 though they were to be taken from Lanarkshire into Teviot- 

 dale, then in possession of the English. Douglas' quarrel 

 with his kinsman, William of Douglas, the Knight of Liddes- 

 dale, whom he slew, taking possession of his estates; his 

 rupture with King Edward of England, and his turning of 

 Baliol out of the ancestral estates of the Douglas family in 

 Liddesdale, Annandale and Clydesdale, leave little room for 

 doubt that if large horses did not exist in Lanarkshire pre- 

 vious to this date, as the extensive trade done with Flanders 

 by the Scottish merchants lead us to believe they did, some, 

 if not all, of the black stallions found their way to Douglas 

 Castle, in the Upper Ward of Lanarkshire.* 



Scotch authorities generally concur in nam- 

 ing the Upper Ward of Lanarkshire as the 

 place where the Clydesdale breed was first 

 brought to any considerable degree of perfec- 

 tion, and in the "Retrospective Volume" of the 

 Clydesdale Stud Book we read that: 



Some time between 1715 and 1720, John Paterson, of Loch- 

 lyoch, on the estate and in the parish of Carmichael, grand- 

 son of one John Paterson, who died at Lochlyoch in 1682, 

 went to England and brought from thence a Flemish stallion, 

 which is said to have so greatly improved the breed in the 

 Upper Ward as to have made them noted all over Scotland. 

 The Lochlyoch mares were famous in the Upper Ward dur- 

 ing the latter half of the last and the first two decades of the 

 present century; and a Mrs. Paterson, of Lochlyoch, mother 

 of the present tenant of Drumalbin, now ninety-seven years 

 of age, still has recollection of a noted black mare from 

 which many of the best stock in the Upper Ward are de- 

 scended. The family tradition is strongly supported by the 

 fact that the Patersons were in the habit of noting down 

 important agricultural items from a very early period; and 



* Clydesdale Stud Book, Vol. II, p. xvi. 



