SHORT-HORNS. 



Again, under date of March 20th, 1820, Alexander Hall, in a cer- 

 tificate given to Mr. Bates, says, " John Hunter, of Hurworth, was a 

 mason. He bred Hubback. Hubback's dam was got by a bull 

 owned by Mr. Banks, of Hurworth. Banks's bull had a great belly, 

 but was out of a handsome cow owned by Mr. Banks. John Hunter 

 bought the grandam of Hubback of Mr. Stephenson, of Ketton. Mr. 

 Snowdon's cow that produced * Snowdon's bull,' was a very hand- 

 some one, and remarkable for her wide hips, and fine quick eyes.'* 



Mr. Hutchinson, the banker and breeder, says of Hubback, " It 

 behooves every breeder to prove his own stock related to this wonder- 

 ful animal (if he can) ; which I conceive by no means difficult to do, 

 as no bull (as I will show) has been more easy of access. He served 

 three years at Mr. Fawcett's, near Haughton, at one shilling a cow, 

 before the late Robert Colling and Mr. Waistell purchased him. Mr. 

 Waistell, during the nine or ten months he remained a partnership 

 bull, had his twelve breeding short-horned cows served by him, and 

 he was open and free to the whole neighborhood durino^ that period. 

 Mr. Charles Colling became possessed of him in October, 1783; he 

 was then rising five years eld ; his price not more than £8 8s. 



" But I am by no means reconciled to the idea that Mr. Colling 

 himself ever thought so highly of this L ull, as it is now confidently 

 held out, (for he kept him only two years) ; otherwise would he have 

 parted with him at seven years old, a nameles'i hull? for it is well 

 known tliat he was not called Huhhack till many years after he had 

 been sold to a gentleman of that name, (Hubback,) at North Seaton 

 in Northumberland. 



" A dissension has arisen amongst the Ketton and Bannpton breed- 

 ers ; and all those who have cattle descended from the Grandson of 

 Lord Bolingbroke — or what is now called the alloy-hlood — want to 

 prove that there was Scotch blood in Hubback ; and, as this can- 

 not he done on the dam's side, they go back to Sir James Penny- 

 man, though I do not believe there is a tittle of evidence to prove that 

 Hubback was descended from his stock ; the only reason they have 

 for supposing so is, that Mr. Snowdon was a tenant of Sir James. I 

 believe I had the last conversation on this subject with poor George 

 Snowdon myself, about three months before his death, and he cer- 

 tainly said that was the case, that his bull was descended from Sir 

 James's stock, but in what degree, or h'lw related, he kneio no more 

 than the UMin-in-the-moon. Mr. George Snowdon came to Hurworth 

 in 1774: so much for the credibility of George Snowdon having 

 brought this bull with him out of Cleveland, and of his having de- 

 scended from the stock of the late Sir James Pennyman." 



Mr. Snowdon was a tenant under Sir J. Pennyman, near Ormsby 

 in Cleveland, and gave up his farm there, and came to the parish of 

 Hurworth in 1774, and was a tenant under Mrs. Bland, widow of 

 James Bland, Esq., who died in 1770. 



