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Aislabies ; and he took no others than those so descended in the 

 female line only. Mr. Stephenson of Ketton and his son, re- 

 mained at Ketton until the year 17G5. From the last Mr, Ste- 

 phenson of Ketton, Mr. Hunter of Hurworth, procured the 

 grandam of the celebrated bull Hubback, (319,) and she and of 

 course her grand sort Hubback were of this tribe. 



In 1739, Mr. Stephenson of Ketton, sold to Mr. Pickering of 

 Foxton, a female of the Studley or Aislabie tribe of cattle ; out 

 of this cow he bred, by the Studley bull, the cow Tripes. Mr. 

 Pickering sold Tripes to Mr. John Hall of Haughton ; Mr. Hall 

 bred Duchess of Atholl, got by Harrison's bull, (292) out of 

 Tripes; and out of Duchess of Atholl, he bred Eeauty, got by 

 Masterman's bull, (422). On the death of Mi. Thomas Hall^ 

 Mr. Alexander Hall succeeded to his estate, and he bred Bright- 

 eyes, by Snowdon's bull, (612,) out of Beauty by Masterman's 

 bull, (422,) and out of Brighteyes by Snowdon's bull (612,) he 

 bred Brighteyes by Hubback, (319). Brighteyes by Snowdon's 

 bull (612) and Brighteyes by Hubback, (319) were sold by A. 

 Hall, to Robert Colling of Barmpton. Mr. Colling bred Bright- 

 eyes by Favorite, (252) out of Brighteyes by Hubback, (319) ; 

 and out of Brighteyes by Fav^orite, he bred Princess, by Favor- 

 ite. (252). Princess was sold by Robert Colling to Sir Henry 

 Vane Tempest, Bart, of Wynyard. Sir Henry bred Anna Boleyne, 

 by Favorite, (252), out of Princess; and Angelina by Phenome- 

 non, (491), out of Anna Boleyne. Sir Henry died in 1813, and 

 his widow, the Countess of Antrim, in 1818, sold Angelina to 

 Mr. John Stephenson, of Wolviston. All the sires and dams in 

 the pedigrees of tliese imported cattle (whicli were bred by him) 

 occurring after Angelina, except Mameluke and Fourth Duke of 

 Northumberland, were bred by Mr. John Stephenson. 



I give the certificate of Alexander Hall, as to this tribe of cat- 

 tle. The facts in relation to the Stephensons, of Acklam and 

 Ketton, were obtained from the papers of the late Dr. Stephenson, 

 of Heddon, who was born at Ketton in 1745. 



Mr. Hall says : " Mr. Charles Colling bought a heifor of me, 

 got by Mr, Fawcett's bull, afterwards called Hubback, (which 

 heifer bred the bull Foljambe.) This heifer's dam was got by a 



