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CHAPTER XL 



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The Chartley Herd— Early Notices of these Cattle as "Wild Beasts"— 

 Black Calves considered a fatal Omen — My own first Visit — Grand 

 and massive Character of the Cattle — The Herd " Long-horns " — My 

 Second Visit — Peculiar Characteristics of these Cattle — They resemble 

 those in Somerford Park — Not so wild as the Chillingham Cattle — 

 Black Calves — Attempts to cross the Herd — White Cattle in the 

 Neighbourhood — Mr. Chandos-Pole-Gell's Description — Mr. Thornton's 218 



CHAPTER XII. 



The Lyme Park Herd — The Legh Family — Hansall's Account of the Herd — 

 My own Visit, 1875 — Details given by Mr. Legh — Attempts to procure 

 a Cross — Result of the Chartley Cross — Curious Eesult of the Polled 

 Gisburne Cross — Habits of the Old Lyme Cattle — Larger than any 

 existing Wild Breed in this Country — The Burton Constable Herd 

 — Refusal of Information — Bewick's Account — Destruction of the Herd 

 by Distemper — Probable Origin of the Herd 245 



CHAPTER XIII. 



The Somerford Park a Domesticated Herd — Probably Connected with the 

 Lyme Park and Chartley Herds — My Visit in 1875 — Points of the 

 Cattle — Their Pine Milking Qualities — Probable Use of Diluted Crosses 

 — Antiquity of the Herd — Its Origin — Interesting Evidence as to Colour 

 of the Wild Cattle— The Wollaton Hall Herd— Existing in 1790— Was 

 a Polled Herd — Mr. Burton's Account — Rev. Mr. Willoughby's — This 

 Herd only semi-domesticated — Extinguished by Negligence and In- 

 breeding — Probable Origin of the Wollaton Herd — Greater Tendency to 

 Black in the Southern Herds ........ 256 



CHAPTER XIV. 



The Gisburne Park Herd — Related to the Middleton — Bewick's Description 

 in 1790— Whitaker's, in 1805— A Polled Herd— Originally from 

 Whalley Abbey — or possibly from Middleton — Its semi-domesticated 

 Character — Became Extinct in 1859 — Lord Ribblesdale's Account — 

 Rev. T. Staniforth's — Mr. Assheton's — The last Animal killed on 

 Nov. 10, 1859 — The Herd perished from In-breeding — This often 

 perfects the Individual, but annihilates the Race — The Middleton Hall 

 Herd— Dr. Leigh's Account, in 1700— Then "Wild Cattel"— and 

 Polled— Probable Origin — Finally removed to Gunton Park . . . 277 



CHAPTER XY. 



The Gunton Park Herd originally from Middleton — Progress towards 

 Domestication in Norfolk — Portrait of the original Lancashire Bull — 

 Lord Suffield's Description — Mr. Coleman's — Resemblance to the Polled 

 Cattle of Somerford Park — The Herd extinct, save in Off- sets from it — 

 Influence in the District — Blickling Hall Herd descended from the 



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