CHAPTER TV. 



From Forest to Park— Gradual extinction of Wild Animals in Forests, -whilst still 

 remaining in the Parks — Historical Notices of Wild Cattle in Parks — Tradi- 

 tion of Saint Eobert — Park Cattle the great Improvers of the Durham or 

 Teeswater Cattle — The Studley Herd a White Breed — The Bishop of 

 Durham's White Cattle at Bishop Auckland — The Crest of the Nevill family 

 a White Bull — Chillingham — The Chillingham Cattle perhaps from the 

 Koyai Park at Chatton — Naworth — Frequent Mention of Wild Cattle under 

 the Name of " Wild Beasts " — Leigh Park, Somerset. 



Having shown in the preceding chapter how favourable 

 for so long a period the state of the country was for the 

 continued existence of Britain's aboriginal wild bull ; 

 and having also shown that wild cattle of some kind, 

 though history does not specify of what variety, per- 

 vaded the forests of the Chiltern districts and of 

 Middlesex, even up to the gates of London, in late 

 Saxon and early Norman times ; I proceed to point out 

 the traditional and historical evidence we have of the 

 continuance of the white forest breed of this country in 

 a nearly wild state up to a comparatively late period. 

 And though I shall, as far as I am able, distinguish 

 between the historical and the traditional, they are 

 everywhere so blended together, strengthening and 

 corroborating each other, that it is often not easy to give 

 them separately. 



I have no reason to believe that after the early 

 Norman age the wild bull was ever very numerous, 

 except perhaps in some parts of Scotland and in certain 



