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There can be no doubt that the Blickling white 

 cattle were introduced from Gunton ; the Dowager 

 Lady Suffield, Lord Suffield, his brother the Hon. and 

 Rev. John Harbord, Mr. R. W. Parmeter of Ayls- 

 ham (for many years Clerk of the Peace for Norfolk, 

 and agent for the Blickling estate), and others, all con- 

 firm this; while Lady Lothian has enabled me to fix 

 the date within a few years. They were brought to 

 Blickling from Gunton during the time that the heiress 

 of the former lived there, as Lady Caroline Harbord, 

 with her husband, prior to his succeeding, at his father's 

 death, to the peerage : and that was from 1793 till 1810. 

 Mr. Parmeter says, in a letter to me, dated November 

 4th, 1874 : — " Lady Lothian tells me she remembers to 

 have read in a letter from Lady Suffield, when Lady 

 Caroline Harbord, to a friend, that they were ' rearing 

 some of the favourite Grunton calves for Blickling.' ' 

 Mr. Parmeter, now an elderly man, adds : — " As long as 

 I can carry back my knowledge of Blickling, the white 

 cows with black noses and ears were an object of notice 

 there." The Middleton white cattle, therefore, acclima- 

 tised at Gunton, were introduced to Blickling during the 

 few concluding years of the last century, or at the very 

 commencement of the present one. They have always 

 been much valued by its proprietors, but were unfortu- 

 nately nearly destroyed a few years since by the rinder- 

 pest, from which they are by degrees recovering. Bui 

 I leave Mr. Gilbert to make his own report. 



" So many of the questions put to me by Mr. Storer 

 had reference to the hair of the white polled cattle 

 which survive at Blickling Hall, that it seemed desir- 

 able to defer the examination of these until their winter 

 coats should be grown. The herd must at any time 

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