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of which it formed part, and which they had long previously 

 inhabited. Their descendants are still kept here. 



Lyme Park (Cheshire), enclosed about 1280 or 1290 from the royal 

 Forest of Macclesfield, obtained its wild herds, still remaining, 

 in a similar manner from the ancient wild cattle of that 

 forest. 



Blakeley (Lancashire) had wild bulls in clays bo early that even 

 350 years since they were spoken of as " times paste." 



Bishop Auckland (Durham). — Previous to the Reformation, and 

 again a hundred years later, the wild herd of the Bishops of 

 Durham, which was of unknown antiquity, and kept in their 

 park here, is mentioned by those who saw them. They seem 

 to have been destroyed during the civil wars of Charles the 

 First's time. 



Beaurepaire (Durham), the hunting park of the Priors of Durham. — 

 There seems fair reason for supposing that it contained wild 

 cattle, and that these were destroyed by the Scots in 1315. 



Baby Castle (Durham), the principal seat of the Nevills. — Various 

 circumstances render it most highly probable that the wild 

 cattle were kept here. They were certainly kept at 



Barnard Castle (Durham) — a seat of a younger branch of the 

 Nevill family, only six miles from Baby. These cattle are 

 mentioned in a royal grant of 1626. 



Hoghton Tower (Lancashire) had in olden times a very ancient 

 herd of wild cattle, which has probably been extinct 200 years 

 or more. 



Middleton Hall (Lancashire), the 3eat of the Asshetons, and 

 close to Blakeley, had an old herd of wild cattle, described in 

 1700, and probably the descendants of the Blakeley bulls. 



Bowland Forest (Lancashire) is traditionally believed to have 

 been the source from which many wild herds sprang. 



Whalley Abbey (Lancashire) had a park which certainly con- 

 tained them ; and they are traditionally believed to have been 

 obtained from Bowland Forest in the times of the Lord Abbots. 

 If not, they were introduced by the impropriators, the Asshetons, 

 from Middleton. They came to an end about the year 1700. 



Gisburne Park (Yorkshire). — Here was long kept a well-known 

 wild herd, belonging to the family of Lister, now Lords Rib- 

 blesdale. It was brought from Whalley Abbey either at the 



