226 WILD WHITE CATTLE. 



chase of Marwood, adjoining tlie great forest of 

 Teesdale, belonged successively to the BaHols (after- 

 wards raised to the Scottish throne), and subsequently 

 to the Beauchamps and the Nevills, Earls of Warwick. 

 By the marriage of the daughter and co-heiress of 

 Richard Nevill, Earl of Warwick, the King-maker, 

 in 1 47 1, with Richard Duke of Glo'ster, afterwards 

 Richard III., it became the property and favourite 

 residence of that prince until he ascended the throne ; 

 at his death it reverted to the Crown. There can be 

 little doubt that during the whole of this period wild 

 cattle existed and were hunted here, for they still 

 existed here 150 years later. Charles I., by a grant 

 dated March 14, 1626, in consideration of a consider- 

 able sum of money, granted to Samuel Cordwell and 

 Henry Dingley, in trust for Sir Henry Yane, the 

 reversion of Barnard Castle, with its parks, " together 

 with all deer and wild cattle in the said parks."* It is- 

 beheved that wild cattle also existed at one time at 

 Raby Castle, about six miles distant, the seat of the 

 Duke of Cleveland. 



Bishop Auckland, Durham, originally part of 

 Weardale Forest, belonged to the Bishops of Durham, 

 who kept wild cattle here before the Reformation. 

 Leland describes it as "a faire parke by the castelle, 

 having fallow deer, wilde buUes, and kin." In 1338 

 it was let to Sir R. de Maners, from which it may be 

 inferred, says Raine,t that the deer and wild cattle, 



* Hutchinson, " Hist. Durham," vol. iii. p. 245. 

 t " Historical Account of the Episcopal Palace of Auckland," pp. 

 77> 79- 



