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not mentioned until afterwards, were then either few 

 in number or none at all. "Wild kyne, with calves 

 and bulles, &c., of all sortes, remayned in Auckland 

 Parke, Sept. 24, 1627, the number thirty -two" 

 (Raine, p. ']']'). 



In 1634 Sir Wm. Brereton, while a guest of Dr. 

 Moreton, Bishop of Durham, at Bishoppe Auckland, 

 thus described the cattle he saw : "A daintie stately 

 parke ; wherein I saw wUd bulls and kine which had 

 two calves and runers ; there are about twenty wild 

 beasts all white ; will not endure yo'^ approach, butt 

 if they be enraged or distressed, very violent and 

 furious : their calves wUl bee wondrous fatt."* 

 These cattle appear to have been all destroyed 

 during the civil wars of Charles I.'s time. In the 

 Parliamentary Survey of March 22, 1646-7, this park 

 is described, and it is said " the deere and game — - 

 viz., fallow-deere andwilde buUs, or bisons — utterly 

 destroyed, except two or three of the said bisons, and 

 some few conies, in that part of the park called ' the 

 Flaggs,' under the said walls of the said castle or 

 palace." Stainwick Park, also in the county of 

 Durham, the property of the Duke of Northumber- 

 land, is believed at one time to have held a herd of 

 wild white cattle, whUe there is good reason for sup- 

 posing that other herds existed at Eaby Castle, the 



* This description is quoted by Raine in his " Historical Account of 

 the Episcopal Oastle or Palace of Auckland" (p. 79), from a MS. in the 

 possession of Sir Philip Grey Egerton, entitled " The Second Teare's 

 Travail throw Scotland and Ireland, 1635." This MS. has been 

 printed by Sir Philip Grey Egerton, Ann. Mag. Nat. Sist., vol. ii. 

 (1839), and also in the first volume of the Cheetham Society's 

 Publications, 1844. 



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