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not mentioned until afterwards, were then either few 

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

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

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

 (Baine, p. jj). 



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 wild bulls and kine which had 

 two calves and ruhers ; 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 will bee wondrous fatt."* 

 These cattle appear to have been all destroyed 

 during the civil wars of Charles L'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 and wilde bulls, 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." Stain wick 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, while there is good reason for sup- 

 posing that other herds existed at Baby Castle, the 



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

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

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

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

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

 (1839), an( i a l so i n * ne nrs fc volume of the Oheetham Society's 

 Publications, 1844. 



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