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1859, and on the 10th of November in that year the 

 bull, the last of his race, was killed. 



Hoghton Tower, Lancashire, the park whereof 

 once formed part of the forest of Bowland, had a very 

 ancient herd of wild cattle, which has been extinct 

 probably about two hundred years. 



Holdenby Park, Northamptonshire, was 

 licensed to be imparked in 1578, and was much en- 

 larged when James I. purchased the estate s of Sir 

 Christopher Hatton in 1607 (Pell Records, p. 80). 

 During the Civil War Holdenby was seized, and 

 granted by the Parliament to Thomas Lord Grey of 

 Groby, who sold it to Adam Baynes, of Knowsthorp, 

 Yorkshire, who in 1650 destroyed the park and pulled 

 down the mansion. At the time of the sale, the 

 park of 500 acres was stocked with upwards of 

 two hundred deer of different kinds, worth £200, 

 and eleven cows, and calves of wild cattle, worth 

 £42.* Mr. Storer thinks they were introduced by 

 James I. 



* Kilmory House, Argyllshire. See Blair 

 Athole, whence this herd was derived. 



Leigh Court, Somersetshire. — This park, which 

 once contained a herd of wild cattle, formerly belonged 

 to the Augustinian Canons of Bristol, and was 

 beautifully wooded. It is now the property of Sir 

 William Miles, Bart., whose father in 1808 purchased 

 it from the heirs of Lady Norton. Two years pre- 

 viously — i.e., in 1806 — the wild cattle there had 

 become so savage that the owner was obliged to have 



* Baker, " History of Northamptonshire," vol. i. p. 197. 



