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from which we may infer that in Dr. Leigh's 

 day the bulls showed some indication of a mane. 

 The descendants of this herd are not yet entirely 

 extinct, although they have become quite domesti- 

 cated ; for, on the death of the third baronet in 1 765, 

 when the baronetcy became extinct, the elder of his 

 two daughters, co-heiresses, married Sir Harbord Har- 

 ford (afterwards, in 1780, created first Lord Suffield), 

 and inherited Middleton and the wild cattle, which 

 were then removed to Gunton Park, Lord Suffield's 

 place in Norfolk. Here they were preserved for 

 many years, but gradually declined, until on the 

 death of the fourth Lord Suffield, in 1853, they ceased 

 to exist there. In the meantime, however, some had 

 been transferred to Blickling Hall, originally the 

 property of the Hobarts, created Earls of Bucking- 

 hamshire in 1 746, and eventually inherited by the 

 Hon. William Assheton Harbord (eldest son of the 

 first Lord Suffield) on his marriage with one of the 

 three daughters of the second Earl of Buckingham- 

 shire, who died in 1 793 without male issue. Others 

 were sold about 1 840 to Mr. Cator, of Woodbastwick 

 Hall, near Norwich, but, being subsequently crossed 

 with shorthorns, the character and colour of the sur- 

 vivors have become much altered, although, as 

 remarked by the Rev. Mr. Gilbert, who visited this 

 herd in November, 1875, "there is a perpetual 

 struggle at Woodbastwick to reproduce the original 

 type : and this proves how much more firmly fixed is 

 this in the blood than is that of any of the recently 

 introduced crosses." 



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