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extinct early in the ' forties.' Some of our herds are, or were, of 

 purely modern origin. Thus a local paper made this announce- 

 ment some forty- two years ago : ' Lord Brougham is about to 

 convert some of his fine lands near Brougham Hall into a Deer 

 Park, the high walls of which are making rapid progress 

 towards completion. It will be stocked by deer from Lowther. 

 On Monday last, bold Tom Yarker and his assistant caught ten 

 fine deer for that purpose, which, with the like number taken 

 on a previous occasion, will be conveyed to the new park at 

 Brougham Hall.' 1 



Forty years afterwards, in 1890, it was decided to give up 

 the Brougham herd, and the animals were carted back to 

 Lowther, as the original home of their progenitors. 



ROE DEER 



Capreolus caprcea, Gray. 



The Roe in prehistoric days must have wandered through the 

 coppices of the Duddon valley, across Whitbarrow, and through 

 many other parts of Lakeland. We know that it was numerous 

 in Westmorland, because its bones occur plentifully in the cave- 

 fissures, especially those near Kendal. Singleton may have had 

 some tradition of its former distribution in mind when he wrote 

 in 1677 that there existed in a house in Melmerby a coat of 

 arms which included three Roebuck heads. At that time the 

 range of the Lakeland Roes appears to have become restricted to 

 our northern borders. In the neighbourhood of Brampton this 

 animal was sufficiently plentiful to supply Lord William Howard 

 with many opportunities of sending Roes and Roe pies to his 

 neighbours and acquaintances. Thus, among the ' Law Causies,' 

 in May 1620, I find an entry, ' For careing roe pyes to my Lord 

 Ohancler's, xviij d .' In 1634 there is an entry of August 12th : 

 1 Wm. Grayme and Tho. Mulcaster, ther charges at Carlisle, 

 goinge with a roe kidd to Judge Cawlye, xij d .' 



The fame of the Roe of Naworth had long since reached the 

 Court of Charles I. As early as 1618 a consignment of live 

 Roes had been sent to the Metropolis. This we learn from an 

 1 Carlisle Patriot, April 20, 1850. 



