Rise and Progress of the Leicester Breed of Sheep. 347 
Joseph Burgess sold his moiety of the flock in 1834 for 
4,772/. 18s. at the hammer. Mr. Sanday, whose father and 
grandfather had both been ram breeders, came to Hohnpicrre- 
pont in the same year, but as h)ng as the ram lettings continued 
at Cotgrave Place, he confined himself to wethers, and won the 
gold medal with a pen at Baker Street in 1842. The lettings at 
Cotgrave Place were private, and the ram breeders of England 
and Ireland made a great array in those three June days, two of 
which were devoted to showing and the last to letting. Prices 
had " settled " considerably since " the golden fleece era," and 
12 guineas for 74 was the letting average in 1834. Fifty guineas 
was spoken of as a good price for a ram, and Mr. Samuel 
Bennett of Bedfordshire was thought a man of no small mettle 
to give 110 guineas for a shearling three years afterwards. The 
average then kept creeping up, and reached its limit in 1841, 
when 117 rams were let within a fraction of 22 guineas. Hence- 
forward it declined, and on Mr. Robert Burgess's death in 1846, 
the Leicester venue was laid at Holmpierrepont, and the late 
George Newton came from Cotgrave Place as shepherd. Mr. 
Burgess's flock of 450 was sold in 1847 for about 4500/. or nearly 
lOOOZ. more than Mr. Sanday had offered for it ten months 
before. Eighty of the ewes and gimmers, with the pick of the 
200 home ewes, ten of the Buckley's, fifteen from Mr. Hewitt's, 
and ten from Mr. Mann's of Spaldwick, formed the new Holm- 
pierrepont ewe flock, which generally numbered about 180, 
N. by D R from a Holmpierrepont ewe came with them, and as 
Sir Tatton who had hired him the year before, was fully alive 
to his merits, Mr. Sanday did not get him under 105 guineas. 
He was well worth the money, and W H and L X, D A and 
D N with the rare forequarters, all left their impress on the 
flock. The highest letting average was 30/. 12s. for forty in 
1859, and 111 guineas was given by Mr. Thunder for a shearling 
the following year. Mr. Sanday won his first Royal Agricul- 
tural Society's prize at Northampton in 1847 for shearling ewes. 
In 1854 no prizes were given, and in 1856 and 1858 he did not 
exhibit. At five shows he won all the firsts, and according to 
the Stewards' Report of the Royal Agricultural Meeting at 
Worcester, where he showed for the last time, he won fifteen 
first prizes, seventeen seconds, and ten-thirds for rams ; eleven 
firsts and ten seconds for shearling ewes ; besides eighteen high 
commendations in fourteen years. His sales in 1862-63 pro- 
duced 5378/. 12s. 6d., or an average of 19/. 12s. for 173 rams, 
and of 6/. for 333 ewes and gimmers ; and the highest ram price 
was 140 guineas for the (three shear) gold medallist at Battersea. 
The Dishley blood found its way to the Border in 17G7, 
through Messrs. George and Matthew Culley, one of Crookham 
Eastfield, and the other of Wark, who went from the banks of 
