Cattle 1853 - Lewis Family Farm

SHORT-HORNS. 113
son, and resided at Denton until he was thirty-two years old, and
knew Dobison personally. Mr. Bailey knew both Mr. Colling, Sen.,
and Mr. Culley. Bailey began his investigations in 1795, and Culley
wrote in 1785. Mr. Bailey names Thomas Corner, who was
ninety years old at the time, as his authority for saying that " Mr.
Milbank, of Barningba-m, and Mr. Croft, of Barford, were the most
eminent breeders, and were considered as having the best and purest
breed, at that period ;" " and Mr. George Culley says that he has
repeatedly heard his father state the same particulars ." Can there be
a doubt that Mr. Bailey and Mr. Culley, had ample means to know
every particular as to Mr. Dobison ? and they communicate nothing.
They record a tradition, and do no more. This floating tradition of an
importation, found a resting place
and in Durham, with Dobison.
in Holderness, with St. Quintin
It was about 1750 that Dobison lived at the Isle, and was breed-
,
ing. Bailey fixes this period.
Now, at the period, at which it is said there were bulls and cows
imported from Holland by. Dobison, Sir William St. Quintin, and
others, there existed a statute of Parliament, forbidding the importation
of cattle into England.
In the 18th year of the reign of Charles II., which was the year
•1600, the Parliament of.England passed an act providing as follows
" The Importation of all great Cattle shall be deemed a common
Nuisance. If any (except for the necessary provision "of the Ship,)
shall be imported from beyond Sea, any Constable, Churchwarden,