66 This year 35 bullocks, weight, 189 cwt. and 14 lbs., cost 17s. 6d. per cwt. These bullocks must have been small and badly fed, or they would have weighed much heavier. There was fat beef at that period; the Bishop of Durham, who was a palatine bishop, which means a lord who had jurisdiction, as fully as the king had in his palace," used to provide the provisions for the judges' tables when they went to Durham. He wrote from London, 1661, ordering "to be got some fat beef, from William Man, of Piercebridge, for the judges to taste at the assizes; also, some Westphalia hams, Holland cheeses, and look there be ready some kegs of sturgeon." Such articles were considered good "belly-timber" for bishops and judges, in those days of full feeding. In the neighbouring county of Northumberland, there has for centuries been, in Chillingham-park, some of the original wild cattle. The meat of the bulls weighs from 560 to 700 pounds; and that of the cows from 420 to 500 pounds; although they run wild, which lessens their tendency to fatten. The Durham ox, slaughtered 1801, weighed, when alive and ten years. old, 3804 pounds; at eleven years old he dislocated his hip, was in great pain for eight weeks, then he was killed, without being full-fed he had been shown about the country. His meat weighed 2332 pounds, the fat and hide, 294. The owner, before the accident, was offered £2000 pounds for him. The Durham cows are excellent milkers; most of the London milkmen prefer them. It is said the breed came originally from Holland. Bakewell began his improvements in the breed of cattle at Dishley, in Leicestershire, about the middle of the last century. He obtained his best long-horned cows from Canley, a hamlet in the village of Stonely, near Coventry. According to Mortimer's "Whole Art of Husbandry," 1708, it was estimated that the capital required to stock a farm was equal to three years of the rent; thus, if the rent was £100, it would require £300 to work it. Eminent Men of all Nations; from Gorton's General Biographical Dictionary. "Long trails of light descending down."-DRYDEN. Agriculture, 101 Aldrich, Dr., reasons for drinking, 135 Bacon, Friar, Lord do., vol. i., Algerines, Almanacs, vol. ii., American Census, vol. i., 41 Bagpipes, 270 Barracks," i., 46 Barges, ❝ ii., 322 Baronial Mansions, vol. i.,' 196 Bartholomew Fair, vol. ii., 63 281 123 159 Bake-pears, 130 70 Ballad Nation, 279 128 Ballinasloe Fair, vol. ii., 227 Bathing, 323 311 Beards, vol. i., 203 341 Bear-baiting, vol. ii., 85 230 Beds, 66 i., 210 Boys' Dress, Pagel Boys apprenticed to the sea, v. i., 42 Chattels, entailed, vol. ii., Book of Sports, Bows and Arrows, 194 Chests, 125-234 Chelsea Hospital, vol., i., Military School, 85 185 Book Collectors, Book Auction, Brasses in Churches, vol. i., 251 Chimneys, 118 132 Chimes, vol. ii., 124 Bridges, i., 88 China, 40 Bristol, 80 Chocolate, vol. i., 147 66 Birds, 66 vol. ii., Brown Betty, i.," Bury in Woollen, Buried Mohey, Byrd, Wm., musical composer, C: Calendar of Sports, vol. ii., Canals, vol. i., Canary Dance, ii., Capillaire, vol. i,, Cards, Instructive, ii., Carpets, vol. i., Carilons," ii., "Carving, vol. i., Carrier-pigeons, jov Cathedral, St. Paul's, Cavaliers, 185 Christian style of building, 135 Christmas Festivals, vol. ii, 67 94 249 66 259 20 237 of cast-iron, 247 285 33 173 155 307 87 7 Reform,. 66 badly paid, 30 229 232 |