| William Jardine - 1833 - 434 ページ
...information regarding the stock in the other parks. The mode of killing these cattle, Mr Bewick remarks, " was perhaps the only modern remains of the grandeur...notice being given that a wild bull would be killed on a certain day, the inhabitants of the neighbourhood came mounted, and armed with guns, &c. and sometimes... | |
| Rogerson and Tuxford - 1852 - 624 ページ
...Chillingham cattle had nearly or altogether ceased before 1720, when it is described in these terms:— "The mode of killing them was, perhaps, the only modern...grandeur of ancient hunting. On notice being given that a bull would be killed on a certain day, the inhabitants of the neighbourhood came mounted, and armed... | |
| 1790 - 540 ページ
...doubt but in two or three turns they would make an attack. " The mode of killing them was perhaps tlrc only modern remains of the grandeur of ancient hunting...:— On notice being' given that a wild bull would be kil\iA on a certain day, the inhabitants cf •the neighbourhood came inounttJ, and fnned with guns,... | |
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