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H. Rew * remarks that this is perhaps the only breed whose origin can be assigned to an absolute date — that is to say, the year 1767, in which the brothers Culley, pupils of Bakewell, went to Northumberland, taking a flock of New Leicesters with them. Whether they crossed these upon local breeds or not is unknown. Mr. John Usher thinks Cheviot blood was used to some extent ; Mr. Wood finds reason to hold that no crossing took place. The old Shropshire or " Morse Common " sheep was the foundati...on stock of the modern * Report on the Sheep exhibited at Windsor — Journal of the Royal Af^ykuHuyal Society, October, 1889. 63 Shropshire breed. Credit for improving them is assigned to Mr. Samuel Meire, who obtained South Downs from Glynde and introduced New Leicester blood to obtain greater docility. The change was in progress about a hundred years ago. The Wensleydales at this period were called " Mugs," and are held to have been a branch of the Teeswater breed. Some New Leicester blood was introduced at a some- what later period.
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