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THE DUTCH SUPREMACY
We have already shown that, in Mortimer's time, 1716, there were Dutch cattle in Lincoln and Kent, and that by Culley's time, 1794, they had completely conquered the east coast from Lincolnshire to the borders of Scotland. Unfortunately there were no Culleys to record their progress in the midlands and the counties on the west, but we can infer from the English "Agricultural Surveys," published about the junction of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, that the Dutch conquest was almost as complete in the west as in the east. The impression conveyed by these surveys is that from Lincolnshire westwards to Warwick and Worcester, and from there up the western side of the Pennine Chain as far as North Lancashire and Westmoreland, the older inhabitants had been swept out for many years. Indeed, some of the writers of the surveys thought the Dutch cattle around them were the old native race. These circumstances, along with the Herefordshire belief that Lord Scudamore
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