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1578 H. Lyte tr. R. Dodoens Niewe Herball 752 The leaves of Elme are good fodder for rother cattell.

1602 R. Carew Surv. Cornwall i. f. 23 Beastes seruing for meate onely, are Pigs, Goates, Sheepe, and Rother cattell.

1643 Inventory 14 Oct. in H. W. Richardson York Deeds (Maine) (1887) II. f. 85 All his part of the Cows & ruther cattle vidzt one yoak of oxen.

1699 in J. S. Moore Goods & Chattels Forefathers (1976) 162 Eighteen herd of rudder cattle.

1776 Abstr. Claims New Forest 22 Common of pasture for all their cattle called rother cattle, and horse beasts.

1885 Proc. Somerset Archaeol. & Nat. Hist. Soc. 1884 10 11 Rother cattle, horses, and sheep were usually brought to St. Botolph's fair.

1992 R. Dunning Victoria Hist. County of Somerset VI. 316 A farming inventory of 1639 included apples, cider, and cheese besides 4 rother cattle, poultry, and a horse.

2010 A. Askaroff Sussex born & Bred 63 The Rother cattle were long-horned, fleshy beasts prized for their meat, milk, hide and horn.