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From the Sussex Express, 14th April 1800
SUSSEX BULL
TO COVER THIS SEASON
At Glynd, near Lewes, at One Guinea a Cow,
Mr ELLMAN'S TRUE BRED SUSSEX BULL,
WAXEY
Waxey was out of Bertha, daughter of the Princess Royal, and got by Mercury.
NB The Prize of twenty Guineas, given by the Sussex Agricultural Society, the 4th of August, 1798, was adjudged to Waxey, as the best three year old Bull; and Ten Guineas given by the same Society the 31st of July last, was also adjudged to Waxey, as the best Bull, four years and upwards; together with an additional Guinea, as the best of three Prize Bulls.
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