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try, as appears from the laws of Hoel dda *, who 

 permitted his grand huntfman to chace that animal 

 from the middle of November to thebeginning of 

 December, William the Conqueror puniflied with 

 the lofs of their eyes, any that were convided of 

 killing the wild-boar, the flag, or the roebuck f ; 

 and Fitz-Stephen tells us, that the vafl: foreft that 

 in his time grew on the north fide of London^ 

 was the retreat of (lags, fallow-deer, wild-boars, and 

 bulls. Charles I. turned out wild-boars in the 

 New Foreft, Hampjhire, but they were deftroyed 

 in the civil wars. 



^ Leges Wallica, 41. f Leges Saxon, 292. 



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