Class I. FOX. ^ 



cent county o^ Derby ^ as Camden, p. 902, informs 

 us, certain perfons at Wormhill held their lands by 

 the duty of hunting and taking the wolves that in- 

 fefted the country, whence they were ftiled Wolve 

 hunt. To look back into the Saxon times we find 

 that in Atheljtanh reign wolves abounded fo in Tork- 

 jhire, that a retreat was built 2xFlixton in that coun- 

 ty, to defend paffengers from the wolves, that they 

 JJoould not be devoured by them : and fuch ravages 

 did thofe animals make during winter, particularly 

 in January when the cold was fevered, that our 

 Saxon ancefiors diftinguifhed that month by the 

 title wolf moneth^. They alfo called an outlaw 

 Wolffhed, as being out of the protedion of the law, 

 profcribed, and as liable to be killed as that de- 

 ftrudive beafi Et tunc geriint caput lupinum, 

 it a quod fine judiciali inquifttione rite pereant, Bradlon 

 lib. iii. Tr. 11. c. 11. alfo Knighton 2356. 



They infefted Ireland many centuries after their 

 cxtindion in England, for there are accounts of 

 fome being found there as late as the year 1710; 

 the laft prefentment for killing of wolves being 

 made in the county of Cork about that timef . 



The Bear, another voracious bead, was once Bear. 

 an inhabitant of this ifland, as appears from differ- 

 ent authorities : to begin with the more antient. 

 Martial informs us, that the Caledonian bears were 



* Verfiegan^s Antiq. 59. 



t $mith\ hiji. Cork. 11. 226. 



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