7S FOX. Class L 



I ufed to heighten the torments of the unhappy fuf- 



ferers on the crofs. 



Nuda Caledonio fic pe6tora prasbuit urfo 

 Non falfa pendens in cruce Laureolus *. 



And Plutarch relates, that Bears were tranfported 

 from Britain to Rome^ where they were much admi- 

 red f. Mr. LlwydX alfo difcovered in fome old 

 JVelJh MS. relating to hunting, that this animal 

 was reckoned among our beads of chace, and that 

 its fiefli was held in the fame efleem with that of 

 the hare or boar. Many places in Wales ftill retain 

 the name of Pennarth^ or the bear's head, another 

 evidence of their exigence in our country. It does 

 not appear how long they continued in that princi- 

 pality ; but there is proof of their infefting Scotland 

 fo late as the year 1057 |i, when a Gordon, in re- 

 ward for his valor for killing a fierce bear, was di- 

 rected by the King to carry three Bears' heads on 

 his banner. They are flill found in the mounta- 

 nous parts of France, particularly about the 

 grande Chartreufe in Dauphine, where they make 

 great havoke among the out-ricks of the poor farm- 

 ers. Long after their extirpation out of this king- 

 dom, thefe animals were imported for an end, that 



* Martial. Lib, Sped, ep. y, 



t Plutarch, as cited by Camden, p. 1 227. % Raii/yn, quad, 214. 

 II lii^,Qix\\c Gordons, I, 2. 



does 



