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in the year of our Lord 1016. The 27th law of 

 Canute, as translated by Manvvood,"^ says : 



^^ And there be divers other beasts, which although 

 they do live within the forest, and they bee under 

 the charge of the Kegardors, yet they cannot bee 

 accounted beasts of the forest ; such are wild horses, 

 bugalles, kine, and such like/^ 



Topsellt says a bugall is a kind of ox, bigger 

 than the domestic ox and with rough, black hair, 

 wild in disposition, and very strong for drawing 

 waggons and ploughs. 



Fitzstephen (1174) speaks of the presence of an 

 abundance of wild cattle in the forests round 

 London. Hector Boece, in his ^ Scotoruni Historite,^ 

 1526, says wild white cattle with manes like lions 

 frequented the great Caledonian forest, but no wild 

 cattle have ever been recorded from Ireland. 



Amongst the many deeds of prowess attributed to 

 Guy of Warwick, we are told that he slew a big boar 

 and a wild cow : 



" In winsor fforest I did slay X 

 A bore of passing niit^ht and strenglit. 

 Whose like in England nener was 

 For hugeness, both for breadth and lenght. 



" Some of his bones in Warwicke yett 

 Within the Castle there doth Lye ; 

 One of his sheeld bones to this day 

 Doth hang in the Citye of Couentrye. 



* ' A Treatise of the Lawes of the Forest/ by John Manwood, 

 1615. 



t Loc. cit., p. 45. 



.X Percy's ' Ballads and Romances,' ed. by J. W. Hales and F. J. 

 Furnivall, vol. ii, p. 201. 



