82 EXTINCT BRITISH ANIMALS. 
Aubrey, Bart.), to whom this estate descended 
without alienation or forfeiture, from before the 
Conquest, by several heirs female from the family of 
Nigell to that of Aubrey.” 
At the Conquest, Inglewood Forest was held by 
the Scots, from whom it was taken by the Conqueror, 
and given to Ranulph de Meschines, who made a 
survey of the whole country, and gave his followers 
all the frontiers bordering on Scotland and North- 
umberland, retaining to himself the central part 
between the east and west mountains, described 
as “a goodly great forest full of woods, red-deer 
and fallow, wild boars, and all manner of wild 
beasts. + 
A forest law of William I. ordained (A.p. 1087) 
that any one found guilty of killing a stag, roebuck, 
or wild boar should be deprived of his eyes. 
Henry I. was especially fond of boar-hunting, 
as we learn from Holinshed, who stigmatizes it 
as ‘“‘a verie dangerous exercise ;” and Edward I. 
made several grants of land, which were held 
by the serjeanty of keeping or providing boar- 
hounds. 
Robert de Avenel, who lived A.D. 1153—1165, in 
granting the right of pasturage in Eskdale to the 
monks of Melrose, reserved to himself the right to 
pursue the wd boar, deer, and stag.t 
A curious story referring to a wild boar hunt at 
%* “ Archeologia,” vol. iii. pp. 3, 15; Kennett’s “ Paroch. Antiq.,” 
and Blount’s “ Ancient Tenures,” p. 243 (ed. 1815). 
+ Longstaffe, “‘ Durham before the Conquest.” 
£ Morton, “ Monastic Annals of Teviotdale,” pp. 273, 274. 
