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been frequently exhumed,* as well as in the peat at 
Newbury, Berks, and Romsey, Hants.t 
Leland tells us that at Blakeley, Lancashire, “ wild 
bores, bulls, and falcons bredde in times paste,” and 
there is close to Blakeley a place still called ‘‘ Boar’s 
-Green.” Leland also speaks of ‘“ Wild Bores or 
Swyne” on one of the Scilly Islands (Itin. second ed. 
vil. 108) ; but the animals referred to were probably 
domestic swine which had been introduced there, 
and had run wild. At Great Grimsby an annual 
quit rent of £1 3s. 4d. is still paid to the Corporation 
of Grimsby in respect of a wood where formerly it 
possessed the right of hunting the Wild Boar, a pay- 
ment presumed to be an acquittal from the burden 
of having to provide one of these animals for the 
corporation to hunt. ‘The seal of the mayor of 
“Great Grimsby bears the legend Sigillum majoritatis 
de Grimesby, and contains a representation of a Boar 
closely pursued by a dog, behind which is a hunts- 
man winding his horn. ‘This device is descriptive of 
a privilege enjoyed by the mayor and burgesses of 
Grimsby, of hunting in the woods of the adjacent 
manor of Bradley, the lord of which was by his 
tenure obliged to provide yearly a Wild Boar for 
their diversion. These seals have long been laid 
aside and others adopted, containing the arms of the 
corporation:—azure, a chevron, sable, between three 
boars’ heads; the shield surrounded by a festooned 
* Some remarkably fine tusks of the Boar, found in Cresswell 
Moss, are preserved at Middleton Hall, near Wooler, the seat of Mr, 
G. H. Hughes. 
* Collet,“ Phil. Trans.,” 1757, p. 112. 
