LE WIELD BOAR. gL 
sunt 16 diyitorum et latitudinis 4, releqati catenulis ad 
cellas Divi Andree.”* 
Reference to a Boar-hunt in Scotland at an earlier 
date than this, however, is to be found in a Latin 
MS. history of the Gordon family, dated 1545, 
compiled from older MSS. by John Ferrarius, of 
Piedmont, a monk in the Abbey of Kinloss, Moray- 
shire, who also wrote a Supplement to the work of 
Boethius. A copy ofthe MS. referred to made for Sir 
Robert Gordon in 1613 and entitled ‘ Historie com- 
pendium de origine et encremento Gordonie familie in 
Scotia, apud Kinloss, anno 1545,” is preserved in the 
Advocates’ Library, Edinburgh, and from this we 
learn that amongst those who assisted Malcom III. 
of Scotland against the English about the year 1057 
was one Gordon, who some time previously had slain 
a fierce Boar which had committed great depreda- 
tions in the neighbourhood of the Forest of Huntly. 
For this act of prowess he was rewarded by the 
King, who bestowed upon him the lands of Gordon 
and Huntly, and sanctioned his carrying on his 
banner three boars’ heads, or, in a field, azure. In 
the English translation of this work, from which 
Pennant quoted (vide antea, p. 19), the animal slain 
by Gordon is called a Bear, but this, as we have 
already shown (p. 24), was the Scottish pronunciation 
of Boar, and reference to the Latin original shows 
that the animal in question was unmistakably a Boar, 
* This must have been a splendid pair of tusks. The Roman digit, 
it should be remembered, was the sixteenth part of a foot; and these 
tusks were doubtless measured along the outside curve. 
