THE WILD BOAR. 97 
These ‘ boar-franks,” it would seem, were at one 
time not uncommon in parts of Suffolk. The 
anonymous author of the ‘ History and Antiquities 
of the Ancient Villa of Wheatfield in the County 
of Suffolk” (first printed in 4to in 1758, and re- 
published in the second volume of Dodsley’s 
“Fugitive Pieces,’ pp. 77-115), referring to the 
state of the parish and the manners and pursuits 
of the inhabitants, remarks :—“ The prevailing taste 
runs much upon building temples to Cloacina and 
menageries for Wild Boars; structures in them- 
selves beautiful, but at the expense of that noble 
Roman Way, the Via Icenorum, that leads through 
the parish, which they narrow and obumbrate.” 
At Chartley Park, Staffordshire — where, three 
hundred years ago, as we learn from Erdeswick, wild 
swine roamed at large—the present Earl Ferrers 
proposed to reintroduce these animals, having been 
presented, with a boar by Mr. W. J. Evelyn, of 
Wotton House, near Dorking, and with a sow by 
Mr. F.H. Salvin, of Whitmoor House, near Guild 
ford. The proposed experiment, however, failed, for 
the boar died on the road, from the heat of the 
weather, and the sow not long afterwards, from an 
accident. 
In Derbyshire a similar attempt at reintroduction 
was made by the late Sir Francis Darwin, to whose 
son, Mr. E. L. Darwin, we are indebted for the 
following graphic account of the experiment :— 
“My father (the late Sir Francis Darwin) pos- 
sessed an estate in Derbyshire, which consisted of 
