THE WIELD BOAR. IO 
Durham for these years are several entries of pay- 
ments made for bringing in Wild Boars; thus :— 
1531. 28. Maret. Et Christifero Richardson, 1 aper, 6s. 8d. 
1533. Htin uno apro empto de Thoma Cottysfuith, 6s. 
Ht in uno apro empto de Thoma Chepman, tls. 
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The price doubtless varying with the size and con- 
dition of the animal. 
When Henry VIII. visited Wulfhall, Savernake, 
the residence of the Seymours, in 1539 and 1543, 
there were Wild Boars in the adjoining forest, as we 
learn from the “Household Book” of Edward Sey- 
mour, Earl of Hertford, some extracts of which have 
been printed in the Wiltshire Archeological Magazine 
for June, 1875 (pp. 171-177).* The following 
entries occur :— 
** Paid to Morse and Grammatts for helpyng to take the 
wyldeswyne in the forest. . . eee, pag. 
And for 8 hempen halters to bynd their bee bey ge awe l@e 
And for drink for them that helped to take thems. 9. °. 4d. 
Again :— 
To Edmund Coke and Wm. Morse and others for 
sekyng wilde swyne in the forest 2days . . . 2s. 6d. 
To Thomas Christopher for his costes when he caryed 
the two wilde bores to the Court to my Lord 
att Wynsor, All-halloweneven ... .. . 38. 4d. 
In 1617, it was still to be found in Lancashire ; 
for when James I. in that year visited Sir Richard 
Hoghton, at Hoghton Tower, near Whalley, one of 
the dishes with which the royal banquet was more 
than once supplied was ‘“‘ Wild-boar pye.’ ”’t 
* An interesting article on Savernake Forest, by the Rev. Canon 
Jackson, will be found in the same Magazine for August, 1880 
(pp. 26-44). - 
+ Nicholls, ‘“ Progresses, &c., of James I.,”’ vol. i. p. 402. 
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