102 EXTINCT BRITISH ANIMALS. 
In the same year the King hunted the Boar at 
Windsor. Adam Newton, in a letter to Sir Thomas 
Puckering, Bart., dated Deptford, Sept. 28, 1617, 
writes: “I was at Hampton Court on Sunday 
last, where the Court was indeed very full; King, 
Queen and Prince all residing there for the time. 
The King and Prince, after their coming from 
Theobalds this day se’nnight, went to Windsor 
to the hunting of the Wild Boar, and came back on 
Saturday.’ 
In Westmoreland the last Wild Boar is said to 
have been killed near Staveley by a man named 
Gilpin,y the country round being at that time all 
forest and fell. Close to the spot indicated is an inn, 
still called “ Wild Boar Inn,” while the bridge over 
the beck is known as ‘‘Gilpin’s Bridge.” A tradition of 
the former existence of the Wild Boar in this neigh- 
bourhood is still current, but no date can now be 
assigned for the destruction of the last of its race. 
It is veferred to approximately as ‘‘about 200 years 
ago,” which carries us back to the reign of Charles IT., 
and this is the latest date at which I have been able 
to find any mention of this animal in a wild 
state in England. An old ‘Account Book of the 
Steward of the Manor of Chartley: Preeses. Com. 
Ferrers,” contains the following entry :— 
“ 1683.—Feb. Pd. the cooper for a paile for ye wild swine...... 0-2-0” 
This shows that the Wild Boar was not extinct in 
* “The Court and Times of James I.,” vol. il. p. 34. 
+ It appears by an Inquisition 20 Eliz., that in this year William 
Gilpin held the manor of Over Staveley (see Nicholson, “ Hist. and 
Antiq. Westm. and Cumberl.,”’ vol. i. p. 139). 
