Lig EXTINCT BRITISH ANIMALS. 
called the “ Boar’s Head,” though less celebrated 
than the one just mentioned. It was situate in 
Southwark, and was standing in Henry the Sixth’s 
time. It is referred to in the “ Paston Letters,” in a 
letter from Henry Wyndesore to John Paston, dated 
August 27, 1458. The writer says,—“Please you 
to remembre my maistre at your best leiser, wheder 
his old promise shall stande as touchyng my pre- 
ferrying to the ‘ Boreshed’ in Suthwerke.”* 
It is in this same collection that we find mention 
made of the use of “‘boar-spears’ in Norfolk, in the 
fifteenth century, first in a petition of John Paston 
to the King and Parliament, in 1450, touching his 
expulsion from Gresham by Lord Molyns, whose 
retainers held forcible possession of this manor “ with 
bore-speres, swordes, and gesernys” (battle-axes) ; 
and again in a similar petition of Walter Ingham in 
1454.7 
The boar-spear of those days was very different 
from the spear now used by boar-hunters in India. 
Nicholas Cox, in ‘The Gentleman’s Recreation,” 
first published in 1674, thus describes it :—‘ The 
hunting spear must be very sharp and broad, branch- 
ing forth into certain forks, so that the boar may 
not break through them upon the huntsman.” The 
modern Anglo-Indian spear is from six to eight feet 
long; the shaft of bamboo weighted with lead ; the 
spear-head a broad and stout blade. 
* “The Paston Letters,” ed. Gairdner, vol. i. p. 431. 
7 Op. cit:,, volpi.; pp. 107, 271. 
