125. * EXTINCT BRITISH ANIMALS. 
how Ludwall, prince of Wales, paid yearelie to King 
Edgar this tribute of 300 woolfes, whose carcases 
being brought into Lloegres, were buried at Wolfpit, 
in Cambridgeshire, and that by meanes thereof 
within the compasse and terme of foure yeares, none 
of these noisome creatures were left to be heard of 
within Walesand England. Since this time, also, we 
read not that anie woolfe hath beene seene here that 
hath beene bred within the bounds and limits of our 
countrie: howbeit there haue beene diuerse brought 
over from beyond the seas for greedinesse of gaine, 
and to make monie onlie by the gasing and gaping of 
our people vpon them, who couet oft to see them, 
being strange beasts in their eies, and sildome 
knowne (as I haue said) in England.” 
This event is related somewhat differently by the 
Welsh historians. ‘In the year 965,” says Powel, 
“the country of North Wales was cruelly wasted by 
the army of Edgar, King of England; the occasion 
of which was, the non-payment of the tribute that 
the king of Aberftraw (North Wales), by the laws 
of Howel Dha, was obliged to pay to the king of 
London (England). But at length a peace was con- 
cluded upon these conditions, that the king of North 
Wales, instead of money, should pay to the king of 
England the tribute of 300 Wolves yearly ; which 
creature was then very pernicious and destructive to 
England and Wales. This tribute being duly per- 
formed for two years, the third year there were none 
to be found in any part of the island, so that after- 
wards the prince of North Wales became exempt 
