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of some authors to the contrary, his scheme proved 
abortive.” 
We have met with a statement to the effect 
that “two wooden Wolves’ heads still remain near 
Glastonbury on an ancient house where [query, on 
the site of which] at Eadgerly, King Edgar lived and 
received annually his tax from the Welsh in 300 
heads.’’t 
This statement, however, conflicts somewhat with 
that of Holinshed, who says that “ the carcases being 
brought into Lloegres, were buried at Wolfpit in 
Cambridgeshire. ”{ 
In the Forest Laws of Canute, promulgated in 
1016, the Wolf is thus expressly mentioned :—“ As 
for foxes and wolves, they are neither reckoned as 
beasts of the forest or of venery, and therefore who- 
ever kills any of them is out of all danger of for- 
feiture, or making any recompense or amends for the 
same. Nevertheless, the killing them within the 
limits of the forest is a breach of the royal chase, and 
therefore the offender shall yield a recompense for 
the same, though it be but easy and gentle.”$ 
It was doubtless to this constitution that the 
Solicitor-General St. John referred, at the trial of the 
Earl of Strafford, when he said, ‘“ We give law to 
hares and deer, because they are beasts of chase ; but 
we give no law to wolves and foxes, because they are 
* “British Zoology,” vol. i. p. 88 (1812). 
+ “ Sussex Archzeol. Coll.” vol. iv. p. 83 (1851). 
f “Chronicles,” vol. i. p. 378 (4to ed. 1807). 
§ See Manwood’s “Forest Laws.” The Charter of the Forest of 
Cauutus the Dane (§ 27). 
