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beasts of prey, but knock them on the head wherever 
we find them.’”* 
Liulphus, a dean of Whalley in the time of Canute, 
was celebrated as a wolf-hunter at Rossendale, Lan- 
cashire.t 
Matthew Paris, in his “ Lives of the Abbots of St. 
Albans,” mentions a grant of church lands by Abbot 
Leofstan (the 12th abbot of that monastery) to 
Thurnoth and others, in consideration of their keep- 
ing the woods between the Chiltern Hundreds and 
London free from wolves and other wild beasts. 
“ ancient and accustomed 
It would seem that the 
tribute” due to the English kings was repeated by 
the Welsh princes in the very last years of the 
Anglo-Saxon monarchy. It was demanded by and 
rendered to Harold.{ 
Period from the Conquest to the reign of Henry VIL. 
—AHistorical evidence of the existence of wolves in 
Great Britain before the Norman Conquest, as 
might be expected, is meagre and unsatisfactory, 
and the abundance of these animals in our islands 
prior to that date is chiefly to be inferred from the 
measures which in later times were devised for their 
destruction. 
In the “Carmen de Bello Hastingensi,” by Guido, 
Bishop of Amiens (v. 571), it is related that William 
the Conqueror left the dead bodies of the English 
upon the battle-field to be devoured by worms, wolves, 
birds, and dogs—vermibus, atque lupis, avibus, cant- 
* Clarendon, “ Hist. Reb.” fol. ed., i. p. 183: 
+ Whitaker’s “‘ History of Whalley,” p. 222. ft Palgrave. 
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