136 EXTINCT BRITISH ANIMALS. 
hard stone An. 1120, and where he would often 
fight with some one of them hand to hand.”* 
Amongst other forest laws made in this reign, was 
one which provided that compensation should be 
made for any injury occasioned during a wolf hunt. 
Si quis arcu vel balista de subitanti, vel pedico ad 
lupos vel ad aliud capiendum posito, dampanum vel 
malum aliquod recipiat, solvat qui posuit.t 
1156. There can be no doubt that at this period, 
and for some time afterwards, the New Forest, as well 
as the Forest of Bere, in Hampshire, both favourite 
hunting-grounds with William Rufus and his brother 
Henry, were the strongholds of the Wolf, as they 
were of the Wild-boar and the Red-deer, for in the 
second year of the reign of Henry II. the sheriff of 
Hants had an allowance made to him in the Ex- 
chequer for several sums by him disbursed for the 
livery of the King’s wolf-hunters, hawkers, falconers, 
and others. ‘* Ht in Uberatione lupariorum 100s., 
et in liberatione accipitrariorum et falconariorum Regis 
22h per Willelmum Cumin.’’t 
In the fourth year of the same reign, the sheriffs of 
London were allowed by the Chancellor 4os. out of the 
Exchequer for the King’s huntsmen and hisdogs. “Ht 
venatoribus Regis et canibus ejus x¥'. per cancellarium.”§ 
Conan, Duke of Brittany and Earl of Richmond, 
* Harrison’s “Description of England,” prefixed to Holinshed’s 
** Chronicle,” p. 226. 
t “ Leges Regis Henrici primi,” cap, 90, § 2. 
~ Madox, “ History and Antiquities of the Exchequer of the Kings 
of England from the Norman Conquest to the end of the Reign of 
Kdward IT.,” vol. i. p. 204 (1769). 
§ Madox, tom. cit. p. 207. 
