THE WOLF. 139 
deeds of the roth of John relating to the manor of 
Henwick, in the parish of Bulwick, county North- 
ampton, held by the tenure of hunting the Wolf 
(fugaco’m lupi), and he suggests that from this 
tenure probably the family of Luvet or Lovett, 
originally of Rushton, and afterwards of Astwell, 
in the county of Northampton, bore, for their arms: 
Argent, three Wolves, passant, in pale, suble, armed 
and langued, gules.* 
1212. In this year, when the errs around 
Kingsclere was all forest, an entry occurs in the 
Patent Rolls of a payment of 5s. as a reward for the 
capture of a Wolf at Freemantle.t The Roll referred 
to is doubtless the Rofulus Mise, annis Regis Johannis 
quartodecimt (1212-1213), where the following entries 
occur relating to the capture or chase of the Wolf :— 
“On Thursday next in the octave of the Holy 
Trinity [May 12], for a Wolf captured at Freemantle, 
[Surrey] by the dogs of Master Ernald de Auc- 
lent, 5s.” 
“Ttem. {at Hereford]. Thursday next following 
the Feast of St. Martin [Nov. 22] to Norman the 
keeper of the Veltrars,{ and to Wilkin Doggett, his 
associate, for two Wolves captured in the forest of 
Irwell, 10s., by the king’s command, &c.” 
“ Ttem. Wednesday next following the Feast of 
* The Wolf frequently appears on heraldic bearings. 
+ “ Patent Rolls,” May 31, 1212, quoted in “ Sussex Archeological 
Collections,” xxiv. p. 161, 
t Veltrarius, or vautrarius, from the French vaultve, was a mongrel 
hound for the chase of the wild-boar. See Blount, “ Ancient Tenures,” 
P- 233: 
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