142 EXTINCT BRITISH ANIMALS. 
Selden, in his notes to Drayton’s ‘ Polyolbion” 
(ix. 76), refers to the manor of Piddlesey in Leices- 
tershire, which was held by one Henry of Angage 
per serjeantiam capiendi lupos, and quotes as his 
authority ‘‘Itin. Leicesters. 27 Hen. IIT. in Archiv. 
Turr. Lond.” In the same reion, William de Limeyves 
held of the king, im capile, in the county of South- 
ampton, one carucate* of land in Comelessend by 
the service of hunting the Wolf with the king’s 
dogs.t 
1272-1307. In the third year of the reign of 
Edward I., namely, in 1275, Sir John d’Engayne, 
knight, and Elena d’Engayne, his wife, held lands in 
Pightesley, in the county of Northampton, by the 
service of hunting the Wolf, for his pleasure, in that 
county,{ from which it is to be inferred that this 
animal was then common enough to be hunted for 
sport, as the fox is now-a-days. Other lands in the 
same county were held at this time on condition of 
the tenant finding dogs “for the destruction of 
Wolves” and other animals.§ It appears by the 
Patent Rolls of the 9th year of Edward I. that in 
1280, John Giffard of Brymmesfield or Brampfield, 
was empowered to destroy the Wolves in all the 
king’s forests throughout the realm. || 
In 1281, Peter Corbet was commissioned to destroy 
* Carucate, a plough land. As much arable land as one plough, 
with the animals that worked it, could cultivate in a year. 
+ Esc. temp. H. R. fil. R. Johannis. Harl. MS. Brit. Mus. No. 708, p. 8. 
$ Plac. Coron. 3 Edw. I. Rot. 20, dorso. Blount, “ Ancient 
Tenures,” p. 230. 
§ Camden, “ Britannia,” p. 525, and Blount, p. 257. 
|| “ Calend. Rot. Pat.,” 49. Seealso Rymer’s ‘‘ Feedera,”’ sub ano. 
