144 EXIINCT BRITISH ANIMALS. 
following year, John Engaine was returned as hold- 
ing one carucate of land in Great Gidding, in the 
county of Huntingdon, by the serjeanty of hunting 
the Wolf, fox, and wild cat, and driving away all 
vermin out of the forest of the king in that county.* 
About the same time, Richard Engaine held one 
hundred shillings of Jand in the town of Guedding, in 
the county of Cambridge, by the serjeanty of taking 
Wolves, and he was to do this service daily (et 
facit servit suum cotidie),+ from which it may be 
inferred that Wolves at this date were particularly 
troublesome. Indeed, it is recorded that during this 
reion in a certain park at Farley the deer were 
entirely destroyed by Wolves.{ 
In 1297 John Engaine died, seized, inier alia, of 
certain lands in Pytesle, Northampton, found to be 
held of the king by the service of hunting the Wolf, fox 
{cat], badger [wild boar, and hare] ; and likewise the 
manor of Great Gidding in com. Huntendon, held by 
the service of catching the hare, fox, cat, and Wolf 
within the counties of Huntendon, Northampton, 
Buckingham, and Roteland.§ 
In the accounts of Bolton Priory, quoted in 
Whitaker’s “History of Craven” (p. 331), occur 
entries in the years 1306-1307, of payments made in 
* “ Plac. Coron. 14 Edw. I. Rot. 7,” dorso; Blount, p. 230. 
7 “Testa de Nevil,” p. 358; Blount, p. 262. 
£ “Will. Poer fecit parcum apud Farley et quod pater Comitis 
Gilberti de Clare comes Gloucestriz dedit ei quasdam feras ad pre - 
dictum parcum instaurandum, que fere per lupos destruebantur.” 
18 Edw. I. (1290) Wygorn. rot. 50 in abbreviat. Rotul. 
§ Dugdale’s ‘‘Baronage,” vol. i. p. 466. See also the Rotuli 
Hundredorum, ii. p. 627. 
