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reward for the slaughter of Wolves, as “* Cuidam qui 
occidit lupum,” but the price paid to the slayer is not 
stated. Whitaker in a note to this remarks :— 
“Wolves, therefore, though rare, were not extinct 
in Craven in the beginning of the fourteenth cen- 
tury. This is an important circumstance.” 
1307-1327. In the fourth year of Edward II. 
(1311) a composition was made between Sir John 
de Mowbray, son and heir of Sir Roger de Mowbray, 
of the one part, and the Abbot of Selby of the other 
part, whereby the said Sir John quitclaimed and 
released to the abbot all his right in the soil and 
manor of Crowle and other places therein mentioned, 
and the abbot and convent granted to the said Sir 
~ John de Mowbray certain woods, saving their free 
warren of goats, foxes, Wolves, conies, &e.* 
The king’s forest of the Peak in Derbyshire was 
of great extent, and about this time was much in- 
fested with Wolves. A family of the hereditary name 
of Wolfhunt held lands by the service of keeping the 
forest clear of these destructive animals.t From the 
records in the Tower of London (13 Hdw. IL.) it 
appears that in 1320 some persons held lands at 
Wormhill, in the county of Derby, by the service of 
hunting and taking Wolves, from whence they were 
called Wolfhunt or Wolvehunt. 
Mr. W. H. G. Bagshawe, of Ford Hall, Chapel-en- 
* Burton, “ Monasticon Eboracense,” p. 389. The Abbots of Selby 
and of St. Mary, at York, were the only two mitred abbots in York- 
shire. 
+ ‘The Local Laws, Courts, and Customs of Derbyshire,’ “ Journ. 
Brit. Archzol. Assoc.” vol. vii. p. 197. 
