146 EXTINCT BRITISH ANIMALS. 
le-Frith, Derbyshire, a descendant of the same family 
as Mr. F. W. Bagshawe, the present owner of Worm- 
hill Hall, in reply to inquiries on the subject, has been 
good enough to write as follows :— 
‘With the particulars in Blount’s ‘Tenures’ I 
have long been familiar, but I am sorry to say that 
IT cannot add to them. Wormhill Hall was never, 
so far as I know, held under the tenure of destroying 
Wolves, but it is most probable that a portion of the 
lands there were originally held by the tenure of 
preserving the king’s ‘verte and venyson’ in his 
forest of the Peak. There is a tradition that the 
last Wolf in England was killed at Wormhill, but I 
never saw any evidence of it, nor did I ever hear any 
date assigned. In my pedigree of our family I find 
a note to the effect that John de |’ Hall (the ancestor 
of John de l’Hall, whose daughter Alice was the wife 
of Nicholas Bagshawe) was appointed a forester 
(of fee, I suppose) to the king by deed dated 1349.”* 
Tn 1321 William Michell, son and heir of John 
Michell, held a messuage and land at Middelton 
Lillebon, co. Wilts, of the king im capite, by the 
serjeanty of keeping his Wolf-dogs—per serjantiam 
custodiendi canes luparios Regis.+ 
1327-1377. So faras can be gathered from history, 
it would seem that while stringent measures were 
being devised for the destruction of Wolves in all or 
most of the inhabited districts which they frequented, 
* Camden, “ Britannia,” tit. Derbyshire, i. p. 591; Blount, “ Ancient 
Tenures,’ p. 250. 
+ Luparios elsewhere luporarios; Harl. MS. Brit. Mus, No. 134, 
p. 80. Blount, “ Ancient Tenures,” p. 258. 
