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in the less populous and more remote parts of the 
country, steps were taken by such of the principal 
landowners as were fond of hunting to secure their 
own participation in the sport of finding and killing 
them. 
In Edward III.’s time, Conan, Duke of Brittany, 
in 1342, gave pasture for cattle through all his new 
forest at Richmond in Yorkshire to the inmates of the 
Abbey of Fors in Wensleydale, forbidding them to use 
any mastifts to drive the Wolves from their pastures. * 
In the same year, Alan, Earl of Brittany, gave 
them common of pasture through all his forest of 
‘‘ Wandesley-dale ;’ and to cut as much grass for hay 
as they might have occasion for, and also gave them 
leave to take such materials out of the said forest 
to build their houses, and for other uses; and 
such iron and lead as the monks found they might 
apply to their own use; and if the monks or their 
servants found any flesh of wild beasts in the forest, 
killed by Wolves, they might take it to their own use.t 
In 1348, we find that Alan, son and heir of Walter 
de Wulfhunte, paid a fine to the king of 2s. 4d. for 
his relief in respect of Jands at Mansfield Woodhouse 
in the county of Nottingham, which he held by the 
service of hunting Wolves out of the forest of Shire- 
wood, if he should find any of them. 
* Hscheat, 15 & 16 Edw. III. No. 76, in Turr. Lond, See also 
Burton, “ Monasticon Eboracense,” p. 370. The Abbey of Fors, in 
Wensleydale, was founded in 1145 (Whitaker). 
+ Burton, loc. cit. 
+ De termino Trin. anno 21 Edw, III. Rot. 1. Harl. M.S, Brit. 
Mus. No. 34, p. 166. Blount, “ Ancient Tenures,” p. 258. 
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