THE WOLE. 149 
in the time of Henry VI. When the Duke of Suffolk 
lands at night upon the shore near Dover, he hears 
“ Loud howling wolves arouse the jades 
That drag the tragic melancholy night.” 
Second Part of Henry VL, act iv. sc. 1. 
This may or may not be a poetic license. At all 
events, no evidence on the subject is now forth- 
coming, and we must turn, therefore, to some more 
reliable source of information. 
1422-1461. In the eleventh year of Henry VI. 
(1433), Sir Robert Plumpton, Knight, was seized of 
one bovate of land in Mansfield Woodhouse, in the 
county of Nottingham, called Wolf-hunt land, held 
by the service of winding a horn and chasing or 
frightening the Wolves in the forest of Shirewood.” 
This tenure is particularly referred to by the Rev. 
Samuel Pegge in his Paper “On the Horn as a 
Charter or Instrument of Conveyance.” <A coloured 
plate of an ancient horn of the kind referred to, in 
the possession of the late Lord Ribblesdale, will be 
found in Whitaker’s “ History and Antiquities of the 
Deanery of Craven” (1805), p. 34. 
In the seventeenth year of the reign of Henry VI., 
namely, in 1439, Robert Umfraville, a descendant, no 
doubt, of the Robert de Umfraville mentioned in 
1076, held the castle of Herbotell and manor of 
Otterburn, of the king, in capite, by the service 
of keeping the valley and liberty of Riddesdale, 
* Hscaet. 11 Hen. VI. n. 5. Blount, p. 312. 
t “ Archeologia,” vol. iii, p. 3. See also Thoroton, “ Antiq. 
Nottingham,” p, 273; and Strutt, “ Sports and Pastimes,” p. 19. 
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