150 EXTINCT BRITISH ANIMALS. 
where the said eastle and manor are situated, free 
from Wolves and. robbers.* 
1461-1483. If no particular mention of Wolves is 
to be met with in the days of Edward IV., his 
reion would nevertheless deserve notice here from 
the fact that at this period lived Juliana Barnes, 
or Berners, a lady of an ancient and illustrious house, 
who was commonly styled the Diana of her age, and 
who writ or compiled divers treatises on Hunting, 
Hawking, Fishing, and Heraldry.f 
In her “ Book of St. Albans,” written about 1481, 
and first printed in 1486, she includes the Wolf 
amongst the beasts of venery, and thus instructs her 
readers on the subject :— 
** Wheresoeure ye fare by fryth or by fell: 
My dere chylde take hede how Tristram { doo you tell, 
How many manere bestys of venery there were : 
Lysten to your dame, and she shall you lere. 
Foure maner bestys of venery there are : 
The fyrste of theym is the harte, the seconde is the have, 
The boore is one of tho: the wulfe and not one mo.” 
The old books on hunting state that the season for 
hunting the Wolf was between the 25th of December 
and the 25th of March. This of course was only 
so long as Wolf-hunting was an amusement and a 
royal sport. As soon as it became a necessity, and a 
price was set on the animal’s head, it was killed 
whenever and wherever it could be found. 
1485-1509. Some time between these two dates, 
* Madox, ‘‘ Baronia Anglica,” p. 244. 
+ Longstaffe, ““ Memoirs of the Life of Ambrose Barnes”’ (Surtees 
Society), 1867, p. 27. 
{ Manwood, in his “ Forest Laws,” mentions “ Sir Tristram,” an 
ancient forester, in his worthy treatise of hunting. 
