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writers,* but we have not met with any proof of this. 
Indeed, Professor Newton has lately been good 
enough to inform us that he has forgotten his 
authority for the statement, and thinks it possible a 
reference to the MS. of his essay, which was not 
preserved, would show that, by a typographical 
error, the numerals VIII. were printed for VII. 
In Longstaffe’s ‘‘ Memoirs of the Life of Ambrose 
Barnes, ’’t it is stated that ‘‘ his immediate ancestors 
held an estate of 500/. a year of the Earls of Rutland 
and Belvoir, one of whom (a Barnes of Hatford near 
Barnard Castle) was commonly called Ambrose ‘ Roast 
wolf,’ from the many wolves which he hunted 
down and destroyed in the time of Henry VII.” 
In a footnote to this passage, the editor remarks 
that “the statement must be taken cum grano salis. 
Belvoir is nota title, and the Manners family did 
not become Earls of Rutland until 1525, in the reign 
of Henry VIIL§ On the other hand, the period of 
VII. is late for wolves, although Richmondshire 
might well yield some of the latest specimens in 
England. Doubtless they were familiarly associated 
with wildness of country long after their extinction. 
Many a tradition would linger in the families of their 
destroyers. Ambrose ‘ Roast Wolf’ was probably a 
real person of some date or other.” 
* Wise’s “ New Forest, its History and its Scenery,”’ p. 14. 
+ “Memoirs of the Life of Mr. Ambrose Barnes, late Merchant 
and sometime Alderman of Newcastle-upon-Tyne,” p. 28, (Surtees 
Society, 1867.) 
$¢ See also Longstaffe’s ‘‘ Durham before the Conquest,” p. 49. 
§ It is possible that a typographical error may have been made here 
also, and that Ambrose “ Roast Wolf” may have lived in the reign of 
Henry VIII., not Henry VII. 
