190 EXTINCT BRITISH ANIMALS. 
Duncannon, to Gilbert, seventh Earl of Shrews- 
bury.* 
These dogs were considered very valuable, and 
were highly thought of by those who received them 
as presents; but some years later, when, owing to 
the great increase in the number of Wolves in some 
parts of Ireland, their services were more than ever 
required to keep down these ferocious animals, a 
law, presently to be noticed, was passed to prohibit 
their exportation. 
About this time George Turbervile, a gentleman of 
Dorsetshire, was writing his “ Booke of Hunting,’’} 
in which, referring to this animal, he says :—‘ The 
Wolf is a beaste sufficiently known in France and 
other countries where he is bred; but here in 
England they be not to be found in any place. In 
Ireland, as I have heard, there are great store of 
them; and because many noblemen and gentlemen 
have a desire to bring that countrie to be inhabited 
and civilly governed (and would God there were 
more of the same mind), therefore I have thought good 
to set down the nature and manner of hunting the 
Wolf according to mine author.”{ He then proceeds 
to describe the mode then in vogue of hunting this 
animal, An open spot was generally chosen, at 
some distance from the great coverts where the 
Wolves were known to lie, and here, in concealment, 
a brace, sometimes two brace, of Wolf-hounds were 
* “ Archaeol. Adliana,” vol. ii. p. 226. 
t “Imprinted at London for Christopher Barker at the signe of the 
Grashopper in Paules Churchyarde. Anno 1575.” 
~ Jacques de Fouillous, “ Traité de Vénerie.” 
