192 EXTINCT BRITISH ANIMALS. 
About this time, it is said, Wolves committed 
great devastation amongst the flocks in Munster. 
After the destruction of Kilmallock by James 
Fitzmaurice, in 1591, that place is stated to have 
become the haunt of Wolves. 
For some account of their ravages during Des- 
mond’s rebellion, the reader may be referred to 
O’Sullivan’s ‘Compendium Historie Catholic 
Hiberniz,” 1621 (lib. vill. cap. 6). 
At a later period, according to Fynes Moryson, 
who was Secretary to Lord-Deputy Mountjoy, and 
who wrote a “History of Ireland from 1599 to 
1603,” the cattle had to be driven in at night, “for 
fear of thieves (the Irish using almost no other kind 
of theft), or else for fear of Wolves, the destruc- 
tion whereof being neglected by the inhabitants, 
oppressed with greater mischiefs, they are so much 
grown in numbers as sometimes on winter nights 
they will come and prey in villages and the suburbs 
of cities.”* 
In May, 1594, Lord William Russell was ap- 
pointed Lord-Deputy of Ireland by Queen Elizabeth. 
From entries in his “Journal,” extending from ‘June 
24, 1594, to May 27, 1597, t it appears that both he 
and Lady Russell, who accompanied him to Ireland, 
frequently participated in the pleasures of the chase, 
and amused themselves at different times with hawk- 
ing, fishing, and hunting. Under date May 26, 
1596, it is recorded: ‘“‘My Lord and Lady rode 
* Moryson, “ Hist. Ireland,” Dublin ed., 1735, vol. i. p. 367. 
+ Preserved amongst the Carew MSS. at Lambeth Palace, vol. dexii. 
