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abroad a hunting the Wolf.” As the Vice-regal Court 
was then located at Kilmainham, almost within 
the city of Dublin, it would appear that the Wolf 
in question was to be found at no great distance 
beyond the city walls, 
Sir Arthur Chichester, writing to Sir John Davys, 
March 31, 1609, in reference to the pending planta- 
tion of Ulster, incidentally remarks, that “if the 
Trish do not possess and inhabit a great part of the 
lands in some of those escheated countries, none but 
Wolves and wild beasts would possess them for many 
years to come; for where civil men may have lands 
for reasonable rents in so many thousand places in 
that province, and in this whole kingdom, they will 
not plant themselves in mountains, rocks and desert 
places, though they might have the land for nothing.””* 
In the reign of James I. it would seem that 
active measures were advised for the destruction of 
Wolves in Ireland, and the following “ Heads of a 
Bill in the Irish Parliament, 1611,” will be found 
preserved amongst the Carew MSS., formerly in the 
Record Office, but now at Lambeth Palace :t “An 
Act for killing Wolves and other vermin, touching 
the days of hunting, the people that are to attend, 
who to be their director, an inhibition not to use any 
arms. The Lord Deputy or Principal Governor to 
prohibit such hunting if he suspect that such assem- 
blies by colour of hunting may prove inconvenient.” 
* State Papers, Ireland, in Record Office, vol. ccxxvi, 58. 
+ Carew, MSS., vol. dexxix. p. 35. Seealso Hamilton’s “ Calendar of 
State Papers referring to Ireland,” Jac. I., sub anno, p. 192. 
