196 EXTINCT BRITISH ANIMATS. 
nation, itis ordered that the Commanders in Chiefe 
and Commissioners of the Revenue in the several 
precincts doe consider of, use, and execute all good 
wayes and meanes how the Wolves in the counties 
and places within the respective precincts may be 
taken and destroyed ; and to employ such person or 
persons, and to appoint such daies and tymes for 
hunting the Wolfe, as they shall adjudge necessary. 
And it is further ordered that all such person or 
persons as shall take, kill, or destroy any Wolfes and 
shall bring forth the head of the Wolfe before the 
said commanders of the revenue, shall receive the 
sums following, viz., for every bitch Wolfe, six 
pounds;* for every dog Wolfe, five pounds; for 
every cubb which preyeth for himself, forty shillings ; 
for every suckling cubb, ten shillings. And no 
Wolfe after the last September until the 1oth 
January be accounted a young Wolfe, and the Com- 
missioners of the Revenue shall cause the same to be 
equallie assessed within their precincts. 
“ DuBLIN, June 29, 1653.’t 
The assessments here ordered fell heavily in some 
districts. Thus in December, 1665, the inhabitants 
of Mayo county petitioned the Council of State that 
the Commissioners of Assessment might be at liberty 
* The price paid in Sutherlandshire, in 1621, was 61. 13s. 4d, 
See p. 169. 
+ These documents were extracted from the original Privy Council 
Book of Cromwell’s government in Ireland, preserved in Dublin Castle 
and are quoted by Hardiman in his edition of O’Flaherty’s “ West or 
H’lar Connaught,” p. 180. 
