By the Rev. Canon J. E. Jackson, F.8.A. 143 
nothing to do with the animal wolf. The first syllable is spelled in 
the Domesday Record, “ U/f,’ which was probably the name of 
some more ancient owner. The people of the neighbourhood still 
keep up the original pronunciation, calling it “ Oolfall.’?? 
Between the laundry and the old farm house stood the mansion 
of Wulfhall, the residence first of the Esturmy and then of the 
Seymour family, about a mile outside of Savernake Forest, and com- 
manding a view of it. 
Sir John Seymour of Wulfhall, who died 1536 (28 Hen. VIII.), 
had married a Wentworth of Nettlested; by whom he had, with 
other children, the three so famous in English History, Jane 
Seymour (Queen of Henry VIII., and mother of Edward VI.), 
Edward Seymour, the Protector, and Thomas Seymour, Lord 
Sudeley, who married Queen Katherine Parr, widow of Henry VIII. 
There is every reason to believe that Queen Jane Seymour and her 
‘brothers were born at their father’s house at Wulfhall; but the 
Registers of the parish of Great Bedwyn are not old enough to tell us. 
The Manor of Wulfhall, as appears from an old Survey, consisted 
at that time of about 1270 acres, including what was, and still is, 
called ‘“‘Suddene Park,” also a “ Horse Park,” and a “ Red Deer 
Park.” (Appendix, No.i.) About the house, which is said to have 


1The name in the Wiltshire Domesday is U/fela. In the same volume we 
have an Ulf as a land-holder at Bradford-on-Avon. At Lincoln, in 1049, there 
was a Clerk of the name of Ulph: and at York they still show a horn of one 
Ulphus,a Dane. The name has come down to ourowntime. In the Obituary of 
the Times newspaper, in April last, appeared the death of John Burt Ulph, Esq., 
of St. Ives, Cornwall. Similarity of sound deceived Leland and Tanner. The 
former (Itin., ix., 36) calls it, in Latin, ‘‘ Lupinum, villa splendida Semarii : ” 
also in his ‘‘ Genethliacon, Edw. vi.” 
“Vergit in occasum foecunda Severia tellus. 
Illie Semarius, vir bello strenuus, amplam 
Incoluit villam, que nomine dicta Lupinum.’’ 
‘Tanner (Bibliot. Brit. Hibern.) speaks of certain Epistles written by Edward 
(the future Protector) son of John Seymour ‘‘ de Puteo Lupino vulgo Wolf-hall.” 
Puteus Lupinus, however, begging the learned Bishop Tanner’s pardon, would 
not be first-rate Latin for Wolf-hall: but it would do, as Latin, for the Saxon 
** Wolf-hol,” a wolf’s pit orden. The derivation of Wulf-hall being thus ob- 
secure, etymologists may choose. To the writer, Ulf, as an owner’s name, seems 
the most probable. 
