THE WOLF. 139 



deeds of the loth of John relating to the manor of 

 Henwick, in the parish of Bulwick, county North- 

 ampton, held by the tenure of hunting the Wolf 

 (fwj acorn lupi), and he suggests that from this 

 tenure probably the family of Luvet or Lovett, 

 originally of Rushton, and afterwards of Astwell, 

 in the county of Northampton, bore, for their arms : 

 Argent, three Wolves, passant, in pale, sable, armed 

 and langued, gules. * 



1212. In this year, when the neighbourhood around 

 Kingsclere was all forest, an entry occurs in the 

 Patent Rolls of a payment of 55. as a reward for the 

 capture of a Wolf at Freemantle. t The Roll referred 

 to is doubtless the Eotulus Misce, annis Regis Johannis 

 quartodecimi (1212-1213), where the following entries 

 occur relating to the capture or chase of the Wolf : 



" On Thursday next in the octave of the Holy 

 Trinity [May 12], for a Wolf captured at Freemantle, 

 [Surrey] by the dogs of Master Ernald de Auc- 

 lent, 5 s." 



"Item, [at Hereford]. Thursday next following 

 the Feast of St. Martin [Nov. 22] to Norman the 

 keeper of the Veltrars,J and to Wilkin Doggett, his 

 associate, for two Wolves captured in the forest of 

 Irwell, 10.9., by the king's command, &c." 



" Item. Wednesday next following the Feast of 



* The Wolf frequently appears on heraldic bearings. 



t " Patent Kolls," May 31, 1212, quoted in " Sussex Archaeological 

 Collections," xxiv. p. 161. 



J VeUrarius, or vautrarius, from the French vault-re, was a mongrel 

 hound for the chase of the wild-boar. See Blount, " Ancient Tenures," 

 P- 233- 



