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reward for the slaughter of Wolves, as " Cuidam qui 

 occidit lupum" but the price paid to the slayer is not 

 stated. Whitaker in a note to this remarks : 

 " Wolves, therefore, though rare, were not extinct 

 in Craven in the beginning of the fourteenth cen- 

 tury. This is an important circumstance." 



1307-1327. In the fourth year of Edward II. 

 (1311) a composition was made between Sir John 

 de Mowbray, son and heir of Sir Roger de Mowbray, 

 of the one part, and the Abbot of Selby of the other 

 part, whereby the said Sir John quitclaimed and 

 released to the abbot all his right in the soil and 

 manor of Crowle and other places therein mentioned, 

 and the abbot and convent granted to the said Sir 

 John de Mowbray certain woods, saving their free 

 warren of goats, foxes, Wolves, conies, &c.* 



The king's forest of the Peak in Derbyshire was 

 of great extent, and about this time was much in- 

 fested with Wolves. A family of the hereditary name 

 of Wolfhunt held lands by the service of keeping the 

 forest clear of these destructive animals.t From the 

 records in the Tower of London (13 Edw. II.) it 

 appears that in 1320 some persons held lands at 

 Wormhill, in the county of Derby, by the service of 

 hunting and taking Wolves, from whence they were 

 called Wolfhunt or Wolvehunt. 



Mr. W. H. G. Bagshawe, of Ford Hall, Chapel-en- 



* Burton, " Monasticon Eboracense," p. 389. The Abbots of Selby 

 and of St. Mary, at York, were the only two mitred abbots in York- 

 shire. 



f 'The Local Laws, Courts, and Customs of Derbyshire,' " Journ. 

 Brit. Archseol. Assoc." vol. vii. p. 197. 



