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in the less populous and more remote parts of the 

 country, steps were taken by such of the principal 

 landowners as were fond of hunting to secure their 

 own participation in the sport of finding and killing 

 them. 



In Edward III.'s time, Conan, Duke of Brittany, 

 in 1342, gave pasture for cattle through all his new 

 forest at Richmond in Yorkshire to the inmates of the 

 Abbey of Fors in Wensleydale, forbidding them to use 

 any mastiffs to drive the Wolves from their pastures.'"' 



In the same year, Alan, Earl of Brittany, gave 

 them common of pasture through all his forest of 

 " Wandesley-dale ;" and to cut as much grass for hay 

 as they might have occasion for, and also gave them 

 leave to take such materials out of the said forest 

 to build their houses, and for other uses ; and 

 such iron and lead as the monks found they might 

 apply to their own use ; and if the monks or their 

 servants found any flesh of wild beasts in the forest, 

 killed by Wolves, they might take it to their own use.f 



In 1 348, we find that Alan, son and heir of Walter 

 de Wulf hunte, paid a fine to the king of 2s. 4^. for 

 his relief in respect of lands at Mansfield Woodhouse 

 in the county of Nottingham, which he held by the 

 service of hunting Wolves out of the forest of Shire- 

 wood, if he should find any of them. J 



* Escheat, 15 & 16 Edw. III. No. 76, in Turr. Lond. See also 

 Burton, "Monasticon Eboracense," p. 370. The Abbey of Fors, in 

 Wensleydale, was founded in 1 145 (Whitaker). 



j- Burton, loc. cit. 



J Determine Trin. anno 21 Edw. III. Rot. i. Harl. M.S. Brit. 

 Mus. No. 34, p. 166. Blount, " Ancient Tenures," p. 258. 



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