1 5 o EXTINCT BRITISH ANIMALS. 



where the said castle and manor are situated, free 

 from Wolves and robbers.* 



1461-1483. If no particular mention of Wolves is 

 to be met with in the days of Edward IV., his- 

 reign would nevertheless deserve notice here from 

 the fact that at this period lived Juliana Barnes, 

 or Berners, a lady of an ancient and illustrious house, 

 who was commonly styled the Diana of her age, and 

 who writ or compiled divers treatises on Hunting, 

 Hawking, Fishing, and Heraldry, f 



In her "Book of St. Albans," written about 1481, 

 and first printed in 1486, she includes the Wolf 

 amongst the beasts of venery, and thus instructs her 

 readers on the subject : 



" Wheresoeure ye fare by fryth or by fell : 

 My dere chylde take hede how TristramJ cloo you tell, 

 How many manere bestys of venery there were : 

 Lysten to your dame, and she shall you lere. , 



Foure maner bestys of venery there are : 

 The fyrste of theym is the Jiarte, the seconde is the hare, 

 The ~boore is one of tho : the wulfc and not one mo." 



The old books on hunting state that the season for 

 hunting the Wolf was between the 25th of December 

 and the 2$th of March. This of course was only 

 so long as Wolf-hunting was an amusement and a 

 royal sport. As soon as it became a necessity, and a 

 price was set on the animal's head, it was killed 

 whenever and wherever it could be found. 



1485-1509. Some time between these two dates, 



* Madox, " Baronia Anglica," p. 244. 



f Longstaffe, " Memoirs of the Life of Ambrose Barnes" (Surtees 

 Society), 1867, p. 27. 



J Manwood, in his " Forest Laws," mentions " Sir Tristram," an 

 ancient forester, in his worthy treatise of hunting. 



