1 90 EXTINCT BRITISH ANIMALS. 



Duncaimon, to Gilbert, seventh Earl of Shrews- 

 bury. * 



These dogs were considered very valuable, and 

 were highly thought of by those who received them 

 as presents ; but some years later, when, owing to 

 the great increase in the number of Wolves in some 

 parts of Ireland, their services were more than ever 

 required to keep down these ferocious animals, a 

 law, presently to be noticed, was passed to prohibit 

 their exportation. 



About this time George Turbervile, a gentleman of 

 Dorsetshire, was writing his " Booke of Hunting,"! 

 in which, referring to this animal, he says : " The 

 Wolf is a beaste sufficiently known in France and 

 other countries where he is bred ; but here in 

 England they be not to be found in any place. In 

 Ireland, as I have heard, there are great store of 

 them ; and because many noblemen and gentlemen 

 have a desire to bring that countrie to be inhabited 

 and civilly governed (and would God there were 

 more of the same mind), therefore I have thought good 

 to set down the nature and manner of hunting the 

 Wolf according to mine author. "J He then proceeds 

 to describe the mode then in vogue of hunting this 

 animal. An open spot was generally chosen, at 

 some distance from the great coverts where the 

 Wolves were known to lie, and here, in concealment, 

 a brace, sometimes two brace, of Wolf-hounds were 



* " Archaeol. .ZEliana," vol. ii. p. 226. 



t "Imprinted at London for Christopher Barker at the sigiie of the 

 Ci rashopper in Paules Churchyarde. Anno 1575." 

 J Jacques de Fouilloux, "Traite do Yenerie." 



