390 ^TOUR ROUND NORTH WALES. 



at Hertford, and covenant to pay him yearly 

 a tribute of twenty pounds of gold, three 

 hundred of lilver, and twenty-five thou- 

 fand head of oxen, befides a certain num- 

 ber of hawks and hunting dogs.* But in- 

 flead of this tribute, when Edgar came 

 to the throne, on account of the country 

 being fo much overrun with thefe rapacious 

 animals, he demanded to be fent to him 

 every year the fkins of three hundred 

 wolves, by which means, without any ex- 

 pence to the fubjects of the Englim prince, 

 the whole land was, in the fpace of little 

 more than two years, entirely cleared of 

 them, and Idwal releafed from his tribute, 



* Strutt's Chronicle, II. 56. Thus Will. 



Malmfb. The Chron. Wrivallen has it " quinque 

 millia bejllarum. The fame alfo has an old French 

 M. S. in the Cotton Library, marked Galba, E. 3. 

 it has it " V. milk vacbcs." 



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