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of rewards paid to keepers and beaters when the king came to 
hunt in their neighbourhood. Thus, when Henry VIII. visited 
Edward Seymour, afterwards Earl of Hertford, at Savernake, in 
Wilts, Wild Boars were killed in Savernake Forest, and the 
Household Books of that period (1539—1548) show the sums 
that were paid in connection with the sport. 
When James I., in 1617, visited Sir Richard Hoghton at 
Whalley, in Lancashire, he was regaled with, amongst other 
things, “ Wild Boar pye.” In the same year the king hunted the 
Boar in Windsor Forest, as we learn from a letter addressed to 
Sir Thomas Puckering by a gentleman who had just brought all 
the news from the Court, then held at Hampton. 
The exact date when the Wild Boar became extinct in Great 
Britain is not easy to discover. Wild swine are casually referred 
to in an old account book kept by the steward of Earl Ferrers as 
existing at Chartley, in Staffordshire, in 1683, and this is the 
latest date at which I have been able to find any mention of the 
animal. It is quite possible that it may have lingered on in the 
northern parts of our island until the close of the seventeenth 
century. There are many local traditions which fix its extermi- 
nation about this date. For example, in Westmoreland it is 
asserted that the last Wild Boar was killed about 200 years ago 
near Staveley, in that county, by a man named Gilpin, the spot 
being still marked by an inn known as the “ Wild Boar Inn,” and 
the bridge over the beck called Gilpin’s Bridge. 
It is also very probable that just as the Wolf survived in 
Scotland and Ireland to a very much later period than it did in 
England, the Wild Boar may also have lingered on in some of the 
great forests with which parts of Scotland and Ireland were 
clothed during the last century; and we know from various frag- 
ments of evidence, both geological and historical, that in both 
these countries Wild Boars were once very numerous. Many 
localities still indicate, by the names they bear, particular parts 
of the country where the animal was formerly common; and 
this is not only the case in England, but also in Scotland and 
Ireland. 
Several attempts have been made at various times to re-intro- 
duce the Wild Boar in this country, notably in the New Forest, 
Wolmer Forest, at Charborough Park, Dorsetshire; in Essex, in 
the woods between Mersey Island and Colchester; at Chartly 
