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THE ZOOLOGIST. 
THIRD SERIES. 
Vou. X.] SEPTEMBER, 1886. [No. 117. 
ON THE FORMER OCCURRENCE OF THE WILD BOAR 
IN BUCKINGHAMSHIRE. 
By tHe Epirtor. 
In the chapter on the Wild Boar in my work on ‘ Extinct 
British Animals’ (1880), I have referred to some of the legends 
which exist in different parts of the country concerning famous 
Wild Boars which infested certain districts, and which, after 
doing a great deal of damage to crops, and sometimes to hunts- 
men and hounds, were at length killed by the prowess of some 
individual whose name in consequence has been immortalized in 
the district. One of the most celebrated stories of the kind 
(op. cit., p. 80) relates to a Boar which was killed in the Forest 
of Bernwood, near Brill, where Edward the Confessor had a 
royal palace, to which he often resorted to enjoy the chase. 
In the same county (Buckinghamshire), as appears by some 
privately-printed researches of Mr. Stephen Tucker, Somerset 
Herald in Ordinary, an enormous Boar at one time devastated 
the Manor of Chetwode. The ultimate destruction of this animal 
gave rise to the institution of a singular toll, known as the Rhyne 
(Common) Toll, which extended to nine townships, and was an 
annual tax upon cattle passing through upon the drift between 
October 29th and November 7th. 
A very interesting account of this is given by Mr. Tucker in 
his ‘ Pedigree of the Family of Chetwode.’* As only fifty copies, 
* Pedigree of the Family of Chetwode of Chetwode, Co. Bucks, &e. With 
their charters and other evidences. To which is added a Report and Papers 
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