Mr. Hardy on the Wolf in Scotland. 277 



known to lodge in the basaltic crevices."* The wolf thus 

 takes its position in heraldry among those fercB of Caledonia 

 that 



" Razed out of all her woods, as trophies hung 

 Grin high emblazoned on her children's shields." 



Craigmaddie, the rock of the wolf, in the parish of Balder- 

 nock ; and Stronachon, parish of Drymen, " the ridge of the 

 dog," {. e. the wild dog or wolf, are nowise pleasing Stirling- 

 shire souvenirs ; but there is some relief in being told that 

 " the place where the last wolf that infested Monteith was 

 killed, is a romantic cottage south-west of the mill of Mill- 

 ing, in the parish and barony of Port."t In 1283 there was 

 an allowance for one hunter of wolves at Stirling.^ There is 

 still a place called Wolfhill in the Perth district. 



The wolves first drew the attention of the legislature, sa 

 far as the remains of the Scottish code enable us to ascertain, 

 in 1427, in the reign of James I.§ In the face of this, it is 

 curious to find no less a personage than Pope Pius II., better, 

 known as -^neas Sylvius, who visited the country in an am- 

 bassadorial capacity, about 1434, positively denying the exist- 

 ence of any such animal in Scotland. " Wolves are not to 

 be found in the kingdom." || Statutes were also enacted 

 respecting them in 1457, again in 1525, and finally in 1577. 

 The act of 1525 is merely a modernized version of the law of 

 1427, which that of 1457 styles as " the auld act made 

 tharon." It was then statute and ordained, " that ilk baron 

 within his barony in gangand time of the year chase and 

 seek the whelps of woolves and gar slay them. And the 

 baron sail give to the man that slays the woolfe in his barony, 

 and brings the barone the head, twa shillings. And when 

 the baron ordains to hunt and chase the woolfe the tenants 

 sail rise with the baron. And that the barons hunt in their 

 baronies and chase the woolfes four times a year, and als oft 

 as onie woolfe beis seen Avithin the barony. And that na 

 man seek the woolfe with shot, but allanerly in the time of 

 hunting them." ^ The last is a conservative clause. Although 

 the king and nobility may have wished the nuisance abated, 

 perhaps they Avere not quite Avilling to forego the sport to 



* Ibid, p. 601. Editor's note. f Ibid, pp. 745, 750, 329. 



% Innes' Scotland in the Middle Ages, p. 125. 



§ Acts of the Parliament of Scotland, ii. p. 14, 15. Record Commission Pub. 



II Pii Secundi Pontificis Maximi Commentarii Rerum memorabilium quaj 

 temporibus suis contiguerant, &c. Francofurti, 1614. Edin. Literary Gazette, 

 1829, i. p. 26. Pinkerton's Scotland, i. p. loO. 



II Laws of the Parliament of Scotland, p 18, 19, fol. 1781, 



