86 



EXTINCT BRITISH ANIMAIS. 



beginning jst October, 157; 

 January, i 573, this item : — 



we lind under date 



" To Miles Mosse for a bore whicli lie is cliargccl to deliver every 

 Christemas as rent rated to tte value of vs, for whicli he paid xx.s, 

 and so there was allowed of that vs," 



To judge by the remains of the animal which have 

 been found in various parts of the British Islands, 

 Wild Boars at one time must have completely over- 

 I'un the country. They were hunted in all the great 

 forests, and in ancient surveys they are often men- 



SKULL OP A "WILD BOAE. (i JJAT. SlZJi).* 



tioned amongst the wild animals of the district sur- 

 veyed. 



Thus Erdeswick, who began his survey of Staf- 

 fordshir'e about 1593, speaking of Chartley, says, 

 " The park is very large, and hath therein red deer, 

 fallow deer, wild beasts {i.e., wild cattle), and swine." 

 In the peat mosses of Northumberland and West- 

 moreland, skulls and bones of the Wild Boar have 



* From a specimen in the Museum of the rto3'al College of Surgeons. 



