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been frequently exhumed,* as well as in the peat at 

 Newbury, Berks, and Eomsey, Hants, t 



Leland tells us that atBlakeley, Lancashire, "wild 

 bores, bulls, and falcons bredde in times paste," and 

 there is close to Blakeley a place still called " Boar's 

 Crreen." Leland also speaks of " "Wild Bores or 

 Swyne" on one of the Scilly Islands (Itin. second ed. 

 vii. 108) ; but the animals referred to were probably 

 domestic swine which had been introduced there, 

 and had run wild. At Great Grimsby an annual 

 quit rent of ;^i 3s. 4^ is, still paid to the Corporation 

 of Grimsby in respect of a wood where formerly it 

 possessed the right of hunting the Wild Boar, a pay- 

 ment presumed to be an acquittal from the burden 

 of having to provide one of these animals for the 

 corporation to hunt. " The seal of the mayor of 

 "Great Grimsby bears the legend Sigillum majoritaiis 

 de Grimesby, and contains a representation of a Boar 

 closely pursued by a dog, behind which is a hunts- 

 man winding his horn. This device is descriptive of 

 a privilege enjoyed by the mayor and burgesses of 

 Grimsby, of hunting in the woods of the adjacent 

 manor of Bradley, the lord of which was by his 

 tenure obliged to provide yearly a Wild Boar for 

 their diversion. These seals have long been laid 

 aside and others adopted, containing the arms of the 

 corporation: — azure, a chevron, sable, between three 

 boars' heads ; the shield surrounded by a festooned 



* Some remarkably fine tusks of the Boar, found in Cresswell 

 Moss, are preserved at Middleton Hall, near Wooler, the seat of Mr. 

 G. H. Hughes. 



t Collet, "Phil. Trans.," 1757. P- "2. 



