THE WILD BOAR. loi 



Durham for these years are several entries of pay- 

 ments made for bringing in Wild Boars ; thus : — 



1531. 28. Marcii. Et Ohristifero Bichardson, 1 aper, 6s. Sd. 

 1533. Etin, uno apro empto de Thoma Cottysfuiih, 6s, 

 Et in uno apro empto de Thoma Chepman, 1 is. 



The price doubtless varying with the size and con- 

 dition of the animal. 



When Henry VIII, visited Wulf haU, Savernake, 

 the residence of the Seymours, in 1539 and 1543, 

 there were Wild Boars in the adjoining forest, as we 

 learn from the "Household Book" of Edward Sey- 

 mour, Earl of Hertford, some extracts of which have 

 been printed in the Wiltshire Archaeological Magazine 

 for June, 1875 (pp. 1 71-177).* The following 

 entries occur : — 



" Paid to Morse and Grammatts for helpyng to take tlie 



Tvylde swyne in tlie forest ^d. 



And for 8 hempen halters to bynd their legs ^. 



And for drink for them that helped to take them . , .4c?. 



Again : — 



To Edmund Coke and Wm. Morse and others for 



sekyng wilde swyne in the forest 2 days . . . 2s. 6d. 



To Thomas Christopher for his costos when he caryed 

 the two wilde bores to the Court to my Lord 

 att Wynsor, All-hallowen even 3s. 4(^. 



In 1 6 1 7, it was still to be found in Lancashire ; 

 for when James I. in that year visited Sir Richard 

 Hoghton, at Hoghton Tower, near Whalley, one of 

 the dishes with which the royal banquet was more 

 than once supplied was " Wild-boar pye.' "t 



* An, interesting article on Savernake Forest, by the Rev. Canon 

 Jackson, will be found in the same Magazine for August, 1880 

 (pp. 26-44). 



t Nicholls, "Progresses, &c., of James I.," vol. m. p. 402. 



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