156 EXTINCT BRITISH ANIMALS. 



not find that there is any such, place as " Hackston ;" 

 but Staxton adjoins the other places named, and is 

 in the parish of Willerby. The Vicar of Willerby, 

 the Rev. G. Day, at our request most obligingly 

 instituted a searcli, but could not succeed in finding 

 any parish books of any kind to throw light on the 

 subject. He writes : " There are no gentry resident in 

 this parish, and the churchwardens have been tenant- 

 farmers for generations. Of course great changes 

 have occurred within the last, say, fifty years, amongst 

 these tenant-farmers. Many names have altogether 

 disappeared from the parish roll, and it is thought 

 probable by some of the old farmers here that church- 

 wardens in past days having left their farms and 

 gone to other parishes took the parish books with 

 them, and that these have either been destroyed or 

 are lying hid in some descendant's lumber-room." 



In a Paper " On Druidical Remains in the Parish 

 of Halifax, Yorkshire," by the Rev. John Watson, 

 M. A., F.S.A.,''' the aiithor says that " in the township 

 of Barkisland is a small ring of stones, now called 

 (1771) by the name of the wolf -fold. It is but a 

 few yards in diameter, but the exact measurement of 

 it I have lost or mislaid. 



" The stones of which it consists are not erect, but 

 lie in a confused heap like the ruins of a building. 

 This place I took at first, from its name, to have been 

 either a decoy for the taking of wolves, or a place to 

 secure them in for the purpose of hunting ; but 

 observing that Mr. Borlase (p. 198) has attributed 



* "ArcliEeologia," vol. ii. p. 355. 



