82 EXTINCT BRITISH ANIMALS. 



Aubrey, Bart.), to whom this estate descended 

 without alienation or forfeiture, from before the 

 Conquest, by several heirs female from the family of 

 Nigell to that of Aubrey.* 



At the Conquest, Inglewood Forest was held by 

 the Scots, from whom it was taken by the Conqueror, 

 and given to Ranulph de Meschines, who made a 

 survey of the whole country, and gave his followers 

 all the frontiers bordering on Scotland and North- 

 umberland, retaining to himself the central part 

 between the east and west mountains, described 

 as "a goodly great forest full of woods, red-deer 

 and fallow, wild boars, and all manner of wild 

 beasts."t 



A forest law of William I. ordained (a.d. 1087) 

 that any one found guilty of killing a stag, roebuck, 

 or wild boar should be deprived of his eyes. 



Henry I. was especially fond of boar-hunting, 

 as we learn from Holinshed, who stigmatizes it 

 as "a verie dangerous exercise;" and Edward I. 

 made several grants of land, which were held 

 by the serjeanty of keeping or providing boar- 

 hounds. 



Robert de Avenel, who lived A.D. 1 1 53 — 1 165, in. 

 granting the right of pasturage in Eskdale to the 

 monks of Melrose, reserved to himself the right to 

 pursue the wild boar, deer, and stag.| 



A curious story referring to a wild boar hunt at 



* '.' ArchEeologia," vol. iii. pp. 3, 15 ; Kennett's "Paroch.. Antiq.," 

 and Blount's "Ancient Tenures," p. 243 (ed. 1815). 

 t Longstaffe, " Durham before the Conquest." 

 J Morton, " Monastic Annals of Teviotdale,'' pp. 273, 274. 



