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of some authors to the contrary, his scheme proved 

 abortive."* 



"We have met with a statement to the effect 

 that "two wooden Wolves' heads still remain near 

 Glastonbury on an ancient house where [query, on 

 the. site of which] at Eadgerly, King Edgar lived and 

 received annually his tax from the Welsh in 300 

 heads/'t 



This statement, however, conflicts somewhat with 

 that of Holinshed, who says that " the carcases being 

 brought into Lloegres, were buried at Wolfpit in 

 Cambridgeshire. "J 



In the Forest Laws of Canute, promulgated in 

 1 01 6, the Wolf is thus expressly mentioned : — " As 

 for foxes and wolves, they are neither reckoned as 

 beasts of the forest or of venery, and therefore who- 

 ever kills any of them is out of all danger of for- 

 feiture, or making any recompense or amends for the 

 same. Nevertheless, the killing them within the 

 limits of the forest is a breach of the royal chase, and 

 therefore the offender shall yield a recompense for 

 the same, though it be but easy and gentle. "§ 



It was doubtless to this constitution that the 

 Solicitor-General St. John referred, at the trial of the 

 Earl of Strafford, when he said, " We give law to 

 hares and deer, because they are beasts of chase ; but 

 we give no law to wolves and foxes, because they are 



* "British Zoology," vol. i. p. 88 (1812). 

 t " Sussex Archseol. Coll." vol. iv. p. 83 (1851). 

 % "Chronicles," vol. i. p. 378 (4to ed. 1807). 



§ See Manwood's " Forest Laws." The Charter of the Forest of 

 Canutusthe Dane (§ 27). 



