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beasts of prey, but knock them on the head wherever 

 we find them."* 



Liulphus, a dean of Whalley in the time of Canute, 

 was celebrated as a wolf-hunter at Rossendale, Lan- 

 cashire, t 



Matthew Paris, in his " Lives of the Abbots of St. 

 Albans," mentions a grant of church lands by Abbot 

 Leofstan (the 12 th abbot of that monastery) to 

 Thurnoth and others, in consideration of their keep- 

 ing the woods between the Chiltern Hundreds and 

 London free from wolves and other wild beasts. 



It would seem that the " ancient and accustomed 

 tribute" due to the English kings was repeated by 

 the Welsh princes in the very last years of the 

 Anglo-Saxon monarchy. It was demanded by and 

 rendered to Harold.^: 



Period from the Conquest to the reign of Henry VII. 

 — Historical evidence of the existence of wolves hi 

 Great Britain before the Norman Conquest, as 

 might be expected, is meagre and unsatisfactory, 

 and the abundance of these animals in our islands 

 prior to that date is chiefly to be inferred from the 

 measures which in later times were devised for their 

 destruction. 



In the "Carmen de Bello Hastingensi," by Guido, 

 Bishop of Amiens (v. 571), it is related that William 

 the Conqueror left the dead bodies of the English 

 upon the battle-field to be devoured by worms, wolves, 

 birds, and dogs — vermibus, atque lupis, avibus, cani- 



* Clarendon, "Hist. Eeb." fol. ed., i. p. 183. 

 f Whitaker's "History of Whalley," p. 222. % Palgrave. 



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