136 EXTINCT BRITISH ANIMALS. 



hard stone An. 11 20, and where he would often 

 fight with some one of them hand to hand."* 



Amongst other forest laws made in this reign, was 

 one which provided that compensation should be 

 made for any injury occasioned during a wolf hunt. 

 Si quis arcu vel balista de subitanti, vel pedico ad 

 lupos vel ad aliud capiendum posito, dampanum vel 

 malum aliquod recipiat, solvat qui posuitA 



1 156. There can be no doubt that at this period, 

 and for some time afterwards, the New Forest, as well 

 as the Forest of Bere, in Hampshire, both favourite 

 hunting-grounds with William Rufus and his brother 

 Henry, were the strongholds of the Wolf, as they 

 were of the Wild-boar and the Red-deer, for in the 

 second year of the reign of Henry II. the sheriff of 

 Hants had an allowance made to him in the Ex- 

 chequer for several sums by him disbursed for the 

 livery of the King's wolf -hunters, hawkers, falconers, 

 and others. " Et in liberatione lupariorum 100s., 

 et in liberatione accipitrariorum et falconariorum Regis 

 22U per Willelmum Cumin."\ 



In the fourth year of the same reign, the sheriffs of 

 London were allowed by the Chancellor 40s. out of the 

 Exchequer for the King's huntsmen and his dogs. ' ' Et 

 venatoribus Regis et canibus ejus xl". per cancellarium. "§ 



Conan, Duke of Brittany and Earl of Richmond, 



* Harrison's "Description of England," prefixed to Holinshed's- 

 " Chronicle," p. 226. 



t " Leges Eegis Henrici primi," cap. 90, § 2. 



% Madox, " History and Antiquities of the Exchequer of the Kings, 

 of England from the Norman Conquest to the end of the Reign of 

 Edward II.," vol. i. p. 204 (1769). 



§ Madox, torn. cit. p. 207. 



