142 EXTINCT BRITISH ANIMALS. 



Selden, in his notes to Drayton's " Polyolbion" 

 (ix. 76), refers to the manor of Piddlesey in Leices- 

 tershire, which was held by one Henry of Angage 

 per serjeantiam capiendi lupos, and quotes as his 

 authority "Itin. Leicesters. 27 Hen. III. in Archiv. 

 Turr. Lond." In the same reign, William de Limeres 

 held of the king, in capife, in the county of South- 

 ampton, one carucate* of land in Comelessend by 

 the service of hunting the Wolf with the king's 

 dogs.t 



1 272-1307. In the third year of the reign of 

 Edward L, namely, in. 1275, Sir John d'Engayne, 

 knight, and Elena d'Engayne, his wife, held lands in 

 Pightesley, in the county of Northampton, by the 

 service of hunting the Wolf, for his pleasure, in that 

 county,| from which it is to be inferred that this 

 animal was then common enough to be hunted for 

 sport, as the fox is now-a-days. Other lands in the 

 same county were held at this time on condition of 

 the tenant finding dogs "for the destruction of 

 Wolves" and other animals.§ It appears by the 

 Patent Polls of the 9th year of Edward I. that in 

 1280, John Giffard of Brymmesfield or Brampfield, 

 was empowered to destroy the Wolves in all the 

 king's forests throughout the realm. || 



In 1 28 1, Peter Corbet was commissioned to destroy 



* Carucate, a plough, land. As much arable land as one plough, 

 •with the animals that worked it, could cultivate in a year. 



f Esc. temp. H. E. fil. E. Johannis. Harl. MS. Brit. Mus. No. 7o8,p. 8. 



% Plac. Ooron. 3 Edw. I. Eot. 20, dorso. Blount, " Ancient 

 Tenures," p. 230. 



§ Camden, " Britannia," p. 525, and Blount, p. 257. 



|| " Calend. Eot. Pat," 49. See also Eymer's "Foedera," sub anno. 



