144 EXTINCT BRITISH ANIMALS. 



following year, John Engaine was returned as hold- 

 ing one carucate of land in Great Gidding, in the 

 county of Huntingdon, by the serjeanty of hunting 

 the Wolf, fox, and wild cat, and driving away all 

 vermin out of the forest of the king in that county.* 

 About the same time, Richard Engaine held one 

 hundred shillings of land in the town of Guedding, in 

 the county of Cambridge, by the serjeanty of taking 

 Wolves, and he was to do this service daily {et 

 facit senrit suum cotidie),f from which it may be 

 inferred that Wolves at this date were particularly 

 troublesome. Indeed, it is recorded that during this 

 reign in a certain park at Farley the deer were 

 entirely destroyed by Wolves. J 



In 1297 John Engaine died, seized, inter alia, of 

 certain lands in Pytesle, Northampton, found to be 

 held of the king by the service of hunting the Wolf, fox 

 [cat], badger [wild boar, and hare] ; and likewise the 

 manor of Great Gidding in com. Huntendon, held, by 

 the service of catching the hare, fox, cat, and Wolf 

 within the counties of Huntendon, Northampton, 

 Buckingham, and Roteland.§ 



In the accounts of Bolton Priory, quoted in 

 Whitaker's "History of Craven" (p. 331), occur 

 entries in the years 1 306-1 307, of payments made in 



* "Plao. Coron. 14 Edw. T. Eot. 7," dorso; Blount, p. 230. 



f " Testa de Nevil," p. 358 ; Blount, p. 262. 



J 'f Will. Poer fecit parcum apud Farley et quod pater Comitis 

 Gilberti de Clare cornea Gloucestrise dedit ei quasdam feras ad praa - 

 dictum parcum instaurandum, quse ferse per lupos destruebantur." 

 18 Edw. I. (1290) Wygorn. rot. 50 in abbreviat. Eotul. 



§ Dugdale's "Baronage," vol. i. p. 466. See also the Rotuli 

 Hundredorum, ii. p. 627. 



