iSo EXTINCT BRITISH ANIMALS. 



where the said castle and manor are situated, free? 

 from Wolves and robbers.* 



1461-148.3. If no particular mention of Wolves is 

 to be met with in the days of Edward IV., his 

 reign would nevertheless deserve notice here from 

 the fact that at this period lived Juliana Barnes, 

 or Berners, a lady of an ancient and illustrious house, 

 who was commonly styled the Diana of her age, and 

 who writ or compiled divers treatises on Hunting, 

 Hawking, Fishing, and Heraldry, f 



In her "Book of St. Albans," written about 1481, 

 and first printed in i486, she includes the Wolf 

 amongst the beasts of venery, and thus instructs her 

 readers on the subject : — ■ 



" Wheresoeure ye fare by fryth or by fell : 

 My dere chylde take hede how TristramJ doo you tell, 

 How many manere bestys of venery there were : 

 Lysten to your dame, and she shall you lere. 

 Foure maner bestys of venery there are : 

 The fyrste of theym is the harte, the seconde is the hare, 

 The boore is one of tho : the wulfe and not one mo." 



The old books on hunting state that the season for 

 hunting the Wolf was between the 25 th of December 

 and the 25 th of March. This of course was only 

 so long as Wolf-hunting was an amusement and a 

 royal sport. As soon as it became a necessity, and a 

 price was set on the animal's head, it was killed 

 whenever and wherever it could be found. 



1485-1509. Some time between these two dates, 



* Madox, "Baronia Anglioa," p. 244. 



f Longstaffe, " Memoirs of the Life of Ambrose Barnes" (Surtees 

 Society), 1867, p. 27. 



% Manwood, in his " Forest Laws," mentions " Sir Tristram," an 

 ancient forester, in his worthy treatise of hunting. 



