192 EXTINCT BRITISH ANIMALS. 



About this time, it is said, Wolves committed 

 great devastation amongst the flocks in Munster. 

 After the destruction of Kilmallock by James 

 Fitzmaurice, in 1 591, that place is stated to have 

 become the haunt of Wolves. 



For some account of their ravages during Des- 

 mond's rebellion, the reader may be referred to 

 O'Sullivan's " Compendium Historise Catholicse 

 Hiberniae," 1621 (lib. viii. cap. 6). 



At a later period, according to Fynes Moryson, 

 who was Secretary to Lord-Deputy Mountjoy, and 

 who wrote a "History of Ireland from 1599 to 

 1603," the cattle had to be driven in at night, "for 

 fear of thieves (the Irish using almost no other kind 

 of theft), or else for fear of Wolves, the destruc- 

 tion whereof being neglected by the inhabitants, 

 oppressed with greater mischiefs, they are so much 

 grown in numbers as sometimes on winter nights 

 they will come and prey in villages and the suburbs 

 of cities."* 



In May, 1594, Lord William Russell was ap- 

 pointed Lord-Deputy of Ireland by Queen Elizabeth. 

 From entries in his "Journal," extending from "June 

 24, 1594, to May 27, iS97,"t it appears that both he 

 and Lady Russell, who accompanied him to Ireland, 

 frequently participated in the pleasures of the chase, 

 and amused themselves at different times with hawk- 

 ing, fishing, and hunting. Under date May 26, 

 1596, it is recorded: "My Lord and Lady rode 



* Moryson, "Hist. Ireland," Dublin ed., 1735, vol. ii. p. 367. 



t Preserved amongst the Carew MSS. at Lambeth Palace, vol. doxii. 



