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try, as appears from the laws of Hoel dda*, who 
permitted his grand huntiman to chace that animal 
from the middle of November to thebeginning of 
December. William the Conqueror punifhed with — 
the lofs of their eyes, any that were convicted of 
killing the wild-boar, the ftag, or the roebuck +; 
and Fitz-Stephen tells us, that the vaft foreft that 
in his time grew on the north fide of London, 
was the retreat of ftags, fallow-deer, wild-boars, and 
bulls. Charles 1. turned out wild-boars in the 
New Foreft, Hampfbire, but they were deftroyed 
in the civil wars. 
Pm 
© Leges Wallice. 41. + Leges Saxon. 292. 
