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Fo X. Cinco Be 
It has been a received opinion, that the other — 
parts of thefe kingdoms were in early times deli- 
vered from this peft by the care of king Edgar. 
In England he attempted to effect it by commu- 
ting the punifhments for certain crimes into the ac- 
ceptance of a number of wolves tongues from each 
criminal: in Wales by converting the tax of gold 
and filver into an annual tribute of 300 wolves 
heads. Notwithftanding thefe his endeavours, and 
the affertions of fome authors, his {cheme pro- 
proved abortive. We find that fome centuries af- 
ter the reign of that Saxon monarch, thefe animals 
were again increafed to fuch a degree, as to become 
the object of royal attention; accordingly Edward 
the firft iffued out his mandate to Peter Corbet to 
fuperintend and affift in the deftru€tion of them 
in the feveral counties of Gloucefter, Worcefter, 
Hereford, Salop, and Stafford*: and in the adja- 
* Pro Petro Corbet, de Lupis Capiendis. 
Rex, omnibus Ballivis, Sc. Sciatis quod injunximus dileGo et 
fideli noftro Petro Corbet quod in omnibus foreffis et parcis et aliis 
locis intra comitatus noftros Gloucefter, Wygorn, Hereford, 
Salop, et Stafford, in guibus lupi poterunt inveniri lupos cum 
hominibus canibus et ingentis fuis capiat et deftruat modis omnibus 
quibus viderit expedire. 
Et ideo vobis mandamus quod eidem intendentes et auxiliantes eftis. 
Tefte rege apud Weim. 14 Maii A. D. 1281. Rymer, vol. i. 
pars 2. p. 1gz. 
By the grant of liberties from king John, to the inhabi- 
tants of Devonfbire, it appears that thefe animals were not 
then extirpated, evenin that fouthern country. vide Appen- 
dix No. 
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