Clafsl. FOX. 63 



diilinguifhed that month by the tide o^ vjolf-moneth *. 

 They alio called an oui\3.v^ IVolfJ}jed-\, as being out of 

 the protedion of the law, profcribed, and as liable to 

 be killed as that deftruftive bead. 



They infefted Ireland many centuries after their 

 extinftion in England^ for there are accounts of feme 

 being found there as late as the year 1710. The lall 

 prefentment for killing of wolves being made in the 

 county of Cork about that time. 



The Bear, another voracious beafl:, was once an 

 inhabitant of this ifland, as appears from different 

 authorities : to begin with the more ancient. Marital 

 informs us, that the Caledonian bears were ufed to 

 heighten the torments of the unhappy lufFerers on 

 the crofs. 



Nuda Caledonio fie peclora prjebuit urfo 

 Non falfa pendens in cruce Laureolus J. 



And Plutarch relates, that Bears were tranfported from 

 Britain to Rome, where they were much admired §. 

 Mr. Llwyd \\ alfo difcovered in iome old TVelch MS. 

 relating to hunting, that this animal was reckoned 

 among our beafts of chace, and that its fielh was held 

 in the fame efteem with'that of the hare or boar. Many 

 places in Wales flill retain the name of Pennarth, or 

 the bear's head, another evidence of their cxiftencein 

 our country. Long after their extirpation out of this 

 kingdom, thefe animals were imported for an end, 

 that does no credit to the manners of the times : bear- 



* Verfiegan^ Antiq. 59. -f- Kntghton, 2356. 



:|: Martial. Lib. Spea.ep. 7.' 



^ Plutarch, as ciced by Camden^ p. 1 2 27. 11 Raiifyn. quad. 214. 



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