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least of the teeth of an animal of this genus, found plentifully 

 in the Helsfell fissures, belonged to domesticated animals. In- 

 deed, a glance at the pretty little teeth collected by John 

 Beecham suggests at once that the prehistoric "Wolf had an 

 ugly knack of forestalling prehistoric breakfasts, trotting home 

 to the fissures of her race in the limestone cliffs with the 

 burden of a shrieking porker, that might well have been destined 

 for a kinder fate than to be devoured by the whelps of its 

 savage captor. ' Grise,' observe Nicolson and Burn, ' is a 

 common name for swine, and it may well seem to have taken 

 its name from being frequented by wild boars, which are 

 beasts of the forest. Unto which the large rock called Sty- 

 harrow on the west side of Ulleswater may have some allusion.' 1 

 4 Swinedale,' they add [probably in error], ' may be so called 

 from Wild Boars having frequented there ; as there are Grise- 

 dale, Boredale, Stybarrow, in the neighbouring parish of 

 Barton ; and Wildboarfell [well known to Pennant] in Eaven- 

 stonedale. 2 



The Bev. J. Wilson has kindly pointed out to me a passage 

 in the Pipe-Kolls of 1 6 Henry il, which appears to refer to the 

 capture of Wild swine in Inglewood Forest : ' Geodefrid* de 

 Karleton redd, comp de i. fn* p porcis captis in forest. In 

 thro (thesauro) lioauit. Et Quiet' (quietus) est.' ' Godfrey de 

 Karleton renders account of one mark for hogs taken in the 

 forest. He has paid it into the treasury. He is free! Two 

 similar entries follow. That the Wild Boar inhabited Lakeland 

 at the time of this entry is independently rendered certain by 

 an interesting tradition which the pen of Bishop Carleton has 

 bequeathed to us. He traced Bernard Gilpin to the family of 

 1 Pdchard Gilpin, who in the Baign of King John was enfeoffed 

 in the Lordship of Kentmire hall by the Baron of Kendall for 

 his singular deserts both in peace and warre. This was that 

 Richard Gilpin who slew the wilde Boore, that rageing in the 

 mountaines adjoyning, as sometimes did that of Erimanthus, 

 had much indammaged the Country-people : whence it is that 

 the Gilpins in their Coate Armes giue the Boore.' 3 



1 Hist, and Antiquities of Westmorland and Cumberland, vol. i. p. 409. 



2 lb. cit. vol. i. p. 479. 3 The Life of Bernard Gilpin, p. 1. 



