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wolves' tongues from each criminal. Camden tells us that 
Lulwell, one of the Welsh princes, had to pay an annual 
tribute of 300 wolves' heads, which he paid for three years, 
but discontinued it on the fourth, probably because they were 
becoming nearly extinct. According to tradition, the last 
wolf killed near Leeds, was by John of Gaunt, Duke of 
Lancaster, in 1306, in the parish of Roth well ; and that the 
Inn now known under the sign of John of Gaunt marks 
the spot. The last specimen of this animal killed in 
Scotland, is recorded to have been slain at Lochabar, by 
Sir Ewen Cameron, of Lochiel, about the close of the reign 
of Charles II. 
At what period, however, the wolf became extinct in 
England is not known ; but in the notes to an edition of 
Somerville's Chase, by Topham, it is stated that it was in the 
Wolds of Yorkshire where a price was last set upon a wolf's 
head, but no date is attached. Therefore, though we are not 
able to assign the year when such a proceeding was considered 
necessary, we may venture to state that in all probability 
the Yorkshire hills were the last residence of the wolf in 
England. In Ireland, the last presentment for killing wolves 
was in the county of Cork, in 1710. Although we can trace 
the existence of the wolf in Britain down to this late period, 
it is very probable that the animal had been gradually 
becoming scarce long anterior to this date, as no royal edict 
is on record to destroy the wolf since the reign of Edward I., 
in the Thirteenth century, though the limestone caves of 
Yorkshire and Devonshire might afford them an asylum 
for many years subsequently. 
I wish here to offer a few remarks upon the smaller species 
of canine animal already alluded to, whose bones occurred 
with those of the wolf, in the Dowkabottom cave ; as in the 
estimation of some persons these may materially affect the 
question as to the relative age of the other remains. In 
