THE EXTINCT BRITISH WOLF. 
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of chase ; hut we give no law to wolves and foxes, because they 
are beasts of prey, but knock them on the head wherever we 
find them.”* 
Liulphus, a dean of Whalley in the time of Canute, was 
celebrated as a wolf-hunter at Eossendale, Lancashire.” f 
Matthew Paris, in his “ Lives of the Abbots of St. Albans,” 
mentions a grant of church lands by Abbot Leofstan (the 12th 
abbot of that monastery) to Thurnoth and others, in consider- 
ation of their keeping the woods between the Chiltern Hundreds 
and London free from wolves and other wild beasts. 
It would seem that the “ ancient and accustomed tribute ” 
due to the English kings was repeated by the Welsh princes in 
the very last years of the Anglo-Saxon monarchy. It was 
demanded by and rendered to Harold. 
* Clarendon, “Hist. Eel).” fol. ed. i. p. 183. 
t Whitaker’s “ History of Whalley,” p. 222. 
(To be continued.) 
