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not be doubted that in the vast forests * * * § which then covered the 
greater part of the country, and through which he continuously 
hunted, he must have encountered and slain many a wolf. Yet, 
strange to say, a careful search through a great number of 
volumes has resulted in a failure to discover any evidence upon 
this point, or indeed any mention of the wolf in connection with 
this monarch. 
Longstaffe, in his account of “ Durham before the Conquest,” 
states that a great increase of wolves took place in Richmond- 
shire during this century, and mentions incidentally that Richard 
Ingeniator dealing with property at Wolviston (called Olveston 
in the time of William Rufus) sealed the grant with an im- 
pression of a wolf. 
1100-1135. In his passion for hunting wild animals, Henry I. 
excelled even his brother William, and not content with en- 
countering and slaying those which, like the wolf and the wild 
boar, were at that time indigenous to this country, he “ cherished 
of set purpose sundrie kinds of wild beasts, as bears, libards, 
ounces, lions, at Woodstocke and one or two other places in 
England, which he walled about with hard stone An. 1120, and 
where he would often fight with some one of them hand to 
hand.” f 
1156. There can be no doubt that at this period, and for some 
time afterwards, the New Forest as well as the Forest of Bere, 
in Hampshire, both favourite hunting grounds with William 
Rufus and his brother Henry, were the strongholds of the wolf, 
as they were of the wild boar and the red deer, for in the second 
year of the reign of Henry II. the Sheriff of Hants had an allow- 
ance made to him in the Exchequer for several sums by him dis- 
bursed for the livery of the King’s wolf -hunters, hawkers, falconers, 
and other things. “ Et in liberatione lupariorum 100s., et in 
liber atione accipitrariorum et falconariorum Regis 2'2li. per 
Willelmum Cumin” J 
In the fourth year of the same reign, the Sheriffs of London 
were allowed by the Chancellor 40s. out of the Exchequer for 
the King’s huntsmen and his dogs. “ Et venatoribus Regis et 
canibus ejus xl* per cancellarium § 
* “ The word ‘ forest/ in its original and most extended sense, implied a 
tract of land lying out ( for as ), that is, rejected, as of no value, in the first 
distribution of property.” — Whitaker, “ History of Whalley,” p. 193. 
t Harrison’s Description of England, prefixed to Holinshed’s u Chronicle,” 
p. 226. 
X Madox, " History and Antiquities of the Exchequer of the Kings of 
England from the Norman Conquest to the end of the Reign of Edward 
H.,” vol. i. p. 204 (1769). 
§ Madox, tom. cit. p. 207. 
