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1209. Mr. Evelyn P. Shirley has printed* * * § two deeds of the 
10th of John relating to the manor of Hen wick, in the parish 
of Bulwick, county Northampton, held by the tenure of hunting 
the wolf (Jugaco’m lujpi ), and he suggests that from this tenure 
probably the family of Luvet or Lovett, originally of Rushton, 
and afterwards of Astwell, in the county of Northampton, bore 
for their arms : Argent, three wolves passant in pale sable, armed 
and langued gules.f 
1212. In this year, when the neighbourhood around Kings- 
clere was all forest, we find an entry in the Patent Rolls of a 
payment of 5s. as a reward for the capture of a wolf at Free- 
mantle.J 
Amongst the entries in the Rotulus Misce , anni Regis 
Johannis quartodecimi (1212-1213), are the following, which 
relate to the capture or chase of the wolf : — 
“ On Thursday next in the octave of the Holy Trinity [May 
12], for a wolf captured at Freemantle [Surrey] by the dogs of 
Master Ernald de Auclent, 5s.” 
“Item, [at Hereford]. Thursday next following the Feast of 
St. Martin [Nov. 22] to Norman the keeper of the Veltra?s,§ 
and to Wilkin Dogget, his associate, for two wolves captured in 
the forest of Irwell, 1 Os., by the King’s command, &c.” 
“Item. Wednesday next following the feast of St. Gregory 
[March 12], for two wolves captured, one at Boscha de Furchiis, 
the other at Willes, 10s., given to Smalobbe and Wilck, the 
keepers of the veltrario of Thomas de Sanford.” 
It is perhaps not generally known that the circumstance 
narrated in the story of Bedd Gelert, with which every one is 
familiar, is said to have occurred in the reign of King John, 
and, as it is a story of a British wolf, it is scarcely to be passed 
over here without some brief notice, the more so as it is not at 
all unlikely that it is founded on fact. 
The tradition, as related by Bingley in his 66 Tour round 
North Wales,” || is to the effect that Llewellyn, who was Prince 
of Wales in the reign of King John, resided at the foot of 
Snowdon, and, amongst a number of other hounds which he 
possessed, had one of rare excellence which had been given to 
him by the King. On one occasion, during the absence of the 
* “ Collectanea Topographica et Genealogica,” vol. vi. p. 299. 
t The wolf frequently appears on heraldic hearings, as we shall have occa- 
sion to notice more particularly' later on. 
\ Patent Rolls, May 31, 1212, quoted in “ Sussex Archaeological Collec- 
tions,” xxiv. p. 161. 
§ Vdtrarius, or vautrarius , from the French vaultre , was a mongrel hound 
for the chase of the wild hoar. Blount, “ Ancient Tenures,” p. 233. 
|l u A Tour round North Wales,” 1800, vol. i. p. 363. 
