THE EXTINCT BRITISH WOLF. 
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held one hundred shillings of land in the town of Guedding, in 
the county of Cambridge, by the serjeanty of taking wolves, 
and he was to do this service daily (et facit servid suum 
cotidie ),* * * § from which it may be inferred that wolves at this date 
were particularly troublesome. 
In 1297 John Engaine died, seized, inter alia , of certain 
lands in Pytesle, Northampton, found to be held of the King by 
the service of hunting the wolf, fox [cat], badger [wild boar, and 
hare] ; and likewise the manor of Great Gidding in Com, Hun- 
tendon, held by the service of catching the hare, fox, cat, and 
wolf within the counties of Huntendon, Northampton, Bucking- 
ham, and Roteland.f 
In the accounts of Bolton Priory, quoted in Whitaker’s “ His- 
tory of Craven” (p. 331) occur entries in the years 1306-1307, 
of payments made in reward for the slaughter of wolves, as 
“ Cuidam qui occidit lupum ,” but the price paid to the slayer 
is not stated. 
1307-1327. In the fourth year of Edward II. (1311) a com- 
position was made between Sir John de Mowbray, son and heir 
of Sir Roger de Mowbray, of the one part, and the Abbot of 
Selby of the other part, whereby the said Sir John quitclaimed 
and released to the Abbot all his right in the soil and manor of 
Crowle and other places therein mentioned, and the Abbot and 
convent granted to the said Sir John de Mowbray certain 
woods, saving their free warren of goats, foxes, wolves, conies, 
&c.J 
The King’s forest of the Peak in Derbyshire was of great ex- 
tent, and about this time was much infested with wolves. A 
family of the hereditary name of Wolf hunt held lands by the 
service of keeping the forest clear of these destructive animals. § 
Prom the records in the Tower of London (13 Edw. II.) it 
I appears that in 1320 some persons held lands at Wormhill, in 
the county of Derby, by the service of hunting and taking 
wolves, from whence they were called Wolf hunt or Wolve- 
hunt. 
Mr. W. H. G. Bagshawe, of Ford Hall, Chapel-en-le-PTith, 
Derbyshire, a descendant of the same family as Mr. F. W. 
Bagshawe, the present owner of Wormhill Hall, in reply to 
* Testa de Nevil, p. 358 ; Blount, p. 262. 
t Dug-dale’s “Baronage,” vol. i. p. 466. See also the Rotuli Hundredorum, 
ii. p. 627. 
f Burton, “ Monasticon Eboracense,” p. 389. The Abbots of Selby and of 
St. Mary, at York, were the only two mitred abbots in Yorkshire. 
§ “ The Local Laws, Courts, and Customs of Derbyshire,” Journ. Brit. 
Archseol. Assoc, vol. vii. p. 197. 
