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inquiries on the subject, has been good enough to write as 
follows : — 
“ With the particulars in Blount’s 4 Tenures ’ I have long 
been familiar, but I am sorry to say that I cannot add to them. 
Wormhill Hall was never, so far as I know, held under the 
tenure of destroying wolves, but it is most probable that a por- 
tion of the lands there were originally held by the tenure of 
preserving the King’s c verte and venyson ’ in his forest of the 
Peak. 
“There is a tradition that the last wolf in England was 
killed at Wormhill, but I never saw any evidence of it, nor did 
I ever hear any date assigned. 
“ In my pedigree of our family I find a note to the effect 
that John de l’Hall (the ancestor of John de l’Hall whose 
daughter Alice was the wife of Nicholas Bagshawe) was ap- 
pointed a forester (of fee, I suppose) to the King by deed 
dated 1349.”* 
1327-1377. So far as can be gathered from history, it would 
seem that while stringent measures were being devised for the 
destruction of wolves in all or most of the inhabited districts 
which they frequented, in the less populous and more remote 
parts of the country steps were taken by such of the principal 
landowners as were fond of hunting to secure their own partici- 
pation in the sport of finding and killing them. 
In Edward III.’s time, Conan, Duke of Brittany, in 1342, 
gave pasture for cattle through all his new forest at Richmond 
in Yorkshire to the inmates of the Abbey of Fors in Wensley- 
dale, forbidding them to use any mastiffs to drive the wolves 
from their pastures.f 
In the same year, Alan, Earl of Brittany, gave them com- 
mon of pasture through all his forest of Wandesley-dale ; and to- 
cut as much grass for hay as they might have occasion for, and 
also gave them leave to take such materials out of the said 
forest to build their houses, and for other uses ; and such iron 
and lead as the monks found they might apply to their own 
use ; and if the monks or their servants found any flesh of wild 
beasts in the forest, killed by wolves , they might take it to their 
own use.f 
In 1348, we find that Alan, son and heir of Walter de'Wulf- 
hunte, paid a fine to the King of 2s. 4 d. for his relief in respect 
• Camden, 11 Britannia,” tit. Derbyshire, i. p. 591 ; Blount, 11 Ancient 
Tenures,” p. 250. 
f Escheat, 15 & 16 Edw. III. no. 76, in Turr. Lond. See also Burton, 
“ Monasticon Eboracense,” p. 370. The Abbey of Fors, in Wensleydale, was 
founded in 1145 (Whitaker). 
X Burton, loc. cit. 
