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ferred to, in the possession of the late Lord Eibblesdaie, will be 
found in Whitaker’s 44 History and Antiquities of the Deanery 
of Craven” (1805), p. 34. 
In the seventeenth year of the reign of Henry VI., namely, 
in 1439, Eobert Umfraville, a descendant, no doubt, of the 
Eobert de Umfraville mentioned in 1076, held the castle of 
Herbotell and manor of Otterburn, of the King, in ca'pite , by 
the service of keeping the valley and liberty of Eiddesdale, 
where the said castle and manor are situated, free from wolves 
and robbers.* * * § 
1461-1483. If no particular mention of wolves is to be met with 
in the days of Edward IV., his reign would nevertheless deserve 
mention here from the fact that at this period lived Juliana 
Barnes, or Berners, a lady of an ancient and illustrious house, 
who was commonly styled the Diana of her age, and writ divers 
treatises on Hunting, Hawking, Fishing, and Heraldry. f 
In her 64 Boke of St. Albans,” 1480, she includes the wolf 
amongst the beasts of venery, and thus instructs her readers on 
the subject : — 
“ My dere sones wlier ye fare by frith or by fell 
Take gode hede in hys tyme how Tristram f will tell 
Four maner Bestes of Venery there are : 
The first of hem is a Hart, the second is an Hare, 
The Boor is one of tho, 
The Wolf and no mo.” 
1485-1509. Some time between these two dates, during the 
reign of Henry VII., it is probable that the wolf became finally 
extirpated in England, although for nearly two centuries later, 
as will presently appear, it continued to hold out against its 
persecutors in Scotland and Ireland. That it was rare if not 
quite extinct in England about this time, may be inferred from 
the circumstance that little or no mention is made of it either 
in this or any subsequent reign. We are aware that Professor 
Newton, in his 44 Zoology of Ancient Europe,” has stated (p. 24) 
that the wolf was found in the North of England in the reign of 
Henry VIII., a statement which has been also advanced or 
copied by other writers, § but we have not met with any proof 
of this. Indeed, Professor Newton has lately been good enough 
to inform us that he has forgotten his authority for the state- 
• Madox , 11 Baronia Anglica,” p. 244. 
t Longstaffe, “Memoirs of the Life of Ambrose Barnes” (Surtees So- 
ciety), 1867, p. 27. 
\ Manwood, in his u Forest Laws,” mentions 11 Sir Tristram, an ancient 
forester, in his worthy treatise of hunting.” 
§ Wise’s “ New Forest, its History and its Scenery,” p. 14. 
