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Hibern.) speaks of certain epistles written by Edward, the 
future Protector, son of John Seymour, 4 de Puteo Lupino , 
vulgo Wolf-hall? So I am not so certain that the derivation is 
not from the animal. At all events, it is quite clear that no 
place could be more fitted for wolves than the wild extensive 
forest of Savernake hard by : indeed, if wolves existed at all in 
England now, that would be just the very harbour for them.” 
Many names of places compounded with 44 wolf ” still remain 
to attest probably the former existence of this animal in the 
neighbourhood. Wolmer, i.e. Wolfmere or Wolvemere, is an 
instance of this. Wolferton is another. Reginaldus, in the 
twelfth century, variously translates Wolsingham into the 
dwelling of Ulsus, the habitation of a wolf, and the howling of 
a wolf, expressed in the English tongue. So Symeon has 44 Ulfs- 
welle , id est fons lupi.” * * * § 
Wolfenden in Rossendale, and Wolfstones in Cliviger (Lanca- 
shire), both attest the existence of this animal there when those 
names were imposed.f Many other instances, no doubt, might 
be adduced. In the parish of Beckermont, Cumberland, is a 
small hill, commonly called 44 Wotobank.” A traditionary story, 
of great antiquity, says that a lord of Beckermont and his lady 
and servants were one time hunting the wolf ; during the chase 
this lord missed his lady ; after a long and painful search, they 
at last, to his inexpressible sorrow, found her body lying on 
this hill or bank, slain by a wolf, and the ravenous beast in the 
very act of tearing it to pieces, till frightened by the dogs. In 
the first transports of his grief the first words that he uttered 
were 44 Woe to this bank ! ” since which time it has been com- 
monly called 46 Wotobank.” { 
In Lancashire, Dr. Whitaker particularly mentions the great 
forests of Blackburnshire and Bowland as 44 among the last re- 
treats of the wolf.” § 
The 44 wolds” of Yorkshire appear, from the dates of parish 
books, to have been infested with wolves perhaps later than any 
other part of England. 
44 In the entries at Flixton, Hackston, and Folkston, in the 
* Longstaffe, “ Durham before the Conquest,” p. 49. 
t Whitaker, “History of Whalley,” i. p. 74. “ The first mention of 
Rossendale by name is in the memorable story of Liwlphus, dean of Whalley, 
who, at a place called Ledmesgreve, cut off the tail of a wolf in hunting ” 
(tom. cit. p. 316). 
X Hutchinson, “Hist, and Antiq. Cumberland,” (1794) vol. ii. p. 16. Upon 
this tradition was founded an “ elegant elegiac tale ” by Mrs. Cowley, which 
will be found prefixed to the second volume of the work quoted. 
§ Op. cit. i. p. 205. The last herd of red deer was destroyed there in 
1805. 
