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Irish,” he says, 46 are not without wolves, or greyhounds to hunt 
them ; bigger of bone and limme than a colt.” * * * § 
Sir James Ware, in his “Antiquities of Ireland” (1658), 
notices 44 those hounds which, from their hunting of wolves, are 
commonly called 4 wolf-dogs,’ being creatures of great strength 
and size, and of a fine shape.” 
Ray has described the Irish wolf-dog as a tall, rough grey- 
hound ; so also has Pennant, who descants at some length on 
his extraordinary size and power. 
In a privy seal from King Henry VIII. to the Lord-Deputy 
and Council of Ireland, f his Majesty takes notice of the suit of 
the Duke of Albuquerque, of Spain (of the Privy Council to 
Henry VIII.), on behalf of the Marquis Desarrya and his son, 
44 that it might please his Majesty to grant to the said Marquis 
and his son, and the longer liver of them, yearly, out of Ireland, 
two goshawks and four greyhounds,” and commands the Deputy 
for the time being to order the delivery of the hawks and 
hounds, and to charge the cost to the Treasury. 
In November, 1562, as we learn from the State Papers 
relating to Ireland, J the Irish chieftain, Shane O’Neill, for- 
warded to Queen Elizabeth, through Robert Dudley, Earl of 
Leicester, a present of two horses, two hawks, and two Irish 
wolf-dogs. In 1585, Sir John Perrott, who was Lord-Deputy of 
Ireland from January, 1584, to July, 1588,§ sent to Sir Francis 
Walsingham, then Secretary of State in London, 44 a brace of 
good wolf-dogs, one black, the other white.” 
Again, in 1 608, we find that Irish wolf-hounds were sent from 
Ireland by Captain Esmond, of Duncannon, to Gilbert, seventh 
Earl of Shrewsbury. || 
These dogs were considered very valuable, and were highly 
thought of by those who received them as presents ; but some 
years later, when owing to the great increase in the number of 
wolves in some parts of Ireland, their services were more than 
ever required to keep down these ferocious animals, a law, 
presently to be noticed, was passed to prohibit their exportation. 
In Robert Legge’s 44 Book of Information,” compiled in 1 584 
by order of Sir John Perrott, the above named Lord-Deputy of 
Ireland, 44 for the reformation of the civil government of that 
realm,” it is recommended, inter alia , that 44 for the destruction 
of ravening and devouring wolves, some order might be had, as 
* See also Holinshed, “ Descript. Irel.” 1586, and Camden, “ Britannia,” 
vol. ii., p. 1312 (Gibson’s Ed.). 
t Rot. Cane. Dec. 9, 36 H. 8, dorso. 
t Eliz., vol. vii., No. 40, in Pub. Rec. Off. 
§ Ibid., vol. cxx., No. 12. 
|| “ Archaeol. ^Eliana,” vol. ii. p. 226. 
