THE EXTINCT BRITISH WOLF. 
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when any lease is granted, to put in some clause that the tenant 
endeavour himself to spoil and kill wolves with traps, snares, or 
such devices as he may devise.” * * * § 
About this time, it is said, wolves committed great devasta- 
tion amongst the flocks in Munster. After the destruction of 
Kilmallock by James Fitzmaurice, in 1591, that place is stated 
to have become the haunt of wolves. 
For some account of their ravages during Desmond’s rebellion, 
the reader may be referred to O’Sullivan’s “ Compendium His- 
torise Catholicse Hiberniae,” 1621 (lib. viii., cap. 6). 
At a later period, according to Fynes Moryson, who was 
Secretary to Lord-Deputy Mountjoy, and who wrote a “ History 
of Ireland from 1599 to 1603,” the cattle had to be driven in 
at night, “ for fear of thieves (the Irish using almost no other 
kind of theft) , or else for fear of wolves, the destruction whereof 
being neglected by the inhabitants, oppressed with greater mis- 
chiefs, they are so much grown in numbers as sometimes on 
winter nights they will come and prey in villages and the 
suburbs of cities.” f 
In May, 1594, Lord William Russell was appointed Lord- 
Deputy of Ireland by Queen Elizabeth. From entries in his 
“ Journal,” extending from “June 24, 1594, to May 27, 1597,” 
it appears that both he and Lady Russell, who accompanied him 
to Ireland, frequently participated in the pleasures of the chase, 
and amused themselves at different times with hawking, fishing, 
and hunting. J Under date May 26, 1596, it is recorded: 
“ My Lord and Lady rode abroad a hunting the wolf.” As the 
Vice-regal Court was then located at Kilmainham, almost within 
the city of Dublin, it would appear that the wolf in question 
was to be found at no great distance beyond the city walls. 
Sir Arthur Chichester, writing to Sir John Davys, March 31, 
1609, in reference to the pending plantation of Ulster, inci- 
dentally remarks that “ if the Irish do not possess and inhabit a 
great part of the lands in some of those escheated countries, 
none but wolves and wild beasts would possess them for many 
years to come ; for where civil men may have lands for reason- 
able rents in so many thousand places in that province, and in 
this whole kingdom, they will not plant themselves in moun- 
tains, rocks, and desert places, though they might have the 
land for nothing.” § 
In the reign of James I. it would seem that active measures 
* Carew MSS., vol. 607, p. 115. Brewer and Bullen, Calendar of Carew 
MSS., Eliz., p. 401. 
t Moryson, “Hist. Irel.,” Dublin ed., 1735, vol. ii., p. 367. 
X Preserved amongst the Carew MSS. at Lambeth Palace, vol. 612. 
§ State Papers, Ireland, in Record Office, vol. 226, 58, 
