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were devised for the destruction of wolves in Ireland, and the 
following “Heads of a Bill in the Irish Parliament, 1611,” will 
be found preserved amongst the Carew MSS., formerly in the 
Record Office, but now at Lambeth Palace :* “ An Act for 
killing wolves and other vermin, touching the days of hunting, 
the people that are to attend, who to be their director, an inhi- 
bition not to use any arms. The Lord Deputy or Principal 
Governor to prohibit such hunting if he suspect that such 
assemblies by colour of hunting may prove inconvenient.” This 
proposed act, however, seems never to have become law, for no 
mention of it is made in the eight volumes of Irish Statutes 
published by authority in Dublin in 1765. It is not surprising 
therefore that the ravages of the wolves in Ireland continued. 
In 1619 their numbers in Ulster compelled people “to house 
their cattle in the bawnes of their castles, where all the winter 
nights they stood up to their bellies in dirt. Another reason is 
to prevent thieves and false-hearted brethren who have spies 
abroad, and will come thirty miles out of one province into 
another to practise a cunning robbery .”f In 1641 and 1652 
wolves were particularly troublesome in Ireland, and in the 
latter year the following Order in Council was issued by Crom- 
well, prohibiting the exportation of wolf-dogs : — 
“ Declaration against transporting of Wolfe Dogges. 
“ Forasmuch as we are credibly informed that Wolves doe 
much increase and destroy many cattle in several partes of this 
Dominion, and that some of the enemie’s party, who have laid 
down armes, and have liberty to go beyond sea and others, do 
attempt to carry away several such great dogges as are commonly 
called wolfe dogges , whereby the breed of them which are useful 
for destroying of wolves would (if not prevented) speedily decay. 
These are therefore to prohibit all persons whatsoever from 
exporting any of the said dogges out of this Dominion ; and 
searchers and other officers of the Customs, in the several partes 
and creekes of this Dominion, are hereby strictly required to 
seize and make stopp of all such dogges, and deliver them either 
to the common huntsman, appointed for the precinct where they 
are seized upon, or to the governor of the said precinct. Dated 
at Kilkenny, April 27, 1652.” 
The following year another Order in Council was made which 
ran as follows : — 
* Carew MSS., vol. 629, p. 35. See also Hamilton’s u Calendar of State 
Papers relating to Ireland,” Jac. I., sub anno, p. 192. , 
t Gainsford’s u Glory of England,” p. 148. 
