British Animals Extinct Within Historic Times With Some Account of British Wil
British Animals Extinct Within Historic Times With Some Account of British Wil
James Edmund Harting
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M. S. Brit. Mus. No. 34, p. 166. Blount, " Ancient Tenures, " p. 258. L r 4 8 EXTINCT BRITISH ANIMALS. Thomas Engaine, dying without issue in 1 368, was found to be seized of 14 yardlands and meadow, and 1 45. 4-d. Rent, in Pightesle, in the county of North- ampton, held by the service of finding, at his own proper costs, certain dogs for the destruction of Wolves, foxes, martens, cats, and other vermin within the counties of Northampton, Roteland, Oxford, Essex, and Buckingham. * 1 377-1 399- ...In Richard II. 's reign Wolves must have been common enough in the forests of York- shire, for in the account-rolls of Whitby Abbey, amongst the disbursements made between 1 394 and 1396, we find the following entry of a payment for dressing Wolf skins : Pro tewyngf xiiij pellium luporum . . . . 10. Ixrf. Doubtless the skins of animals killed in some great raid made upon them at the instigation of the Abbey. 1399-1413. In Henry IV. 'sreign, Sir Thomas de Aylesbury, knight, and Catharine his wife, held of the king, in capite, the manor of Laxton, inter alia, with appurtenances in the county of Northampton, by "grand serjeanty " viz.
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