[287b] Pennant’s British Zoology, vol. i. p. 65, and the authorities there cited.
[287c] Goldsmith’s Natural History, vol. iii. p. 180; Coke’s Institutes, vol. iv. p. 316; Pennant’s British Zoology, vol. i. p. 48. By our cruel forest laws after the Conquest, the penalty for killing a stag or boar, was the loss of eyes.—Hallam’s View of the State of Europe during the Middle Ages, vol. ii. 8th edition, 8vo, p. 94. Charles I. turned out wild boars in the New Forest, Hampshire, but they were all destroyed in the civil wars.—Pennant’s British Zoology, vol. i. p. 48. An attempt was made in the last century, to reintroduce wild swine into England, for some were turned loose by General Howe, in his forests in Hampshire; but the attempt was a failure, for the country people destroyed them.—Bingley’s British Quadrupeds, p. 449.
[288a] Pennant’s British Quadrupeds, vol. i. p. 86. Holinshed, in his Chronicles, written in the reign of Queen Elizabeth, states that the beaver was to be met with in Scotland, at the time when he wrote. “There are likewise martins, bevers, foxes, and wezels.”—See his Description of Scotland, vol. ii. p. 11.
[288b] Leland’s Itinerary, vol. vii. pp. 16 [28], and 63 [81].
[288c] It is said to have been killed by Sir Ewen Cameron.—See Pennant’s British Zoology, vol. i. p. 63, and the authorities there cited; Pennant’s History of Quadrupeds, vol. i. p. 231.
[288d] Pennant’s British Zoology, vol. i. p. 64; Pennant’s History of Quadrupeds, vol. i. p. 231, citing Smith’s History of Cork, vol. ii. p. 226. But in Notes and Queries, published in 1856, 2nd series, No. 14, p. 282, and No. 32, p. 120, correspondents state, that wolves were not extinct in the mountains of Wicklow, until many years after 1710.
[289] Camden’s Magna Britannia, Gough’s edition, vol. iii. p. 16.
[290a] Camden’s Magna Britannia, Gough’s edition, vol. iii. p. 445, under the title “Strathnavern.”
[290b] Ibid., vol. iii. p. 464.
[290c] Camden’s Magna Britannia, Gough’s edition, vol. iii. p. 16.