[295a] Dugdale’s Baronage, vol. i. p. 467.

[295b] Baker’s Chronicles, fo. 218. We cannot reasonably doubt that the wild boar, being a favourite beast of chase, and not being so destructive an animal as the wolf, would remain in this country a considerable time after the wolf was destroyed.

[297] Coke’s Institutes of the Laws of England, vol. iv. pp. 315, 316.

[298] Camden states that when he wrote wolves did not appear in England (Mag. Britannia, Gough’s edit. vol. iii. p. 16); but, as there were then abundance of them in Scotland, it was clear that they could not be prevented from roaming from thence into England, and breeding there.

[315a] Of Speke Hall, according to Banks, vol. ii. p. 395.

[315b] He was of Cornwall, according to Carte, vol. ii. p. 829.

[321] The errata has been applied in this transcription.—DP.

[323] John Stafford, a younger son of Humphrey Stafford, first Duke of Buckingham, was created Earl of Wiltshire in the ninth year, and died in the thirteenth year, of Edward IV.