6 AUGUST 1898, Page 15

WOLVES IN ENGLAND.

THIL EDITOR OD THE "SPECTATOR."]

SIB,—In connection with your article in the Spectator of July 30th on "The Past and Future of British Mammals," it is interesting to note that the wolf appears to have been -common in England as late as the year 1243, Hen. iii. 27, for among the "Roles Gaseous" of that year is a charter given to

-one "Herbert, son of Matthew, to hunt and catch

the hare, fox, wolf, and cat (lupnm et catnm) in all the Royal forests in the counties of Southampton, Wilts, Dorset, Somerset, Northampton, and Exon : excepting in the Royal warrens." The charter is dated Ap. 15. 124-3: from