One important appanage of the palace was the menagerie of wild beasts, which was placed near the entrance at a very early date. Henry I. kept lions and leopards, and Henry III. added to the collection. Stow tells us that in the year 1235 Frederick the Emperor sent to Henry III. three leopards in token of his regal shield of arms wherein those leopards were pictured, since the which time those lions and others have been kept in a part of this bulwark, now called the Lion Tower, and their keepers there lodged. In 1255 the sheriffs built a house 'for the King's elephant,' which was brought from France and was the first seen in England. Edward II., in the twelfth year of his reign, 'commanded the Sheriffs of London to pay to the keeper of the King's leopard sixpence the day for the sustenance of the leopard, and three halfpence a day for diet of the said keeper.' Edward III. appears to have taken much pride in his menagerie, and in 1364 a proclamation was issued by the King for the safe keeping of a beast called an 'oure,' which was in danger from certain persons who threatened to do grievous harm to the keepers, 'and atrociously to kill the said beast.' Mr. Riley, who prints the proclamation in his _Memorials_, supposes the animal to be either the urus, aurochs or bison, from the east of Europe, or the Ihrwy from Morocco. The proclamation addressed to the Mayor and Sheriff runs thus: 'We, wishing to preserve the said keepers and the beast from injury and grievance, do command you that in the city aforesaid and the suburbs thereof, where you shall deem most expedient, you do cause public proclamation to be made, and it on our behalf strictly to be forbidden, that any person, native or stranger, of whatsoever condition he may be, on pain of forfeiting unto us as much as he may forfeit, shall have the audacity to do any damage, violence, misprision or grievance unto the said keepers or to the beast, which we have so taken under our protection and especial defence, or to any of them, or shall presume to intermeddle for getting a sight of the said beast, against the will of them, the keepers thereof. And if you shall know anyone to attempt the contrary hereof, then you are so to punish them that the same punishment may deter all others from attempting the like; and to answer unto us as to such forfeiture, in manner as is befitting.'[101]