{283a} The letter upon the office of Keeper of the Menagerie in the Tower of London, in the reign of Edward IV., was read before a meeting of the Society of Antiquaries of London, on the 29th of November, 1849, and the thanks of the meeting were voted for it to the author. {283b} Richard Duke of Gloucester became King Richard III. on the 18th of June, 1483.—See Chaps. VII. and VIII. {287a} The paper upon the probable period of the extinction of Wolves in England, was read by the author in person, before a meeting of the Literary and Philosophical Society of Liverpool on the 15th of December, 1856, and the thanks of the meeting were voted for it to him. {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. {291a} Hume’s _History of England_, vol. i., quarto edition, p. 136. {291b} Brougham’s _Lives of Men of Letters and Science of the Time of George III._, p. 216.