{292a} Dr. Whitaker’s _History of Whalley_, 3rd edition, p. 200 (note), referring to Burton’s _Monast. Ebor._ under _Fors Abbey_; Dr. Whitaker’s _History of Richmondshire_, vol. i. p. 409. It is remarkable that so laborious and talented an antiquary as Dr. Whitaker, states that the above was the last positive evidence which he had met with of the existence of wolves in England. He also disputes the vulgar opinion of their extirpation by Edgar. {292b} Dugdale’s _Baronage_, vol. i. p. 504. {292c} _Ibid._, p. 701. {293} _Fædera_ (modern edition), tome i. pt. ii. p. 591; _ibid._ folio edition of 1705, tome ii. p. 168. {294a} Dugdale’s _Baronage_, vol. i. p. 466. {294b} Camden’s _Mag. Britannia_, Gough’s edition, vol. ii. p. 302; Lysons’ _Mag. Brit._, title Derbyshire, pp. clxix and 280, quoting Dodsworth’s _Collections from Exchequer Records_. {294c} Dugdale’s _Baronage_, vol. i. p. 549. {294d} _Ibid._ p. 466. {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.