Note 292a — PART II. ON THE PROBABLE PERIOD OF THE EXTINCTION OF WOLVES IN ENGLAND. [287a]
Reading edition
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.