"Of English Dogges" written by Abraham Fleming in 1576 we read:-
'Our shepherdes dogge is not huge, vaste, and bigge, but of indifferent stature and growth, because it hath not to deal with the bloudthyrsty wolf, sythence there be none in England, which happy and fortunate benefite is to be ascribed to the puisant Prince Edgar, who to thintent ye the whole counterey myght be evacuated and quite clered from wolfes, charged and commanded the welsheme (who were pestered with these butcherly beastes above measure) to paye him yearely tribute which was (note the wisdomes of the King) three hundred Wolfes. And that by the meanes hereof, within the compasse and tearme of foure years none of those noysome, and pestilent Beastes were left in the coastes of
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