J. E. HARTING nERTFORBSniRE DEER-PARKS. 103 



averaging 100 lbs. iu weight, the does 60 lbs. Occasionally fresh 

 blood has been introduced, some new deer being turned in. 

 There has been no such re-stocking, however, for the last ten 

 years. 



.'). GoRHAMBURY,* near St. Albans, the seat of the Earl of Verulam. 

 This manor was parcel of the ancient revenue of the Church of 

 St. Alban, and was probably so named from Robert de Gorham, 

 Abbot of this ATouastery iu 1151. The Abbot held it until the 

 dissolution of that church, when it came to the Crown. Being 

 granted by Henry the Eighth to Sir Ralph llowlet, it was enjoyed 

 for some time by Sir jS^icholas Bacon, and subsequently by his son, 

 the celebrated but unfortunate Francis Bacon, Lord Verulam, who, 

 upon his downfall, conveyed it to his secretary, Sir Thomas Meautys, 

 who had married his niece, Anne. She, on the death of her first 

 husband, became the Avife of Sir Hartbottle Grimston, afterwards 

 Lord Grimston, who purchased the reversion of the Meautys 

 family — she having only a life interest. 



This park of 500 acres is not shown upon Saxton's map of the 

 county published in 1577, nor on a map of the manor dated 1634. 



6. Moor Park,! Rickmansworth, the seat of Lord Ebury, covers 

 500 acres. The manor was formerly part of the possessions of 

 the Abbey of St. Albans, and the history of the park dates back 

 to the time of King Henry the Sixth, who granted to George 

 Ne^dl, brother to the Earl of Warwick, and successively Bishop of 

 Exeter and Archbishop of York, licence to inclose 600 acres of 

 pasture and land in Rickmansworth and Watford "for a park," 

 and to embattle the site of the manor of Moor in Rickmans- 

 worth. The house and park were formerly appurtenant to the 

 Manor of the Moor, and descended along with it until alienated 

 therefrom (temp. Charles the Eirst) by the Earl of Pembroke, who 

 sold it to the Earl of Monmouth. The acreage of the park at that 

 date was stated to be 400 acres or thereabouts. It is now, as 

 above stated, somewhat larger. It contains about 250 fallow-deer, 

 the bucks averaging 16 stones, and the does 7 stones in weight. 



7. AsHRiDGE Park,| lying to the north-east of Tring, the seat of 

 Earl Brownlow, formerly belonged to the Duke of Bridgewater, and 

 occupies the site of the ancient monastery of "Bonhommes" founded 

 in Heniy the Thir^l's time. Although not marked as a park on 

 Saxton's map of 1577, it appears on the map prepared by Moll in 

 1700, and is engraved in Chauncy's 'History of Hertfordshire.' 

 The house, however, with most of the park, stands in Buckingham- 

 shire. The park is about five miles in length by more than two in 

 breadth, and well timbered. Besides a herd of fallow-deer, there 

 are also some red-deer here, which, as I learn from Mr. A. J. 



* Chauncy, p. 464 ; Salmon, p. 83 ; Clutterbuck, vol. i, p. 88 ; Cussans, 

 < Cassio,' p. 244. 



t Chauncy, p. 160; Salmon, p. 110; Clutterbuck, vol. i, p. 191 ; Cussans, 

 'Cassio,' p. 123. 



+ Moll, 1700; Chauncy, p. .552; Salmon, p. 134 ; Clutterbuck, vol. i, p. 386; 

 Cussans, 'Dacorum,' pp. 31, 136. 



