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manor over tho head of lier tenant to Walter Milclmay, Esq. Tliis 

 caused him, on the expiration of his lease, to remove to New Place, 

 Gilstou. His eldest son John sold it to one William Parker, who 

 again sold it to Sir John Gore, in whose family it was when 

 Chaunoy Avrote. It is now the pi'operty of William Hodgson, 

 Esq., J. P., who informs me that there have been no deer in this 

 park for the last thirty-five years. 



HuNSDON Park,* just mentioned, the seat of James Wyllie, Esq,, 

 ■was of considerable antiquity. The records show that in 1124, 

 Richard, Earl of Hertford, granted to the monks of St. Augustine 

 of Stoke an annual gift of a doe out of the park at Honesdon. 

 Henry the Eighth built a palace here and erected it into an 

 "Honour" in connexion with the adjoining manors of Hansted 

 and Joyden in Essex ; and, as above mentioned, it was at one time 

 the property of Heniy Gary, Lord Hunsdon, cousin to Queen 

 Elizabeth, who, as well as Queen Maiy and Edward the Sixth, 

 occasionally visited it. Hunsdon Lodge was the old hunting-lodge 

 of Queen Elizabeth. 



In the parish church here there is a curious brass to the memory 

 of a former deer-keeper, who died in 1591. He is represented 

 with his bugle-horn and broadsword, having just discharged his 

 cross-bow at a stag, while death, delineated as a skeleton, with one 

 hand plucks the arrow from the deer, while he plunges a second in 

 the keeper's breast. f His motto, sic pergo. 



The insci'iption runs : — 



beloved of axl whilst he had ltee, 

 VjStmoexed of noj^^e when he did die, 



james gray, interred of his wife, 



neee to this deaths-signe brasse doth lte, 



teares thikty-ftve, in good eenownne, 

 parke and hovse-keeper in this towne. 



OBni 12 DIE DECEMBRIS A° DNI. 1591. 

 AETATIS SVE : 69 : 



In the neighbourhood of Hunsdon there were formerly other 

 parks, of which only brief particulars have been obtained, but 

 which appear on Saxton's map of 1577. 



There was Widford,J N. of Hunsdon, which was apparently 

 disparked before Chauncy's time, for he makes no mention of any 

 park there. 



Eastwick,§ or, as Norden gives it, Eastwihe, adjoining Hunsdon 

 and a mile from Gilston, and belonging to Sir Humphrey Gore, 

 "who also owned Gilston. 



* Saxton,E. ; Chauncy, p. 190 ; Salmon, p. 251 ; Clutterbuck, vol. iii, p. 177 ; 

 Cussans, ' Braiighing,' p. 42. 



t A facsimile of this brass will be found in Shirley's ' English Deer Parks,' 

 p. 54, and also in Cussans, ' Braughing Hundred,' p. 52. 



X Saxton,E.; Chauncy, p. 200; Salmon.p. 258; Cussans, 'Braughing,' p. 55. 



I Saxton, E. ; Chauncy, p. 183 ; Salmun, p. 254; Cussans, ' Braughing,' p. 61. 



