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and this would help to account for their great value. In old 
books of hunting, wild cats and martens are included in the beasts 
of the chase of the second class, and are said to afford ‘‘ greate 
dysporte.” * Traces of the hare are to be found in HareuILL, 
and HaREFIELD. ‘The hare was found here by the Romans, and 
Cesar specially mentions that the inhabitants regarded it as a 
sacred animal, and used it for the purposes of divination. 
Notwithstanding its great abundance, it was not used as an article 
of food till the time of the Saxons. Their chieftains were in the 
habit of preserving them in warrens near their residence. In the 
Domesday Survey mention is made of a “ warenna leporum” in 
the county of Lincoln. In the statutes of Canute the hare is 
classed with the wild goat and the coney as beasts of the forest 
_ which were liable to be answered for.t In the parish maps in the 
neighbourhood of Chesterfield, Heanor, Belper, and elsewhere 
in the county, several of the closes or fields are distinguished by 
the name Harry. This has nothing to do with the hare, but is 
derived from the word farra or hearra, a lord ; thus pointing out 
the particular closes which were peculiarly the property or in the 
occupation of the lord of the manor. 
ConeycrortT (T.C., Norton) seems to denote the presence of 
_ the rabbit, though it may, like Coney Green, denote the property 
of aking. Strange as it may seem, the rabbit is not a native, but 
_ was imported by the Romans. It originally came from Spain, and 
only reached Italy during the reign of Augustus. It was called 
Kunigl by the Britons after the Latin cunicudus. t 
_ BADGERLANE and BaDGERMEADOw (Stretton) obviously point to 
the presence of the badger. It appears, too, in the contracted 
form of BacsHAw, BacTuorPs, and Bac Lang, the last being a 
_ Marrow street in what is now one of the most densely populated 
_ *Glover’s Hist. Derbyshire, vol. 1. p. 136-7. Fosbroke, Antiquities, vol. ii. 
Pp. 719. Strutt, Sports and Pastimes, Book i. chap. 14. 
Ellis, Zutroduction to Domesday Book, vol. i. p. 116. Czesar, Bel. Gal., lib. 
Y. cap. 12. Various other conjectures have been made as to the meaning of the 
_— har ox hare, but much the simplest way is to derive it from fara, the 
e. See Wotes and Queries, 26th Nov., 1870. 
F Ellis, Zntroduction to Dom. Book, vol. ii. p. 87. Vide ‘* Coneygreen” in 
chap. on Danish Names. 
