A HISTORY OF MIDDLESEX 



In 1553 Roger was succeeded in the keepership by Francis Nevell, 

 who held it singlehanded for twenty-one years. His actual fee was only 

 Afd, a day, but the patent of appointment secured for him pasture rights for 

 twelve cows, one bull, and six oxen, together with certain other profits 

 accruing to the office. In 1574 Queen Elizabeth appointed Henry 

 Carey, first Lord Hunsdon, an associate keeper with Nevell ; he was to 

 receive the like sum of ^d. a day and all the herbage, pannage, and 

 browsewood for the deer. At the death of Nevell he was to be sole 

 keeper at 8d. a day. During Nevell's keepership, namely, in 1570, forty 

 acres of land on the Knightsbridge side were added to the park and railed 

 in, the grass therein being reserved to be mown for hay for the deer in 

 winter. Nevell died before Lord Hunsdon, and when the latter died, in 

 1596, he was succeeded by his fourth son, Sir Edward Carey, in the 

 office of keeper of Hyde Park at 8</. a day and without any associate. 

 The chief lodge and mansion, with the herbage and pannage attached to 

 it, was reserved for his mother, the Lady Anne Hunsdon. Sir Edward 

 Carey was succeeded in the keepership in 1 607 by Robert Cecil, Earl of 

 Salisbury. Cecil had a colleague assigned him in 1610 in Sir Walter 

 Cope, with benefit of survivorship. Sir Walter Cope, Master of the 

 Wards and Chamberlain to the Exchequer, was a considerable landowner 

 in Kensington ; he built the centre portion and turrets of Holland House. 

 On Lord Salisbury's death in 1612, Sir Walter surrendered the keeper- 

 ship of Hyde Park in favour of his son-in-law, Sir Henry Rich, who was 

 subsequently created Earl of Holland, and beheaded by the Parliament in 

 1 649." 



The accounts of the Board of Works for 1582 contain the entry of 

 a payment when the Duke of Anjou and his court were in England, ' for 

 making of two new standings in Marybone (Regent's Park) and Hyde 

 Park, for the Queen's Majesty and the noblemen of France to see the 

 hunting.' 48 Norden, writing in 1596, alludes to the * princely stands ' 

 that he noted in Hyde Park. 4 ' 



The deer of this park were well-maintained during the reign of 

 James I. In a 1607 list of nine royal parks, out of each of which four 

 bucks were to be taken, the parks of Hyde, Enfield Chase, Richmond, 

 and Hampton are included. A letter of the king in the following year 

 states that he was pleased to bestow upon the ambassadors of France, 

 Spain, Venice, and the States of the Low Countries, certain bucks for their 

 sport during the time of his absence on progress, and to permit them to 

 come to the parks (Hyde Park being one) and kill a brace of bucks with 

 hounds or bow if they should think fit. At the same time James gave 

 directions for the bestowing of a brace of bucks on the farmers of the 

 Customs and the tellers of the Exchequer ; to find this supply a brace 

 each were to be taken, inter a/ia, from the parks of Hyde and Enfield 

 Chase, and from the Little Park of Enfield.' 



" Larwood, The Story of the London Parks, i, 10-15. " Ashton, Hyde Park, 10. 



" Norden, Survey of Mid J. and Herts. 19. 

 M S.P. Dom. Jas. I, jucxix, 41, 73. 



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