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the life of Lord Byron, and in the family histories of their 

 owners. Better known than any of these, however, is 

 Windsor Park, the residence of the Sovereign, and other 

 Parks in the vicinity of the Metropolis. 



Windsor Park supplies an illustration of the differences 

 pointed out by Manwood between a forest, a chase, and a 

 park. He speaks of Windsor Forest, now-a-days we hear 

 more frequently of Windsor Park, and occasionally we 

 read of Windsor Forest and Park. There may be confusion 

 in the use made in conversation of these different designa- 

 tions ; but all of them are appropriate. In the case of 

 Malvern Forest a portion was made and named a Chase 

 in the time of Edward I., though the whole was not 

 disafforested till the time of Charles I.; and here a portion 

 of what in the time of Manwood was Windsor Forest has 

 been made a Park ; and the terms in question enable us to 

 specify at any time of what portion of the territory we 

 speak. 



" Windsor Forest was once a forest of enormous extent, 

 comprehending a circumference of one hundred and twenty 

 miles. It comprised part of Bucks, a considerable part of 

 Surrey, and the south-east side of Berks as far as Hunger- 

 ford. On the Surrey side it included Cobham and 

 Ghertsey, and extended along the side of the Wey, which 

 marked its limits as far as Guildford. In the lapse of 

 time, however, it dwindled away ; for we find that in the 

 reign of James I. its circumference was estimated by 

 Norden at only seventy-seven miles and a-half, exclusive 

 of the liberties extending into Bucks. At this period 

 there were fifteen walks within it, each under the charge 

 of a head keeper, and the whole contained upwards of 

 three thousand head of deer. This extent was somewhat 

 diminished in later years ; for in a subsequent map, by 

 Roque, the circuit is given as fifty-six miles. 



" In the year 1813, an Act of Parliament was passed 

 for its enclosure. The portion which had been previously 



