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take it on the day whereon it was wounded, without 

 injury to any other beasts in the said park : pro- 

 vided that if they be footmen they shall enter by 

 some ' deer-leap ' or ' haie ' ; and if they be horse- 

 men they shall enter by the gate if it be open ; or 

 otherwise shall not enter before they wind their 

 horn for the keeper if he will come." 



The park of Harringworth, Northamptonshire, 

 within the forest of Rockingham, the principal seat 

 of the Zouches, is recognised in the third year of 

 Edward III. (1329), when a license was granted to 

 William La Zouche to make a "deer-leap" within 

 the manor. 



Lastly may be mentioned Wolseley Park, 

 Staffordshire, adjoining Cannock Chase, which was 

 originally inclosed about 1470 by license granted 

 to Ralph Wolseley, a Baron of the Exchequer in 

 Edward IV.'s reign. Mr Evelyn Shirley, who in 

 his English Deer Parks has given an engraving 

 of the "deer leap" at Wolseley, as above- 

 mentioned, refers to it as an existing park, with 

 the right of deer-leap from the Chase, and regards 

 it as a unique case of a chartered "deer-leap" 

 still exercising its privileges. 



Chafin, in his Anecdotes of Cranbourn Chase 

 (p. 16), quotes an instance of a man forfeiting an 

 estate adjoining the Chase through his making and 

 using an unauthorised " deer-leap." He is stated 

 to have converted some of the pales on the Chase 

 side into a sort of pitfall, so that the deer could 

 easily leap in, but could not get back again ; and 

 to induce them to be thus entrapped they were 



