The Great Elm Tree in the Park at Eatington, Warwickshire, 20 feet in circumference a yaxd from the ground. 

 Sketched by Selina Lady Heathcote, anno 1834. 



PREFACE. 



LTHOUGH there were several treatises written during 

 the Middle Ages on ' the noble arte of venerie and 

 hunting,' in which, perhaps, deer and deer parks may- 

 be said to be comprehended, while in the sixteenth and seventeenth 



