8 -DEER^AND DEER PARKS. . .. Ch. I. 



' f^e prtSeti) ttroua^ a Mxt forest, 

 ti^ertit is manj) a toittJ irSt 

 ue iot]& ftutft anU i)art.' 



A little after (the quotation is pointed out by Whitaker in his ' His- 

 tory of Whalley"), we find the following passage in the romance of 

 Hippomedon : — 



and again: — 



' i^jpomeiruii i)e, tottj W IjouiittcS ^vtt 

 jBrriD Holnn Iiati) iucit aiiti )iao.' 



' an tl)E fliine 0f t|)e forrst, 



While Caxton was printing the ' Golden Legend,' he had a present from 

 William Lord Arundel of a buck in summer, and a doe in winter ; and 

 about the same time they are mentioned by Dame Juliana Berners in many 

 passages of 'The Book of St. Albans.' 



The buck and the doe are also expressly mentioned in the ' Treatise 

 on the Art of Hunting,' by William Twici, huntsman to King Edward IL 

 Bell, in his ' History of British Quadrupeds,' has failed to give us any more 

 exact information as to this disputed question, but his observations are so 

 well and succinctly expressed that I cannot do better than repeat them. 

 ' Whether this beautiful species (Cervus dama)l he writes, ' may be con- 

 sidered as indigenous to this country, or whether introduced at some remote 

 period, appears to be a question which the lapse of time and the absence 

 of sufficient historical testimony render difficult if not impossible of so- 

 lution, and one upon which the most diligent search which I have been 

 able to make has not thrown the smallest light. The circumstances which 

 lead to the latter opinion are its restriction, in this country, solely to 

 places which have been set apart for its reception, and the strong evidence 

 which exists, both from the known foreign habitats of the species, and 



• Whitaker's History of Wljalley, p, 199, 



