12 DEER AND DEER PARKS. Ch. I. 



a park at Wiltingham, in Sussex; the Earl Roger fouf parks, in the 

 counties of Sussex, Worcester, and Southampton ; Roger de Lacy one 

 at Wibelai (W^ley), in Herefordshire; Hugh de Grentemaisnil one at 

 Ware, in Hertfordshire ; Peter de Valongies one at Belintone (Benington), 

 in the same county ; Walter Giffard one at Credintone (Long Crendon), 

 in Buckinghamshire; the Countess Judith one at Chertelinge (Kirtling),, 

 in Cambridgeshire ; the Earl of Britanny one at Burch (or Borough), in the 

 same county ; Goisfred de Magneville one at Enfield, in Middlesex ; 

 Hugh de Belcamp one at Stachedene (Stagsden) in Bedfordshire ; Suen of 

 Essex had a park in the Hundred of Eochefort, in that county; Robert 

 Malet one at Eiam (Eye), in Suffolk; the Earl of Moretaine one at 

 Cotescia (the modern Cossay), in 'Norfolk, and Esnulf de Hesding one at 

 Rislepe (Riselip), in Middlesex. 



The haise or hays not-iced in the Great Survey occur chiefly in" Wor- 

 cestershire, Herefordshire, Shropshire, and Cheshire ; more than seventy . 

 are recorded, occurring generally in groups of two, three, four, five, and 

 even of seven ; they were held by persons of all classes both in Church 

 and State. Eyries of hawks are sometimes noticed with the haiae, an 

 evidence of the early connection of the sports of hunting and hawking. 

 In one place ' we find Stabilituras (stands) mentioned in connection with 

 hays in a wood, the earliest notice probably of the ancient hunting-stand 

 so general in the Middle Ages, and still in common use on the Con- 

 tinent. The size of these hays, with one exception, is not recorded in 

 Domesday ; that exception is the hay of ' Donnelie,' the modern Beldesest 

 in Warwickshire, belonging to the Earl of Mellent, which was half a mile 

 long and the same broad, and which was appraised at 20, and afterwards 

 at 30 shillings. The use of them is very plainly declared : ' iii haise capreol 

 capiendis :.' ' una haia in qua qd potest capere captat ; ' ' ibi est haia capreolis 

 capiend;' &c. explain, as I have before observed, their object and their 

 distinction from the park or chase. 



' Domesday Book, i. 269. 



