22 DEER AND DEER PARKS. Ch. I: 



partly a Forest, and partly a Deer-Park, and is still a member of the 

 great estates of the Wortley family. The sea of wood and its command of 

 a prospect of almost unrivalled extent and magnificence, render it one of 

 the most grand and imposing scenes imaginable. If in the midst of such 

 truly magnificent scenery the mind can turn to objects so insignificant, 

 three seats may be discovered cut in the solid rock, vivoque sedilia saxo, 

 and probably intended to accommodate those who sought to enjoy this 

 enchanting scenery ; near to them, and also cut in the living rock, or on 

 what is technically called a ground-fast stone, is the inscription below. For 

 more than two centuries it was exposed to every blast that blew ; but 

 having been originally cut in a fine bold character, it is still legible, and it 

 has long been protected from any further injury from the weather by a 

 small shed built over it by the late Mr. Edward Wortlpy Montague.'' 



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Of this same Sir Thomas Wortley, the Family Pedigree narrates, ' Also 

 he had much delite in huntinge, that he did build in the middest in his 

 forest of Wharnclife, a house or lodge, at which house he did lye at, for the 

 most part of the grease tyme ; and the worshipfull of the country did ther 

 resorte unto him, beinge ther with him pastime and good cheere : many 

 tymes he would go into the forest of the peeke and set up ther his tent with 



' Hunter's Hallamshire, fo. 1819, p. 2, note. 



