Ch. IL 



SINCE THE NORMAN CONQUEST. 



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Orchards. ' And again : — ' The King's Forrests have innumerable heards 

 of Red Deare, and all parts have such plenty of Fallow Deare, as every 

 gentleman of five hundreth or a thousand pounds rent by the yeere. hath a 

 Parke for them inclosed with pales of wood for two or three miles com- 

 passe. Yet this prodigall age hath so forced Gentlemen to improve their 

 revenewes, as many of these grounds are by them disparked, and converted 

 to feede Cattell : Lastly (without offence be it spbken) I will boldly say, that 

 England (yea perhaps one county thereof) hath more fallow Deare, than all 

 Europe that I have scene.'' In another place Moryson writing of Ireland, 

 adds, 'The Earle ofOrmond in Mounster, arid the Earle of Kildare in 

 Leinster, -had each of them a small Parke inclosed for Fallowe Deare, and 

 I have not scene any other Parke in Ireland.'^ A striking difference 

 between the condition of the sister kingdoms, 



I could not better illustrate the domestic economy of a large deer park 

 at this period than by giving the following extracts from an Original RolP 

 on paper, containing the accounts of Richard Cham byr. Park Keeper of 

 Framlingham, in Suffolk, from the year 15 15 to 1518, and for which I am 

 obliged to Charles Spencer Perceval, Esq., F.S.A. Framlingham at this 

 time belonged to the Duke of Norfolk. 



In the vij yere of our safer en lord kyng herry the viii and in the xxiij yer of 

 ry chard chambyr pker of framlingham. 



Item my lord of Norwyche . i buk 

 Item my lord Wylleby . . ij bukkis 

 Item be the commaundment of 

 my lord Wylleby S'. lyenell 

 demok . '. . '. .1 buk 

 Item my la'dy Vere . . . i buk 



Item the Abbot' of Sypton* 

 Item S'. Wylliam Rows . 

 Item the Abbas of brvsyzard' 

 Item the mastyr of metyngham 

 Item lohan Henyngham . 

 Item S'. Arthur hopton 



I buk 

 I buk 

 I buk 

 I buk 

 I buk 

 I buk 



' Moyyson's Itinerary, partiii. pp. 147, 148. 



2 Ibid. p. 161. 



' Penes Ph. Frerc, Esq. 



* Sibton, Cisterc. Abbey, Hund. of Blithing, 

 Co. Suff. 

 ^ Brusyard Minorcsscs, Co. Suff. 



