CM. II. 



SINCE THE NORMAN. CONQUEST. 



[1518, loth of Henry 8, 26th of Richard 

 Chambre.] . 



[Deer killed] 68 bucks. 



[Died of the Garget and ' the Rotte thys 

 somore/ 15 bucks; 6 sowers, 9 souarellys, 

 4 prickettis, 1 1 ' of dooges.'] 



[Losses of fawns in fawning time and this 

 Sumnier, 3 1 fawns.] 



[Does killed for various persons, 93, 

 including\ 

 Item for my Lorde of Norffolks 



grace to lambeth afore the 

 . audite and senys [since] . xxx doys 



Item the abbot of Bery sente to 



me for a doo, upon sent Johan 



is daye in Cristismes, and I 



kyllyd hyr and delyveryd hyr 



to lohan Crispe and to Johan 



Chyrie ? and in the whey home- 

 ward they toke a corse in H0I-. 



fereth and broute a souerell in 



to the parke and kyllyd hyme 



then At wich I toke up the 



one doge ,in the parke and 



keppyd hym, they made labor 



to' Sir Wylliam Rowces for 



the dog and I delyueryde the 



dog to hym . . . . i doo 



[Losses in the winter in 'Framlingham Park. 



23 bucks, 16 soures, 19 sbuerelys, 16 

 pricketys, 38 doyes. 'Item of faunys Ix 

 XXXV.' \sic\ 



A doe and 9 fawns killed by dogs.] 



End of 15 1 8. 



[1519- II H. 8. 27 R. C] 



Losses this fawning time. 



I fawn killed by ' a mastife beche and a 

 spanyelL' 

 53 fawns died.] 



Bucks killed for various persons. 



Viz. 96 bucks, including 

 Item S' lohan Rows for syng- 



ynge of his fyrst masse . . i bucke 

 Item George Baker for his 



mariage . - ,1 bucke 



[Losses this summer, viz. 



3 bucks, ' a bowre,' 2 sowrellis, 9 dooes.] 

 Item the mundaye afore mychaelmes 

 daye cam in a dogge of lohnsons of denyng- 

 tone, the schoe maker, and kyllyd ij dooes, 

 and there the dogge was take up, and I 

 sende to hym to wete wether he wold have 

 the dogge agayne and he sende me Word 

 naye, and then I hynge hym upon a tre. 



The Northumberland Household Book also, which was begun to be 

 compiled in the year 15 12, gives a very particular account of the parks 

 and deer appertaining to the great house of Percy, by which it appears, 

 that exclusive of the parks in Sussex and other Counties in the South 

 there was a total of 5,571 deer in 21 parks and forests in the counties 

 of Northumberland, Cumberland and York ; of this number there were 

 required for the supply of ' the House in Winter,' 29 does, and of ' bukks 



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