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late wars.' In the New Forest also the decay of deer is mentioned 

 during the late distractions f and in 1662, June 30, an order was given 'to 

 repair the destruction of deer in Thorney Wood, Sherwood Forest, and 

 other forests ; no fee deer of any kind to be taken, by colour of any 

 warrant, unless the king be present in person.'* 



In consequence of the destruction of. deer during the Usurpation, the 

 state papers sliow that deer were brought from Germany and elsewhere, to 

 replenish Windsor and Sherwood Forests.* On the 13 th of November 1661, 

 a warrant was signed for the payment of 1000/. to Sir William St. Ravy 

 for expenses of transporting red and fallow-deer. On this occasion, by a 

 righteous retribution, the parks of the Roundheads were obliged to repay 

 some of the losses which had. been occasioned by the disloyalty of their 

 owners. July 7, 1662, a warrant was issued to Robert Child and William 

 Bowles, Masters of the Toils, to order the taking of fallow-deer in the 

 parks of the Earl of Northumberland, and twenty-six others, and of red- 

 deer in those of Lord Paget and Mr. Winwood, and the conveying them 

 to the Royal Parks. 1700/. was ordered to be paid for this service.' 



A curious illustration of this subject is afforded by a letter from Lord 

 Chancellor Clarendon to Secretary (Morice .-') preserved in the State Paper 

 Office, and dated 'Worcester House, August 4, 1666.' It relates to a 

 baronetcy granted to the son of Dr. Peyton of the Isle of Ely, a loyal man, 

 who had given His Majesty deer to re-stock his parks, and on whom a 

 baronetcy was conferred in consequence. 



But perhaps the following statement of the losses incurred by William 

 Cavendish, Duke of Newcastle, describes with more minuteness the condition 

 of many a once well-wooded park at this disastrous period : — ' Of eight 

 parks that he was possessed of before the wars, all but Welbeck Park, were, 

 quite destroyed, and that was saVed by his brother. Sir Charies Cavendish, 



' S. P. O. Domestic; Cal. i66i, p. 46. « s. P. O. Domestic. Cal. 1662, p. 145. 



2 S. P. O. Domestic. Cal. 1662, p. 353. ' s. P. O. Domestic. Cal. 1662, pp. 431, 



' S. P. O. Domestic, Cal. 1662, p. 423. 491, 



