Cii. III. 



MIDDLESEX. 



CHAPTER III. 



MIDDLESEX. 



HE Survey of Domesday re- 

 cords the names of two parks 

 Ifl WSk ^'thin the small metropolitan 

 Jr ^saS l county. Goisfred de Magna- 

 viUe had one in the manor of Enfield, and 

 Ernulf de Hesding a park of wild beasts 

 (ferarum) at Rislepe {Rislip), in the hun- 

 dred of Elthorne. Alluding to the former, 

 two parks are marked near the Chase of 

 Enfield, in Saxton's map of Middlesex of 

 1575, and but two others at Mariburne and 

 Hyde Park. One of the Enfield parks, 

 called ' The Old Park,' ' The Frith,' and 

 sometimes ' Parcus intrinsicus,' or ' the 

 Home Park,' to distinguish it from the 

 Chase, or ' Parcus extrinsicus,' contained, 

 according to a survey made in 1650, 553 

 acres, and was disparked before the reign 

 of William III., by whom it was granted 

 to the Earl of Portland. The other, called 

 'The New, or Little Park,' adjoined to 

 Enfield House, and must have been taken 

 out of the Chase, and enclosed subsequent 

 to the Earl of Rutland's conveyance to 

 Henry VHI.: it contained in the year 

 1641, 37S acres, when it was sold by 

 Charles I. to the Earl of Pembroke ; it 

 had been so long disparked, and converted 



' Lyson's Environs of London, 2nd ed. vol. 

 ii. p. 186. 



2 By J. Coke, printed in 1550. 



' Norden's Middlesex, ed. 1723, p. 14- 



into meadow and tillage, that the very 

 site of it was unknown in the time of 

 Lysons.' Norden, in his description of 

 Middlesex, written in 1596, observes : 

 ' This shire is plentifully furnished with 

 her Majesty's parkes, for princely delight, 

 exceeding all the kingdome of Fraunce, 

 wherein are not so many (if the discourse 

 be true which is made of a debate be- 

 tweene an heraulde of England and a 

 herauld of Fraunce), ^ where it is affirmed 

 that there are in all that region but two 

 parkes. In Middlesex are ten of her 

 Majesty's— »$■/. James's Park, Hyde Park, 

 Marybone Park, Hanworth Park, Hen- 

 ton Park, Hampton Court Parks (two), 

 Enfield Parks (two), Twickenham Park, 

 disparked.' The park walk of St. James's, 

 enclosed by Henry VIII., is mentioned 

 together with ' Mariburne Parke,' by Le- 

 land in his Itinerary ;^ and by Hentzner in 

 his Travels in 1598, who says, 'In this 

 park (St. James's) is great plenty of deer.'* 

 Evelyn in his Memoirs, writing in 1665, 

 observes also of St. James's Park ^ 'There 

 were also deer of severall countries, white, 

 spotted like leopards, antelopes, an elk, 

 red-deer, roe-bucks, staggs;'* and deer 



" Leland's Itin. vol. iv. p. 131, fol. 19215. 

 ' Hentzner's Travels, Strawberry Hill ed. 

 P- 34- 

 ° Evelyn's Memoirs, vol. i. p. 356. 



