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pale. The timber was valued at 800/. It 

 has long been disparked, and divided into 

 farms.' 



Bagshot Park is mentioned in records 

 of very early date ; its custody had been 

 granted to Henry Uvedale, Esq., and the 

 reversion was given by Henry VI 11. to 

 William Fitzwilliam, Earl of South- 

 ampton; it afterwards reverted to the 

 Crown ; and in the reign of Elizabeth Sir 

 Richard Creswell was keeper. James I. 

 and Charles I. occasionally resided here 

 for hunting. It was disparked by order 

 of the Parliament, and reinclosed by 

 order of Charles II.'' In 1685, Evelyn, in 

 his Memoirs, records that this park was 

 ' full of red deer.' ' 



Henley Park, in the parish of Ash. In 

 the nth of Edward III. John de Molyns 

 had a license to impark his woods at 

 Westgrove and Godarde's Grove apper- 

 taining to his manor of Henley, and 300 

 acres of land adjoining.* Henley Park 

 .was sold by the Crown in the year 1633, 

 with license to dispark or assart the land.^ 

 It is a little north-west of Guilford. 



Potnells, or Portnell Park, anciently 

 belonged to the Crown. In 1528, this 

 park is described ' as not then enclosed, 

 but had been lately so, and was then as 

 waste within the Forest of Windsor.' It 

 was granted by Henry VI II. to Sir William 

 Fitzwilliam.^ 



Of elands Park is in the parish of Wey- 

 bridge. The manor was conveyed to 

 Henry VIII, in 1538, and it afterwards 

 became a royal park. Here Queen Eliza- 



' Brayley's Surrey, vol. ii. p. 1 60. 



'' lb. vol. i. p. 465. 



' Evelyn's Memoirs, vol. i. p. 570. 



* Cal. of Patent Rolls, p. 130. 



' Brayley's Surrey, vol. i. p. 428. 



° Brayley's Surrey, vol. il. p. 297. 



beth is traditionally said to have shot 

 with a cross-bow,' and here was the scene 

 of the famous exploit of John Selwyn, the 

 keeper of this royal park, who died in 

 1587, and is represented on his tomb in 

 the adjoining church of Walton riding on 

 a stag. The story was first told by Grose 

 in the Antiquarian Repertory (vol i. 

 pp. I, 2). Selwyn is said to have been 

 famous for his skill in horsemanship; 

 and attending before the Queen in the 

 Park of Otelands, he, in the heat of the 

 chase, suddenly leaped from his horse 

 upon the back of the stag, both running 

 at the time at their utmost speed; and 

 not only kept his seat gracefully, but 

 drawing his sword, and coming near the 

 Queen, plunged it into his throat, so that 

 the animal fell dead at her feet.* 



Otelands Park was considerably in- 

 creased by James I. ; and about the year 

 1608, I find 900/. was paid for purchase 

 of lands for the enlargement of it,' besides 

 198/. i-js. lod. for repairs.' The lands 

 were disparked during the Interregnum, 

 but the park appears to have been re- 

 stored by Henry Clinton, 7th Earl of 

 Lincoln, about the year 1725.'° 



Banstead. — Here was a park belonging 

 to Hubert de Burgh, in the reign of 

 Henry III., which became vested in the 

 Crown from the second year of Edward 

 I. It was granted to Sir Nicholas Carew 

 of Beddington, by Henry VIII. 



Nonsuch, in the parish of Cuddington. 

 Two parks were enclosed in the reign of 

 Henry VIII. The Great Park, 911 acres, 



' Progresses, vol. iii. p. 598, note. 

 ' Brayley's Surrey, vol. ii. p. 328. 

 " Original Accounts penes the Baroness 

 North. 

 '" Brayley's Surrey, vol. ii. p. 382. 



