62 



DEER AND DEER PARKS. 



Ch. III. 



of pasture, and 30 acres of meadow, at 

 Merstham.' * 



Woodcote Park, at Horton in Epsom. 

 — License for a park was granted by 

 Henry VI. to John Marston and Rose his 

 wife. In later times it became a seat of 

 the Calverts, Lords Baltimore ; ^ but there 

 appears to have been a former park here, 

 as Henry I. or Henry II. licensed the 

 abbots of Chertsey to have their park 

 here shut up whenever they would, and 

 that they might have all the beasts which 

 they could take therein.' 



Vachery Park in Shere, and Baynard's 

 Pq,rk adjoining. The great park of Va- 

 chery, from vaccaria, a dairy house, ap- 

 pears to have appertained to the Manor 

 House of Shere ; in early times it be- 

 longed to the great family of the Butlers 

 of Ireland, and afterwards to the famous 

 Sir Reginald Bray.* Evelyn mentions 

 Baynards in the year 1657, as 'a house 

 of my brother Richard's, a very faire 

 noble house built in a park, and having 

 one of the goodliest avenues of oakes up 

 to it that ever I saw." 



Beddington Park, the old seat of the 

 Carews, near Croydon. — Evelyn mentions 

 it as ' a fine park,' though iij decay ; it was 

 between three and four miles in circum- 

 ference, well wooded, and, until very re- 

 cent times, abounded with deer.' 



At Carshalton, near adjoining, contain- 

 ing 145 acres, there is a herd of fallow- 

 deer. It was enclosed about the year 1 746. 



Clandon Purk and Sutton Park, adjoin- 

 ing. — Imparked by license of Henry VI 1 1. 

 (May 25, 1531) to Sir Richard Weston, of 



' Brayley's Surrey, vol. iv. p. 309. 

 ^ lb. vol. iv. p. 350. 

 ° Manning and Bray, vol. ii. p. 611. 

 ' Brayley's Surrey, vol. -v. p. 186. 

 ' Evelyn's Memoirs, vol. i. p. 295. 



Sutton Place, where there was also an- 

 other and smaller park. Clandon con- 

 tained 600 acres of land and pasture, 50 

 acres of wood, 400 acres of furze and heath 

 in Marrow and Clandon. Sir Richard 

 erected a hunting-lodge in his new park, 

 but the land was aftervvards disparked, 

 and sold in 1642 to Sir Richard Onslow, 

 by whom the park was again enclosed ; 

 his grandson made it his principal seat. 

 George, first Earl of Onslow, enlarged 

 Clandon Park about the year 1776. The 

 Old Park comprised about 183 acres, and 

 the New Park about 45 acres ; until a few 

 years since, it continued to be vrell stocked 

 with deer, and was celebrated for its 

 venison.' 



Loseley Park was imparked by license 

 under the Privy Seal from Henry VIII., 

 dated December 24, 1533 ; there were 

 200 acres licensed ' to be surrounded with 

 hedges, ditches, and pales.' Red deer 

 were once kept here, but the park has 

 been for many years disparked.^ 



Pirford, in Woking. — The enclosure of 

 the Lord's Park is mentioned in the 13th 

 of Edward IV." 'This park,' says Au- 

 brey, writing in the middle of the reign 

 of Charles II., ' is a very delightful place, 

 three miles about, it is well wooded and 

 stored with deer.' It was afterwards in the 

 Parkhurst and Onslow families ; the two 

 parks at Pirford having been in the keep- 

 ing of the Earl of Lincoln in the feign 

 of Queen Elizabeth ; between sixty and 

 seventy years ago the house was pulled 

 down and the park converted into farms, 

 by George Lord Onslow.'" 



" Brayley's Survey, vol. iv, p. 69. 

 ' lb. vol. ii. p. 59. 

 * lb. vol. i. p. 411. 

 " Manning and Bray, vol. i. p. 134. 

 "• Brayley's Surrey, vol. ii. p. 147. 



