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leges of the see.' Leland thus mentions 

 this place in his ' Itinerary:' — ' There is a 

 faire wod longging to the Bishop of Can- 

 terbyri, and a park, and an auncient place 

 in it cawled Skydon, on the right hand 

 in the way almoste betwixt Arundle and 

 Chichester.' ' Slindon was exchanged with 

 the Crown in 1543, and was granted with 

 the park to Sir Thomas Palmer in 1553.' 



Mayfield. — The park is recognised in the 

 Patent Rolls of the 28th of Edward III., 

 and a park was attached to this manor at 

 the period of its alienation in 1537.' 



The following notes relate to other parks 

 in this county, in the several rapes of 

 Chichester, Arundel, Bramber, Lewes, 

 Pevensey, and Hastings. 



In Chichester Rape is Halneker. Here 

 in the third year of Edward III. was a 

 park of 130 acres, valued at 6j. Zd. be- 

 yond the keep of the deer.* By a survey 

 taken by order of Thomas Duke of 

 Norfolk, in the time of Elizabeth, it is 

 stated that it was 4 miles in compass, 

 ' w""" may yerely sustaine viii° deare with 

 some provision of haie in winter, yf maste 

 ffayle ; and there be at this survaye viii" 

 deare as yt is enfourmed us.' ' 



This place is called ' Halfnaked,' in 

 Saxton's map of 1375. Adjoining to 

 Halneker is Goodwood, an ancient park 

 purchased of the family of Compton of 

 East Lavant by Charles first Duke of 

 Richmond, before 1720. The whole cir- 

 cuit of the park is enclosed by a lofty 

 flint .wall.« 



' Dallaway's Rape of Chichester, p. 140. 

 Sussex Archaeological Collections, vol. ii. p. 

 232. Cal. Patent Rolls, p. 175. 



2 Itin. vol. vi. p. 31, fol. 32. 



' Sussex Arch^ological Collections, vol. ii. 

 p. 232. 



■■ Dallaway's Rape of Chichester, p. -131. 



Shelhurst Park, to the north of HaU 

 neker, was One of those attached to the 

 castle of Arundel, as was also East-Deane 

 Park, a little to the north-west ; both have 

 been long disparked. 



To the west of Goodwood on the bor- 

 ders of Hampshire are Stansted and 

 Merden, both also originally belonging to 

 Arundel Castle. Stansted was laid out 

 about 1686 in the formal style then lately 

 iutroduced from the forest of Chantili ; 

 there are three avenues of great width and 

 extent, particularly the central or western, 

 which is equalled only as a magnificent 

 street of trees by that of Oakley Grove in 

 Gloucestershire ; one of the parks an- 

 ciently belonging to Stansted is con- 

 verted into farms ; the present park com- 

 prehends 630 acres, exclusive of 960 acres 

 of forest land.' 



North of Stansted a park called ' Har- 

 ting ' is marked in the ancient maps ; this 

 I conclude to be Up Park, in the parish 

 of East Harting, one of the most beautiful 

 situations in the south of England. It is 

 a park of 890 acres, half of which is co- 

 vered with fern, and ornamented with the 

 finest beech timber; there is a herd of 

 800 or 1,000 fallow-deer. 



Speed marks parks zX Dounley to the 

 east of Harting, and near Ay 1 worth to the 

 south of Stansted. The former was at- 

 tached to the castle of Arundel. 



Cowdray Park, near Midhurst, the old 

 seat of the Brownes Viscounts Montague, 

 was anciently part of the domains appen- 



' Original Survey, penes Lord Willoughby 

 de Broke. Printed for the Sussex Archso- 

 logical Collections, vol. ix. p. 224. 



° Dallaway's Rape of Chichester, p. 135. 



' lb. pp. 158, 162, and Nichols's Progresses 

 of Queen Elizabeth, vol. iii. p. 97, note. 



