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longed to Arundel Castle; the latter, of con- 

 siderable extent and beautifully wooded, 

 in the parishes of Angmering, Rustingham, 

 and Patching, was an appendage to Mi- 

 chelgrove House, the ancient seat of the 

 Shelleys.' 



Near Horsham in the north-western 

 part of the rape of Bramber, is St. 

 Leonards forest, marked in the ancient 

 maps as surrounded by a pale; adjoining 

 and within this forest, were the following 

 parks, once the inheritance of the great 

 house of Braose, which by a survey made 

 in 1608, were found at that time to be 

 disparked, — Chesworth Park, 223 acres. 

 In 1549 there were here 100 deer, at the 

 time of the attainder of the Lord Admiral 

 Seymour.'' — Sedgwick Park, 624 acres; 

 here were also loodeerin 1549. — Beaubush 

 Park, y^y acres, of which Maurice eighth 

 Lord Berkeley died seized in 1523, 

 100 deer in 1549. — Shelley Park, 647 

 acres.' ' In the little park in the Forest ' 

 there were 80 deer in 1549. John de- 

 Mowbray received a grant of the free 

 chase of St. Leonards in the sixteenth of 

 Edward 1 11.^ 



Speed marks a park at Slynfold, in the 

 north-eastern part of the rape of Bram- 

 ber, and others are marked at Westgrin- 

 sted, Fawhurst, Henfeld, and Blackston. 

 Westgrinsted, in the Elizabethan period 

 the seat of a younger branch of the Sher- 

 leys of Wiston, afterwards passed to the 

 Carylls, and then to the Burrells, the pre- 

 sent possessors. The park is remarkable 

 for its fine maple trees ; its extent is 300 



' Dallaway and Cartwright's Rape of Arun- 

 del, p. 330. 



* Sussex ArchEeological Collections, vol. xiii. 

 pp. 124-125. 



' Cartwright's Rape of Bramber, p. 335. 



' Cal. Patent Rolls, p. 144. 



" Cartwright's Rape of Bramber, p. 256. 



acres, and there are the same number of 

 fallow-deer. 



The park of Wiston, inherited by the 

 Sherleys from a branch of the great 

 house of Braose, is marked in Speed's map 

 of 1610 ; it contains at present 170 acres, 

 with a herd of 300 head of deer, and now 

 belongs to the family of Goring. 



At Warminghurst, a little north of 

 Wiston, a park was enclosed in the early 

 part of the eighteenth century, which has 

 been long disparked.' 



The rape of Lewes contained many 

 parks. In the northern part in Worth 

 Forest was Tylgate, and three other parks 

 adjoining, one of them called Wourthe or 

 Worth ;° more south were two parks at 

 Slaugham, and two more near Cuckfield ; 

 others at Hurst and Danny ; these are all 

 marked in Speed's map, the two last only 

 by Saxton. At Ditchling was also an 

 ancient park, where Edward Prince of 

 Wales, afterwards Edward II., kept 'his 

 colts ;' the site of it is known as ' Park 

 Farm,' and it is marked in Saxton's map. 

 In the 13th century it belonged to the 

 de Warrens, and by their gift to the 

 Priory of Lewes. In 1415, it was in dower 

 to Beatrix, widow of Thomas Fitzalan, 

 fifth Earl of Arundel, when it contained 

 by estimation 300 acres. In 1476 it be- 

 longed to Edward Lord Bergavenny, and 

 in 1597 was in the same family; no traces 

 of a park or its boundaries now re- 

 main.' 



The rape of Pevensey, besides the forests 

 of Ashdown and Waterdown, contained, 



• These parks were called also ' the south, 

 north, east, and west parks of the forest,' as 

 appears by a note of fees of keepers in the 

 British Museum. Cotton MS. Titus B. vol. 

 iv. fol. 236. 



' Sussex Arch^ological Collections, vol. xiii. 

 p. 240, vol. xvi. p. 134. 



