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DEER AND DEER PARKS. 



Ch. III. 



enclose parks in Essex, and the hundreds 

 of the county being small and inconve- 

 niently numerous, perhaps the best method 

 of noticing them first will be in chronolo- 

 gical rather than topographical order, be- 

 ginning, as they do, as early as the reign 

 of King John, in the fifth of whose reign 

 the Bishop of London obtained license to 

 impark his wood of Ratendon^ within the 

 bounds of the forest of Essex ; and in the 

 twenty-second of Henry III., the same 

 park is recognised as belonging to the 

 Bishop of Ely.* In the sixth of John the 

 park of Langley, belonging to William 

 Gray,' occurs. In the twenty-eighth of 

 Henry III. Philip Basset obtained license 

 to assart and impark ten acres of wood in 

 Westwoode beyond the bounds of the 

 Great Park of Aungre.* In the thirty- 

 second of the same reign the Abbot of 

 Stratford had license to impark his wood 

 of Lugton, within the bounds of the 

 forest of Essex,* and in the same year 

 Roger de Cantilupe was empowered to 

 impark sixty acres of briers (brueras) in 

 Badewe, in the same forest.* The park of 

 Thieden in the forest of Essex, belonging 

 to John de Lessington, is recognised in the 

 thirty-fourth of the same reign.* In the 

 forty-eighth of Henry III. William de 

 Mamey had license to impark his wood of 

 Lire (or Leyre) within the bounds of the 

 forest of Essex;' and in the same year 

 Robert de TateshuU received a license of 

 the same kind in regard to the wood of 

 Little Waltham in the same forest f the 



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This grant was continued to Robert de 

 Mamey, in the 9th Edward III. 



next year both William de Clovill and 

 Richard de Tany had license to impark 

 their woods of Wyndeforde and Staple- 

 forde Tany in the forest of Essex.* In 

 the fifty-fourth of Henry III. two licenses 

 for enlarging parks at Stapleforde and 

 Shenejield in the same forest were granted 

 to Philip Bassett.'" In the seventh of Ed- 

 ward I. a license was granted to John de 

 Nevill to impark with a small foss and a 

 low hedge or fence his wood of Connyng- 

 hall in the forest of Essex ;" and in the 

 ninth of the same reign Reginald de 

 Ginges and the Prior of Tiptre had 

 licenses for imparking within the same 

 forest.'* In the thirteenth of this reign 

 the Prior of Bickenakre had also license 

 to impark his waste in Woodham Ferrers 

 and Danyngbury of sixty acres of land." 

 John Filliol in the nineteenth of Edward I. 

 received a license to impark his wood of 

 Wickhey, containing eighty acres within the 

 forest of Essex." The next year a license 

 to enlarge his park was granted to Ralph 

 de Berners in Rothinge Berners-, also in 

 the forest. In the twenty-first of this reign 

 a like license of enlargement of his park 

 at Copped Hall was granted to Henry, son 

 of Anchor ; '* Copped Hall or Copt Hall, 

 near Waltham, in the time of Elizabeth 

 belonged to Sir Thomas Heneage ; in the 

 third year of the reign of Richard II. it 

 was, with Harold's Park adjoining, the 

 property of the abbot of the Holy Cross of 

 Waltham, who had license to enlarge it 

 with 162 acres of his domain lands.'* The 



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