Ch. III. 



ESSEX. 



75 



excellence of its pastures is commemorated 

 in the popular rhyme : — 



A 



Baron parke is frutefull and fatt, 

 Howfeilde is better than that ; 



Lord Morleyes. 

 In Ley' Marney/<6. 



In Wieboro. / Copte Hall Is beste of them all ; 



parcell ofPeldo Hall. Yet Hubble down may wayre 

 ) the crowne.^ 



Harrold's Park, called in Saxton's map 

 Harfold Park, adjoining Epping Forest, 

 was in the possession of the Crown in the 

 reign of Henry VIII., and the Records of 

 the Land Revenue have preserved the fol- 

 lowing accounts with reference to it : — ■ 



' A booke concernyng money laide oute 

 by Geffrey Gate as well for the paling of 

 Harrold's parke, Nasing wood grene mede 

 w'hin the same wood, and for the reddyng 

 of the same & making of a launde there, 

 as also making of a new standing in the 

 same, and a newe lodge in Nasing wood, 

 begone the vii"" day of August A°. xxxiii'". 

 and endyes at Myghelmas in ano xxxiiij'". 

 D°' R. H. VI 1 1.' ' The pahng of Harroldes 

 parke w' cariage made for the same as 

 foUoweth, The totall some of Harrold's 

 {)ke amts to xxviii" xi' ix''. The paling of 

 Nasyng wood and grove made within the 

 same wood, xxvi" vii' iij*. Cariage of 

 posts, pales, and rayles for the same, at 

 xxi'' by the daye, xxxviii'" iiij' ix*. Money 

 paied to laborers for ridding of the grounde 

 in grene meade for the makyng of a launde 

 there, liii" xiii" vi*. Money paied to car- 

 penters, sawyers, and other artificers, as 

 well for the making of a newe lodge in 

 Nasing wood as also a new standing in 

 Grene mede w' sondrye necessaries bought 

 for the same, xiii" xv'. ob.' 



' Norden's Survey, printed by the Camden 

 Society, p. 8. 

 2 Cal. Patent Rolls, p. 6o. 

 " lb. p. 6i. 



A license to enlarge his park oiHaring- 

 ^^/(?, within the bounds of the EssexForest, 

 was granted to Hugh de Vere in the 

 twenty-seventh of Edward I.* The next 

 year John de Engaine had a license to 

 impark at Haselden in the same forest.' 

 In the first year of Edward II. a license 

 to impark the wood of Gingemounteney, 

 within the bounds of this forest, was 

 granted to Edward Bacon and John his 

 brother.* In the fourth of Edward II. 

 Guido de Ferre had license to impark his 

 wood oiEytropp Rothinge in this county.* 

 In the seventeenth of the same reign a 

 license was granted to Edward Earl of 

 Arundel, and Alice his wife, to impark 

 fifty acres of land and brushwood (brusceti) 

 in their manor of Wolfhampton, within 

 the bounds of the forest.' 



Robert de Bousser (Bouchier) was li- 

 censed to impark his wood of Halsted, in 

 this county, in the ninth of Edward III.'' 

 In the thirty-fifth of Edward 111. a grant 

 of pasturage for fourteen cows is granted 

 to the Rector of Eastwood in the King's 

 Park at Reilegh \^ the profits of this park, 

 in the eastern part of the county, were 

 granted to Edward Duke of York in the 

 fourteenth of Richard II.' In 1530 it 

 appears from the Privy Purse Expenses of 

 King Henry VIII .that 'quicke dere' were 

 brought from the Royal park here, to 

 replenish the Park of Greenwich ; the 

 expense was 30J. 



In the thirty-seventh of Edward III. 

 Thomas Tyrell had license to impark 400 

 acres of pasture and wood at Thornton in 

 this county;'" and in the fiftieth of the 



