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DEER AND DEER PARKS. 



Ch. III. 



terview with M'. Paris, who complains of 

 injury done to his grounds by the deer in 

 Chesterford Park. He keeps deer entirely 

 for the king's pleasure and recreation; 

 they do him more mischief than any one 

 else, and is willing to give them up if his 

 majesty please." 



Several other parks are marked in 

 Norden's Survey of Essex, made in 1594. 

 Hemstead, Horeham, Henhain, Maynards, 

 Porters, Bradfield, Bell-House, Castle- 

 Heningham, and Moynes are in the north- 

 western part of the county. 



Horekatn is mentioned by Leland in the 

 following passage : — ' Old Cutte married 

 the Doughter and Heyre of one Roodes, 

 &c. Old Cutte buildid Horeham-Haule, 

 a very sumptuous house in Essex, by 

 Thaxtede ; and there is a goodly pond or 

 lake by it, and faire parkes there about."* 



Bell House is said to have been enclosed 

 by Sir Edward Bassett, knighted by 

 James I.;' if so, it must have been in the 

 reign of Ehzabeth, as it is marked in both 

 Norden's and Saxton's maps. 



Castle Heningham, ' a very stately 

 howse, mounted on a hille, hauinge 3 

 parkes,' belonged to the Earls of Oxford, 

 and in Elizabeth's time to Lord Burgh- 

 ley.* 



In the north-eastern parts of Essex, 

 other parks are given by Saxton; four are , 

 marked in the neighbourhood of Col- 



' S. P. O. Dom. Cal. p. 394. 



2 Leland's Itin. vol. iv. p. 32, fol. 50. 



^ Neale's Views of Seats, i8i8, vol. i. 



Chester, at Wyvenhoe, Elmsted, Grim- 

 sted, and Myle End; that at Wyvenhoe is 

 an existing park of 150 acres of land, with 

 a herd of 160 fallow-deer. Four other 

 parks appear also in Saxton's Survey, at 

 Wickes or Wykes, or Park Hall, the 

 ancient inheritance of the Bohuns in the 

 parish of Bradfield, and at Ockley-parva, 

 and two at Clackton. 



In the south-eastern divison of Essex, 

 besides the parks of Rochford and Ray- 

 leigh or Raleigh, there was one belonging 

 to the castle oi Hadleigh or Hadley, where 

 Christopher Barton and John Trevelyan 

 were appointed keepers in the year 1446.* 

 One at Beches, and at Danbury, once the 

 ancient seat of the Mildmay family. 



Existing Deer Parks in Essex. 



1. AuDLEY End. 



2. Thornden . 



3. Wyvenhoe . 



4. Weald-Hall. 



5. Bell-House . 



6. Easton 



7. Hallingbury 



8. Braxted -w 



9. Langleys . 



10. Boreham 



11. Shortgrove . 



Lord Braybroke. 



Lord Petre. 



Mr. Gurdon-Rebow. 



Mr. Tower. 



Sir Thomas Barrett 



Lennard, Bart. 

 Hon. Miss Maynard. 

 Mr. Archer Houblon. 

 Mr. Ducane. 

 Mr. Tufnell. 

 Sir John Tyrell, Bart. 

 Mr. Smith. 



* Norden's Description of Essex, p. 37. 

 ' Trevelyan Papers (Camden SocieQf), p. 



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