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DEER AND DEER PARKS. 



Ch. IV. 



comonwealth, by the providence of former 

 more thriftie owners; and king Henry 

 the 8, being therunto induced by the per- 

 swasion of some circumspecte officer of 

 his, dispar'ked manie parkes belonging to 

 the Dukedome of Cornwall : the pretence 

 that they laye so farre from the princes 

 comon residence, they were not so apte to 

 yelde pleasure as profit; and therefore 

 beying disparked, were lett at an improved 

 rent. The first parkes belonginge to the 

 Dukedom that were disparked viertReior- 

 mell near Lostuthiell, where yet standeth 

 Restormell Castle, the Duke's auncient 

 seat ; Caribullock, nere Devonshire ; Lis- 

 kerd Parke near the same towne, wher the 

 D. had also castle, now decayde; Lenteglos 

 Parke, easte of Foy-haven; and lastly, 

 Launceston Parke, wher standeth Dun- 

 hevet, the Duke's most auncient castle. 

 Some gentlemen there are that mayn- 

 taine their parkes, and retayne the deere, 

 as M. Reskymer at .d/ifr/A^r; M.Vivian, 

 at Trelawarren, near Helston, in Kirrier 

 hundred ; M. Chawmonds at Laucells, in 

 Straton hundred; M. Trevanian, lately 

 deceased ; a parke called St. Michell ; Sir 

 Jonathan Trelawny, lately also deceased, 

 Poole Park in Minhinet parishe ; M. 

 Rowse, a parke newly erected at Halton, 

 near Calstock; M. Corrington, at New- 

 ton; and Sir Reynold Mohuns, a parke 

 at Boconnock." 



The survey of Cornwall, by Richard 

 Carew, of Antonie, Esq., printed in 1602, 

 in point of time one of the first of English 

 topographers, gives very much the same 

 account. He tells us, ' Cornwall was 

 stored not long since with many parkes 

 of fallow-deere. But King Henry VIII. 



' Norden's Survey of Cornwall, p. 20. 

 ^ Carew's Survey of Cornwall, pp. 22 h. 



being persuaded (as it is said) by Sir 

 Richard Pollard, that those belonging to 

 the Duke, could steed him with little 

 pleasure in so remote a parte, and would 

 yield him good profit if they were leased 

 out at an improved rent, did condescend 

 to their disparking. So foure of them 

 tooke a fall together, to wit, Carybullock, 

 Liskerd, Restormel, Lanteglos. Howbeit 

 this good husbandrie came short of the 

 desired promise, and the king's expecta- 

 tion, wherethrough the one was shent for 

 the attempt, and the other discontented 

 with the effect. Notwithstanding, as 

 princes examples are ever taken for war- 

 rantable precedents to the subjects, so 

 most of the Cornish gentlemen preferring 

 gaine to delight, or making gaine their 

 delights, shortly after followed the like 

 practise, and made their deere leape over 

 the pale to give the buUo'ckes placff. 

 Parkes yet remaining are in East Hun- 

 dred — Poole, Sir Jonathan Trelawneys, 

 newly revised ; Halton, M. Rouses, lately 

 impaled ; and Newton, M. Corington's 

 almost decayed. In West Hundred, Bo- 

 connoch, Sir Reginauld Mohuns. In Pow- 

 der Hundred, Caryhayes, M. Trevanions. 

 In Stratton, Launcels, M. Chamonds. In 

 Kever Hundred, TV^/awarr^w, M.Vivians; 

 and Merther, M. Reskymers." 



Of the five' Royal parks belonging to 

 the Duchy of Cornwall : — i. Coribullock, 

 or Carbolok, alone appears in Saxton's 

 map of the county, engraved in 1576. It 

 could scarcely have been reinclosed at that 

 time, but might have retained its ancient 

 paling ; it is in East Hundred, on the con- 

 fines of Devonshire, and was described by 

 Norden as 'a fair park belonging to y' 



' Lysons mentions another at ' Hellesbury. ' 



