Ch. IV. 



CORNWALL. 



8; 



Duchy, disparked in King Henry 8th's 

 time." In 1583 it is described as about two 

 miles in compass, and disparked.' 



2. 'The old parke at Lannston^ is 

 named by Leland in his 'Itinerary;'' it 

 is said in 1583 to have been about a mile 

 in compass.' 



3. Liskard. — Of this place, Leland 

 says, 'about half a mile or I came to 

 Liskard, I passed in a wood by a chapel 

 of our lady, called our Lady in the Park, 

 wher was wont to be grat pilgrimage.'* 

 A park is noticed at ' Liskeard,' in the year 

 1446,' and it appears among the disparked 

 parks in the return of 1583, three miles in 

 compass.' 



4. Lanteglos, a mile in circuit, and 

 belonging to the queen in 1583.' 



5. Restormel.— ' The park of Restormel 

 (existing in 1446)' is hard by the north 

 side of the town of Lostwithiel; Tynne 

 workes in this parke ; good wbode in this 

 parke. There is a castel on an hill in this 

 parke, wher sumtymes the erles of Corn- 

 wal lay— a chapel of the Trinite in the 

 parke, not far from the castelle." In 1583 

 it is described as about a mile in compass.' 



In an 'extent' of the Duchy of Corn- 

 wall, I ith Edw. III., and noted by Lysons 

 (p. clxxix.), Launceston Park is described 

 as containing, in circuit, one league, and 

 having then in it fifteen deer, but capable of 

 sustaining forty. In Restormel Park were 

 300 deer; in Liskeard Park, 200; in the 

 Park of KeryboUok, (containing in circuit 

 three leagues), 150 deer ; and in Trematon 

 Park, on the north side of the castle, 42 

 deer. 



Arranging the other ancient and exist- 



' Norden's Survey, p. 92. 

 ^ S. P. O. Domestic, Sept. 25, 1583. 

 • Leland's Itin. vol. vii. p. 123. 

 < Ibid. vol. iii. p. 38, fol. 19. 

 ' Trevelyan Papers (Camden Society), pp. 

 29-31. 



ing parks of this county according to their 

 respective hundreds, we have in East 

 Hundred, Poole, in Queen Elizabeth's 

 time belonging to Sir Jonathan Trelaw- 

 ney, then lately ' revived,' not marked by 

 Saxton, and disparked before 1730.' HaU 

 ton, near Colstock, then ' lately impaled,' 

 also disparked before 1730.' Newton, in 

 the same neighbourhood, in the Eliza- 

 bethan period even ' almost decayed,' 

 existed in 1730.' At Bicton, was 'the 

 House of William Wraye, Esq., where- 

 unto adjoined a parke of fallow-deere,'' 

 now disparked ; also, Bradrige, Mr. Cos- 

 ter's, existing in 1730.' In East Hun- 

 dred, thereturn of 1583 mentions parkesat 

 St. Melan and Mynhenett; the former be- 

 longed to Peter Coryton, the latter to Tre- 

 lawny, and another, disparked, at St. Ive. 



In West Hundred, Boconnoc, contain* 

 ing at present about 230 acres, much 

 wooded, and a herd of 220 fallow-deer. 

 In 1583 it belonged to Sir William Mohun 

 and others, and was a mile in compass,' 



Also Pinchley, Lord Radnor's, in 1730,^ 

 existing about 1780, but since disparked, 

 The return of 1583 mentions also a park 

 of George Luke at 'Wartegan,' about a 

 mile in compass.' 



In Powder Hundred, Caryhayes, one 

 mile in circuit, and in 1583 belonging to 

 Mrs. Sibil Trevanion,' existing in 1730' 

 and 1760, and St. Michael, both now dis- 

 parked, Norden mentions also a park 

 called Trevanion, the seat of the family of 

 that name, 'utterly decayed' in his time, 

 and Leland observes of a park at BodrU' 

 gan, ' yn this park was the house of S' 

 Henry Bodrugan, a man of auncient stok, 



" Leland's Itin. vol. iii. p. 35, fol. 17. 

 ' Mr. Tonkin, quoted by Lysons in his ac- 

 count of Cornwall, p. clxxix. 

 ' Noi'den's Survey, p. 90. 



