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DEER AND DEER PARKS. 



Ch. IV. 



atteyntid for takyng part with king Rich- 

 ard III. agayne Henry VII." 



Tregotknan, a small park of 1 16 acres, 

 with a herd of loo fallow-deer. 



Penrice, near St. Austell, a small park 

 or paddock of sixty acres, enclosed in the 

 reign of Charles I., with a herd of from 

 90 to 100 fallow-deer. In Powder Hun- 

 dred also was Lansladron Park, belong- 

 ing to the Arundels, which, as Norden 

 says, was 'the most stateliest in the shire.' 

 It is among 'the disparked and tilled' in 

 the return of 1583. It was in compass 

 two miles. 



In Kirrier Hundred, Trelawarrcn and 

 Mertkerjhoth disparked before 1730;" also 

 Godolphin, Lord Godolphin's ; and Tre- 

 mogh, Mr. Worth's, imparked about 1 730.' 



Carclew Park contains about 230 acres, 

 and 150 head of fallow-deer ; it is supposed 

 to have been enclosed more than a century. 



In Pyder Hundred there yet remains 

 a small paddock of fallow-deer, at Pri- 

 deaux-place, the seat of C. P. Brune, Esq.; 

 the area is but eleven acres, and the deer 

 amount to twenty-four. Here also were 

 Lanhidroch, Lord Radnor's, and Trevau- 

 nance, Mr. Tonkin's. Treluddra, in this 

 hundred, although a park by Royal patent, 

 as Mr. Tonkin observes, had been dis- 

 parked." Here also was Pawton, a park 

 belonging to the Bishop of Exeter, but 

 long disparked. 



In Stratton Hundred, Launcels, dis- 

 parked before 1730.' 



In Lesnewth Hundred, Trelaivney Park, 

 not mentioned in the maps, and long dis- 

 parked; and in 1583, ' a park of the 

 Queenes, of 2 myles circuit, called Hels- 

 burye.' ^ 



• Leland's Itin..vol. iii. p. 31, fol. 14. 



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



Of the parks enumerated by Mr. Ton- 

 kin in 1730, Godolphin, Caryhayes or Car- 

 hayes, and Bocontioc, were most esteemed 

 for their venison ; and of the whole num- 

 ber, observes Lysons, in his account of 

 Cornwall, 'there remained about 1760, 

 according to Dr. Borlase in his MS. notes 

 on Carew, Godolphin, Tregotknan, Lanhi- 

 drock, Pinchley, Boconnoc, and Carhayes. 

 In addition to these he mentions Pen- 

 carrow. Sir John Molesworth's, Tehidy, 

 Mr. Bassett's, Trevalhow, Mr. Praed's, 

 and Werrington, a great part of which is 

 in Cornwall, Mr. Morice's. Since Bor- 

 lase's time, the parks of Lanhidrock, 

 Pinchley, Pencarrow, Tehidy, and Treve- 

 thon, have been disparked. There are 

 now (1814) in the Hundred of East, the 

 parks of Werrington and Mount Edge- 

 cumbe, a great part of both being in the 

 county of Cornwall. In the Hundred of 

 West, Boconnoc, now Lord Grenville's. In 

 the Hundred of Powder, Tregothnan,\.otA 

 Falmouth's, Carhayes, Mr. Trevannion's, 

 Penrice, Mr. Graves's, and a paddock of 

 Sir Christopher Hawkins's at Trewithen. 

 In the Hundred of Pyder, a small park at 

 Padstow, Mr. Prideaux Brune's. In the 

 Hundred of Kirrier, Godolphin, now be- 

 longing to the Duke of Leeds ; Carclew, 

 Sir William Lemon's, and a small pad- 

 dock belonging to Mr. Rogers at Penrose.' 



Existing Parks in Cornwall. 



1. Boconnoc . Hon. G. Fortescue. 



2. Tregotknan . Viscount Falmouth. 



3. Carclew . Sir C. Lemon, Bart. 



4. Penrice . Sir C. B. G. Sawle, Bart. 



5. PRIDEAUX 1 j^^ p^j^^^^^ B^^^^_ 



Place . J 



count of Cornwall, p. clxxix. 



» S. P. O. Domestic, Sept. 25, 1585. 



