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DEER AND DEER PARKS. 



Ch. IV. 



Axminstre, in Devonshire, wer the Lord 

 Bonevilles, and after a knightes of that 

 name, or ever they cam to the Marquise 

 of Dorsetes Hand." 



12. Kirklake. 



13. Kirton, now Crediton, which be- 

 longed to the Bishops of Exeter. 



14. Glyst, now Clist. 



15. Tyverton, alias Goodbere. — This 

 park is marked by Saxton. Westcote 

 speaks of two parks at Tiverton in the 

 reign of Charles I. 



16. Ashley. 



17. A/ton, marked in Saxton's map in 

 the parish of West Worlington. 



18. Okington, now Oakhampton, a large 

 park marked in Saxton's map. 



19. C«(7rf/iy, now Calwodley. This park 

 is marked by Saxton. 



Westcote's list includes — 



1. Annery, in the parish of Monkleigh, 

 about four miles from Bideford and two 

 and a half from Torrington. In the reign 

 of Henry V. it belonged to Sir William 

 Hankford, Chief Justice of England, of 

 whom it is said that he was so over- 

 whelmed by the troubles of the times that 

 he wished for death, but not choosing to 

 die by his own hands, he devised this ex- 

 traordinary scheme to hasten his end — 

 sending for the keeper of his park at 

 Annery, he scolded him for not being more 

 vigilant, and gave him strict orders to 

 shoot any man whom he should meet with 

 in the park at night, if he refused to answer 

 or to give a satisfactory account of himself. 

 Having given this charge, he walked out 

 in his park the same night, it being then 

 very dark, and met, as he intended, his 

 certain destruction.' 



2. Inwardleigh — belonged to the family 



' Itin. vol. vi. p. 62, fol. 64. 



of Coffin, before the reign of Edward III. 

 There were no remains of the deer park in 

 Risdon's time. 



3. Filleigh,CasX\& Hill, LordFortescue's, 

 is in this parish, which perhaps is here 

 intended. 



Lysons adds the following ancient parks, 

 not occurring in either list — 



1. Braneys, now Bradninch, a park which 

 belonged to the Earl of Cornwall. 



2. Hartland, where the Abbot of Hart- 

 land had two parks. 



3. Molland, a park belonging to the 

 Bottreaux family. 



4. Uffculme, the seat of the Cogans. 



5. Lyneham, belonging to the Crockers. 

 This is marked by Saxton, near Plimp- 

 ton. 



6. King's Nympion, belonging to the 

 family of Pollard. This also is given by 

 Saxton. ^ 



7. Langtree. — Here was a park belong- 

 ing to Sir Thomas Brown. 



8. Wembury. — Here Sergeant Hele made 

 a park in the reign of Queen Elizabeth. 



9. Ashton, the seat of the Chudleighs, 

 had also a deer park. 



Lysons also gives a list of parks still 

 existing at the time he wrpte (1822), most 

 of which yet remain ; they were as fol- 

 lows: — 



1. Werrington, formerly belonging to 

 the Duke of Northumberland ; it is near 

 Launceston, on the borders of Cornwall, 

 and here Sir Francis Drake petitioned the 

 king (Charles I.) for a license to enclose on 

 the 28th of February, 163 1. The petition 

 sets forth ' that out of desire to increase 

 deer and game in his lands, he has begun 

 to inclose certain grounds which he intends 

 for keeping deer in the parishes of Wer- 



2 Lyson's, p. 353. 



