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with a herd of 206 fallow-deer ; ^S"^. Aii- 

 dries, near Bridgewater, where there are 

 both red and fallow-deer ; Alfoxton and 

 Hahewell^ near the Quantock hills ; 

 Sandhill, near Taunton ; Ammerdown, 

 near Bath ; Long Ashton and Leigh Court, 

 near Bristol. In the latter, said to have 

 been a deer-pai-k from time immemorial, 

 there were also wild cattle till the year 

 1806, when they became so savage that 

 the owner was obliged to have them all 

 shot.' 



Existing Parks in Somersetshire. 

 I. DuNSTER Castle, Mr. Luttrell. 



2. Nettlecombe Court, ' Sir Walter 



Calverley Trevelyan, Bart. 



3. PiXTON .... The Earl of Car- 



narvon. 



4. St. Andries . .Sir Alexander 



Hood, Bart. 

 J. Alfoxton . . . Mr. St. Albyn. 



6. Halsewell . . Colonel Tynte. 



7. Sandhill ... Sir John Leth- 



bridge, Bart. 



8. Ammerdown . . The Rev. Mr. 



Joliffe. 



9. Long Ashton . Sir J. Greville 



Smyth, Bart. 

 10. Leigh Court . SirW. Miles, Bart. 



WIL T SHIRE. 



The royal park of Clarendon, near Salis- 

 bury, sometimes called ' The forest of Pan- 

 cett,' with its twenty groves, each of them 

 a mile in compass,' is probably one of the 

 oldest, as it was also the largest, park in 

 this county. Here were two royal palaces, 

 called 'The Kings Manor,' and 'The 

 Queen's Lodge,' the scene of the famous 

 ' Constitution^' in the reign of Henry IT. 

 In the forty-fifth of Edward III. a com- 

 mission was issued by the Crown, to en- 

 quire concerning the existing defects in 

 the Manor and Park of Clarendon ;' and 

 in the fiftieth of the same reign, the king 

 confirmed to the Prior of Ivy Church* 

 pasture for forty oxen and cows within 

 the same. Leland observes, ' The parke 

 of Clarington is a veiy large thing, and 



' Information of Sir W. Miles, Bart. 

 2 Magna Britannia, 1731, vol. vi. p. 51. 

 = Cal. Pat. Rolls, p. 187. 

 * Mens. Ederosus. 



hath many kepers yn it.' ^ In the time of 

 Charles I. it was still in the hands of the 

 Crown, and a warrant passed, dated 

 August 21, 1635, to pay to Philip Earl of 

 Pembroke and Montgomery, Warden of 

 the Forest of Pancett, alias Clarendon 

 Park, 30/. per annum for provision of hay 

 for maintenance of deer in winter.' In 1583 

 it was in the keeping of the Earl of Pem- 

 broke, and was seven miles in compass.'' 



To the north-east of Salisbury is the 

 forest of Chute, and the ancient royal 

 castle and park oi Ltidgar shall, also called 

 the Park of Collingbourne, from the ad- 

 joining village of that name. In the for- 

 tieth of Henry III, it was held by William 

 de Valence, the brother of the king. In 

 1404 it teas granted by Edward IV. to 



' Itin. vol. iii. p. 98, fol. 69. 

 « S. P. O. Domestic, 1635. 

 ' Note of Parks in the County of Wilts, 

 Sept. 24, 1583. S. P. O. Domestic. 



