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DEER AND DEER PARKS. 



Ch. IV: 



about 800 aicres of land, with a herd of 

 250 fallow-deer. License for imparking 

 the wood of Haywood, within the Forest 

 of Pembury a,nd Eversley, was granted 

 to William de Brayboes in the sixth of 

 Edward . I."^ A park at Eversley is 

 marked in Saxton's map, the same, no 

 doubt, with that at Bramshill, the well- 

 known scene of Archbishop Abbot's mis- 

 hap, in 1621, and which is noticed in 

 Speed's Survey. And in that period, at 

 Dogmansfield, the seat of the Mildmay 

 family, there was an ancient park, though 

 the deer have been removed; the same 

 fate has befallen the park at Elvatham, 

 or Elvesham, where Queen EUzabeth was 

 entertained by the Earl of Hertford, in 

 1591. A little south of Dogmansfield is 

 Itchel Park, which appears in Saxton's, 

 but not in Speed's, map, to the west of 

 which was Kemshot, a park also long dis- 

 parked; and in the north-west, on the 

 borders of Berkshire, a park is marked 

 near Idere or Higholere, the present seat 

 of the Earl of Carnarvon. 



The Patent Rolls show that a park was 

 licensed to William de Valence, in the 

 thirty-fifth of Henry III. at Newton, and at 

 Colingbury in the forty-first of the same 

 reign. These parks were within the bounds 

 of the Forest of Southampton, if the New 

 Forest is not intended; we may suppose that 

 Pembury is meant, and that Newtown on 

 the borders of Berkshire, just above High- 

 clere, is the park which is given by Saxton. 



The park of Hurseborne or Hurst- 

 bourne, to the north-east of Andover, occurs 

 in the ancient surveys, and is undoubtedly 

 an ancient park. It contains an area of 

 563 acres, with a herd of 700 fallow-deer. 



' Cal. Pat. Rolls, p. 48. 



-' Cotton MSS., Titus B. iv. fol. 297. 



Between the forests of Buckholt and 

 West Bere, west of Winchester, a park is 

 marked at King's Samborne in Saxton's 

 Survey, which I find noted as a park belong- 

 ing to the Duchy of Lancaster in the reign 

 of Queen Elizabeth," and another at Mic- 

 helmarsh, a little south of it, which I sup- 

 pose to be that enclosed by license by the 

 Prior of Swithin's, at Winchester, in the 

 sixth of Edward III. Between Badsley 

 and Chilworth, south of Hursley, a park is 

 given by Saxton which does not appear in 

 Speed's map, and another at ' Wade,' near 

 the New Forest, which Speed denomi- 

 nates Poltons. He marks also a park a 

 little north of Redbridge, called Grove 

 Place ; at Rockborn, bn the borders of 

 Wiltshire, another is given by both au- 

 thorities. Near this is an existing park, 

 called Hale Park, which appears to be 

 ancient; it is on the borders of the New 

 Forest, and a park is marked near the site 

 in Speed's Survey. Hale Park contains 

 about 60 acres of land, and a herd of 

 about 40 sppttfed, or menell deer. Near 

 Lymington another park is given by 

 Speed, which he calls Park house. On 

 the eastern side of the Itchin there was a 

 park at Merwell, and there were two near 

 Tichfield; one of these, at that period, 

 belonging to Mr. Wriothesley, is thus 

 noticed by Leland, ' There is also a parke, 

 the ground whereof is somewhat hethy 

 and baren.' ' 



Speed also marks a park at Southwick, 

 the present seat of the Thistlethwayte 

 family ; there were deer here, according to 

 ' Kip's Views of Seats,' in 1714. Southwick 

 was disparked about the year 1808. Two 

 parks are marked by Speed near Havant 



' Itin. vol. iii. fol. 79. 



