Queen Elizabeth's Oak at Huntingfield, in Suffolk, from a Photograph, in i£66. 



CHAPTER V. 



CA MBRIDGESHIRE. 



HE county of Cambridge, from 

 the marshy nature of a great 

 part of its soil, is but ill 

 adapted for deer parks, and 

 there seem consequently to have beenbut 

 few at any time within its bounds, but 

 among them there are two which appear 

 in the Domesday Survey, one of which till 

 the end of the last century remained an 

 existing park. I allude to Kirtling, com- 

 monly called Catlige or Catlage, not far 

 from Newmarket, on the confines of 



Suffolk. From the reign of Henry VIII. it 

 was the seat of the North family ; at the 

 period of the Conquest Chertelinge be- 

 longed to the Countess Judith, widow of 

 Waltheof Earl of Northumberland, and 

 the park of wild beasts {pare bestiaru sil- 

 vaticarii) is particularly recorded in the 

 great Domesday Survey. A plan of the 

 manor made in 1646 marks two parks at 

 Kirtling, the scene of those frequent Buck- 

 huntings which are described in the lives 

 of the Norths^ during the period preceding 



Ed. 1826, vol. i. p. 47. 



