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DEER AND DEER PARKS. 



Cii. V. 



the Restoration of Charles II. in 1660. 

 Not far from Kirtling is the Burch of 

 Domesday, now Borough or Borough- 

 Green, a park also recorded in Domesday, 

 in the very same words as in the former 

 instance. Before the Conquest this manor 

 belonged to Editha, Queen Consort of 

 Edward the Confessor ; after that event it 

 was gi'anted to Alan Earl of Brittany ; it 

 afterwards came to a family who took 

 their name from hence. The Patent Rolls 

 show that Thomas de Burgh obtained 

 license to impark his wood of Burgh or 

 Borough, in the fourth year of Edward 

 III. But the park is not marked in 

 Saxton's Survey dated in 1576. It gives, 

 however, a park on the very borders of the 

 county near Wratting, which appears to 

 be the present Wratting Park. Near this 

 is Horsheath, the ancient seat of the 

 Audleys and afterwards of the AUingtons, 

 who were settled here in the reign of 

 Henry V. William AUington, Esq. is said 

 to have had the King's license to impark 

 here in 1448.' This park is also marked 

 by Saxton ; it was visited by Evelyn in 

 1670, being then in the possession of the 

 Lord Allington, and he dwells upon ' the 

 sweet prospect and stately avenue.' After 

 the extinction of the Allington family 

 this place was sold in 1775, and the park 

 let to farm.^ 



Wimpole, or Wimple, near Caxton, once 

 the seat of the Earl of Radnor, but since 



Lysons, p. 216. 

 Topograph, vol. ii. p. 378. 

 Kip's Views of Seats. 



1 740 that of the Earls of Hardwicke. There 

 were deer here in 1714 ;' the park is said 

 to contain 250 acres.* 



At Downham, in the more northern 

 part of the county, in the Isle of Ely, was 

 a park which belonged to the Bishops of 

 Ely, and is marked as a park in Saxton's 

 Survey; it appears to have been dis- 

 parked before 1691.* 



Between Downham and Whittlesea is 

 Doddington, an ancient estate of the See 

 of Ely, but also for a long period the seat 

 of the now extinct family of Peyton. 

 Although no park is marked in the old 

 maps, there probably was one here, as 

 would appear by the following extract 

 from a letter from Lord Chancellor Clar- 

 endon to Secretary (Morrice }) ; it is dated 

 August 4, 1666. 'The king since his 

 Restoration, made the elder son of Dr. 

 Peyton, of the Isle of Ely, a loyal man^ 

 who had given him deer to restock his 

 parks, a baronet ; as he died without issue 

 His Majesty has regranted the baronetcy 

 to Algernon, the second son ; but lest he 

 should die issueless, it would be well to 

 put the other sons into the patent, the 

 family being noble, ancient, and worth 

 3,000/. a year in land.« 



Existing Park in Cambridgeshire, 

 Wimpole . Earl of Hardwicke. 



■■ Lysons, p, 287. 



' Lysons' Cambridgeshire, p. 



° S. P O. Domestic. 



178. 



