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DEER AND DEER PARKS. 



Ch. V. 



pham), the name of which is supposed to 

 allude to deer, an ancient park certainly 

 existed, as it is mentioned in the charter 

 of foundation of the Monastery here, by 

 William de Albini; Earl of Arundel, in 

 the time of King Stephen;^ and in 1242 

 the king sent his writ to the keepers of 

 the lands of Hugh de Albany, Earl of 

 Arundel, that they should deliver to Robert 

 de Tateshale two bucks of his gift, out of 

 the park lately belonging to the said Hugh, 

 in his town of Buckenham.^ At Attle- 

 borough, in the same hundred, the Earl of 

 Sussex owned a park in 1581, three miles 

 in circuit. And at Weeting St. Mary, in the 

 hundred of Grimshoe, a modern park is 

 said to have been enclosed by the Earl of 

 Montrath, about the year 1781." Another 

 is said to have been enclosed by Mr. Vin- 

 cent, at Buckenham-Toft, in this same 

 district, in the reign of Charles II. 



Returning towards Norwich, and the 

 midland districts of Norfolk, we have the 

 hundreds of Forehowe, Mitford, and 

 Laundich. The Domesday Park of Cos- 

 sey in Forehowe, has been already noticed. 

 In the same hundred is Kimberley, the 

 ancient seat of the Wodehouse family, 

 and derived by them by inheritance from 

 the old Norfolk House of Fastolf. Here 

 has been for a very long period an ancient 

 park, though it is not recognised in the 

 "Government Return of 1581 : at present it 

 contains 180 acres, and a herd of 120 

 fallow-deer,* 



' Dugdale's Monasticon, ed. 1 830, vol. vi. 

 p. 418. 



'^ History of Norfolk, vol. viii. p. 76. 



" lb. p. 125. 



* Sir John Wodehouse, knighted by Henry 

 IV. , married the sole daughter and heir of Sir 

 Thomas Fastolf of Kimberley, thus noticed in 

 a curious pedigree of the family : — ' being 



In the hundred of Mitford was the 

 ancient park of Whinbergh or Whin- 

 borough. In the thirty-eighth year of 

 Henry III., William, Lord Bardolph, im- 

 pleaded Thomas le Parker for entering 

 his park here, and taking his beasts, &c. 

 The Sheriff returned that it was in the 

 liberty of the Bishop of Ely and Hereford : 

 a non omittas was awarded. The park at 

 this time is said to have contained 500 

 acres of land.* In 1581 this park, which 

 has been long disused, was in the posses- 

 sion of Robert Southwell, Esq. : it is 

 described 'as two miles or thereabouts 

 in circuit.' At the same period there 

 were parks aiHockeringanA Woodrisiitg, 

 in this same hundred ; the first belonging 

 to Lord Morley, and being one mile in 

 circuit, the latter to Robert Southwell, 

 Esq., of double that extent : these also 

 have been long disparked. 



In the hundred of Laundich, the vene- 

 rable park of Elmham, called North 

 Elmham, to distinguish it from South 

 Elmham, in Suffolk, claims precedence. 

 Elmham, situated on the south-west side 

 of the river Wensum, was a castle of the 

 Bishops of Norwich, but exchanged with 

 the Crown in' the reign of Henry VIII. 

 There was a noble demesne and park 

 near Brisley, which is mentioned in the 

 time of John de Grey, Bishop of Norwich, 

 in the reign of King John.^ In that of 

 Queen Elizabeth, in 1602, this ancient 

 park became the property of the Cokes of 



matched to Fastolf s heir, he had enlarged his 

 elbow room ; and it was he who made the 

 moated hall and tower within the park at the 

 east end of the town, of more remark than the 

 old one in the west disparked long since. ' — 

 Nealis Views of Seats, 1 820, vol. iii. 



' History of Norfolk, vol. viii. p. 90. 



" lb. pp. 42, 54. 



