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DEER AND DEER PARKS. 



Ch, V. 



SUFFOLK. 



Suffolk, like Norfolk, can claim one 

 Domesday Park, that at Eiam, the 

 modem Eye, in the hundred of Hartis- 

 mere. It had been in the tenure of Edric, 

 but was granted to Robert Malet at the 

 Conquest. Saxton's Survey of this county 

 (which bears date in 1575} marks four 

 parks in this hundred, at Redgrave, one 

 near Burgate, at Westhorp, and near 

 Thwaite ; the first was the seat of the 

 Bacons, the last of the family of Reeve. 

 Westhorp was the noble seat of Charles 

 Brandon, Duke of Suffolk, and was de- 

 molished about the middle of the eight- 

 eenth century. At Thornham, the seat 

 of Lord Henniker, there was at one time 

 a park, disparked by Sir John Major, the 

 great-great-grandfather of the present 

 lord.' 



There were also deer at Broome Hall, 

 the seat of the Cornwallis family, as ap- 

 pears by ' Kip's Views of Seats,' engraved 

 in 1 714. 



In the adjoining hundred of Hoxne, 

 ancient parks were recognised by Saxton 

 at Wingfield, Denham, liear Monks-So- 

 ham, not far from Framlingham, and at 

 Kelsall, an ancient seat of the Dukes of 

 Norfolk. The park at Wingfield was 

 originally enclosed by Hcense granted to 

 the De la Poles, Earls of Suffolk,^ in the 

 fifteenth century the most important 

 family in this county : it has, with the 

 others here mentioned, been long dis- 

 parked, 



' Information of Lord Henniker, i866. 

 ' Beauties of England (Suffolk), vol. xiv. 

 p. 313 ; and Cox's Magna Brittannia, vol. v. 



The park at Framlingham (the well- 

 known castle of the Howards, Dukes of 

 Norfolk), which is in the hundred of 

 Loes, may be considered the most inter- 

 esting within this county, though it be- 

 longs to former times and not to the 

 present day. A very curious account of 

 it, from a Roll dated in the seventh of 

 Henry VIII., has been already given in 

 the Second Chapter of this work. The 

 Roll gives a minute account of the number 

 of the deer which were killed and how 

 they were distributed. The number alto- 

 gether was so great (96 bucks are said tp 

 have been killed in one year) that the 

 park was probably at that time larg^ 

 than Loder, in his History of Framling- 

 ham, represents it to have been, namely, 

 about 600 acres, and three miles in cir- 

 cumference.' The same author has pre- 

 served, among the Customs of the Manor, 

 the following rules relating to the privi- 

 leges of this great park ; — ' The reparation 

 of the Park-pales, where standing, was 

 done by certain tenants, who were freely 

 to take timber for that purpose out of 

 Oldfrith wood. All Trees growing with-' 

 out the Park-pales, and not above sixteen 

 foot distant from them, belong to the 

 Lords of this Manor, and the pasture 

 thereof to the Tenants of the respective 

 lands adjacent to those pales, which 

 breadth of xvi foot the Lords had to walk 

 and ride without about the pales ; no ways 

 or passages for carts, &c. lead thro' the 



p. 217. 



' Loder's History of Framhngham, 1798, 

 P- 329. 



