Ch. V. 



SUFFOLK. 



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Park, but for the Lords and their Tenants 

 only." The latest date referred to in 

 these customs is the twelfth of Charles I. 

 Saxton marks also a park at Kenton, 

 the old seat of the Garneys family, in the 

 hundred of Loes. 



At Letheringham, the ancient seat of 

 the Wingfields, and afterwards of the 

 Naunton family, in the same hundred of 

 Loes, there was also a park, given in 

 Saxton's Survey, but which, together with 

 everything else of interest at this place, 

 has been long destroyed. 



At Glemham, between Framlingham 

 and Saxmundham, there was, until very 

 lately, an existing park of dark deer, be- 

 longing to the Earl of Guilford, and 

 another remains at Campsea-Ashe, in the 

 sam>e neighbourhood. 



In Blithing Hundred were the parks of 

 Henham, Bliborough, Huntingfield, and 

 Heveningham. 



Huntingfield belonged in the time of 

 Elizabeth to Lord Hunsdon, and here the 

 Queen visited him, and is said to have 

 shot a buck with her own hand, from a 

 venerable tree in the park, still known as 

 ' Queen Elizabeth's Oak,' a tree described 

 about 1773 as 'in some degree of vigor, 

 tho' most of its branches are broken off, 

 .and those which remain are approaching 

 to a total decay, as well as its vast trunk.' ^ 

 A beautiful etching of this celebrated oak 

 is given by Strutt in his Silva Brittanica 

 (1824), and it is engraved from a photo- 

 graph taken in 1866 in the present work.' 

 Of the adjoining park of Heveningham a 

 notice has already been given (p. 34), 

 where the annual grant of a buck and 



' Loder's Framlingham, p. 390. 

 == Suckling's Suffolk, vol. ii. p. 411. 

 ' See page ill. 



doe, conceded by Sir John Heveningham 

 and Dame Alice his wife, and Anthony 

 his son and heir in 1533, to Nicholas 

 Bohun, Esq., is given at length. More 

 than a century later, 50 head of deer were 

 begged from this park, at that. time be- 

 longing to the regicide William He- 

 veningham, by Sir Henry Wood, for ' his 

 own little park at Lowdham, which he has 

 re-inclosed, the pales being broken down, 

 and the deer sold during the Usurpation.' * 

 Lowdham is in the hundred of Wilford, 

 near Woodbridge, but is not marked in 

 Saxton's Survey of 1575, or in that of 

 Speed in i6io. 



In the north-eastern part of Suffolk, 

 near Beccles, is Barsham, an ancient seat 

 of the Echinghams, Blennerhassets, and 

 Sucklings. 'The meadows around the 

 hall, which formed a park as early as the 

 fourteenth century, are now divided into 

 small enclosures ; but stags' horns are 

 occasionally found where new ditches and 

 drains are dug.' ^ 



Stow Park is in the Duke of Norfolk's 

 manor of Bungay Soke. At an Inquisition 

 taken at Ipswich, on the nth of January, 

 1307 (3Sth Edward I.), when Roger Bigot 

 died, it was said r ' Item est ibidem Par- 

 ens cum feris, qui vocatur Stowe Park, et 

 valet herbagium p : an : v'. viii". et sub- 

 bosco ibid nihil.' It appears from deeds 

 that the Duke of Norfolk claimed Stow 

 Park as his freehold, and as a park be- 

 longing to the manor of Bungay Soke at 

 a much later period ; and it is recognised 

 in the accounts of the baiUffs of the manor 

 in the thirty-eighth of Henry VIII. It is 

 not however given by Saxton. 



« S. P. O. Domestic, Nov. 1660. 

 ' Suckling's Suffolk, vol. i. p. 46. 



