13° 



Ilmerc, in the hundred of Ashendon, in 

 1337, and in 1340, the woods of Sywarde- 

 shullanA Wynard, in this county, with 300 

 acres adjoining, and to fortify his manor- 

 houses of Stoke-Poges and Ditton with 

 walls of stone.' 



'■Ditton Park; writes Norden in the 

 M S. Survey already alluded to, ' hath about 

 220 deere, about 50 of antler, and 20 

 buckes. The circuit of this parke is 2| 



DEER AND DEER PARKS. 



Ch. VI. 



miles ; little timber. It containeth in 

 quantitie about 195 akers good grounde.' 



Existing Deer Parks in Buckingham- 

 shire. 



1. Stowe . The Duke of Buckingham. 



2. AsHRIDGE . Earl Brownlow. 



3. TURVILLE . Mr. Butlin. 



4. BULSTRODE The Duke of Somerset. 



5. Langley . Mr. Harvey. 



BERKSHIRE. 



Of the Royal parks of Windsor, which 

 naturally claim our first attention in the 

 consideration of the parks of Berkshire, 

 so much has been collected in ' The An- 

 nals of Windsor,' by Messrs. Tighe and 

 Davis, and also by Mr. Menzies, in his 

 magnificent work on ' The Great Park of 

 Windsor,' that it may be sufficient to ob- 

 serve that the earliest notice of a park here 

 is in the thirty-first of Henry III., when a 

 payment of 2>°s. ^d. occurs in the ac- 

 counts of William Fitz-Walter to the 

 park-keepers, and 5 J. for the keep of birds 

 in the park.'' 



From this period we find constant re- 

 ference to Windsor parks in the Originalia 

 and other rolls. Thus in the forty-fifth of 

 Henry III., the Constable of the Castle 

 was ordered to sell wood in Windsor Park, 

 and out of the proceeds to enclose it.' In 

 the fiftieth of Edward III., we first hear 



• Lipscomb's Bucks, vol. iv. pp. 545, 546. 

 '' Annals of Windsor, vol. i. p. 30. 

 = lb. p. 81. 

 < lb. p. 17?. 



of the New Park of Windsor called Wy- 

 themere, which then appears to have been 

 enclosed.* Commissions had been pre- 

 viously appointed to enquire into the state 

 and condition of Windsor, and of the 

 manor, forest, and park, there.* Two hun- 

 dred acres were enclosed by Edward IV. 

 in the sixth year of his reign, adjoining to 

 the town of New Windsor. This was a 

 considerable addition to, if not the origin 

 of, what is now the Home Park, called in 

 1509 the Lytle Park, and the scene of the 

 hunting of Henry VII. and Philip King 

 of Castile, where after dinner ' eyche of 

 the kyngs kylled certene deare, to theire 

 owne hands, with their crosbowes.'® Nor- 

 den, in his map and survey,' made at the 

 begiiining of the reign of James I., in the 

 year 1607, tells us that the Little Park at 

 this period contained about 280 acres of 

 good ground, with a herd of ' 240 faUow- 



' Annals of Windsor, p. 134. 

 ' lb. p. 440. 



' Given in Annals of Windsor, vol. ii. p. 31, 

 from Harl. MSS. 3749. 



