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BERKSHIRE. 



133 



Survey, and is remarkable for its fine old 

 oak trees. At present it contains 120 

 acres and a herd of 100 fallow-deer. A 

 more modern and still existing park is at 

 Hall Place, in the parish of Henley, five 

 miles from Maidenhead and four from 

 Henley-on-Thames. It belongs to Sir 

 Gilbert East, Bart., and is a park of 150 

 acres, with a herd of about 100 fallow-deer. 



There is also a park at Englefield, the 

 seat of Mr. Benyon, which is said to have 

 existed in the reign of Queen Elizabeth, 

 when it belonged to Sir Francis Walsing- 

 ham, having been forfeited by Sir Francis 

 Englefield. It contains about 350 acres, 

 and about 300 fallow-deer. Either this 

 park, or one at Bradfield, in. the ad- 

 joining parish, is marked in Saxton's 

 Survey. 



Saxton's Survey also gives us a park at 

 Yattendon, about eight miles to the north- 

 east of Newbury, and eleven miles west of 

 Reading. Here, in 1447, Sir John Norris, 

 Master of the Great Wardrobe to King 

 Henry VI., and ancestor of Lord Norris, of 

 Rycot, had a license to embattle the manor 

 house, and to impark 600 acres of land.^ 



In the parish of Spen, or Spene, there 

 appears also to have been a park noticed 

 in Saxton's Survey, which was given by 

 Sir William Essex to King Henry VIII. 

 in 1542.'' 



Saxton also notices parks at Hamstead- 

 Marshall, and at Hungerford, in the 

 south-western angle of the county : the 

 former was, since the early part of the 

 seventeenth century, a principal seat of 

 the Craven family, and there were deer 

 here, as appears by the view of the place, 

 in Kip's ' Views of Seats,' in 1714. 



' Lysous, p. 445. 

 ' lb., p. 373. 



At Welford, six miles north-west of 

 Newbury, is an existing park of 100 

 acres, with the same number of fallow- 

 deer. 



Farther north, towards Wantage, is 

 Wolley Park, containing under 100 acres, 

 with a herd of 180 fallow-deer. This park 

 was enclosed about the end of the last 

 century. A small park exists also at Buck- 

 land, on the borders of Oxfordshire, near 

 Faringdon, belonging to Sir William 

 Throckmorton. 



It remains to notice an ancient park 

 which once existed at Radley, between 

 Abingdon and Oxford, which was dis- 

 parked, as Leland informs us, ' by reason 

 that the scollars of Oxford muche resortyd 

 thither to hunt.' ' This was an old com- 

 plaint against the Oxford scholars, and 

 even attracted the notice of the Legisla- 

 ture, inasmuch as an Act of Parliament 

 was passed in the ninth of Henry V. 

 (a.D. 1421^, which enacted that 'scholars 

 of Oxford hunting disorderly in parks in 

 the counties of Oxford, Berks, and Bucks, 

 shall be banished the University.' * 



Existing Deer Parks in Berkshire. 



1. Windsor . . Her Majesty the 



Queen. 



2. SUNNING-HILL, Mr. Crutchley. 



3. Aldermarston, Mr. Higford Burr. 



4. Englefield . Mr. Benyon. 



5. Hall-Place . Sir Gilbert East, Bt. 



6. Hamstead-Marshall, Earl of 



Craven. 



7. Welford . . Mr. Eyre. 



8. Wolley . . . Mr. Wroughton. 



9. Buckland . . SirWiUiamThrock- 



morton, Bart. 



' Leland's Itin. vol. vii. p. 75. fo^- 64- 

 * Rolls of Parliament, vol. iv. p. 131. 



