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DEER AND DEER PARKS. 



ch. VI r. 



tenure of Mr. Hatton ; the Lawn of 

 Farming-Woods, 200 acres, in the tenure 

 of Lord Ossory ; the Lawn of Moorhay, 

 316 acres; and the Lawn of Sulehay, 

 51 acres, in the tenure of Lord West- 

 moreland. Of the first of these lawns it 

 is reported that ' it is a tract, of pasture 

 land, in the nature of a park, enclosed, 

 and set apart for the feeding of the deer, 

 granted by Queen Elizabeth in the twenty- 

 fifth year of her reign to Sir Christopher 

 Hatton." The Patent Rolls preserve the 

 names of several ancient parks licensed 

 within the forest verge, of which the fol- 

 lowing may be taken as examples. In 

 the first of Edward L the manor of Brig- 

 stock, with the park, was assigned to Queen 

 Eleanor in dowry. In the eighteenth of 

 the same reign, Walter de Langton had 

 license to impark his wood oi Ashley in the 

 same forest, and two years later a further 

 license to increase it. In the thirty-fifth 

 of Edward I. the Abbot of Peterborough 

 was licensed to impark certain woods 

 within the bounds of this forest, and in 

 the ninth of the next reign Humphry de 

 Bassingburne had another license of the 

 same description. The Park of Drayton, 

 near Thrapston, a little south of the forest, 

 was imparked in the second year of Ed- 

 ward III. by a license granted to Simon 

 de Drayton, the extent originally being 

 but 30 acres, increased by another license 

 in the fourth of the same reign. A license 

 ^vas in the second of Edward III. granted 

 to Robert Wivill, clerk, to impark his wood 

 of Littlehawe, near Loveden (Liveden ?) 

 in this county. The manor of Liveden, 

 which was for a long period the seat of 

 the Tresham family, is probably intended, 



' 9th Report, p. 539. 



and here a park appears marked in Sax- 

 ton's map of the county, dated in 1576. 

 The Park of Haringworth, within the 

 forest, the principal. seat of the Zouches, 

 is recognised in the third of Edward III., 

 and a license granted to William la 

 Zouche to make a deer-leap within that 

 manor. In the seventeenth and twenty- 

 second of this reign Simon Simeon was 

 licensed to enclose and impark his wood 

 of Gratton or Gretton, in the adjoining 

 parish, 'parvo fossato et bassa hail' 



Frequent notices also occur in the Pa-" 

 tent Rolls with relation to the Royal parks 

 of Clyff, or King's Cliff, or Clive, and 

 Brigstock, within the forest; the latter 

 has been already mentioned, and appears 

 to have been a favourite Royal Preserve, 

 on the edge of the Forest of Rockingham. 

 Leland, in his ' Itinerary,' with the accus- 

 tomed accuracy of the old topographer, 

 notices that there were not red but fallow- 

 deer in Rockingham Forest, and ' divers 

 lodges for the kepers of the falow dere yn 

 it.' He observed also, 'the fair Lodge' 

 in Haringworth Park, ' long tyme in the 

 Souches' handes,' and of Clyff Park, that 

 ' it is partely wauUid with stone and 

 partely palid.' ' 



Besides Brigstock, Liveden, Haring- 

 worth, and Clyff, Saxton's Survey records 

 parks at Colly- Weston, Fotheringhay, and 

 near Pipwell, and at Gedington, the last 

 known as Gedington Chase, in 1712, be- 

 longing to the Duke of Montague; at this 

 latter period, as we learn from the map in 

 Morton's ' History of Northamptonshire,' 

 many changes had taken place and many 

 new parks had been enclosed ; near Stam- 

 ford the Park oi Burghley, Lord Exeter's; 



^ Leland's Itin. vol. i. pp. 14, 24, and vol. 

 v. p. 107, 



