Ch. VII. 



NOR THA MPTONSHIRE. 



1S3 



ran de Fiennes had license to enclose in 

 the forty-third of Henry III. (1258), 

 ' with a good strong ditch and hay, so as 

 to prevent the Royal beasts of chase from 

 entering, and convert it into a park; ' and 

 in the fifth of Henry IV. (1403) John 

 Trussell had license to make a park of 

 300 acres of meadow, pasture, and wood 

 in Gayton. This park has long since 

 been disparked and converted into fields, 

 but about 20 acres of wood remain.^ 



To the north of Salcey Forest, and be- 

 tween it and Yardley Chase, a park is 

 marked at Horton in the ancient surveys. 

 This was the seat in the time of Henry 

 VIII., of William Parr, created Lord Parr 

 of Horton. 



Near Higham Ferrers, bordering on the 

 county of Bedford, was an extensive park, 

 for which I find, among ' divers extra- 

 ordinaries accrued and paid since the first 



of May 1608,' the sum of 1,500/. was paid 

 to the Lord Stanhope by King James I.' 



Existing Deer Parks in Northampton- 

 shire. 



i. burghley 



2. Rockingham 



3. Deane 



4. Blatherwick 

 s. boughton 



6. Carlton . 



7. cottesbrooke 



8. Althorp . 



9. Norton , 



10. Fawsley , 



11. LiTCHBOROUGH 



12. Canons-Ashby 



13. Aynhoe . 



14. Whittlebury 



. Marquis of Exeter. 

 . Mr. Watson. 

 . Earl of Cardigan. 

 Mr. Stafford O'Brien. 

 . Duke of Buccleuch. 

 . Sir G. Palmer, Bt. 

 . Sir J. Langham, Bt, 

 . Earl Spencer. 

 . Mrs. A. Seymour. 

 . Sir R. Knightley, 

 Bart. 

 Mr. Grant. 

 . Sir H. Dryden, Bt 

 . Mr. Cartwright. 

 . Lord Southampton. 



WAR WICK SHIRE. 



DonmELiB, which Dugdale supposes to be 

 the modern Beldesert, ' a hilly tract, bor- 

 dered with deep vallies," near Henley-in- 

 Arden, may perhaps lay claim to be the 

 spot which as far as we know is earlier 

 connected with the chase than any other 

 place in the county of Warwick — not that 

 there was any park there, strictly speaking, 

 at the period of the Domesday Survey — 

 but the Earl of Mellent is there recorded 



' Baker's Northamptonshire, vol. ii. p. 278. 

 ' Original Acco-ant/ienes the Baroness North, 

 ' Dugdale's Warwickshire, Thomas's ed. 



to have been possessed of the 'Hay' at 

 Donnelie, containing half a mile in length 

 and as much in breadth. This Hay is 

 remarkable among the number which are 

 mentioned in Domesday, from having its 

 size particularised. It was formerly worth 

 twenty, and at the lime of the survey 

 thirty shillings, Beldesert at a very early 

 period became the principal seat of the 

 great family of Montfort, who were very 



vol. ii. p. 798. From tjiis second edition all 

 the references are made. 



