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DEER AND DEER PARKS. 



Ch. VII. 



maps of Saxton and Speed, though it 

 seems to have been disparked long before 

 Dugdale's time. ' It was enclosed by 

 William Catesby, Esq., a great favourite 

 to king Richard III., who granted him in 

 the second year of his reign under his 

 signet at Kenilworth Castle, an Hundred 

 Oaks, to be taken within the king's old 

 park of Tanworth and Earlswood in 

 Tanworth, within this county, and 500 

 trees for rails in Lodbroke's Park in 

 Tanworth, for making his new park here 

 at Lapworth.'' 



In the hundred of Hemlingford we 

 have to notice the parks of Nuthurst, 

 Aston, Nechells, Park-Hall, Kingshurst, 

 Coleshill, Maxtoke, Berkswell, Packing- 

 ton, Arbury, Midleton, Merevale, and 

 Pooley Park. Sutton has been already 

 mentioned. 



Nuthurst.— In the fifth of Edward III. 

 William Trussell had license to make a 

 park of his woods in this place.* 



Aston, juxta Birmingham. — A fair park 

 was enclosed here by Sir Thomas Holt, 

 Bart., in the reign of James I.' It was 

 not disparked till the beginning of the 

 present century, about the year i8i8. 



Nechells Parke is marked in the map 

 of Hemlingford Hundred, in the first edi- 

 tion of Dugdale's 'Warwickshire' (1656). 

 It then belonged to Sir Thomas Holt. 



Park-Hall was imparked by the Arden 

 family, ' this being for the last 300 years,' 

 says Dugdale, ' their principal seat,' and 

 in the second year of Henry VIII. it was 

 considerably enlarged by John Arden, 

 Esq. It was afterwards called ' Man- 



' Dugdale, vol. ii. p. 789. 

 ' lb. vol ii. p. 958. 

 ' lb. vol ii. p. 872. 

 ' lb. vol ii. p. 887. 



sionne de la Logge, alias Park Hall.'* It 

 appears to have been disparked before 

 Dugdale's time, probably upon the at- 

 tainder of Edward Arden, Esq., in the 

 twenty-seventh of Elizabeth. 



Kingshurst and Coleshill, ancient parks 

 of the Montforts ; the first imparked by 

 Sir Edmund Montfort in the twenty- 

 sixth of Henry VI. ■,' afterwards both 

 came to the Digby family on the attainder 

 of Sir Simon Montfort in the eleventh 

 of Henry VII. The park at Coleshill 

 retained its deer and was not disparked 

 till about the year 1812. 



Maxtoke Castle had its park in the 

 time of Edward Stafford, Duke of Buck- 

 ingham, attainted in the thirteenth of 

 Henry VI 11.,^ and, as there is reason to 

 believe, for many ages before, when it 

 belonged to the Clintons, ' the pale of the 

 park of Maxtoke ' being found mentiolied 

 in a grant of Sir William Clinton to the 

 Church in the fifth of Edward III. 



Packington, imparked by Sir Clement 

 Fisher, in the reign of King James I. 

 ' out of the outwood, and some other 

 grounds here.'' It is at present a park of 

 500 acres, with a herd of 300 fallow-deer. 



Berkswell was the site of a very ancient 

 park, which belonged in the reign of 

 Henry II. to Nigel de Mundeville, and 

 which appears to have been kept up and 

 used as a park as late as the reign of 

 Elizabeth. 



Arbtcry, recte Erdburie.— Here a park, 

 which still continues, appears to have been 

 enclosed by the Newdigate family in the 

 eighteenth century. 



Dugdale, vol. ii. p. 1020. 

 lb. vol. ii. p. 995. 

 lb. vol. ii. p. 989. 



