Chartley Park, Staffordshire. 



CHAPTER VIII. 

 DERBYSHIRE. 



YSONS, in his ' History of Der- 

 byshire,' ' observes that ' there 

 were anciently seven parks be- 

 longing to the Earls of Lan- 

 caster, and afterwards to the Duchy of 

 Lancaster, within this county, besides that 

 there were in the early part of the four- 

 teenth century, not less than fifty-four 

 deer-parks in Derbyshire, belonging to 

 monastic bodies and individuals.' He 

 proceeds to give a list of these parks in 

 their different parishes, but it will be more 

 convenient for our present purpose to 



notice them in detail, beginning first with 

 those which belonged to the Duchy of 

 Lancaster, These were mostly in and 

 around Duffield, one of the castles of the 

 great House of Ferrers, and which came 

 to the Crown on the fall of the Earl of 

 Derby, and was granted by Henry III. 

 to his son Edward Earl of Lancaster. 

 In the year 1330, in ansvter to a quo war- 

 ranto, Heriry Earl of Lancaster claimed 

 seven parks in the frith or forest of 

 Duffield ; these (which have been all 

 long disparked) were, Shmull, Mauncell, 



' P, clxix. 



