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DEER AND DEER PARKS. 



Ch. VIII. 



Postern, Belper, Morley, Ravensdale, and 

 Schymynd-cliffe. They were all in the 

 neighbourhood of Belper and Duffield, in 

 the centre part of the southern division 

 of Derbyshire. 



The Park of ShottuU is marked in Sax- 

 ton's Map of 1577 as Shotley Park, but 

 was then probably disparked, as it is 

 represented without pales : it appears to 

 have been the most considerable of the 

 Duffield Parks, and is thus noticed in an 

 original wardmote ' of ' Duffield Fryth,' 

 held at ' Rowhouse,' die Lunas px post fift 

 ATschT epi anno Reg. Henrici Septimi xiii. 



'Pcus de ShottuU. On the Sunday 

 next after Saynt Barnaby Day, a doo was 

 kylled in the blak broke, and cared out of 

 the pale and stoUen, by whom it can not 

 as yet be pved. On the Tuysday next 

 aft' Saynt Barnaby Day a doo was kylled 

 and drawen aft' to Thorns PEer hous. 

 Roger Vernon had a buk by the kep. 

 My Lord of Shrewsbury kylled a buk, 

 ii sowres, and a sowrell, and gaff theym 

 to S' Harry Willoughby, Knyght, and 

 other squyers and gentilmen that were 

 there. Antony Babyngton a sowre by 

 the kep. Mast' Thoihs Talbot a sowre 

 and a doo by his own auctorite. Nicholas 

 Shirley a sowre. The BailifFe of Derby 

 and other of the same town had a buk on 

 the Monday next aft' Saynt Gyly's Day, 

 a chaunce buk and a sowre that the kep 

 had to his own use the same tyme. God- 

 frey Foliambe a buk by a warrant. 

 Thorns Leyke a buk by a warrant. 

 Mastre Elton had a buk by the kep. 

 Harry SacheverpU a sowre by the kep; 

 William Sacheverell a buk by the wod- 

 mastr. Edward Savege a buk by the 

 kep. Mastre Stokes a buk by the kep. 



' Penes the Earl Ferrers. 



« Cotton M.";. Titus, B. jv. fo. 297. 



The kep had a buk the same tyme. 

 Thomas Molyneux a buk by the kep. 

 William Gresley a buk by the kep. The 

 Abbot of Sale a buk by the kep. John 

 Alsop and other of his friends had a buk 

 by the kep. Itni the kep had ii bukks 

 when he removed to Wyndloy hill.' The 

 reversion of Shottle, or Shothill Park, to- 

 gether with that of Postern, was granted 

 by Queen Elizabeth to the Earl of Shrews- 

 bury for forty-one years, in the thirteenth 

 year oif her reign. The herbage of these 

 parks was at. that time valued at 86i* 



Mauncell, or Mansell Park, is also no- 

 ticed in the wardmote above referred to. 

 It is at present, with the Park ai Revens- 

 dale, comprehended within the parish of 

 Mugginton. 



Postetn Park occurs also in the same 

 wardmote. It adjoined Shottle, and is 

 marked in Saxton's Survey as Pogtern 

 Wood. 



Morley Park is a little to the east of 

 the preceding parks, in the great parish 

 of Duffield. According to Lysons,' this 

 park was granted by Queen Elizabeth, 

 about the year 1573, to John Stanhope, 

 Esq. The wardmote before alluded to 

 observes : — ' Nicholas Knevetoa and 

 Roger Vernon cam into Morley pke and 

 hunted by there own autorite and kylled 

 no thyng. Itffi the said Nicholas Kne^- 

 veton brak the pale another tyme as he 

 went to Butterley.' 



Belper, now a considerable place, is 

 about three miles north of Duffield, of 

 which it was originally a chapelry. The 

 name — Beau-repaire — was given to it, as it 

 is supposed, by Edward Crouchback, Earl 

 of Lancaster, who died in 1296, from its 

 beautiful situation, afterwards coiTupted to 



' P. 141. 



