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paled after the Restoration of Charles II. 

 by William Cavendish Duke of New- 

 castle.' It has been long disparked. 



In 1709 his son, the second Duke of 

 Newcastle, as Lord Warden of the Forest 

 of Sherwood, obtained by Letters Patent, 

 license to make a park within the forest, 

 to contain at least 3,000 acres of his own 

 land, and in consideration of thus extin- 

 guishing the rent of such a quantity of his 

 own lands, and of finding hay and pas- 

 ture ground, not only for the deer to be 

 kept in the said park, but for those in the 

 forest also, and of paying all the keepers 

 both in the park and forest, a yearly fee 

 or salary of 1,000/. was granted to him, 

 payable out of the Exchequer. It was 

 paid till the death of Queen Anne in 



17I4.'' 



Of Newstead Thoroton observes that it 

 ' was once ornamented with 2.700 head of 

 deer.' It is believed to have been dis- 

 parked about the middle of the last cen- 

 tury by William Lord Byron.* 



Near Newstead is the existing park of 

 Annesley, the seat of Mr. Chaworth Mus- 

 ters. It contains about 780 acres, of 

 which only 450 are open to the deer — a 

 herd of 300 of the small black forest fallow 

 breed, which have never been crossed in 

 the memory of man. This park was en- 

 closed by Patrick Viscount Chaworth, by 

 license granted under the Privy Seal, the 

 17th of July 1673, in the thirteenth year 

 of Charles II. A wood with ridings had 

 previously existed here, of which a plan 

 may be seen inThoroton's ' Nottingham- 

 shire.' In the common centre of the vari- 

 ous ridings was one of the stands for com- 



' CoUins's Noble Families, p, 42. 

 ' Fourteenth Report of Commissioners on 

 Woods and Forests, p. 1 103. 



manding the game common at that period. 

 Two of them still retain their names; ' The 

 Yew Tree Stand,' now a row of six veiy 

 large old yew trees on the brow of the hill 

 inside the park, and ' The Buck's Head 

 Stand,' the name of a wood adjoining. 



Lord Middleton has an ancient and still 

 existing park at his beautiful seat at Wol- 

 laton near Nottingham. 



To the south of Nottingham, and not 

 far from the borders of Leicestershire, is 

 Bunny. Here Sir Thomas Parkyns, the 

 third baronet, who succeeded to ■ his 

 father in 1684, built a park wall of brick, 

 three miles in compass, all on arches, be- 

 ing the first that was built, according to 

 Kimber in his ' Baronetage,'^ in England 

 after that method. 



Parks which arc now disused existed once 

 at Colewick near Nottingham, disparked 

 about twenty years ago, when the deer 

 were removed to Annesley Park, and at 

 Wiverton near Bingham, said to have 

 been enclosed by Sir Thomas Chaworth 

 in the twenty-fourth of Henry VI , and 

 probably disparked between the years 

 1640 and 1650.* 



In the midland parts of Nottingham- 

 shire is the town of SouthwelL In this 

 neighbourhood the Archbishop of York 

 had three parks; two were in the imme- 

 diate vicinity of the town, the one called 

 the New or Little Park, the site of the 

 palace, and the other Norwood Park. By 

 far the largest was Hexgrave ; this was 

 supposed by Thoroton to have been en- 

 closed by Walter Archbishop of York in 

 the time of Henry III. It is noticed by 

 Leland in his ' Itinerary,' who says, ' I 



' Information of Mrs, Chaworth Musters, 

 1865. 



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