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Park, Whitley and New Park, Okeley, 

 Shipnash, Ham Park, Beverstone, Hill 

 Park, Ozleworth, Abnondesbury, Crom- 

 ■Aall, and Uley Parks. Leland, however, 

 only notices four parks, 'Okeley Parke 

 hard by, Whitwike,' New Parke, HawUe 

 Parke.' 



We find, from Fosbroke's amusing and 

 valuable extracts from Smyth's ' Lives of 

 the Berkeleys,' ' The Chase of the Barons 

 of Berkeley was always and is still called 

 Michaelwood. It was partly disparked 

 loth James I., and wholly converted into 

 farms 3d Charles I. It had been reduced 

 in the 13th century, Maurice the second 

 Lord having granted various small estates 

 out of it, and again in the year 1301 a 

 farm, afterwards called " Bassets Court," 

 was further taken out of this Chase.' In 

 the year 1568 Henry Lord Berkeley 

 issued his warrant to Henry Ligon to 

 build a new lodge at the Park Hill in 

 Michaelwood Chase.^ 



Of the parks which belonged to the 

 Castle of Berkeley, that which was called 

 ' The Worthy ' appears to have been en- 

 closed by Thomas the fourth Lord Berke- 

 ley, in the reign of Henry IV. It was 

 also called the 'Castle Park.' After 

 Berkeley Castle fell by attainder into the 

 power of the Crown, this park was en- 

 larged by ' King Henry VIIL, who in the 

 year 15 14, granted to Maurice the 6th 

 Lord Berkeley, the keeping of the Castle 

 Park caUed " The Worthy," and of the 

 Portership thereof, and the keeping of the 

 red and fallow-deer in Chisalhanger and 

 Redwood.'^ Henry Lord Berkeley is said 



' Fosbroke's Lives of the Berkeleys, pp. 35, 

 197. 

 ' lb. p. 23. 

 » See p. 38. 



'passionately to have disparked that 

 ground' (The Worthy) in consequence of 

 the ^laughter of twenty-seven stags by 

 Queen Elizabeth and her Court in one 

 day, in the year 15 74-' 



The ancient park of Whitley or White-' 

 cliffe, is the present park belonging to 

 Berkeley Castle. It was first imparked, 

 according to Smyth's ' Lives of the Berke- 

 leys,' by Maurice second Lord Berkeley 

 in the reign of Henry III. Thomas the 

 third Lord is said to have first paled it, 

 ' instead of the hedge of Whitcliffe Park, 

 which each three years was, with the ex- 

 crescence of thorns there growing, new 

 made, and the old sold.' Here he is said 

 to have put certain white deer which he 

 had of William de Montacute Earl of 

 Salisbury. Henry Lord Berkeley in the 

 sixteenth century, enlarged this park by 

 throwing into it a farm called Cowley, and 

 in the lodge here his widow is said some- 

 times to have resided.* 



New Park was enclosed by Thomas 

 third Lord Berkeley in 1327-8. At the 

 same time with the enclosure. Lord 

 Thomas 'built a square pile of stone- 

 worke for a lodge for this park.' It was en- 

 larged between the years 1368 and 1417;* 



Lord Berkeley had a park at Shobe- 

 nash in the time of Richard I. In the thir- 

 teenth century Thomas the first Lord made 

 Horley and Shobenash, now called Oakley 

 and Shepnasse, into two parks ; they were 

 disparked by Sir Edward Seymour in the 

 reign of Edward VI.,* and thesamefatepro- 

 bably overtook most of the Berkeley parks ; 

 but Cromhall was again imparked in the 



' Fosbroke's Lives of the Berkeleys, pp. 36, 



I3I. 



' Lives of the Berkeleys, p. 35, 



