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DEER AND DEER PARKS. 



Ch. IX. 



possession of the lordship by the attainder 

 of Edward Duke of Buckingham in 1521. 

 The custom of the manor was, that the 

 tenants should fence out the lord, so that 

 the lord took the lands and made a park 

 chiefly at the expense of the tenants, who 

 were in their own defence obliged to fence 

 out the lord's deer. 



Manghen or Machen Park. — Here was 

 an ancient mansion of a junior branch of 

 the Morgan family. All traces of the 

 park are gone, except indeed that a large 

 ■wood bears the name of Caedy-Parc, or 

 the Park-Wood, which was probably the 

 site of it. 



Chepstow Park, — This was never im- 

 Jjaled, and seems to have been a large 

 unenclosed chase attached to the Castle 

 and Lordship of Chepstow. 



The following Parks are not noticed in 

 Saxton's Survey. 



St. Pierre Park, near Chepstow. — This 

 is a very ancient seat of the Lewis family 



(a branch of that of Tredegar in the four- 

 teenth century). There is no record of 

 the first enclosure of the park, which con- 

 tains about 140 acres and a herd of about 

 300 fallow-deer. 



Llangibby, near Usk. — The seat of the 

 ancient family of Williams, who formerly 

 possessed the old castle here, and de- 

 fended it during the civil wars. The park 

 was ancient, and may have belonged to 

 the castle. It did not contain many deer, 

 and was disparked and the deer killed a 

 few years ago. 



Pontypool Park. — This is not an an- 

 cient park, and was enclosed when the 

 mansion was built during the last century. 

 It is a park of 91 acres, and contains 180 

 fallow-deer. 



Existing Monmouthshire Deer Parl^. 



1. Tredegar 



2. St. Pierre 



3. pontypool 



Lord Tredegar. 



Mr. Lewis. 



Mrs. H anbury Leigh. 



SHROPSHIRE. 



Mr. Eyton, in his invaluable 'Antiquities 

 of Shropshire,' has identified ' Marsetelie' 

 the only park particularly mentioned in 

 the Domesday Survey in this county. ' It 

 is recorded,' he writes, ' among the ancient 

 customs of Shrewsbury, that when the 

 king visited the town, " The Sheriff used 

 to send thirty-six footmen as his body- 

 guard {ad stabilitionem), for so long as he 



remained there. But for the Park of Mar- 

 setlie (the Sheriff) used customarily to find 

 thirty-six men for eight days." That is, I 

 presume, the Sheriff provided the king's 

 body-guard when he went to hunt at 

 Marstley, and in the adjacent Royal Forest 

 of the Stiperstones.' ' Marsetelie, Mr. Ey- 

 ton considers, to be the modern Marstley, 

 a place in Habberley, a member of the 



Eyton's Antiquities of Shropshire, vol. vii. p. 46. 



