Ch. IX. 



SHROPSHIRE. 



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manor and chapelry of Minsterley in 

 Ruesset Hundred, adjoining what is called 

 in Saxton's Survey, Hockestow Forest. 

 But besides the Park of Marsetelie, there 

 are several 'Hayes* recorded inDomesday 

 as existing in this county. 



At Lege, the present Longnor, were 

 three firm Hayes, by which we may 

 understand three Hayes or Enclosures, in 

 good repair. There was a divided Hay, 

 that is a Hay divided between two pro- 

 prietors, at Rorrington, near Chirbury. 

 Another at Burford. Three at Stanage, 

 on the borders of Radnorshire ; and here, 

 as appears by an Inquest taken in Feb- 

 ruary, 1295, on the death of Brian de 

 Brompton, there was a park csMsAAmma- 

 reslit. The writ ordering an Inquest 

 taken in December, 1308, had directed 

 the jurors to value the late Brian de 

 Brompton's manor of Ambreslyth, but 

 the jurors explained, that Ambreslyth was 

 no manor but only a park pertaining to 

 the manor of Stanegge, separately worth 

 10s. per annum.^ 



One Haye was at Cascob, at present 

 an insulated part of Herefordshire, within 

 the county of Radnor, and of which 

 Domesday observes, ' in these waste lands 

 the woods have grown up. Therein 

 Osbem exercises the chase, and therein 

 he has what he can catch ; nothing else.' 



Lingham, the modern Lingen, is also in 

 Herefordshire, though in the Domesday 

 Shropshire. Here were at that period three 

 Hayes 'capreolis capiendis,' for taking 

 ■young deer or kids. 



' Eyton, vol. xi. p. 341. 



^ Hengwrt MS., No. 529, at Peniarth. By 

 the term ' Rascal Deer,' commonly used in the 

 seventeenth century, is to be understood the 

 'lean animals fit neither to hunter kill' (Halli- 

 well's Dictionary, suh voce). The rahe of the 

 deer is used in the same sense: thus Sir 



Hayes are also mentioned at the follow- 

 ing places: at Wenlock, Corfton, Stretton 

 (Church Stretton), Wentnor, Westune 

 (Whitchurch), Munek (Myndtown), Chen- 

 ton, Hopesay, Cheenpitune (Kempton), 

 Baitune (Batton), and in many other 

 places in this county. 



Arranging the ancient and modern 

 parks of Shropshire around the nucleus of 

 Shrewsbury, we find in the north-western 

 districts a few miles south of Ellesmere, 

 the large and important park of Kenwick, 

 very conspicuously marked in Saxton's 

 Maps of 1577. This appears to have 

 belonged to Haghmond Abbey, but I have 

 found no mention of the park till the year 

 1604, when WiUiam Penrhyn, writing on 

 the 27th of January to Hugh Nannay, 

 observes, ' S'. Jevan Lloid spent at Ken- 

 wik parke fortye markes in takynge of six 

 young Rascalls.'^ This place has been 

 long disparked. 



A little north of Kenwick is Otley, an 

 ancient and existing park, said to have 

 been imparked at the beginning of the 

 fourteenth century; it is recognised by 

 Saxton, and at present contains about 

 150 acres and 160 fallow-deer. 



Another ancient park was at Ruyton 

 juxta Baschurch, near Knockin, the seat 

 of the great Le Strange family, and which 

 appears to have been imparked by John 

 Le Strange about the year 1195, when 

 he came to the following agreement with 

 Hugh, Abbot of Shrewsbury, The Abbot 

 conceded to Le Strange a corner of his 

 wood of Birch, extending from the place 



Reginald Forster petitioned Charles II., April 

 15, 1663, to give him' the 'rake of the king's 

 deer ' from Hambledon Chase, belonging to the 

 Bishop of Winchester, &c. (8. P.O. Domestic). 

 So late as the year 1 733, I find the .Steward of 

 Woodsome Park in Yorkshire advising the 

 destruction of all the young and rascally deer. 



