The View from WharnclifFe Chase, 



CHAPTER X. 



• LANCASHIRE. 



HE County Palatine of Lan- 

 caster, distinguished in forriier 

 times for the number of its 

 ancient families, could also 

 boast of a considerable number of ancient 

 deer parks. More than thirty are marked 

 in Saxton's map of 1577. They were gene- 

 rally in the southern parts of the county, 



though there were several, disparked be- 

 fore the Elizabethan period, in the north- 

 ern district of Furness. Thus in the 

 twelfth year of Edward III., in the year 

 1338, the Abbot of the great Cistertian 

 Abbey of Furness was permitted by Royal 

 license to impark his woods of Ramshead, 

 now corruptly spelt Rampside, Sowerby^ 



