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DEER AND DEER PARKS. 



Ch. X. 



Rouhead, Greenscogh, Hagg, axiAMillivood 

 in Low Fumess, and of Claife^ and some 

 other parts of the Fells. In a Rental of 

 the Lands of the Abbey I find ' The new 

 parke vocatum Dereparke,' estimaited at 

 6/. 13J. 4^.' A park at Broughton, in this 

 district, is marked in Saxton's Survey. At 

 Holker Hall near Cartmell, is an existing 

 park belonging to the Duke of Devon- 

 shire, containing 200 acres, and 180 fallow- 

 deer.. 



In the neighbourhood of Lancaster were 

 the parks of Leghton, Hornby Castle, 

 where there were two parks, Leek, Gres- 

 garth, and Ashton. The latter appears 

 to have been identical with that imparked 

 by John de Ashton called ' Lymparke ' 

 in Ashton, in the eleventh year of 

 Edward 1 11.^ 



An existing park, at Ashton, which for- 

 merly belonged to the Dukes of Hamilton, 

 and now to Mr. Starkie, contains 130 

 acres, and a herd of 30 menil or spotted 

 deer. 



South of the Forests of Wyerdale and 

 Bowland, was the great Park or Chase of 

 Mirescough: it is mentioned by Leland in 

 liis ' Itinerary' as follows: ' or I cam to 

 Garstone by a mile and a half, I left 

 Marscow, a great parke partely enclosid 

 with Hegge, partely al on the moore side 

 with pale, on the right. It is replenishid 

 with Redde Deere. The Erie of Derby 

 hath hit in farme of the King." In the 

 ninth year of Elizabeth, the Herbage and 

 Pannage of this park was let to Edward 

 Tildisley for fifty years, at an annual rent 

 of 25/.* 



Among the Domestic State Papers of 



' Beck's Annales Furnesienses, 4to. 1844, 

 p. 71. 



' Cal. Pat. Rolls, p. 128. 

 ' Itin. vol. V. p. 98, fol 84. 



the year 1633-4 (Feb. 15), is a Petition 

 from Carew Raleigh, farmer of this 

 park, to the King, for an order from the 

 Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster to 

 compound with the Petitioner^ It appears 

 that the rent of the park was to be in- 

 creased to 35/. per annum, and the Crown 

 to be discharged of the annual fee of 4/., 

 granted to the keeper for life. 



A letter is also preserved in the State 

 Paper Office, dated the 3rd of, September, 

 1662, from the King to Edward Tyldesley, 

 chief ranger of this park, to the effect 

 that whereas several faUow-deer having 

 been driven out of the park by the injury 

 of the late times, and bred and increased 

 in the adjacent grounds, he is ordered to 

 hunt and drive in any not belonging to 

 a chartered park.' 



Another and smaller park is marked in 

 the ancient maps at Grenno or Gr«nagh 

 Castle, a little north of Garstang. 



Whitakerinhis ' History of Whalley' has 

 preserved much information with regard 

 to the forests, chases, and parks within 

 the Honor of Clitheroe.^ Of the Royal 

 ■paxkoi Ightenhill h.e observes, that it was 

 separated from the Forest of Pendle by 

 the Calder, and was one of the demesnes 

 of Clitheroe Castle. The ancient ortho- 

 graphy, he says, is HightenhuU ; within 

 the pale was a very ancient manor-house 

 of the Lacies, in existence as early as the 

 twenty-second of Henry III. (1238^. In 

 13 1 1, it is mentioned in an Inquisition as 

 being one league and a half (leuca) in circuit. 



A note of ' sundry parks within the 

 Duchy of Lancaster,' preserved among 

 the Cotton M3S.,' tells us that sometime 



' Cotton MS. Titus B. iv. f. 297. 



» S. P. O. Domestic. 



" 4to. London, 181 8, p. 218, &c. 



' Titus B. iv. fol. 297. 



