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DEER AND DEER PARKS. 



Ch. X. 



hands, and did kill sometimes twenty, and 

 had money given them for wine by the 

 Earl." In Harrison's time there were still 

 a thousand fallow-deer in the park, and of 

 deer of antler two hundred.' This park was 

 divided into farms about the commence- 

 ment of the eighteenth century.^ Leland 

 makes mention of ' the goodly Lodge or 

 Manor place on a hill top in Shefield 

 Park.'= 



In the immediate neighbourhood of 

 Rotherham, Saxton, in his Survey of York- 

 shire, marks several ancient parks, — at 

 Greasborough, Thriburgh, Conisbrough, 

 and two parks near the site of Keveton 

 Park on the borders of £)erby shire. Co- 

 ningbordugh, once the castle of the great 

 House of Warren, was in the hands of the 

 Crown in the reign of Henry VII., who, 

 by a warrant dated November nth, the 

 seventh of Henry VII., the original of 

 which, says Hunter, was in the possession 

 of F. F. Fuljambe, Esq. (in 1828), directed 

 to Sir Thomas Fitzwilliam, Knight, keeper 

 of our park of Cunesburgh Hawe, com- 

 manded him to deliver ' twelve quick does 

 to be taken within our pare of Cunesburgh 

 Hawe, to our trusty and well beloved 

 squire for our body Bryan Sandeford, to- 

 wards the storing of his park at Thorp' 

 This was was at Thorpe Salvin in the 

 parish of Laughton, on the borders of 

 Yorkshire, Nottinghamshire, and Derby- 

 shire. There were 440 fallow-deer in Co- 

 nisborough Park in 1604.' 



Near Greasborough is the extensive 

 and magnificent but comparatively mo- 

 dern park of Wentworth- Woodhouse, and 

 the ancient park of Tankersley. Of the 



' Hunter's Hallamshire Fo. 181 9, pp. 7, 

 189. 

 2 Itin. vol. v. p. 107, fol. 94. 

 » Lambeth MSS. No. 709. 



latter it was said, in 1731, that the finest 

 red deer in England were here fed.* 



A little to the west is Worthy and 

 Wharncliffe, ' partly,' says Hunter, ' a 

 Forest, and partly a Deer Park.' Here 

 is the famous inscription of Sir Thomas 

 Wortley, inscribed in 15 10, to the effect 

 that he had built the lodge here ' that he 

 might hear the hart bel in the midst of 

 Wharncliffe.'^ Two hundred head of deer 

 are still kept in Wharncliffe Chase." 



North of Wortley is the modern park 

 of Wentworth Castle, and the smaller one 

 of Cannon Hall, containing 157 acres, 

 and about 170 fallow-deer. It was en- 

 closed about the year 1730. To the east 

 of Barnsley a park is marked by Saxton 

 at Brearly ; a subsequent park was, in 

 the early part of the eighteenth century, 

 at Woodsome, near Huddersfield, belong- 

 ing at that period to the Kaye family : it 

 appears to have been disparked about the 

 year 1733, after the death of Lord Lewis- 

 ham, who had married the heiress of the 

 Kayes. An existing park is at Wolley, 

 between Barnsley and Wakefield. 



On the eastern confines of this southern 

 part of Yorkshire, on the borders of Lin- 

 colnshire, was the celebrated Hatfield 

 Chase, of which Hunter, in his ' South 

 Yorkshire,' has given the following ac- 

 count :' ' Hither the Earls of Warren 

 were accustomed to resort for the enjoy- 

 ment of these sports [hunting, fowling, 

 and fishing], and near the centre of the 

 chase, at which is now the town of Hat- 

 field, they had a house at which they 

 might remain when, fatigued with their« 

 day's exertion, they were unwilling to 



* Mag. Britt. 1731, vol. vi. p. 506. 

 ° See anti, p. 22. 

 ° Hunter's S, Yorkshire, p. 332. 

 ' Vol. i. p. 15s, &c. 



