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DEER AND DEER PARKS. 



Ch. X. 



Nostal. Here Sir Richard Gargrave, in 

 the reign of James I., had a grant of a 

 free park. At Kinsley, adjoining, was 

 also a house and park. It had been an 

 •ancient estate- of the Burtons, but was 

 purchased by Sir Thomas Gargrave in 

 the time of Queen Ehzabeth." 



Wakefield was surrounded by several 

 parks. The largest, called ' The New 

 Park; contained 200 fallow-deer, and the 

 smallest, or Old Park, 80, in the year 



■ 1604.' I find the latter mentioned in the 

 Patent Rolls as early as the thirteenth of 

 Edward III. , 



Still more to the north numerous ancient 

 parks were scattered over the broad ex- 

 panse of the West Riding. To the west, 

 the large wild park of Denholme, which 

 belonged to the Tempests, and was re- 

 served for red deer ; others at Bowling 

 Hall, Calverley, Farnley Hall, &c. Near 

 Leeds was the well-known Rothwell 

 Haigh, the park belonging to the manor- 

 place of the Lacies of Rothwell ;' and here 

 also still exists the ancient park of Temple 

 Newsam, imparked by John Darcy, with 



■ the royal license in the eighteenth year of 

 Edward III.* Ninety fallow-deer are 

 stated to have been here in July 1604. 



To the east, near Selby, six parks 

 are marked by Saxton, including Rust 

 and Scaline Parks. Near Wetherby and 

 Tadcaster is the extensive park of Bram- 

 ham. 



In the more central district is Kipax. 

 Here was a small park held under the 

 Duchy of Lancaster, and containing 45 

 fallow-deer in 1604.' 



South of Knaresborough were the great 



' Hunter's S. Yorkshire, vol. ii. p. 



2 Lambeth MSS. No. 709. 



3 Whitaker's Whalley, p. 205 n. 

 ' Cal. Pat. Rolls, p. 148. 



211. 



■^3x\s, oi Spoford ■a.nA Healag/tjhelongmg 

 to the Earls of Northumberland. Both 

 were visited by Leland. Of the latter he 

 writes : ' From Helegh Priory, scant a 

 mile to Helegh village, there I saw great 

 Ruines of an auncient Manor-place of stone 

 that longgid with the fair woddid park 

 thereby to the Erie of Northumberland.'* 

 It appears from the ' Northumberland 

 Household Book' that Spoford Park con- 

 tained 180 fallow-deer, and the wood of 

 Spoford 43, in the year 15 12. At the 

 same period Healagh Park had a herd of 

 319 red and fallow-deer. In 1604 Spo- 

 ford is said to have contained 175 fallow- 

 deer.' Healagh is not mentioned in the 

 Lambeth MSS. 



Between Spoford (or Spofforth) and 

 Knaresborough is Plump/on, where there 

 was a park noticed by Leland, and which 

 was enclosed in the thirteenth of Edward 

 IV.* At Knaresboroiigh there were three 

 parks, ' metely welle woddid,' which, ac- 

 cording to that accurate topographer, be- 

 longed to that place. The largest was 

 called ' the Park of the Hay,' or 'Hay 

 Park,' and its herbage and pannage were 

 let to Francis Slingsby, Esq., for twenty- 

 one years, in the thirtieth year of Queen 

 Elizabeth (1587^8) at an armual rent of 

 6/. 1 8 J. %d.-> 



Of the parks about Skipton, belonging 

 to the great House of Clifford Earls of 

 Cumberland, we have an interesting ac- 

 count in Whitaker's ' History and Anti- 

 quities of Craven.'^ There appear to 

 have been several besides that adjoining 

 to the castle, valued in the fourth year 

 of Edward II., with the feeding of the 



' Leland's Itin. vol. i. p. 46, fol. 48. 



» Cal. Pat. Rolls, p. 318. 



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



' 2nd ed. pp. 228, 230.. 



