Ch. X. 



YORKSHIRE. 



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(leer, at 6oj. ; in the year 1612, ' besyde 

 the same feeding,' rated at 10/. This 

 park, which lay immediately contiguous 

 to the Castle, had one deep and beautiful 

 dell, immediately beneath the walls. 



Near Skipton is Newbiggin, in the 

 parish of Carlton, where there was a park 

 probably enclosed by the first earl. The 

 Parks De la Caudre and Heye are first 

 mentioned in a charter of William de 

 Fortibus Earl of Albemarle, in the year 

 1257. Calder ax Cawder Park stretched 

 along the skirts of Romille Moor, and 

 near the confines of Bradley, where a 

 farm belonging to the Earl of Thanet 

 still (observes Whitaker in 18 12) retains 

 the name ; yet the Licentia imparcandi 

 was not granted before the fortieth of 

 Edward III. to Roger de Clifford. It is 

 now a grazing farm. 



The Hawe Park, or Haye Park, re- 

 taining some vestiges of the ancient 

 ridings, was at the same period a bushy 

 pasture. 



Another park was called George, of 

 which the particular site and dimensions 

 are not remembered. There were besides, 

 lodges and parks adjoining Holden, and 

 the Forest of Burden with various 'lodges' 

 within it, the lower part of which appears 

 to have been wholly occupied in parks 

 and chases. In the fourth of Edward II. 

 there were here six lodges for the accom- 

 modation of the keepers, and the protec- 

 tion of the deer, viz., Dreblay, Barden, 

 Laund, Gamleswath, Holgill, and Un- 

 gayne. 



The Forest of Skipton, which, excepting 

 Holden, comprehended all these parks 

 and demesnes, consisted of that rocky 

 and central part of Craven which extends 



' Whitaker's History and Antiquities of 

 Craven, 2nd ed. p. 232. 



east and west from the Wharf to the Are, 

 and is bounded on the north and south 

 by the two great openings which connect 

 those valleys. The whole may be esti- 

 mated at an area of six miles by four, or 

 15,360 acres.' 



Whitaker has preserved also many 

 curious particulars on the subject of hunt- 

 ing the deer in these wild and extensive 

 preserves. He tells us how the old Lady 

 Clifford 'hounded' her greyhounds within 

 the grounds of Rilston, and chased the 

 deer both red and fallow ; and how 

 Master Norton hath walled his grounds 

 of Rilston, where the foresters were wont 

 to walk, ' and to draw my Lord of Cum- 

 berland's deer into his ground he hath 

 made a wall on an high rigge (or ridge) 

 beside a quagmire, and at the end of the 

 wall he hath rayled the ground, so that 

 it is destruction to my Lord's deer so 

 many as come.'* 



The following extracts from the House- 

 hold Books of the Clifford Family are 

 curious in themselves, and will serve to 

 throw light upon the domestic economy 

 of our ancestors at the beginning of the 

 seventeenth century: — 



' Fees to Foresters and Park-keepers 

 within Craven. 



' 1609. To Lister Symonson, in part 

 for kepyng his Lordship's deer at Birks 

 (now Birk-House) near Buckden, xxv". 



' Robert Smith of Gressington, in part 

 for his kepershippe there x». 



' Kepershippe at Old Park x=. 



' Kepershippe at the Hawe, in part xv". 



' Kepershippe at Threshfield, xxx". 



' Kepershippe at Bradshawe, and the 

 hberties thereof, 1'. 



' Walking of Craco Fell, and part of 



^ Whitaker's History and Antiquities of 

 Craven, 2ndt ed. p. 234. 



