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DEER AND DEER PARKS. 



Ch. X, 



Wm. Atkinson's office, due this Pentecost, 

 xvi'. 



' S'Richd. Musgrave,Knt.,his half year's 

 annuities, xxv". [query as Master Forester?] 



' Keeping Carlton Park iiii". 



' Keepershippe at Barden, xxx'. 



' Keeping his Lps deer in Longshotte, xl'. 



' Keepershippe of the great new Picehere 

 at Skipton at Pke George, viii". 



'Looking to mylo: deere on Thorpe 

 Tell, XX'. 



'John Taylor of Littendale, for his 

 keepershippe there, xK' 



[Thirteen keepers prove how large a 

 portion of Craven was then ranged by 

 deer.] 



' For going to the Birks with a letter for 

 bringing six red-deer hither picked out of 

 Lister Simmons herd, xii'. 



' For going to Londesbro' with the great 

 Buck of Threshfield, ix'. 



' Gave to Mr. Michael Lister's man and 

 maide who brought 2 hyndes calves, and 

 a cowe from their master, (the cowe he 

 gave unto my Ld.), xii''. John Wardman 

 for the charge of himself and two men 

 carrying xiii. kyne and 25 hynd calves to 

 my lady Suffolk at Saffron Walden on 

 whom my lord did bestow them, vii".' 



[These items are curious. The Earl 

 had engaged to supply the Countess of 

 Suffolk with red-deer (which seem to 

 have been rare in the south), in order to 

 stock the park at Audley-End, and for 

 that purpose appears to have had several 

 hynd calves taught to suck cows, by which 

 means the difficulty of conveyance was 

 obviated, as the young creatures would 

 spontaneously follow their foster dams.] 



' Given to the keepers of Wighil Park, 

 Mr. Henry Stapleton's men, my Lord 

 having killed two buckes in his parke, xx». 



' Whitaker's Craven, 



' To the keepers of Allerton Maulevery 

 parke where my Lord killed a buck, xiii*. 

 iv".'! 



Wighill is near Wetherby in the Ainsty 

 Liberty,- Allerton Maulevery was one of 

 the Knaresborough parks. 



In 1650, in consequence of the loyalty 

 of the owner. Lord Clifford, the Park of 

 Skipton was placed under sequestration 

 by the usurping powers, 'who declared 

 that they would let all the deer out of 

 the park when the first of June is passed.' 



' In 1654, however, the heiress of the 

 elder and younger line of the Cliffords 

 having succeeded to their respective por- 

 tions of the family estates, the deer which 

 had hitherto ranged at large over both, 

 were now to be appropriated and enclosed. 

 From this transaction, therefore, ob- 

 serves Whitaker, ' we are able to fix the 

 era at which the ancient forests of Craven> 

 were finally depopulated of their old and 

 stately inhabitants, and as the park of 

 Bolton was the retreat provided for one 

 moiety of them, we have here a positive 

 proof that the stags which yet adorn its 

 summits are lineal descendants of that 

 wild race which anciently spread from 

 Skipton to Longstruther; at once the pride 

 of the chase, and the luxury of Romille 

 and Albemarle, of Percy and Clifford.' 

 The contract by which the above ar- 

 rangement was carried out was dated the 

 20th of May 1654, and was between the 

 Countess Dowager of Pembroke and 

 Elizabeth Countess of Cork, ' Touching 

 the Deer that are or shall be driven into 

 Barden parke, — That as soon as a certain 

 number shall be taken as well of those 

 already come in, as of such deer as 

 shall hereafter be driven into the said 

 parke of Barden, which was lately 

 2nd ed. p. 319. 



