Ch. X. 



YORKSHIRE. 



221 



walled in by the said Countess of Pem- 

 broke, the said number so taken shall be 

 and remain in the said parke of Harden, 

 and be employed to the use and behoof of 

 the said Countess of Pembroke, until such 

 time as there shall be a parke walled in, 

 and made staunch at Bolton or Stedhouse 

 by the Countesse of Corke, and then the 

 one half of the said number of deer shall 

 be redelivered by the said Countess of 

 Pembroke, or her appointment to the 

 Countess of Corke or her appointment.'^ 



Nine or ten miles north of Shipton is 

 Threshfield. ' Here the Nortons had a 

 park noticed by Harrison in his Descrip- 

 tion of Britain,' where they kept their 

 fallow-deer, of which in 1603 the number 

 was 120. The park measured 80 acres, 

 and must have been filled with valuable 

 wood, as it was estimated at no less than 

 400/. while in the Crown; Sir Stephen 

 Tempest was Ranger. After it came into 

 possession of the Tempests it was still 

 preserved. In 1639, 2/, los. were paid by 

 the Earl of Cumberland's agents at Skip- 

 ton for toils to catch the deer at Thresh- 

 field, and then it was, in all probability, 

 that they were finally destroyed." 



More modern parks were at Broughton 

 in the immediate neighbourhood of Skip- 

 ton, and at Gisburne, some miles to the 

 west towards the Lancashire border. The 

 latter appears to have been enclosed by 

 the Prior of Gisburne by license in the 

 thirty-ninth of Edward I II.'' 



In the parish of Kettlewell on the con- 

 fines of the North Riding was Skale Park, 

 laid down in all the old surveys, and 

 licensed in the sixth and seventh, and 

 again in the eleventh year of Henry IV., 



' Whitaker's History of Craven, p. 239. 

 = P. 70. ' Tresfelde Parke.' 



' Whitaker's History of Craven, p. 472. 



by a grant to Ralph Earl of Westmoreland, 

 ' to enclose 300 acres of land for a park, 

 and to build and kernel a lodge within 

 it.' The name of Skale is derived from 

 a long and steep ascent within the park 

 from Craven to Coverdale; it is now 

 divided into two large enclosures.' 



The Archbishops of York possessed 

 from an early period a park at Ripon, of 

 which John De Carleton was deputed 

 keeper in the forty-fifth of Edward III." 

 Leland rates it as six miles in compass. 

 The existing park of Studley Royal is 

 in the immediate neighbourhood, and 

 appears in Saxton's Survey of 1577. 



Existing Deer Parks in the West Riding 

 of Yorkshire. 



1. Wharncliffe . Lord Wharncliffe. 



2. Wentworth- 



Earl Fitzwilliam. 



WOODHOUSE I 



3. Went WORTH ] Mr. Vernon Went- 



Castle I worth. 



4. Cannon Hall . Mr. Spencer Stan- 



hope. 



5. WOLLEY . . . Mr. Wentworth. 



6. Nostal Priory Mr. Winn. 



7. Cusworth . . Mr. Wrightson. 



8. Kirklees ... Sir George Army- 



tage, Bart. 



9. Methley . . . Earl of Mexbo- 



rough. 



10. Temple New-) Mr. Meynell In- 



SHAM J gram, 



11. BRAMHAM . . . Mr. Lane Fox. 



12. Bolton Abbey . Duke of Devon- 



shire. 



13. Gisburne . . . Lord Ribblesdale. 



14. Studley Royal Earl de Grey and 



Ripon. 



* Gal. Pat. Rolls, p. 180. 



" Whitaker's History of Craven, p. 480. 



« Cal. Pat. Rolls, p. 187. 



