Ch. X. 



YORKSHIRE. 



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Gautres was the old park of Raskill: here 

 were 120 fallow-deer in the year J604.' 



At Newborough in the sameneighbour- 

 hood, the park was enclosed in the sixth 

 year of Richard II. by a license granted 

 to the Prior of that place. The park of 

 Crake, a little to the south, belonged to 

 the Bishops of Durham; it was noticed by 

 Leland, but was disparked before Saxton's 

 time. 



An ancient park had long existed also 

 at Gilling Castle not far from Newbo- 

 rough, to be traced to a license for im- 

 parking a thousandacres of land and wood, 

 granted to Thomas Eaton in the forty- 

 eighth year of Edward III.' Two other 

 old parks remain to be mentioned in this 

 district — ^those of Sheriff-Hutton, and 

 Hilderskill CzsiXes. The former appears 

 to have been enclosed by Ralph de Nevill 

 in the ninth of Edward III., when the 

 right of making a deer-leap (saltatorium) 

 Tvas also included in the license. This 

 park is noticed in Leland's ' Itinerary,' and 

 contained in the year 1604, 400 fallow-deer.' 

 ' The park of Hinderskel,' writes Leland, 

 ' bymy estimation is a 4 miles yn cumpace, 

 and hath much fair youg wod yn it.'* 

 Here is the present house and park of 

 Castle Howard, the seat of the Earl of 

 Carlisle, a large demesne, including woods 

 and water, 1,500 acres, with a herd of 500 

 fallow-deer. A little more to the north is 

 Helmsley: here was an ancient park which 

 is given in Saxton's Survey, a part of it 

 is comprehended in the comparatively 

 modern park of Duncombe, the greater 

 part of which was enclosed about 1 50 years 



Lambeth MSS. No. 709. 

 Cal. Pat. Rolls, p. 191. 

 Lambeth MSS. No. 709. 

 Itin. vol. i. p. 67, fol. 73. 



ago; it is an area of 500 acres, with a herd 

 of 600 fallow-deer of every variety of colour. 



In the life of Marmaduke Rawdon of 

 York,^ the record of a day's hunting in 

 the old park of Hemsley or Hamlake, in 

 August 1664, is preserved. The park 

 then belonged to the second Duke of 

 Buckingham of the Villiers family. . 



In the north-eastern districts of the 

 North Riding of Yorkshire, the following 

 parks appear in the surveys of Saxton 

 and Speed : — Kirkby-Moreside, Synnyn- 

 ton, Blansby Park, Budik Park, Mul- 

 grave Castle, Danby Park (not impaled), 

 and parks at the Castles of Skelton and 

 Kilton. 



Blansby is near Pickering, where Leland 

 tells us there is ' a park by the castille- 

 side, more than vii miles in compas, but 

 it is not welle wooddid.'^ This park was 

 held under the Duchy of Lancaster, and 

 in the first year of Edward VI. let to 

 Armigill Wade, Gent., for forty-one years, 

 at an annual rent of 1 1/. 5^. 4^.' 



Near the town of Stokesley three an- 

 cient parks are also given in Saxton's 

 Map, — Aumond Park, Wharleton Castle, 

 and a park near the villages of Caythorne 

 and Rudby. 



An existing park is at Stanwick, the 

 old seat of the Smithsons, now Dukes of 

 Northumberland. 



More to the west, and on the borders 

 of the county of Durham, Leland more 

 than once mentions a park by Greta 

 Bridge ' waullid with stone, cauUid Bige- 

 nelle Park (in another place, Brignel 

 Parke, latine brevis mons), it longgith to 



' Printed by the Camden Society in 1863, 

 p. 123. 



' Itin. vol. i. p. 66, fol. 72. 



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



