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DEER AND DEER PARKS. 



Ch. X. 



the Lord Scrope." It does not appear in 

 the ancient surveys. 



Existing Deer Parks in the North Riding 

 of Yorkshire. 



1. Hornby-Castle . The Duchess Dow- 



ager of Leeds. 



2. SwfNTON . . . Mrs. Danby Har- 



court. 



YORKSHIRE. EAST RIDING. 



Seven parks only are given in Saxton's 

 Survey as existing in the East Riding in 

 the year 1577: one between Kexby Bridge 

 and Church-Eaton on the banks of the 

 Dei'went ; one at Everingham, between 

 Pocklington and Market -Wrighton, a 

 still-existing park ; one at Risby, near 

 Beverley ; one at Burstwick, near Hea- 

 don ; the still-existing park at Burton- 

 Constable, and the two Percy Parks of 

 Wresell zxiA Leconfield. The last-named 

 parks are both noticed by Leland. Of 

 Wresel ("near Howden) he says, ' There is 

 a parke hard by the castelle,' and of 

 Leconfield (close to Beverley) he writes, 

 ' The Park thereby is very fair and large 

 and meetely welle woddid." 



There were in 1512, as we know from 

 the ' Northumberland Household Book,' 

 two parks at Wressel ; the larger contain- 

 ing 42 red deer and 92 fallow-deer; and the 

 smaller, probably a paddock near the castle, 

 but 37 fallow-deer. Leconfield Park at the 



' Leland's Itin. vol. i. p. 89, fol. 95, and 

 vol. V, p. 120, fol. 115. 



same period contained 249 fallow-deer. 

 Leland mentions another park near How- 

 den ' in the way to Wresell,' belonging to 

 the Bishop of Durham, but it is not found 

 marked in the Elizabethan surveys. 



Close to Wressel also was the Earl of 

 Northumberland's park of Newsam. Al- 

 though not marked in the old maps as a 

 park, it is repeatedly mentioned in the 

 'Household Book' already referred to, 

 aid, in 1512, 324 fallow-deer are said to 

 have been here preserved. 



Kexby Park is traced to a license 

 granted to Thomas de Ughtred in the 

 eighth of Edward III.' 



The park of Everingham contains at 

 present about 200 acres, and the same 

 number of fallow-deer. The privileges of 

 this park, which is undoubtedly very 

 ancient, were confirmed by royal charter, 

 by James II., in the year 1687. 



North of Everingham is the park of 

 Londesborough, and to the west, near 



' Itin. vol. i. p. 48, fol. 50 and p. 56, fol. 60. 

 ' Cal. Pat. Rolls, p. 1 19 



