Fallow Deer led by the Power of Music. See page 253. 



CHAPTER XI. 



ERVAS^ MARKHAM, in his edition of Richard Surflet's 

 translation of Liebault's ' Maison Rustique, or the Countrey 

 Farme,' printed in 1616, has given in the nineteenth chapter 

 of the second book some interesting matter ' of the situation 

 of the parkes, and of the manner of ordering the wild beasts therein.' As 

 this is not only, I believe, the earhest but also the most comprehensive 

 essay which has been written on this subject, I shall make some consider- 

 able extracts from the work, which exhibits both the practice of our 

 ancestors as regards their deer and deer parks, and also affords some 



