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valuable hints for the formation of parks and the management of red and 

 fallow-deer. ' The parke,' he says, ' would be seated (if it be possible) 

 within a wood of high and tall timber trees, in a place compassed about, 

 and well fenced with walls made of rough stone and lime, or else of bricks 

 and earth-lome, or else with poles made of oake plankes. You must 

 foresee that there bee some little brooke of spring-water running along by 

 the place ; or, for want of spring-water and naturall streames, you must 

 prepare ditches and pooles, walled and daubed in such sort as that they 

 may receive and keepe the reine-water. Nor ought the parke to consist of 

 one kind of ground only, as all of wood, all grasse, or all coppice, but of 

 divers, as part high wood, part grasse or champion, and part coppice or 

 under-wood, or thicke spring : nor must these severall grounds lie open, or 

 as it were in a common one with another ; but they must be separated one 

 from the other by a strong rale, through which deere or shepe (but no 

 greater cattell) may passe, for they must have the full liberty of every place. 

 Neither must the parke be situated upon any one entire hill, plaine, or else 

 valley, but it must consist of divers hills, divers plains, and divers valleys ; 

 the hills which are commonly called the viewes or discoveries of parkes, 

 would bee all goodly high wbods of tall timber, as well for the beauty and 

 gracefulnesse of the parke, as also for the echoe and sound which will 

 rebound from the same, wlifen in the times of hunting, either the cries of 

 the hounds, the winding of homes, or the gibbetting of the huntsmen passeth 

 through the same, doubling the musicke, and making it tenne times more 

 delightfull : the plains which are called in parkes the lawnds, would be very 

 champion and fruitfull, as well for the breeding of great store of grasse and 

 hay for the feeding and nourishing of the deere or other wild beastes, as 

 also for the pleasure of coursing with greyhounds, when at any time the 

 owner shall be disposed to hunt in that manner ; for when the hounds shall 

 have hunted the game from the thicks unto the lawnds, then the grey- 

 hounds being placed thereupon, may in the view of the beholders course 

 upon the same, and beget a delight past equall. The valleys which are 



