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carriage and four, and outriders, would not unfrequently be seen 

 gracing the meet.' 1 



Another ancient Cumbrian Deer Forest, which existed con- 

 temporaneously with that of Inglewood, continued to flourish 

 until the later years of the eighteenth century, and receives 

 mention under the names of Coupland Forest, Wastdale, and 

 Ennerdale, owing to the great extent of the wild hill-country 

 over which herds of these animals moved, descending no doubt 

 from the hill-tops to more sheltered situations when hard 

 pressed by frost and snow during the earlier months of the 

 year. In one of the charters which William de Meschin, the 

 founder of the religious house of St. Bees, granted to the 

 members of that community, he assigns to them a tithe of 

 venison : ' decimas piscariarum mearum de Cauplandia, necnon 

 et decimam porcorum, et carnis venationis mea3, per totam 

 Caupalandiam.' 2 The property belonged to the Earl of North- 

 umberland at the beginning of the sixteenth century. There 

 still exists, among the mss. of Lord Muncaster, an award of 

 Henry Earl of Northumberland, granting to Sir John Penygton, 

 knight, and John Lamplugh, Esquire, the ' office of maistir 

 forstership' of all his woods and game within his lordships 

 of Eskdale (Esshedaille) and Wastdalehead (Wasedaillhed). 

 Neither was to exercise his office without the assent of the 

 other. 3 



The Earl of Northumberland's Household Book, published in 

 1827, contains ' An Account of all the Deer in Parks and Forests 

 in the North, belonging to the Earl of Northumberland, taken 

 in the 4th year of Henry vin. Anno 1512.' 



From this we learn that the Earl possessed in Cumberland a 

 total of 1463 head of Red and Fallow Deer. The number of 

 Red Deer in Wastdale was computed at 230. Of park Deer 

 there were 456 head at Langstrothdale Park ; 307 at Adylthorp 

 Park; 205 at Adylthorp Old Park, and 319 in Helaugh Park, 

 these numbers including both Red and Fallow Deer. 



' Above Irton/ writes John Denton, about the year 1610, i in 



1 The Cumberland Foxhounds, pp. 8, 9. 



2 Dugdale, Monasticon, vol. iii. p. 577. 



3 Hist. Manuscripts Comm., vol. xli. p. 228. 



