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the fells and mountains, lies a waste forest ground full of Red 

 Deer, which was called the Wastdale, now Wasdale, the inherit- 

 ance of the Earl of Northumberland.' 1 



This is all that we hear of the Coupland Deer for fifty 

 years. 



At the close of the year 1660 a Westmorland magnate, Sir 

 Daniel Fleming, Bart., became sheriff of Cumberland. In the 

 following year he apparently had to entertain the Judges on 

 Assize, and venison was of course in requisition. Accordingly, 

 we find from his private accounts that he, obtained bucks from 

 Lowther, Muncaster, Naworth, Workington, Milium, and Kirk- 

 by. The only Red Deer venison forthcoming was supplied from 

 Wastdale and Martindale ; the stags sent from these, the two 

 last surviving, deer forests being respectively entered (under 

 date of August 25, 1661): 'Item, a stagg from Innerdale, 

 £00, 10s. 00d.'; and, ' Item, a stagg from Martindale, £00, 05s. 

 00d.' 2 



In the Survey of Cumberland which Sir Daniel Fleming drew 

 up in 1671, there appears the brief note, ' Ennerdale, a fforest 

 well stored with deer.' 3 He alludes also to ' IVastall, a large 

 forest or wast ground replenished with Red Deer.' 4 



Sandford, writing about 1675, refers to ' the mountaines and 

 fforest of Innerdale, wher ther is Reed dear, and as great Hartts 

 and Staggs as in any part of England : if you can get vs a 

 warrant from y or brother of Earle of Northumland for a Brace of 

 Staggs. The bow bearer is a brave gentleman : I have been at 

 his house in the Lower end of Enerdale : a seat for any gentle- 

 man : his name Mr. Kelleway, and we will hunt that dear 

 gallantly ; and eat it more brauely for y or sake.' 5 



How much longer the ' great Hartts and Staggs ' roamed over 

 1 the mountains and fforest of Innerdale/ can only be stated 

 approximately ; probably not much more than a hundred years 

 after Sandford proposed a gallant hunt. Hutchinson states in 

 his account of ' the mountain Scofell or Scowfell,' in the chapelry 

 of Eskdale, that ' within this century, several red deer were there, 



Denton mss. p. 20. 2 Rydal mss. p. 388. 



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1 Denton mss. p. 20. 2 Rydal MS 



3 A Survey of Cumberland, p. 9. 4 lb. cit. p 



5 Sandford's ms. p. 1. 



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