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Bishop of Worcester^ agreed to give him, annually, a 
brace of bucks and a brace of does, out of his chace 
of Malvern, at the Bishop's Palace of Kempsey. 
In the well-known old song on Malvern, the deer 
are thus mentioned ^ — 
" A chase for royal deer 
Round doth beset thee ; 
Too many, too, I fear 
For aught they get thee ; 
Yet though they eat away 
Thy corn, thy grass, thy hay. 
Do not forget, I say. 
To praise the Lord.'* 
The chace of Malvern was disafforested in 1631^ 
and doubtless any straggling deer that remained were 
destroyed in the confusion and rapine of the civil 
wars between Charles I. and the parliament. 
Fallow deer are still kept domesticated in the parks 
at Westwood, Hartlebury, Croome and Northwick. 
The other domesticated animals, as horses, sheep, 
oxen, swine,^ &c. presenting no peculiar features from 
those of other places, demand no further notice. 
Dr. Nash has observed, as a reason for there being 
no breed of cattle peculiar to Worcestershire, that the 
land is too rich for a breeding stock. 
1 Among the ancient Britons, the oak woods were principally used for the food 
which the acorns afforded to their droves of swine. Thus under " Inkberrow" 
Dr. Nash observes from the Domesday Record, that there was " a wood two lewe 
long and one broad, yielding pasnage for an hundred hogs." Swinsherd in the 
parish of Spetchley derived its name from the herds of swine fed there on the mast 
or fallen acorns. When the woods were felled, as Drayton complains, to supply 
the salt pans at Droitwich, the feeding of herds of swine gradually fell into disuse, 
but in the New Forest, Hants, the practice still extensively prevails. 
