Sale of Venison. 
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Englishmen who 'travelled for pleasure were not very 
numerous at this period. Eynes Moryson was a gentle¬ 
man of good position and ample means. He travelled for 
the space of twelve years through Germany, Bohemia, 
and several other countries of Europe. His Itinerary , 
which is an account of his wanderings, was first written in 
Latin, and then translated by himself into English. It 
extends over the years 1591 to 1603. This work contains 
many interesting details concerning early manners, both 
English and foreign. Moryson died about the year 1614. 
John Norden, in his Description of Essex , 1594, writes :— 
“ About the hundredes of Waltham, Onger, Becontre, and muche 
of the Libertie of Havering are for the most part woods and woodie 
groundes, and foreste, as the most parte of Essex in time paste hath 
bene. This forest is well replenished with deere, red and fallow, who 
seeme noe good neighbors to the foreste inhabitantes: but the kindnes 
which they receyve of the forest, may worke their patience towardes 
the game. Ther is also nere Hatfeylde Broadokes a chace called Hat- 
feyld Chace, a grounde well replenished with fallow deare. This 
shire seemeth not anie wher altogether destitute of wood, thowgh no 
wher well stored. It is full of parkes.” (Page 9, ed. Camden Society.) 
Thomas Fuller bewails the necessity which forced land¬ 
lords to economize, and the consequent decrease in number 
of both deer and parks. He writes:— 
“ Deer are daily diminished in England, since the gentry are neces¬ 
sitated into thrift, and are forced to turn their pleasure into profit: 
1 jam, seges est ubi parcus erat; ’ and, since the sale of bucks hath be¬ 
come ordinary, I believe, in process of time, the best-stored park will 
be found in a cook’s shop in London.” ( Worthies of England , vol. ii. 
p. 217.) 
James I., who like his predecessor, Elizabeth, took 
great delight in hunting, has generally had 
t ,. b ■ . _ . b , t , . Fallow Deer, 
the credit ot introducing the dark variety 
of fallow deer into England. In the State Papers of his 
time there is more than one allusion to expenses for the 
transfer of deer from Denmark to this country. 
