. Some account of English deer parks, with notes on the management of deer. Deer; Deer hunting. CHAPTER I. ' And I will that every man be entitled to his hunting, in wood and in field, on his own possession ; And let everyone forego my hunting : take notice where I will have it untrespassed oh, under penalty of the full wite.'—Laws of King Cnut. S parks, ot' enclosed grounds for the preservation of deer, are incidentally mentioned in the general survey of Domesday undertaken soon after the Norman conquest of England, we may, I think, conclude that they were not unknown here before that period;
. Some account of English deer parks, with notes on the management of deer. Deer; Deer hunting. CHAPTER I. ' And I will that every man be entitled to his hunting, in wood and in field, on his own possession ; And let everyone forego my hunting : take notice where I will have it untrespassed oh, under penalty of the full wite.'—Laws of King Cnut. S parks, ot' enclosed grounds for the preservation of deer, are incidentally mentioned in the general survey of Domesday undertaken soon after the Norman conquest of England, we may, I think, conclude that they were not unknown here before that period; though we have (for the most part) no earlier means to distinguish them from the forests, woods, and hunting-grounds, which covered so large a portion of our island in pre-Norman times. And in confirmation of this view I would refer to Mr. Thorpe's ' Diplomatarium Anglicum .^vi Saxonici, a Collection of English Charters from the Reign of King iEthelberht of Kent DCV. to that of William the Con- queror.' Among the wills is that of Thurstin, of which the supposed date is 1045. He bequeaths to his ' Chnites, or pages, the wood at Ongar (in Essex) except the deer-hay or deer-park " Derhaye" and the stud which I. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Shirley, Evelyn Philip, 1812-1882. London, J. Murray
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