. The vertebrate fauna of Cheshire and Liverpool Bay. ruction of the Manchester Ship Canal, and whichis in the possession of Sir Richard M. Brooke, Bart, ofNorton Priory, is figured and described by J. G. Millais§ ;it is forty-seven and a half inches along the outside ofthe curve, and the beam, between bay and tray, is eightinches in circumference; the right antler has five and theleft eight points. In the twelfth century the master-forestership of the forestsof Mara and Mondrem, which then extended from the Merseyto Nantwich, was conferred by Ranulph de Meschines,Earl of Chester, upon Ranulph
. The vertebrate fauna of Cheshire and Liverpool Bay. ruction of the Manchester Ship Canal, and whichis in the possession of Sir Richard M. Brooke, Bart, ofNorton Priory, is figured and described by J. G. Millais§ ;it is forty-seven and a half inches along the outside ofthe curve, and the beam, between bay and tray, is eightinches in circumference; the right antler has five and theleft eight points. In the twelfth century the master-forestership of the forestsof Mara and Mondrem, which then extended from the Merseyto Nantwich, was conferred by Ranulph de Meschines,Earl of Chester, upon Ranulph de Kingsley, to hold thesame by tenure of a horn || ; and in 1270 the libertiesof the Forest, which included the right to kill deer, weregranted by Royal Charter to the Abbot and monks of * Hume, Ancient Meols, pp. 21 and 348. t Lane, and Ches. Antiq. Soc. Proc, 1884, pp. 116-117. J Millais, Mammals of Great Britain and Ireland, Vol. III., p. 95. § Id., op. Vol. III., pp. 95, 96, and plate. II Ormerod, History of Cheshire, Vol. II., p. THE DELAMERE HORN. f^^] From an oil painting in the possession of the Earl of Haddington. MAMMALS 65 Dernhall (Darnhall) and Over.* In 1303 the Dones ofUtkinton, having intermarried with the de Kingsleys,pleaded for and obtained the master-forestship,f but twoyears later it was ordained that the Abbots of St. Werburgh,Chester, be permitted by Done to take deer themselves,to the number of a stag and six bucks yearly, and such chancedoes or wild beasts as might be killed along with Webb, describing the forest of Delamere in 1656,Jsays : Which Forest is a very delectable place for aScituation, and maintaineth not only a convenient beingand preservation for his Majesties Deer both Red andFallow, whereof there is no small store ; and in the generaldescription of the forests of Delamere and Maxfield§mentions great store of Deer, both Red and he relates that King James I. took his pleasureand Repast in the Fo
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