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Tudor and Early Stuart Parks of Hertfordshire (Paperback)
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Tudor and Early Stuart Parks of Hertfordshire (Paperback)
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This book forms a continuation of the research published in
Medieval Parks, Anne Rowe's highly regarded volume of 2009. Now she
turns her attention to the deer parks that existed in Hertfordshire
during the sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries. Drawing on
the earliest county maps, most notably those produced by Saxton in
1577 and Norden in 1598, and both State papers and estate records,
Anne Rowe builds a detailed picture of Hertfordshire's Tudor and
Early Stuart parks. At least 60 parks existed in Hertfordshire at
various times between 1485 and 1642, but for only 46 of those parks
is there evidence that they contained deer at some point during the
period. These confirmed or probable deer parks form the focus of
this study. Of course not all of them were sixteenth-century
creations: less than one-third were `new' parks, the remainder had
been in existence for much longer, in one or two cases being
recorded in Domesday Book. In the first part of the book detailed
evidence for who created and owned the county's parks and how they
were used and managed is given. The dawning of design in
Hertfordshire's park landscapes is also explored. Part 2 gives an
account of the presence of the Tudor and early Stuart monarchy in
Hertfordshire. Several monarchs and members of their immediate
families spent significant periods in Hertfordshire and played a
notable part in the history of its parkland; indeed, by 1540 Henry
VIII held about 70 per cent of the parkland in the county. Part 3
is a gazetteer in which each entry brings together the documentary,
cartographic and occasional field evidence available for a park,
with a map showing its probable extent in the period covered. At
this time hunting continued to be the most popular leisure
activity, as it had been for centuries. Wealthy landowners enjoyed
a range of hunting activities essentially unchanged from the
medieval period, including deer- and hare-coursing on foot,
falconry, fishing and wild-fowling. But the pursuit of a stag or
buck on horseback accompanied by a pack of hounds was considered
the noblest hunting experience. Based, like the first volume, on an
enormous amount of original work, this meticulously researched book
opens a window onto Tudor and early Stuart Hertfordshire and once
again illuminates a significant aspect of the county's landscape
history.
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