Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from The Story of the London Parks
As Sir Edward Carey retained his keepership till after the accession of King James, it will here be the place to cast a retrospective glance at the condition of the Park in the reign of good Queen Bess. In Nevell's time, in 1570, forty acres of land attached to the Park, and lying in the parish of Knightsbridge, were railed in, enclosed, and added to it. No cattle were allowed to enter this enclosure, as it was reserved for the deer to graze in, and the grass growing within it was to be mown for hay, on which to feed the deer in winter. The exact locality of these forty acres is not stated, but it is not improbable that it was the very fence which was pulled down by the Londoners on their Lammas crusade in I 592.
About the Publisher
Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com
This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
