15 The 31 deer parks in Domesday were distributed as follows: Sussex, Hampshire, Hertford and Kent, 3 each; Bucks, Hereford, Cambridge and Middlesex, 2 each; Surrey, Devon, Gloucester, Shropshire, Worcester, Bedford, Essex, Suffolk and Norfolk, 1 each; 1 of unknown location; the rest none. In later periods the pattern changed somewhat, as small deer parks increased in the counties round London, and diminished in the industrial midlands. In the 19th and 20th centuries shooting parks were founded in larger numbers in Essex and East Anglia by London exurbanites; this reversed the earlier distribution. See Evelyn Philip Shirley, Some Account of English Deer Parks, with Notes on the Management of Deer (London, 1867).

16 Bettey, Wessex from AD 1000, 3.

17 John Patten, English Towns, 1500-1700 (Folkestone, Kent, 1978), 95-145, 114, 119, 120.

18 Dursten, “Berkshire & Its County Gentry,” 41 [permission needed to quote].

19 For undertenants see Court Book of Coleshill Manor, in Wiltshire and Berkshire, ms. V219cD/Epbm6, BERKRO.

20 C. E. Brent, “Employment, Land Tenure and Population in East Sussex, 1540-1640” (thesis, Univ. of Sussex, 1973), 51.