Notices of the Ellises of England, Scotland, and Ireland, from the conquest to the present time

MANOR OF HURST-PIERPOINT. 17
kitchen with scullery and larder, and an outhouse of two
stories, all covered with tiles in good repair, and on the south
side, half a furlong from the house, is a spring of w r ater,
always continuing but slow, but with little charge may be car-
ried to the house. The park is paled ; there have been impaled
of the lord's demesnes within five years, 100 acres, called
Broomfields, Danny Lands, and Bablands, wherein burrows
for conies are now made. The parks are 2^ miles in circum-
ference, w r ell covered with oak timber. The herbage by the
year, besides feeding 300 head of deer. The pannage is
worth in a mast year, £6. 13s. 4?d. In the park are 40 deer
of antlers, 260 rascals [lean deer], and 40 couple of conies." 1
The " fair mansion-house of timber" — for " fair " it evidently
must have been — was probably a hunting-seat built by one
of the Dacres ; and, though not apparently from decay, but
being unsuitable to the tastes and requirements of the new
owner, was razed to the ground, and gave place, about 1595,
to the present grander mansion, built of brick, and some-
what to the east of the old building, whose site is said to be
marked by a difference in the verdure of the grass.
The Park of Danny was enclosed by the last Sir Simon de
Pierpoint, who in 1355 received from the King a license,
" includere boscum suum de Danehich et dominica sua vocata
Danye in comitatu Sussexiae, sic ei concessum per comitem
Surrias." 2
The builder of Danny, George Goring, Esq., of Ovingdean,
was son of Sir William Goring, of Burton, Knight, and by
Anne, daughter of Henry Denny, Esq., of Waltham, in Essex,
had a son of the same name. This second George Goring was
bred in the Court, under his father's care, one of Elizabeth's
gentlemen pensioners, and was placed in the household of
Henry Prince of Wales, by his father, James I., to whom
he became a familiar companion, and by whom he was
knighted in 1608. Buckingham prevailed on Charles I. to
raise him to the peerage; in 1629 he was created Lord
Goring of Hurstpierpoint ; and in 1645 was advanced to the
dignity of Earl of Norwich, which had then lately become
extinct by the death without male issue of his maternal uncle,
Edward Denny, the first and last of his name by whom the
1 Burrell MSS. 2 Cal. Rot. Pat, 28 Edward III.
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