He had no son and died in The Barons led by Simon de Montfort force the king to submit to government by council leading to the formation of the English Parliament. William Maudit sides with the King. William Beauchamp followed his uncle and became 9th Earl of Warwick. Guy de Beauchamp became 10th Earl of Warwick. Edward II son of Edward I. Piers Gaveston held at Warwick Castle prior to his execution. Thomas de Beauchamp - became 11th Earl of Warwick and starts the reconstruction of Warwick Castle. The king was forced to abdicate in favour of his young son, Edward III. Thomas de Beauchamp, 11th Earl of Warwick, commanded troops at the battle of Crecy.
The terrible Black Death ravaged England killing nearly one third of the population - in London it was much worse and the population almost halved to 30, French nobles and troops held as prisoners at Warwick Castle. Thomas de Beauchamp b. Guy's Tower was completed. John of Gaunt died and King Richard seized his lands. Gaunt's son, Henry Bolingbroke invaded England, whilst Richard was on campaign in Ireland, usurping the throne from the king. King Richard II was condemned as a tyrant.
He renounced the crown and Henry IV was proclaimed King the next day. Henry invaded England while Richard was on campaign in Ireland, usurping the throne from the king. Richard de Beauchamp b. Henry IV died suffering from leprosy and epilepsy. Henry V son of Henry IV.
The notorious Dowager Queen of England, Joan of Navarre, was accused by her stepson Henry V of witchcraft and necromancy - she was acquitted. The wars waged during his reign left England deeply in debt. Henry VI son of Henry V. Henry de Beauchamp b. Anne de Beauchamp b. England enters the period of civil disorder and political instability known as the Wars of the Roses.
Warwick is declared a traitor by Edward IV and forced to flee to France. Edward IV was a notorious womaniser - his affairs led to claims of illegitimacy and ultimately led to the murder of his sons. The boy king was on his way to his coronation in London but was intercepted by his uncle, and Protector who would become Richard III. Edward was escorted to London and then to the Tower.
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The coronation was cancelled. The thirteen year old King and his ten year old brother mysteriously disappeared in the Tower after being declared illegitimate. They were believed to have been murdered and are referred to as the Little Princes in the Tower. Parliament declared the two little princes illegitimate and, as next in line to the throne, their uncle and Protector, Richard, Duke of Gloucester, was declared the true King.
The two little princes were never seen again. Richard lost both the throne and Warwick Castle when he was killed at the Battle of Bosworth in Henry Tudor becomes the owner of Warwick Castle and keeps the castle to himself. In this led to the Second Creation of the Earls of Warwick.
Improvements include a new roof for the kitchens, reinforcement of the south front, the building of Spy Tower and an extension to the State Rooms. Improvements are completed which include a new roof for the kitchens, reinforcement of the south front, the building of Spy Tower and an extension to the State Rooms. Edward V Henry's son by Jane Seymour.
The young King restores the title and John Dudley, his chief minister, was created the 1st Earl of Warwick. On Dudley's death the dukedom was forfeit for his treason, but the earldom passed to his son John, and then his other son Ambrose. John Dudley is given the title Duke of Northumberland which makes him the most powerful noble in England. The young King Edward is sickly and Dudley realises that if the King dies, and either of his sisters take the crown, that Dudley will lose his power and probably his head. Guildford Dudley and Lady Jane Grey are forced into marriage.
Edward died of tuberculosis and he left the throne to 'the Lady Jane and her heirs male. Monday 10 July - Monday 10th July Lady Jane Grey was proclaimed Queen of England. Queen Jane was deposed as Queen. John Dudley, Duke of Northumberland, was beheaded for treason. Mary Henry's daughter by Queen Katherine of Aragon. Lady Jane Grey and her husband Guildford were both executed. In gratitude for his help all of the Dudley estates and Warwick Castle were returned.
Elizabeth I Henry's daughter by Anne Boleyn. Ambrose Dudley was created Baron Lisle. Elizabeth I visits Warwick Castle. Ambrose Dudley dies and the earldom of Warwick became extinct until The castle had stood empty for 14 years and was in a dilapidated state. Sir Fulke Greville spent considerable money on improvements and repairs.
The Earldom of Warwick was created for a third time for Robert Rich d. However, unlike previous holders of the title, the Rich family did not control Warwick Castle. Warwick Castle remained in the hands of the Greville family who were eventually given the title in Charles I second son of James. Sir Fulke Greville was murdered by his steward in in Warwick Castle - he was stabbed to death and is said to haunt the castle.
Sir Robert Greville c. Sir Robert Greville was imprisoned by King Charles I at York for refusing to take the oath to fight for the king and became an active member of the parliamentary party. Civil war broke out between King and parliament. Warwick Castle successfully withstands a siege by Royalist troops.
Sir Robert Greville, a general in the parliamentary army was killed at the attack on Lichfield. The Commonwealth under the Cromwells. The office of King was formally abolished. Robert Rich became the 3rd Earl of Warwick Charles Rich became the 4th Earl of Warwick The stables and coach house were built in the outer courtyard. The Armoury and Private apartments were built. Robert Rich became the 5th Earl of Warwick Edward Rich became the 6th Earl of Warwick The deposed James made one attempt to regain the crown, but his French and Irish forces were soundly defeated at the Battle of Boyne.
William of Orange ruled alone after Mary's death. This front has an embattled parapet and a symmetrical arrangement of tall mullioned and transomed windows with a central square projection. It is possible that Robert Smythson had something to do with the design although the work may not have been completed before his death.
The facade was continued eastwards beyond the Spy Tower, converting a narrow space which had separated the chapel from the great chamber into an internal passage. The present chapel, standing on a medieval undercroft, is also attributed to Greville. Both the chapel and its vestibule now the vestry have windows with four-centred traceried heads in the late Gothic style but these were probably renewed in the 18th century. The original access to the screens passage at the east end of the Great Hall appears to have been by way of a forebuilding approached by external steps; Greville may have replaced this by the two-storied porch which was again rebuilt in the 18th century.
Other alterations could have included the removal of the service rooms from the east end of the hall to the basement.
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It is clear that large sums were spent on internal fittings, all of which have now disappeared. An inventory made on Greville's death lists many valuable sets of tapestry hangings, illustrating biblical and classical stories, among which one depicting the seven planets was in the 'new dining chamber'.
With the onset of the Civil War, preparations were made by Robert, Lord Brooke, to put the castle in a state of defence. Between January and May the garden walls and the wall on top of the mount were raised, bulwarks were begun and revetted with timber, wheels were obtained for two guns, the larger of which weighed lbs. After William Dugdale, in his capacity as herald, had summoned the garrison to lay down their arms and on their refusal had proclaimed them traitors at the castle gates, fn.
But, in the words of Sir Richard Bulstrode, 'our endeavours for taking it were to little purpose, for we had only two small pieces of cannon which were brought from Compton House, belonging to the Earl of Northampton, and those were drawn up to the top of the church steeple, and were discharged at the castle, to which they could do no hurt, but only frightened them within the castle, who shot into the street, and killed several of our men'. Major John Bridges was appointed governor of the castle in fn.
A sallyport and door were made and the castle drawbridge repaired. A timber platform was constructed on the mount, the stairs up to it were repaired, and another platform made in Guy's Tower; fn. The sallyport may be identified with a doorway roughly cut through in the concealed angle of the Clarence Tower. A series of iron hooks on the outer face of the barbican, from which woolsacks are said to have been hung to protect the stonework and window openings from shots, probably dates from this time.
The second story in the barbican was called the capstan room from the machinery for working the drawbridge, and the fourth room in Guy's Tower contained a muniment chest and large square table for evidences, as well as a bed. He was then deputed to certify its dilapidations fn. The governor from was Colonel Joseph Hawksworth fn.
Soon after he gained possession Lord Brooke started to provide new outbuildings for the castle and to remodel the principal rooms on the lines of the great houses of the day. In an agreement was made with Samuel Dunkley and Francis Overton to build washhouses and a laundry; this range still stands outside the curtain wall to the south of the gatehouse. In the same year Roger Hurlbut fn. In William Hurlbut received the first payment under articles of agreement for 'altering the rooms' at the castle.
What is now the Armoury Passage was partitioned off along the courtyard side of the three most westerly rooms. Some of the bedrooms above, including the socalled Italian Room, were apparently refitted at the same time. The Hurlbuts were Warwickshire men, carpenters by trade. Their earliest work at the castle, the wainscot in the Great Hall, was comparatively plain, with large bolection-moulded panels. In over 57 cwt. This is the largest and perhaps the most magnificent of the apartments. The walls are divided into large panels, the frieze above them consisting of smaller panels bearing intricately carved foliage and shields of arms.
There are enriched mouldings to doorcases, cornice, and panelling, while the pointed embrasures which had housed the medieval windows are outlined with carved arabesques. The heavily moulded plaster ceiling has enriched modillions, wreaths, and other ornament in high relief. The other rooms are fitted out in similar style and on an almost equally lavish scale. The overmantel in the Green Drawing Room is framed by carved drapery and that in the Boudoir with garlands of leaves and fruit, a type of naturalistic carving which probably originated in Holland and was soon to be perfected by Grinling Gibbons.
A small final payment to William and Roger Hurlbut 'for the new buildings' was made in , the year following their patron's death. There have been so many alterations to these rooms, which were refaced externally in the 18th century and gutted by fire in , that their original date remains obscure. Fulke Greville may have made an addition here in the early 17th century, but it is significant that between and the number of hearths in the castle was increased from 47 to Within the gate was 'a fair court, and within that encompassed with a pale and dainty bowling green, set about with laurel, firs and other curious trees'.
A pair of stone pillars for the castle's 'great gates' at the entrance to the stable court were made by Samuel Dunkley in A wall by the river side and a level walk there were constructed in , and in a new greenhouse of brick and stone was built, probably in a position close to the mount on the south side. Illuminations from pitch and tar devised by Nicholas Paris were burnt on Guy's Tower, fn. In a piece of the castle wall, probably that between Caesar's Tower and the domestic buildings, was taken down and rebuilt by Samuel Dunkley. A corbelled turret, resembling the 'crow's-nest' on the north-west side of the castle, disappeared from this part of the wall at about this date.
Francis Smith apparently acted as surveyor for the work and from at least until he was retained by Lord Brooke at an annual salary. Francis, Lord Brooke later first Earl of Warwick of the Greville line came of age in and soon afterwards there began a period of major improvement to the castle and its surroundings which was to last for fifty years.
In the grounds adjoining the east of the castle were extended following an inquisition ad quod damnum , by which Lord Brooke was permitted to close a footway leading from Saunders Row down past the garden wall of the castle to a watering-place on the river called High Ladsome, and thence along the river for yards to a second watering-place called Low Ladsome. A new path was made to go straight from Saunders Row to Low Ladsome, where Lord Brooke had already constructed a public well or cistern, while High Ladsome and the old path were taken into the castle grounds.
In an agreement was made with Lancelot Brown to rebuild the porch and stairs into the Great Hall, to remove the steps that led into the garden presumably those from the courtyard to the Watergate Tower , to fill in a sunken area in front of the hall and make a way from the domestic offices to Caesar's Tower, to rebuild parts of the 'bearhouses', and finally to level the courtyard and make a coachway into it.
Internal improvements to the domestic buildings had evidently begun by In that year Thomas Gray visited the castle and described some of Lord Brooke's recent activities: Then he has scooped out a little burrough in the massy walls of the place for his little self and his children, which is hung with paper and printed linnen, and carved chimney-pieces, in the exact manner of Berkley-square or ArgyleBuildings'.
More ambitous alterations were put in hand after when the architect employed by the earl was Timothy Lightoler, fn. The exterior, with its embattled parapet, large mullioned and transomed windows, and pointed archways, was designed to match the earlier domestic buildings. The block was roofed with slate from Hawkshead Lancs. In the courtyard front of the private apartments to the east of the porch was refaced in a similar style to Lightoler's design, and the turret beside the porch was partly rebuilt.
Internal alterations to these apartments included the conversion of the two ground-floor rooms nearest Caesar's Tower into a new library. During the period , when improvements to the range west of the Great Hall were also being made, Lightoler examined most of the accounts of the individual craftsmen. The masons were Job Collins, who was apparently responsible for most of the work, and Thomas Briscoe.
Wainscotting in the new dining room - an unusual feature at this period and perhaps introduced for a deliberately archaic effect - was by William Hands. The plasterer was Robert Moore whose ornamental ceilings included one in the new dining room carrying a geometrical pattern of interlacing ribs in the Jacobean style. Francis and William Hiorn supplied marble chimney-pieces for both old and new rooms.
Benjamin King was responsible for wood-carving, including two very large and ornate picture frames for the new dining room; he also repaired existing carving in the State Rooms. Additions to the range west of the Great Hall at this period included a new spiral staircase on the south side of the Green Drawing Room, a projecting Gothic window in Lady Louisa's dressing room near the south-west end of the range, and a pinnacle on the roof carrying a vane from which a wind-dial was worked in a room below. To improve communications between bedrooms at the two ends of the castle a passage was cut over the Great Hall and the Cedar Room on the river side in the thickness of the outer wall.
A portcullis was made by David Saunders in , presumably for the gatehouse. Throughout these alterations 'Gothick' mouldings are repeatedly mentioned and paper patterns were made for the glaziers to cut 'Gothick window heads'. Outside the castle Job Collins began work in on two towers and a parapet wall at the summit of the mount, which were added to the surviving medieval wall there. In the coachhouse and stables, built a century before in the outer courtyard, were demolished, and the courtyard was enlarged; a new curving enclosure wall was built in by Job Collins, who also widened the bridge into the castle and built a new lodge and entrance gates facing Castle Street.
In Robert Mylne 'gave advice to Lord Warwick on outward court, entrance into garden, and various particulars'. The work was carried out by William Eboral who seems to have succeeded Job Collins as principal mason at this time. Stone for these works both inside and outside the castle came mainly from a quarry in the Vineyard until , when some stone was also brought from the Priory quarry, and from a quarry at Milverton.
This was supplemented by small amounts of Hornton stone and blue stone for special purposes such as sills and lintels. After a quarry on the earl's land at Emscote fn. The Vineyard quarry was filled in in Under George Greville, who succeeded his father in , the finishing touches were put to the alterations of the rooms. The ceiling of the State Bedroom was replaced by William Hanwell, plasterer, apparently to its original design. Benjamin King was still employed for carving and gilding; he supplied some 20 picture frames, presumably for the Vandyke portraits in the Cedar Room and for other pictures which formed part of the notable collection acquired by the second earl.
In after an inquisition ad quod damnum the earl was allowed to stop up part of Avon Lane, otherwise Watercart Lane, which led from the top of West Street to the washing place for cattle and cistern for water at Lower Ladsome, on condition that he provided for the town an alternative washing place and cistern with a pump on the north side of West Street beside Methuen Bridge. The watering place was made and the garden wall altered accordingly to take in Lower Ladsome. The earl was at the same time empowered to stop up part of Barford Lane bordering the south-east part of the park, extending from the Green Gate in the pale fence to an angle in the fence at the Ram Brook, in exchange for an alternative route to the Warmington turnpike over Fordmill Meadow and Close.
Eboral to give evidence concerning it fn. Thus the stopping up and taking in of the following streets was sanctioned: Saunders Row from its junction with Meetinghouse Lane southwards to where the corner of the castle garden wall had been, the lane running from thence along the north of the castle garden to Brittain Lane otherwise Rosemary Lane , and Brittain Lane from the eastward end of Meetinghouse Lane for yds. The earl was to lay out a new road from the eastward end of Meetinghouse Lane cutting through gardens in Castle Street, where a house was to be demolished to make way for it.
The houses belonging to the estate then taken into the grounds were demolished and in a greenhouse was begun on part of the cleared land. This was a stone building with Gothic windows, built especially to house the Warwick Vase, and was designed and executed by William Eboral. In the earl obtained an Act of Parliament which enabled him to build a new bridge in place of the Great Bridge, which had long been in decay, at a place yds. A model of the new bridge was made in by David and William Saunders who also provided piles and other timber work for it.
Stone from the Emscote quarry was boated to the bridge.
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The parapets themselves consist of a more conventional Classical balustrade. These were laid out, in accordance with the Act, from the new toll-house in the angle of the Whitnash road in a straight line over the bridge, across St. Nicholas Meadow to the south end of Gerrard Street, and thence through a garden belonging to the earl into the upper part of a road called the Back Hills, and so into the east end of Jury Street opposite St.
The walls round the new grounds were built by William Eboral in The remaining length of road, from the new toll-house to the south end of Gerrard Street, was under construction in Nicholas Meadow, cut off by the new road, was granted to the earl, and the large pond, which existed there until after , probably resulted from getting gravel for the road.
The last of the new roads to be made was the Barford road to its junction with the new turnpike at the Asps in when the old road to Barford through the south-east part of the park was levelled. The Great Bridge itself became the earl's property on completion of the new one, but not long afterwards it collapsed in a flood, and now remains a picturesque ruin. An ornamental bank of earth was placed in the castle courtyard in and trees planted on it, and probably the similar banks outside the wall beside the Bear and Clarence Towers were also made then.
The archway from the courtyard between these towers, with its bridge over the castle ditch, probably dates from this time, fn. The new porter's lodge, incorporated in a stone gatehouse, was built in by Samuel Muddiman and John Williams on the site of a large house in Castle Hill which had been tenanted by Dr. The approach from the lodge to the castle is cut through the rock, in which cellars of former houses on the Back Hills can still be seen.
The estate as a whole was approaching a financial crisis in The workmen employed on the castle and grounds were dismissed, but the quarrymen at Emscote were kept on and the stone sold, much of it in to the trustees of the new Christ Church in Birmingham. In the Earl of Warwick's remaining estates were conveyed to the earls of Galloway and Upper Ossory as trustees and the receivership terminated, but as late as a man was employed to keep possession of the castle in the absence of the family.
The trustees' administration came to an end in No extensions to the castle appear to have been undertaken during the first half of the 19th century, but permanent improvements at this time included the underbuilding of the foundations of Caesar's Tower in A small grapery or vine-house was built in and a new pine house in Hot air stoves were installed in the castle in , and new icehouses built.
In the Great Hall was repaved with red and white Venetian marble, the ceiling was removed, and a new timber roof designed by Ambrose Poynter was erected by Thomas Mears of Warwick.
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The 'recently erected additions to the castle' which she is said to have visited fn. At about this period these were extended towards Caesar's Tower by the addition of an extra room, a new entrance hall, and a grand staircase. Two of the rooms facing the courtyard were converted into a large library while the 'waiting room' between this and the Great Hall was remodelled.
Between and Anthony Salvin was employed as architect. Here the remaining Georgian windows were Gothicised and an elaborate stone balcony was built overlooking the river outside the room to the north-east of the Great Hall. Shortly before an extra story containing nurseries had been added above the bedroom floor over the State Dining Room; fn.
A serious fire in caused considerable damage. It broke out in Lady Warwick's dressing room in the north front of the castle immediately east of the Great Hall and spread rapidly through the private apartments. The Great Hall was gutted but its massive west wall and a gap in the roof cut by firemen checked the flames before they could reach the State Rooms beyond.
The roof above the State Dining Room fell in but the ceiling of this room, though damaged by water, did not collapse in spite of the destruction of the rooms above, and only the panelling near the door was damaged. All other rooms on the north-east side, however, were burnt out. Almost all pictures, books, and furniture of value were saved, apart from bedroom furniture, and the only serious losses were in the Great Hall, where an antique marble bust of Hercules, a Greek sarcophagus, and much armour, including the buff coat in which Lord Brooke was killed at Lichfield, were destroyed. It was carried out under Anthony Salvin's direction by J.
Two medieval doorways, thought to be those which had given access to the buttery and pantry in the 14th century, were discovered at the east end of the hall. Four blocked apertures high in the south wall, corresponding with windows in the outer wall which hitherto had lit only the passage cut through in , were re-opened as clerestory windows.
A six-branch chandelier of 50 lights was installed, the marble pavement was relaid, and a massive new chimney-piece, consisting of a stone hood on brackets carved with lions' heads, was introduced. Syer of London was still restoring damaged armour in The manor of Warwick first occurs as an appurtenance of the castle in fn. Henry de Beaumont held no property inside the town at the time of Domesday but his brother the Count of Meulan had twelve houses and was the largest lay owner after the king.
The manor, sometimes described as the borough fn. There was only one manor, but two separate courts were held, one at the castle gate, the other within the borough. The stewardship of the manor or town of Warwick was usually joined with the office of constable of the castle. In , however, when the heir was the queen's ward, the Crown appointed George Assheby, the clerk of the signet, to the stewardship alone. Later stewards included Walter Devereux and Edward Belknap in , fn. The 'steward's place' was granted to Robert Throckmorton in on his appointment as constable and steward, fn.
The manor of Warwick was excluded from the grant of the castle to Sir Fulke Greville in fn. In a grant of the manor to Henry, Prince of Wales, together with parts of the castle estate already the property of Sir Fulke Greville, fn. The rental in that year contained the names of 31 copyhold tenants. Roger, Earl of Warwick , granted a small manor beyond the bridge on the south side of the town to the Knights Templars. After being administered for a brief period by the sheriff, it was committed in the same year to Guy Beauchamp, Earl of Warwick, together with Balsall itself, Sherbourne, and Fletchampstead.
In , however, Balsall and the other Warwickshire manors of the Templars were entrusted to another royal keeper, Alexander de Cumpton, who rendered account of them until , when he recorded their handing over to the Knights Hospitallers. In that year, shortly before the heir came of age, the Temple manor was effectively transferred to the Hospitallers.
In it was granted to John Dudley, fn. Although leased in under the name of the Temple Farm by Ambrose Dudley to his tenant, Richard Brookes, for 21 years, fn. He later assigned this lease to Thomas Wagstaffe, who in turn assigned it to Thomas Oldnall. The latter held it until the term expired in , fn. Kirkeham had already assigned this deferred lease to his brother Edward, of the Strand Mdx.
There were 29 tenants of the manor in , fn. At this time there were 54 acres of arable, of which 50 were in two closes next Ford Mill, 8 acres of meadow in Hill Temple Close extending to the Avon, and pasture of 40 acres called Hill Temple beside the road leading to Warwick, 32 acres between the farm place and the river, and 16 acres in a similar close called Nether Temple. Several small plots in Bridge End were sublet. At a view of frankpledge for the manor in , the pleas and perquisites were worth 6 s.
The buildings of the Temple Farm stood on the outskirts of Bridge End within a rectangular moat beside the old Banbury road. A chantry chapel also stood on the manor. The goods of the chapel in that year included a chalice worth 8 s. Ford Mill, situated on the Tach Brook near the point where the old Banbury road crossed it to enter St. Mary's parish, was included in the Temple manor in under the name of the mill of 'Alfstanesford'.
The mill stream was still visible along the northern shore in , and the bank of an overflow channel, which returned the water to the Tach Brook, was indicated by a row of alder trees growing out into the lake. The dimensions of Wedgnock Park were set down in at the time of tithe commutation, when it was held to contain 2, acres, made up of 1, acres in St. Mary's parish, acres in Beausale, acres in Hatton, acres in Budbrooke, 41 acres in Leek Wootton, and 27 acres in Kenilworth. Only 42 acres were then in use as a deer park. A manor of Wedgnock formed part of the castle estate in , fn.
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It was probably enlarged in when the earl acquired the lands of Thomas de Charlecote fn. Parts of the park fence were renewed in that year, having been destroyed in disturbances when Roger Mortimer's men held the castle. Thomas Beauchamp the elder entered into a series of exchanges in with the object of extending the park. Scattered pieces of land in Beausale and Haseley were given for lands in Beausale taken into the park.
Parts of 'Hennemede', which extended into Haseley, were exchanged for parts of the same meadow within the park, and lands belonging to Beausale chapel were also acquired. John, also known as Cuckow church, had been endowed by Margery de Clinton in about with lands in a field called 'Rykenylesbury', and also with tithes of game taken in the park of Beausale, grazing rights there, and firewood. The site of Cuckow Church fn. An area in the park named in about 'the old park of Budbrooke' fn.
A commission of oyer and terminer was granted in on the complaint of Thomas Beauchamp to deal with poachers of deer in his park, among whom were a servant of the Prior of Kenilworth and a servant of John Pecche, the sometime custodian of the castle; fn. Apart from a small demesne which was farmed in the ordinary way, the sale of faggots and of the grazing were the chief sources of profit, while fencing of coppice woods and other inclosures, with the repair of the park pale, were the main expenses.
Sixteen mares of the earl's stud were at grass in the park in when the rest of the grazing was let at farm. A lodge named 'Rynsyllogge' occurs in and in two park gates, 'Wodecoteyate' and 'Mildethornyate', are named. The three keepers were subordinate to the keeper or parker of the whole park, an office usually held, with that of master of the game, by the constable of the castle for the time being. The manor house of Goodrest was situated near the north-east angle of the park, just south of the present Goodrest farmhouse.
The house was built by Thomas Beauchamp the younger fn. On John Dudley's attainder in Roger Ligon was granted the keeperships and other offices relating to the park, with Goodrest and Fernhill wood, and a lease of the herbage, pannage, and fishing; fn. In Thomas Fisher undertook to build another house with a loft or lodging for a keeper, in the park near the ford leading out of the new rails into the old park.
By this area was divided into closes and known as the 'new pasture'. In the park contained 'le olde parke, Underlowe Hilles, Hacklings, Serveshilles, Bosworth, Duneshott, Theffes Heron, Lovyhilles, Magarewoode, and Hawkysnest', and also three lodges with three gardens. The three keepers were each receiving their ancient accustomed wage of 2 d. Sir Fulke Greville, immediately on his appointment, undertook the repair of Goodrest manor-house the timber frame of which had shrunk and needed to be forced back into place and secured with iron clamps but was otherwise sound.
The roof and floors needed repair, a new transom window of six lights was required in the buttery chamber, and the brick chimneys had to be rebuilt. Trenching was carried out in the park 'to save the deer from rotting'. In the Privy Council instructed the surveyor for the county, and others, to value the park, exclusive of the herbage, pannage and fishing already let. They answered that deer of all kinds had ordinarily been kept there, and not more 'for that the whole park is a sour ground, and the situation of the greatest part thereof is low and much subject to water, and the higher ground overgrown with shrubs'.
The pale between Fernhill and the park was only a 'footset pale' with no bank, and was thought to have originated when the king's stud was in Fernhill. One of the keepers had charge of Fernhill as part of his walk, and looked after the stud at that time as well as his deer.
Mary's and Budbrooke, had 13 s. In Sir Fulke Greville's agent estimated that there were in fact fallow deer as well as red deer. There were then two keepers' lodges, one occupied by Mr. Timber for the castle bulwarks fn. Barns were placed where Bannerhill Farm and Bulloak barn now stand. Goodrest manor-house and a lodge, perhaps that built by Thomas Fisher in , remained within the deer park which also contained a round copse of 20 acres. In the final work of inclosure began. The deer were transferred to the new Temple Park and the office of ranger ended with Francis Chernock's retirement in A farmhouse at Prospect Farm on the new inclosures was built, possibly incorporating the former lodge, and the expenses of inclosure, including payments to four farmers for raising quickset hedges on their farms, continued until Another new farm-house at Kingstanding was in existence by In and a long hedge was planted from the great pool at Goodrest southwards for a mile and a half between the park and Mr.
The great barn at Goodrest was thatched in , and in about the house was rebuilt outside the moat; it was further modified in A large part of Fernhill wood was grubbed up in and new farm buildings were begun there in To the south of the castle lies Castle Park.