Excerpt from Great Whelnetham Parish Registers, 1561 to 1850, And, Little Whelnetham Parish Register, 1557 to 1850: With Historical and Biographical Notes, Illustrations, Map and Pedigrees; Suffolk Green Books, No. XV I have mentioned at p. 515 that the Ordnance Survey has turned Aggas lane into Hawker's lane. One hopes that they will put it right again. Of course it is possible that one of the two rectors named Aggas (p. 410 - 412) may have persuaded Lord St. Albans or one Of the Jermyns to grant this right Of way through their park at Rushbrooke, and SO it was called Aggas lane. But I hesitate to suggest this for two reasons (i) because there is no particular reason for suggesting it: (2) because there is a tendency to suppose that all rights of ways through parks have been graciously granted and given by the owner Of the park. It is nothing of the kind. In most cases rights Of ways through parks are Older than the park. They were there first and the park came afterwards and surrounded them. It would be as true to say that the public gave the park as it is to say that the owner Of the park gave the right Of way. All he did was not to take it away, and he did not always do that. It would be as well if this fiction about the gracious gifts Of the lords Of manors were got rid Of. They have taken away from the public a great deal more than they have ever given, and even now they are sometimes taking away or trying to. 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.