258 Notes on the Manor of Aldbourne. 
Manor of Aldbourne, which appears to be coterminous with the 
parish, consisted of 2680 acres, exclusive of the chace, warren, and 
wastes, which would give an extent of 5815 acres for the chase, 
warren and wastes. 
That there were deer in Aldbourne Chace in the reign of Queen 
Elizabeth is quite manifest from the records I have after cited, 
which still remain in the Duchy of Lancaster Office in Lancaster 
Place, London :— 
29 Jan., 1578 :— 
“ Bill by George Bramley, Hsq., Attorney General of the Duchy in the Duchy 
Court of Chancery, against Walter Browne of Ockbourne St. George blacksmith 
that being a coen. [common] Hunter and Killer of deere and conies within the 
said Chace [Aldbourne Chace] aboute the xv of November last he did hunte take 
and kill une doe and on the 25 day mche [March] last past and on dyuerse and 
sondry other tymes before and sithens did ferrett and kill diverse and sondry 
great noumbers of the connyes within the said Chaee and warren.” 
Duchy of Lancaster Records, 20th Eliz., vol. 66, A. 3. 
In the 22nd Eliz. (1580) a bill was filed in the Duchy Court of 
Chancery by Waldron, lessee of the Earl of Pembroke, that King’s 
College, Cambridge, had brought an action against him for taking 
wood and rabbits in Priors Woods, which he claims as part of 
Aldbourne, and he states that King’s College are instigated by 
William Younge, of Ockbourne St. George (the tenant of King’s 
College Farm there), and that he and others took six couple of 
rabbits and a deer called a sore.! Duchy of Lancaster Records, 22 
Eliz., vol. 79, W. 6. 
Prior’s Wood was a wood which formerly belonged to King’s 
College, Cambridge, situate where the small entrenchments, No. 1 
and 2 are, which are mentioned ante, vol. ii., p. 127, and it was 
stated by the Rev. John Legh, A.M., formerly Bursar of the 
College, that this wood and short wood near it were given up as 
common to the inhabitants of Aldbourne, the inhabitants giving up 
a right of common which they had in the Chace woods which be- 
longed to the College. 
1 A buck of the fourth year. ‘‘ A buck of the first year is a fawn ; the second 
year, a prickett ; the third year, a sorrell; and the fourth year asoure.” Return 
Srom Parnassus (1606). 
