260 Notes on the Manor of Aldbourne. 
and with their leash hounds have without interruption from time to time used to 
drive and re-chace his Majesties deer. 
“ Goddard the younger, under colour of going to kill conies in the said Eylden 
grounds and with his father’s privity and command did assemble to himself the 
defendant Cox and another and in the night go towards the said grounds and in 
their way in another man’s coppice about half-a-mile from the Chace with dogs 
kill one of the Chace deer and carried it to Goddard the elder’s house where it 
was eaten and at another time they killed another of the deer of the Chace, in the 
said Goddard the elder’s ground and carried it home to his house and he disposed 
of part of it and after this they had a Rascal Deer and part of it was eaten in 
Goddard’s house boiled, Goddard’s wife to keep it from being discovered told 
her servants it was mutton, and for this they were all committed to the Fleet 
and the two Goddards fined 5007 a piece Goddard’s wife 50/7 and Cox 300/ and 
the two Goddards and Cox to make their acknowledgment and satisfaction at the 
Assizes and be there bound to their good behaviour.” 
It should be observed that very few, if any, of these absurd Star 
Chamber fines were ever paid. The person fined petitioned the 
Crown, and compounded for the fine—generally at less than one 
tenth of the amount. I once heard the late Rt. Hon. Charles 
Williams Wynne say that his ancestor, Speaker Williams, was 
fined £10,000, but that no part of it was ever paid. That fine was 
not imposed by the Star Chamber, but the practice seems to have 
been continued. 
The deer in Aldbourne Chace do not seem to have survived the 
Civil Wars, as Aubrey, in his “ Natural History of Wiltshire,” p. 
59, speaks highly of the rabbits in Aldbourne Warren, but does not 
mention any deer in the Chace. 
That stolen deer from Aldbourne Chace were brought to Ogbourne 
St. George is further proved by the fact that when Mr. Carrington 
re-opened an old well, nearly opposite his house, which had been 
filled up more than half-a-century, three deer’s horns were found at 
the bottom—no doubt horns of stolen deer thrown in by persons 
passing along the adjoining street. 
Mr. Church, of Hillwood, who died in 1852 at an advanced age, 
told Mr. Carrington that he remembered the Chace before the 
inclosure in 1804, and that it then was a wild thick jungle of 
brambles, briars, and bushes, and that no one could then drive, 
walk, or ride in it in any direction except along drives which were 
cut in such directions as were needed. 
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