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hands of successive Sovereigns till they were granted 

 by Henry III. to the De Clares, Earls of Hertford 

 and Gloucester. On the death of the last male of this 

 family, they descended to his three sisters co-heiresses. 

 A partition was then made of De Clare's lands, and 

 Cranbourne Chase and Manor fell to the lot of Elizabeth, 

 wife of John De Burgh, and from her descended through 

 the De Mortimers, Earls of March, Plantagenet, Earl of 

 Cambridge, and Richard, Duke of York, till they vested 

 in King Edward IV. The}'' remained in the possession 

 of the Crown till 1611, when James I. granted them to 

 the Earl of Salisbury, from whom the Manor, but not 

 the Chase, has come down to the present owner, the 

 Marquis of Salisbury. The Manor of Tollard Farnham, 

 we learn from an early survey, dated 6 Edward VI., 

 was held of the Manor of Cranbourne by knight 

 service, by the Earl of Pembroke. Later it was pur- 

 chased by Sir Thomas Arundel, in whose family it 

 remained till 1820, when it was sold by the then 

 Lord Arundel to Lord Rivers. 



In 1828 the Chase of Cranbourne, which had been 

 separated from the Manor, and was vested in Lord 

 Rivers, was disfranchised, in the sense that all rights of 

 sporting were done away with. The Act effecting this 

 states in its preamble that Lord Rivers claimed to be 

 the owner of 



K a certain Franchise or Chase called Cranbourne Chase, ex- 

 tending over divers Manors, and a large tract of land, situate in 

 the counties of Dorset and Wilts, and as such owner is possessed 

 of divers valuable and extensive rights and privileges over the 



