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same, and whereas the said Lord Rivers, in right of the said 

 Chase, hath constantly exercised a privilpge of feeding and 

 preserving the deer within the said Chase, and the number of 

 deer now fed and preserved therein, it is computed, amounts 

 to upwards of twelve thousand, but does not exceed twenty 

 thousand, and the deer range over the property of the different 

 proprietors of land, within the limits of the Chase, and whereas 

 the exercise of such privileges and of feeding and preserving 

 deer in right of Chase is extremely injurious to the owners of 

 lands within the limits of the Chase, and is a great hindrance 

 to the cultivation of such lands, and tends greatly to demoralise 

 the habits of the labouring classes and of the inhabitants 

 residing in and near the Chase; and whereas the said Lord 

 Rivers is willing to accept the clear yearly sum of eighteen 

 hundred pounds, as a compensation and satisfaction for the 

 extinguishing of his said rights ; . . .** 



The Act proceeded to enact that "thenceforward all 

 right of feed and range of deer, and all privileges of 

 protecting them within the limits of the Chase, and 

 all franchises and privileges in respect of the Chase, 

 should cease, determine, and be for ever extinguished, 

 and the Chase should thenceforward be disfranchised." 

 In return for this a charge was imposed on the property 

 within the Chase for the yearly sum of eighteen hundred 

 pounds, in favour of Lord Rivers. The statute, how- 

 ever, expressly reserved all other rights. 



Even to a late period, subsequent to this Act, deer 

 are said to have roamed over the district, and to have 

 found covert not unfrequently on Tollard Farnham 

 Common. The whole of the parish of Tollard Farnham 

 was in the Chase of Cranbourne. The Chase rolls are 

 extant from an early year of Edward III. They 



